Blog from April, 2017

It's been a long time coming. Finally the complete OZ ROM and Z88 application builder tools are available in latest edition, 2017.4. This release supports building OZ V4.7 ROM and newer source code releases. We have also added Arm7 as distribution platform as for Linux Chromebook and myriad of Arm-based tinker boards such as the Raspberry Pi2/3. Installers are available for Windows, Linux and MacOS for Intel 32/64 bit platforms.

Release notes & downloads can be found here: Z88 Assembler Workbench 2017.4 Release Notes

New ZEsarUX 5.0

Hi. I have released a new version of my emulator ZEsarUX. 

Finally I have succeded emulating Sinclair QL. I dedicated a lot of hours trying to guess how the keyboard work.
There is little documentation and I had to do lots of dissassemblies of the ROM and testing keyboard to know how it work...
So, hard work, this is a Quantum Leap, so this is a new major version, 5.0!


I will only post here changes related to Z88 or to the whole emulator, excluding other machines like Spectrum, etc.

You can also read the full Changelog here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/zesarux/code/ci/master/tree/Changelog


So, this is the short change log:


Added Sinclair QL emulation
Added remote command protocol. You can do enhanced debugging on ZEsarUX by using a telnet client.
There are a lot of commands, even many commands exclusive to this protocol and not found on the GUI, like:
* load-source-code
* hexdump-internal
* set-register

Added Easter Egg ;)
Added setting to write configuration file
Added autosave snapshot at fixed interval
Added File Viewer
Added support for drag&drop on Mac OS X, SDL2
Added support for OpenGL rendering on Mac OS X Cocoa driver
Added Man Software GUI Style
Added setting to disable autoframeskip
Added setting to set breakpoints from command line
Improved Debug CPU Window: now you can switch between different views:
1) 1 opcode, cpu registers, other internal registers
2) 9 opcodes, other internal registers
3) 15 opcodes
4) 9 hexdump lines, other internal registers
5) 15 hexdump lines
Fixed text to speech routine when sending non-ascii character
Fixed bug mapping real joystick buttons and axes with same number
Updated Z88 OZ V4.7
Some other minor bugfixes and improvements


Cheers

Cesar

Project hosting of the Z88 Assembler Workbench tools, OZvm and EasyLink2 are now hosted on https://gitlab.com/bits4fun and https://gitlab.com/z88. Release of latest binaries of assembler tools OZ on all platforms follows in a couple of weeks, to be announced here.