Newer versions of WinAPE no longer working

[MartinJSUK]

First post. I never actually owned a CPC, but I've checked out a few games for it and can see the appeal. I've been using WinAPE, I've found it to be slow in fullscreen (on a fairly recent PC, which runs WinUAE Amiga emulation smoothly, and that's a more technically complex system) but after installing CPCEC (which I also can't get to work, that's another story) it no longer works after trying to set it to full screen. Whenever I open it, I'm getting an error message "TDDPalette.SetAllEntries.SetEntries: Generic Failure. (-2147467259)" (can't see any significance to the number). Deleting everything and reinstalling it doesn't seem to help. I've even tried editing the config file, but to no avail. What's going on?

[dodogildo]

You may want to check the Retro Virtual Machine instead. It's very straightforward: https://www.retrovirtualmachine.org/

[McArti0]

mayby try manualy change WinAPE.ini file.

Part of that...

[Configuration]
Refresh Rate=13
Display Mode=1
Sound Mode=2
Sound Volume=7
Full Screen=false
Direct Video=true
Sound Bits=16
Sound Stereo=true
Sound Frame Delay=5,1
Show ASIC=false
Keyboard File=
CRTC Type=0
Auto Run=false
Disable Update=false
Turbo Mode=false
Joystick Enabled=true
AMX Mouse Enabled=false
Emulation Speed=100
Frame Skip=false
VHOLD Position=0
Full Screen 16=false

[Jean-Marie]

You might try to rename your WinAPE folder, like explained in this post :
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?msg=131746
Or change the compatibility mode to Win7.

[MartinJSUK]

Nope. My folder is already just C:\Program Files\WinApe. Copied the text in. Launches into Windowed mode successfully when I select Windows XP as the Compatibility mode (setting the mode as Vista or later causes it to crash immediately), but as soon as I go into Full Screen it crashes with the same error - need to copy the text back in to get it to even start again. Might have to try RetroVM?

[McArti0]

Mayby your pc no has 8bit or 16 bit colours
This is Win 11?

[MartinJSUK]

I do have Windows 11, does this mean that full screen no longer works on WinAPE? I can see that it hasn't been updated for a few years. Will earlier versions work? I've tried RetroVM but I can't find all the settings, and I'm not instinctively keen on the presentation or styling of it. I couldn't get CPCEC to recognise my keyboard presses as anything other than CPCEC commands rather than Amstrad-equivalent keypresses.

[asertus]

I have Windows 11 too and winape is working full screen. What happens exactly in your computer? Does Winape crash?

I have tested with Saboteur and latest Dark Knight. Only thing, when I press F10 for full screen, it takes around 2 seconds to show the image.

[Jean-Marie]

Caprice64 has a nice Fullscreen mode  :  CPC-POWER, CPCArchives

[MartinJSUK]

I've explained the crash and error message I get with WinAPE

Does Caprice have savestates? I can't find them. Everything else feels promising, and I like the name, but without savestates it's not really a complete emulation solution nowadays, sadly.

[roudoudou]

ACE-DL offers dynamic savestates, each seconds is recorded and you can rollback up to 1 min as far as i remember, on demand
F12 => misc options => savestates for GAMING (not the other one)
ingame => backspace to pause the game, left/right cursor to navigate in timeline => enter to resume at desired position
http://www.roudoudou.com/ACE-DL/

no need to save snapshot, reload, etc.