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NewsBot · 12:02, 30 July 11

WinApe v2.0a18
30 July 2011, 1:28 pm

After nearly 3 years Richard Wilson released a new version of his great CPC Plus emulator WinApe. The main features for this version are major improvements of the sound emulation, full-sized AVI writing and debugger enhancements. You can download it from the WinApe homepage and at the end of this post.

This is the complete changelist for the new version:

Emulation

Changes logical volumes (and scales) used for AY output.
Simplified and improved AY emulation, fixed period change adjustments.
Fixed possible bright pixels in the top left when in PAL emulation.
Writing to PSG registers above 15 now ignored as per real standard AY.
Changed the way the Symbiface RTC switches between BCD and Binary modes.
Switched back to full 8 bit interrupt vector (bit 0 is NOT reset as per most documentation around).
Fixed Z80 overflow flag for INC (HL), DEC (HL) and IX/IY equivalents.

Debugger

Added the ability to select a block of memory (right-click, Select Block...) in the memory editor.
Added the ability to fill the selection with a sequence of values (right-click, Fill...) in the memory editor.
Added the ability to compare two regions of memory or to compare a region of memory with a file (right-click, Compare To...) in the memory editor.
Defaulted memory mapping (Any) to RAM bank #C0 to stop change when switching.

Assembler

Fixed a bug with symbol usage and relocation tables inside if, else etc.
Added Select All menu item and keyboard functionality.

AVI Writing

Improved the timing of video and sound synchronisation.
Added the ability to record full sized (768 x 540) videos.

Other

Added cylinder and drive LEDs for drive B:
Fixed saving of allow Temporary Writes, and Prompt to Save changes settings.
Allow zero length sectors in DSK images.
Fix writing of DSK images when the only change is to delete a copy of a sector or re-size one.
Changes to detect when the window has focus (workaround for Delphi and Windows bugs). This stops typing from appearing in WinAPE when another application has focus.
Changed timing to display actual speed (CPU cycles per second as a percentage of 1 million) rather than a percentage based on the number of frames per second. Previously, CRTC changes would affect speed display.
Changed tape WAV writing to use values of 00 and FF rather than 00 and 1F.
Fixed WAV output for 16 bit samples. Should now play in WMP.
Fixed the position of the Speed indicator label.
Added a warning when playing back old SNR files.
Allowed CD ROM and removeable drives to be used as Symbiface IDE drives (Currently there is no support for CD-ROM formats on the CPC, but maybe one day).
Increased tape output WAV sample rate to 22050Hz rather than 11025Hz since it was inadequate for high bit rate tapes.

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