I just released a new version of CPCEC and its little sibling ZXSEC, mainly because I had to support "Pinball Dreams" in one way or another!


Instead of trying to develop all CRTC types at once I focused on CRTC 1. "Mission Genocide", "Warhawk", "Dynamic Duo", "Prehistorik 2", "From Scratch", "Batman Forever", "Imperial Mahjong", "Octopus Pocus" and many more work flawlessly now, instead of the fragile balance where some tweaks fixed some titles and broke others. Sadly, the fragile balance has now shifted to CRTC 1 against all the other types... so there's still a lot of work to do.


New options include a basic V-Hold control (now the original "Thunder Blade" release works) and a flexible H-sync mode that allows fine-tuning Gigascreen effects such as the "Batman/Spawn" screen in "Batman Forever" together with the already extant interlaced mode options.
ZXSEC also benefits from increased precision in memory contention timings, especially on 48K. There's no longer conflict between "Starion", "Dark Star", "Black Lamp" and others that were drawing special effects on the border and the attribute map at once.