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March 1998
31. March 1998
- Steven Frew released Slutte! v5.0 ('Bligh')! Here's what's new:
- Bligh version.
- Scroll layer priority is now nigh-on perfect.
- Game resolution is more accurate.
- Added another screen mode (clipped 320x200).
- Frameskip option implemented.
- Palette intensity emulation altered a little. Still not perfect, though.
- Fixed some graphics clipping bugs.
- MAME-WIP news: 4 new games: 'Tiger Road' (Capcom, 1987), 'Ping Pong' (Jarek Parchanski), 'Gun Dealer' (Nicola Salmoria) and 'Road Fighter' (Konami, 1984) (Nicola Salmoria)!
- Raine continues to grow: Richard Bush has posted some screenshots of 'Cadash' (Taito, 1989) and 'Super Space Invaders '91' (Taito, 1990)!
30. March 1998
- Nicolas Hamel and David Michel release xDragon v0.25! Luckily we get two new video mode and a joystick calibration part!
- While being busy testing the new releases of Callus and xDragon, I added a lot of screenshots to their sub-pages here on SYS2064!
29. March 1998
- Nicolas Hamel and David Michel release xDragon v0.2!
Here's what's new:
- Added Robocop
- Added sound emulation (FX&Music)
- Added the 6502 emulation, fully in ASM
- Bloodlust Software return with the long awaited release of Callus v0.30!
The new features are quite impressive:
- Fixed sprite clip bug
- Row based overdraw reduction
- Exponential operator envelopes
- Corrected black background intensity
- 'resv' command line option
- Volume control dialog
- Movie playing/recording (.CM?)
- Rewrote graphics decoder in asm (faster loading)
- Modified 384x224 mode (should be more compatible)
- Rotated display
- Japanese Dynasty Wars support (dwj)
- Japanese Pnickies support (pnickj)
- Chiki Chiki Boys support (chikij)
- Tile/sprite partial-priority
- Improved plane enable bits
- Muscle Bomber Duo support (mbomber)
- Hybrid input option (see below)
- KOD/Rockmanj dipswitches
- 3rd/4th player inputs
- Support for a second sidewinder (untested)
- Haggar pants GUI
- Fixed sprite/bg synch
- Sound logging to wav files
- Implemented ADPCM channel volume
- Fixed rare palette mapper color leak
- Fixed minor player input bug
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs support (dino)
- Japanese Knights of the Round support (knightsj)
- Japanese Warriors of Fate support (wofj)
- Warriors of Fate support (wof)
- Semiaccurate YM2151 timer/irq mechanism
- Digital YM2151 FM emulation
- Emulated hardware coin counter
- 1941 support (1941)
- State slots changeable with F6/F8
- State display
- Fixed -remapbut bug
- Punisher support (punish)
- EEPROM emulation
- Japanese Punisher support (punishj)
- Nemo support (nemo)
- Quiz and Dragons support (qad)
- Japanese Wonder 3 support (wonder3)
- Japanese Varth support (varthj)
- Japanese Willow support (willowj)
- Mercs support (mercs)
- Japanese Quiz and Dragons support (qadj)
- Varth support (varth)
- Japanese Nemo support (nemoj)
- Japanese Street Fighter II support (sf2j)
27. March 1998
- Peter Hirschberg just released a bug-fixed Vector Dreams emulator v2.1!
- Peter Hirschberg released Vector Dreams v2.0!
Here's what's new:
- Added support for Battlezone, Red Baron, and Tempest.
- Game-in-progress loading/saving.
- The control panel appearances can now be edited by the user.
- Screen "burn-in" backgrounds.
- Transluscent vectors.
- Frameskip option.
- Front-end support.
- TOTAL control over the color palette...(add color to Asteroids, etc.).
- The stomach-turning "Trippy! Mode".
- 11kHz/22kHz selectable sample playback rate.
- Game power on/off sound effects.
- Improved user interface.
