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Welcome to the Page of Amstrad CPC Emulator for DOS, DPMI and WIN32 NEWS 02/06/2011 Fixed two minor glitches in CPCE 1.94 in the ZIP archive handler and the AY chip control register. 27/03/2011 Patched the configuration file of CPCE 1.94 to calm everyone down about "Batman Forever": it demands CPCE to emulate a CRTC 1 rather than a CRTC 0. 07/03/2011 Whoops, CPCE 1.94 needed a further patch due to this glitch: 06/03/2011 Two more minor bugfixes have resulted in further patching of CPCE 1.94! 25/12/2010 Christmas! Two quick bugfixes following reports from Nich Campbell and DevilMarkus have resulted in CPCE 1.94 being rereleased! 10/10/2010 1010101010 :-D Just in time for the release of "Blue Angel 69", CPCE 1.94 features a new autorun engine: feed CPCE a file and go! There's also a new tape engine with 16-bit precision rather than the old 8-bit, support for UNRAR.DLL, bugfixes, and CPCE.TXT is 1010 lines long! 20/08/2010 The TZX/CDT bugfix from 02/06/2010 was unbalanced: Speedlock v5 tapes (UK releases of "Batman the Movie", "Rainbow Islands", "The Untouchables", etc.) had stopped working. Also, CPCE.TXT is 999 lines long! ;-) 30/06/2010 The new CPCE 1.93 supports "Orion Prime" and the Spanish lightgun Gunstick! 02/06/2010 Another rerelease, this one fixing the bugs that crept in during the last days of development of CPCE 1.92. YM2149_VOLUME=<0-9> and its YMP counterpart /v<0-9> are available (the code was already in, but not the options), AUTORUN supports now some very picky games by Gremlin ("Gauntlet", "Skate Crazy", etc.), the TZX/CDT player is back to its normal speed (n/39*32<>n/(39*32-1)-1), and other odds and bits such as the inconsistent date formats and URLs: I've also cleaned up the dead addresses from the LINKS page. And an overhaul of this site's appearance is under works. 18/05/2010 Because of an oversight, CPCE 1.92 missed the file LPTPCIO.COM; that mistake's now fixed. Thanks to Kai "CPCIak" for the bug report! 17/05/2010 Just in time for my birthday, after two years since the past release and one thousand alpha versions, CPCE 1.92 is out! The entire "Ecole Buissoniere" (plus the secret part) works perfectly (it stopped working on v1.90), LPTCPC doesn't forget to calculate the sector size in 1-sector tracks, file extensions are lower case by default, the new AUTOTYPE option provides a more flexible boot method, better SVGA support for DOS and DPMI, Z80 dummy DD/FD bugfix ("Skateball.cdt" by Dlfrsilver), RAR archive support, the TZX direct recording block is now operational, Simon Owen's DSK extension for unstable sectors was added, a new debugger function (bytelogger), LPTCPC is now menu-driven, LPTPC has a Windows NT/XP port, LPTPCIO, the tape motor relay pause is emulated (Opera Soft tapes need it), there's a little Easter Egg for the WIN32.IMAGE_DOUBLE=1 mode... 19.03.2009 Justin for Spectrum had a bug right at the end of the game! Thanks to Pavero and Radastan for helping me find it. 31.03.2008 The previous release of CPCE was made in a hurry and unfinished features were left out; this re-release gives LPTCPC the ability to send extended disc images (and it supports many copy protections) and improves the compatibility of the FDC reading commands, thus expanding the range of supported discs. 08.03.2008 The night before the retro computer event MadriSX 2008, CPCE 1.90 improves the IRQ and VSync signals synchronization, fixes bugs in the FDC that now supports Titus' disc protection, and the Z80 search function and ZIP support have been improved as well. 04.11.2007 CPCE 1.85 fixes a serious bug concerning the Symbiface 2 IDE, lets the option TAPE_COMPATIBLE disable tape speedup if CPCE does it wrong and makes the Win32 file dialog ZIP archive handling a little smarter. 23.09.2007 A tiny hotfix of CPCE 1.84 regarding buggy and obsolete fragments of code in the tape functions is available. The mirror site has moved from [i]"cngsoft.dyndns.org/cpce"[/i] to [i]"cngsoft.no-ip.org/cpce"[/i], too. 16.09.2007 CPCE 1.84 is yet another version focused on fixing minor bugs and adding practical bits: DOSBOX's TRUENAME supported, more compatible AVI recording, new vertical mode 5 (288/576 pixels), more consistent Symbiface 2 ROM handling and many more. 29.07.2007 Several platform-specific bugfixes and improvements are featured in CPCE 1.83, such as 16-bit maths in the HD sector seek function and fully resizable windows. 07.07.2007 A hotfix for CPCE 1.82 repairs several issues with the keyboard ("sticky keys") and other minor bugs. 03.07.2007 CPCE 1.82 is out! Autorun has been greatly improved thanks to a new algorithm that looks for files matching known patterns and maximum RAM size has been expanded to 2112 K (=64+2048). 16.06.2007 Nearly one month behind schedule, CPCE 1.81 fixes many bugs and introduces joystick mapping customization, FDC timeout emulation, floppy disc side flipping and more. 10.03.2007 CPCE 1.80 features full Symbiface 2 emulation just in time for the retro computer event MadriSX 2007! This release features several compatibility improvements and bugfixes as well. The videogame "Justin" has been ported to ZX Spectrum, too. 09.01.2007 CPCE 1.71 has been patched to support a new turbo mode, 4 (32 MHz). 