- EMUzing did a great IRC interview with the following people: Mirco Buffoni (MAME), Peter Hirschberg (Vector Dreams), James Rowan (JROK), Neil Bradley (EMU, Retrocade), Anders Nillson (RAGE), Janne Korpela (RAGE), Neil Corlett (MGE), Richard Bush (Raine), Zonn Moore (Cinematronics, Retrocade) and Dave Spicer (Sparcade). Impressive ain't it ? Read the whole interview here!
26. March 1998
- JROK has got 'Pac Land' (Namco, 1984) running for his multi-game emulator JAS! He wants to release the new version on April, 4th and has posted some screenshots here!
25. March 1998
- MAME news: 4 new drivers were added: Toki (Jarek Parchanski), Jungler (Nicola Salmoria), Snow Bros. (Mike Coates) and Route 16 (Zsolt Vasvari).
- SYS2064 broke the 20.000 visitor barrier yesterday :-)))
A very big Thank You to all my visitors in the last months - be sure to come back and bring your friends :-) !
23. March 1998
- Read a very short interview with Janne Korpela and Anders Nilsson (of RAGE fame) on this page!
- Today I started to do some improvements on this page which will continue over the next few weeks, so expect minor changes in the next days!
22. March 1998
- Kevin Brisley released a 'preview' version of the upcoming Replay+ supporting the following games: Amidar, Bump'n Jump, Burger Time, Super Pacman and Robocop!!! The preview version is for Linux users ONLY but Dos and Windows95 ports will be available in a week or two! Check the latest news on the official Replay+ homepage and get the 'preview' from there, too!
- More news from the MAME WIP page!
Bryan McPhail has seven Data East games (Bad Dudes, Dragonninja, Robocop, Hippodrome, Heavy Barrel, Sly Spy and Midnight Resistance) nearly done 100% for MAME but there is no sound yet! Paul Leaman has improved the Trojan driver, too!
21. March 1998
- I nearly forgot to tell you about the first screenshot from the upcoming Retrocade! It's from 'Discs of Tron' and the game never looked better :)! Click here to see the image! If the Retrocade page is down, go to Insert Coin to see the image!
- The MAME WIP page has been updated with screenshots for the game 'Fast Freddy' (Atari, 1982)! Zsolt Vasvari has been busy, too and added a real classic from Atari 1976: 'Cops N Robbers'!
19. March 1998
- I'd like to start with some non-computer related news! My favorite Soccer team, the current World Champion BORUSSIA DORTMUND just beat the all-time loosers :-) FC Bayern Muenchen and is again Germany's only team in the Champions-League semi-finals! Congratulations on the job well done! :-)
- Another day and even more MAME additions: Zsolt Vasvari has added a driver for 'The Pit' (Centuri, 1982); Brad Oliver has added Fly Boy and Paul Leaman made some progress on his driver for 'Trojan' (Capcom, 1985)! Take a look at the MAME WIP page for screenshots!
- The xDragon emulator has added three more game for the next release: Hippodrome, Heavy Barrel and Robocop (not playable at the moment due at a protection chip)!
18. March 1998
- Steven Frew released Slutte! v4.0 ('Beefheart')! This might be the last release as he might switch to creating a MAME driver for the game instead. Anyway, here's what's new:
- Beefheart version.
- Player 2 controls now work.
- Added a menu interface for setting the dipswitches.
- Fixed a problem with the highscore saving.
- Started work on emulating the palette intensity values, so fades kinda work. I don't think the intermediate colours are right, but it's a start.
- StarScream v0.24 implemented. Neill's bugfixes have made the parachuting bonus objects move more correctly.
- MAME additions: Nicola Salmoria ´has added support for 'Blockout' (Technos, 1989) and Paul Leaman added a playable, yet preliminary driver for 'Trojan' (Capcom, 1985)! Take a look at the MAME WIP page for screenshots!
17. March 1998
- Nicolas Hamel and David Michel release xDragon v0.1a!
Here are the features of this first release:
- Game(s) supported:
- Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja
- Dragon Ninja - Full 68000 emulator, using Starscream
- Horizontal and vertical scrolling supported
- Background priorities supported
- Players input (1 & 2) supported, using keyboard and joystick
- ALL graphics parts coded in ASM.
- Sprite supported at 99% (priority not perfect yet)
- Game(s) supported:
- I added Jan AxHell's excellent Coin-Ops Database v0.18 and The Emu database v1.1 to the page of currently emulated videogames! The aim of these databases is to provide a complete list of all videogames starting with Pong up to recent games! Check them out!
- It's back to the old background which I like better...I am going to make new buttons and improve the page graphically over the next days. Stay tuned and feel free to send me comments on the design!
16. March 1998
- The Data East emulator has added another game: 'Hippodrome (Data East, 1989)! Read the whole list of updates on the homepage!
15. March 1998
- Janne Korpela and Anders Nilsson release RAGE v0.9! This is a very impressive update and here's what's new:
- Legend of Hero Tonma with all the power ups
- R-Type JP & US two player support
- Special command for Image fight -r to rotate the screen
- -d to select startup resolution (see readme.txt for available resolutions), Example: -d384x256
- F8 toggles between 50 & 60 fps
- F9 toggles between all available resoloutions (Read the readme.txt)
- Blade Master
- Gunforce
- Image Fight
- In The Hunt (you must try this one)
- Ninja Spirit
- Undercover Cops
- Another game has been added to the Sega System16 emulator: 'Wonderboy III: Monster Lair'! You can take a look at screenshots here!
- Marcel Silvius wrote a whole bunch of .rat files (55!) for the latest Sparcade to support all clones or games running on similar hardware. Grab them from his homepage!
- SYS2064 has recieved award number eight! :-) This time it's Toymakers Award for Creative Design and Heart!
If you like to see a complete list of all awards, feel free to click here! :-)
14. March 1998
- Insert Coin has put some screenshots from MAME's emulation of 'Return of the Jedi'! Take a look at the Emu-News section there for the screenshots!
- The Data East emulator has added support for 'Midnight Resistance' and 'Sly Spy', both are fully playable with minor bugs. Take a look at the progress and some screenshots at the homepage!
13. March 1998
- Richard Bush released Raine v0.09! Here's what's new:
- Switched to the Pentium optimized gcc.
- Toki and Snow Bros are playable.
- Added WrestleFest and Terra Force; playable.
- Added Starscream 68000 engine for Rainbow Islands (Original/Extra), Rastan, Toki, Snow Bros, Wrestle Fest, Terra Force.
- Thanks to Starscream and new asm gfx routines, most games are faster (Rainbow Islands, Rastan are 60fps on my p120).
- MAME news, directly taken from the WIP-page:
Four new games have been added: Sega's Commando, Torando Baseball, The Amazing Maze game and Kamikaze and todays screenshots are from Speed Rumbler.
- Peter Hirschberg added Battle Zone and Tempest to the upcoming version of his Vector Dreams emulator. In addition to that, he will add a great looking feature: real-time anti-aliased and translucent vectors! Take a look at screenshots here!
12. March 1998
- Steven Frew released Slutte! v3.0 ('American')! Here's the list of new features in v3.0:
- American version
- The previous version (Ahab) crashed if you had no CFG file. This has been fixed.
- The sprites no longer lag behind when the screen scrolls.
- Improved define-keys option: now you can use CTRL, ALT, and so on.
- Added high-score saving.
11. March 1998
- MGE-Author Neill Corlett has posted a message on Dave's Arcade Message Board to give some details about the current status of MGE! The emulator doesn't make that much progress because of a) the slapstic protection, b) the core is being completely rewritten and c) not enough free time on Neil's part! Read the whole message here!
10. March 1998
- Steven Frew released Slutte! v2.0! Here's what's new:
- Ahab version (as of this version, all revisions of Slutte! will be named after famous Captains).
- Eliminated the irritating 1-pixel offset playfield glitches.
- Made the text graphics more accurate (bonus-scores at ends of the levels use the correct character set now).
- Previously-bugged graphics such as the moving robot-limbs and the elevator now work a lot better. This is due to the addition of some (very basic) scroll-layer prioritisation.