03.01.2007 A hotfix of CPCE 1.71 corrects a bug in YMP pause mode and another one in CPCE's debugger. 01.01.2007 CPCE welcomes the new year 2007 with a new website design based on CSS style and PNG images instead of many small GIF pictures. 28.12.2006 CPCE 1.71's main improvement is that the FDC handles 6 KB sectors, so disc protections used in "Double Dragon (Mastertronic)", "The Addams Family" and other games work correctly now. A pair of tiny bugfixes (overscan wrapping in DOS and hardware ports ghosting) allows Hermol's "XMAS2006" intro to show despite a bug (the command at $8C3F should be LD BC,$BC00 instead of LD BC,$00BC). DOUBLE_SPEED is now TURBO_SPEED and speeds the Z80 up to 8, 12, 16 or 24 MHz, as defined by TURBO_VALUE or /t<0-3>; former /t<0-5> (command line option for ROM_TYPE) is now /m<0-5>. 20.12.2006 CPCE 1.70 supports up to 576K RAM and 272K ROM, and is thus able to run Prodatron's SymbOS GUI at full performance both from disc images and ROMs. The DOS version has had one of its oldest bugs (RAM banking on video memory corrupted graphics) fixed, and the DPMI version includes the DPMI extender PMODE 3.07 so external extenders such as CWSDPMI are no more required from pure DOS. Other bugs (such as rare structure corruption after a FDC format) have been fixed too. 10.10.2006 The file CPCE95.EXE was slightly corrupted. Please download CPCE 1.61 again. 09.10.2006 A second hotfix of CPCE 1.61 corrects another DirectSound bug and a hardware ghosting issue. 26.09.2006 A quick hotfix of CPCE 1.61 corrects a tiny DirectSound bug. 16.09.2006 CPCE 1.61 has been added DirectSound support, and it also corrects a YM2149 bug and optimizes new tape loaders and Z80 loops. This website now has a banner that you can use in your links. 01.08.2006 Just in time for CPCE's 9th anniversary, CPCE 1.60 has been released! It features a big new debugger and MANY improvements in compatibility, performance and customization. 18.03.2006 A quick hotfix of CPCE 1.56 corrects a tiny bug in the FDC. 11.03.2006 CPCE 1.56 corrects several bugs and improves the CPC<->PC data transfer tools and documentation. 04.03.2006 Finished right after MadriSX 2006, CPCE 1.55 adds the ability to record AVI videos and corrects several tiny bugs. 13.01.2006 Even more bugs have been fixed in CPCE 1.54, most of them located in the sound procedures, but also one that could crash CPCE when both emulated tape and disc were running simultaneously. 08.01.2006 CPCE 1.53 corrects a major bug in netplay and other minor bugs, and YMP doesn't need LHA.EXE anymore. 30.12.2005 CPCE 1.52 corrects minor bugs. Get it from the download page. And may everyone have a happy New Year 2006! :) 20.12.2005 CPCE 1.51 is available at the download page. It corrects a pair of bugs and features a fully rewritten and much more readable documentation. I also wish everyone a merry Christmas ^_^ 12.12.2005 CPCE 1.50 and JUSTIN are released! Download them now! 11.12.2005 CPCE 1.50 and JUSTIN are nearly complete. If nothing goes wrong, they'll be published tomorrow Monday 12th. Wish me luck! 16.12.2003 CPCE 1.40 allows runtime ROM selection, features better FDC emulation ("Format Track" supported, plus some bugfixes), many bugfixes (CRTC, PIO, virtual tape, etc.)... and YMP supports YM5 files. CNGTRO#1 is my first released intro! (Ze Meeting 2003) 02.07.2003 CPCE 1.31 enhances the Z80 engine and enables the PAUSE key. 30.06.2003 YMP is back! CPCE 1.30 includes YMP 1.00, and fixes many bugs. 15.04.2003 CPCE 1.21 fixes a tiny bug in YM2149 engine and features a better configuration. 10.04.2003 CPCE 1.20 features rewritten CDT and YM2149 engines, safer ZIP file handling, performance percentages, better configurability and dragon droppings... oops, I meant drag and drop :) 19.01.2003 CPCE 1.11 fixes two or three bugs and introduces scanline mode selection. 05.01.2003 Happy new year! CPCE 1.10 new features are printer logging, joystick support, better NEC765 emulation, and it's safer (no more bugs in WINNT) and handier (WIN32: ZIP file handling and fullscreen mode). 12.09.2002 CPCE 1.01 fixes a silly error in the configuration file :( 09.09.2002 CPCE 1.00 is released! As promised, it's made for three different platforms: DOS (MS-DOS 16bit), DPMI (MS-DOS 32bit) and WIN32 (Windows 95, 98, etc.). It corrects and enhances many features from previous versions, too... Enjoy it! 26.07.2002 CPCE 1.0 (DOS, DPMI and WIN32) is nearly done. Most elements (CPU, memory, sound, tape...) are complete, while other ones (image, disk, printer...) still require some development. You can see here some shots featuring NEBULUS. But this isn't all... Do you remember the first images featuring raster effects in CPCE? (these ones: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th) Well, there's the nearly complete Win32 version of CPCE displaying those games and demos! Why this nostalgic idea? Well, CPCE is about to be five years old! 11.02.2002 Next release of CPCE will feature three versions: DOS, DPMI and WIN32. Converting the old DOS-only sources to "portable" ones takes a lot of time and work... that's why I haven't updated my projects for long :( By the way, do you like the new WWW design? César Nicolás González / CNGSOFT GMAIL.COM