- Improved the palette updating. Now the -puff command line option is unneccessary. Thanks to Jason Fourier for this suggestion.
- Mode-X support added, eliminating the need for a VESA 2.0 driver.
- Rewrote the file routines in an effort to make it work in DOS 6.22 (though I can't test it, so fingers crossed).
- Added a joystick calibration option.
- Added screen-grab function.
09. March 1998
- Again I present you System16 news:
Another game has been added 'Tough Turf' (Datsu Electronics, 1989)!
- The new version of RAGE should be out at the end of the week (eventually with support for 'Ninja Spirit') and the next version of Slutte! should be released in the next two days!
- MAME has added Atari's 'Basketball' (1979)! Screenshots are on Dave's Classics!
- Site news: CaBBe and Orgs Romlist page is back! And in addition, the MAME Work in Progress page has moved to Dave's Classics!
08. March 1998
- Surprises ahead: Rage will support two previously unannounced games in the upcoming version: Blade Master (IREM, 1991) and Gunforce (IREM, 1991)! Click here for screenshots!
- It seems that Raine will be the multigame emulator that supports Wrestlefest! Read about it on Emulation Happenings!
07. March 1998
- Insert Coin announced that 'Punch Out' will be playable in MAME v0.31!! Take a look at this screenshot! In addition to that you may already know that 'Speed Rumbler' will be in v.31 too but you can see screenshots here!
- More mouth-watering screenshots of upcoming games: This time you can take a look at 'Undercover Cops' running on Rage!
06. March 1998
- The great Super Nintendo emulator SNES9x is going to be continued and has made some awesome progress like the emulation of the Super FX chip!! Read all about it here! I know that this has nothing to do with arcade emulation, but it is great news nevertheless!
- Getting back to Arcade related news: Thierry and Noa added another game to their System16 emulator: E-Swat! Here's a screenshot!
- Another new emulator in the works: this time for Konami's 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'! Take a look at the homepage now :-)
05. March 1998
- The New York Times did a wonderful article about MAME, read it here!
- Jose Tejada Gomez Frew released Grytra v0.1! The author of Mapefer strikes again with a single-game emulator for the game 'Gryzor' or 'Contra'!
This emulator is a prerelease, too, so please don't expect that the emulation is 100% complete.
- Data East emulator news:
There are some new screenshots on the homepage with correct colors and Bad Dudes should be playable. The emu is not released yet, though!
- I finally found the time to split the single-game emulator section into two sections...In the next days I will start to update all the emulator descriptions. Please tell me of any broken links you may find while browsing through SYS2064. And of course, thank you for visiting! :-)
04. March 1998
- Steven Frew released Slutte! v1.0, a single-game emulator for Capcomc's classic: 'Bionic Commando'!
Please keep in mind that this is the first release and that there are still bugs in the code.
- There are new screenshots from the emulation of the game 'Wrestlefest' and they look great. We might see the release soon. If you'd like to get the roms for the game, take a look at this page!
03. March 1998
- Dave Spicer released Sparcade v2.23! The new features are:
- 3 versions of Slapfight supported
- bootleg (same version as in Sparcade v2.22)
- original
- US original, entitled "Alcon". - Commando frame skip bugs fixed.
- Centipede scanlines bug fixed.
- Wardner game options fixed.
- 3 versions of Slapfight supported
02. March 1998
- Arcade emulator work in progress news:
Emulation Happenings posted some screenshots of the game Wrestlefest (Technos, 1991) which are supposed to be from a multigame emulator! In addition to that, Raine seems to make some more progress, too. The author has posted some new screenshots from previously non-working games: Snow Bros., Terra Force and Toki.
- Dave Spicer released a new .rat-file for the game Wardner for his Sparcade emulator which fixes some bugs!
- With respect to all awards that SYS2064 previously recieved and due to the fact that i am a huge Simpsons fan, I am very honored to recieve this brand-new award which is the coolest I have ever seen: the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence!
01. March 1998
- Finally! After more than a year without updates, I am proud to announce the return of the emulator that started it all: Dave Spicer just released Sparcade v2.2!
The new version now works with Windows95 so there is no need to switch to plain DOS and the new supported games are: Berzerk, Bombjack, Commando, Domino Man, Jr Pacman, Millipede, Moon Cresta, Nemesis, Salamander, Satan's Hollow, Slap Fight, Super Cobra, Tazmania, Terra Cresta, Tron, Turtles, Tutankham, Uniwars, Vulcan Venture and Wardner.
- The next release of the System16 emulator will support the game: "Dynamite Dux" with sound in addition to the previously mentioned games "SDI" and "Passing Shot". See the screenshots here!
- SYS2064 has won another award: the Web Surfers Digest Hot Site!
Click here to get to the top of the page!
February 1998
27. February 1998
- Peter Hirschberg released his Vector Dream emulator v1.0!
Currently supported are three games: Asteroids Deluxe, Asteroids and Lunar Lander! Vector Dreams has some unique features, so check it out!
26. February 1998
- Brad Oliver, the coordinator of the Mac port of MAME has started an official MAME Work in Progress page!! Take a look on it from time to time and read about the latest MAME informations!
24. February 1998
- The System16 emulator supports yet another game: "Passing Shot". You can see some screenshots here. Passing Shot and SDI, a game added a few days earlier, are both playable with sound :-)
- Two new arcade emulators are currently under development:
The first strives to become an emulator for Data East games like Robocop and Bad Dudes and the second is a work in progress of a single game emulator called "Slutte" (by Steven Frew) for the game Bionic Commando (Capcom, 1987). Click on the links to see the homepages and some screenshots.
23. February 1998
- Nicola Salmoria has posted a message on Dave's MAME Message Board regarding everything about the situation on MAME. Hopefully this will crush the pointless discussions on the message boards.
- Dave Ewing has started an online emulation news-megazine called EMUzing :-) Issue number One is now available and it is a great read. This issues featured interview is with Neil Bradley who gives some insight in Retrocade!
- Bester has released a Xain'D Sleena emulator! The emulator is in very early alpha stage and has the following problems:
- The game is slow.
- Colors are not all correct.
- The game will lock up randomly.
- There is no Joystick.
- There is no sound.
The emulation is painfully slow on my P100, so I wouldn't really recommend it right now. If you think your computer can handle this, try it for yourself!
- I will devide the Single-Game Emulator section as soon as I find the time for it ;-)
22. February 1998 - A very busy day!
- There is a lot of speculation going on on Dave's Message Boards about the closures of AH and the MacMame page which is really getting ridiculous. To end all of those unmature discussions, please read this post by Brad Oliver, the developer of MacMame regarding those rumours.
The following is my opinion: I don't understand the whole situation. Just imagine...there are people who take a gift! from emu-developers (especially MAME) and all they seem to care about is bitching :-( ... Why can't they just enjoy what they get and say 'thank you' for those great products ? Different emulator programmers simply have different views about their products. Some of them like to show the progress of their emulators to the public, some of them like to work in secrecy and surprise everybody with the emu-release. How dare some people to tell the programmers what they should do ? After all, they do all the work and use up a lot of their sparetime and therefore they can set *all* the rules! Those who don't like the rules that come with the emulators should start their own projects or simply stay away from those emulators.
- What is the best thing to start into a new day ? The debut of a brand-new emulator, of course!
Brian Peek has released Annoid v1.0, an emulator for Taito's classic game Arkanoid!
- And there is even more :-) Dave Spicer made an official announcement on Dave's Arcade Board regarding the upcoming Sparcade!
"A new version of Sparcade will be released this week, possibly as early as tommorrow. The following titles will definately be supported:
Amidar, Berzerk, Bombjack, Centipede, Commando, Domino Man, Frogger, Galaxian, Hangly Man, Junior Pacman, Lunar Rescue, Millipede, Moon Cresta, Ms Pacman, Nemesis, Pacman, Pengo, Pisces, Salamander, Satan's Hollow, Scramble, Slap Fight, Space Attack, Space Invaders, Space Invaders Deluxe (aka Space Invaders pt II), Starforce, Super Cobra, Tazmania, The End, Tron, Turtles, Tutankham, Uniwars, Wardner, War of the Bugs, Vulcan Venture.
I may also include "work in progress" versions of some of the following: Bad Dudes, Birdie Try, Flying Shark, Rainbow islands, R-Type, Terra Cresta."Sound great, doesn't it ? :-))
- There are sad news, too:
Two great arcade emulation sites have just shut down: Knapers MacMame page and Athmospherical Heights :-( You can take a look at their 'good-bye' speeches on the pages.
Both pages provided valuable information in the past and I am sorry to see them go!
- The System16 emulator has added a new game: "SDI", (unplayable right now)! Take a look at screenshots here and remember that there is no release date yet!
21. February 1998
- Dirk Stevens released MamEagle v0.10!
Due to my decision not to support any! unofficial versions of existing emulators, I won't add Mameagle to this page. You can download it here, I didn't test it yet, though.
- I added a really promising page to the links-section: The site is simply called NeoGeo Emu and the purpose is to cover everything about the NeoGeo, including emulators (no there is NO working NeoGeo emulator, yet) and even has some NeoGeo roms to download!
19. February 1998
- RAGE news :-)
You can see a screenshot of a working 'Image Fight' (IREM, 1988) on the Rage Homepage. So we might see a new release soon!
- It looks like Eagle is for real after all. The author sent a beta-version of a modified MAME version with Eagle support to Lance McKay, the maintainer of Emu Xpress. Eagle is not code-optimized yet, so expect a big performance cut.
18. February 1998
- MSNBC did a very nice article about MAME, you really should read it here. There are some faults, though: MAME is freeware!!, not shareware and the game 'Tank' is not yet supported.
17. February 1998
- The author of Eagle has added more screen-shots from three different games: Bubble Bobble, Bomb Jack and Out Run. I was very sceptical about Eagle, but now I really think that it is a scam. What do you think ?
16. February 1998
- Take a look at EAGLE: Enhance Arcade Graphics Library! Dirk Stevens thought of something to improve the graphics of classic arcade games and the result looks interesting! You can see some screenshots on his page and he says that EAGLE will be added to a 'well-known emulator' very soon!
- Larry Bank released CAGE v1.02!
The new features are:
- Fixed screen dump to work in properly with all games and in hicolor/truecolor mode and stretched mode.
- Fixed hiscore/state save for Defender, Robotron.
- Fixed mysterious GPF when viewing some game's options.
- Added ROM information dialog to show directory name and ROM file names.
- Added support for Space Invaders, Space Invaders Part II, Galaxy Wars, Lunar escue, Qix.
- Improved keyboard definition dialog.
- Fixed some memory leaks.
- Improved speed of 6808 and 6809 emulation dramatically.
15. February 1998
- The best news are news about new emulators :-)
According to Dave's Classics, José Tejada Gómez (the author of Mapefer) is busy working on a Gryzor/Contra emulator which could be released soon! You can see some screenshots here.
- Richard Bush (J3d!) released a Raine v0.8!
With this release I add Raine to the multigame emulators because now my matrox mystique finally works due to a second videomode Richard added to the emulator. Please note that this release of Raine is still very "beta" and all of the games are more or less bugged. I don't consider any of the games playable right now with the exception of Rastan.
- WOW...SYS2064 reached the 15.000 hits barrier...Now I say: "To Infinity and beyond!" :-)
14. February 1998
- Insert Coin has the first big list of games that are supposed to be supported by MAME v0.31:
"Bandido, Boot Hill, Capcom Bowling, City Connection, Crash, Far West, Frisky Tom, Guzzler, Hamburger, Killer Comet, Mania Challenge, Mega Attack, Rygar, Speed Rumber, Sprint 1, Star Fire (MSK), Super Breakout, Super Qix, and Tazmania. Also reported are more supported versions of: Arkanoid, Frogger, Pleiads and Venture."
- Here are two new and great Rom-Dump sites for you to find replacement roms for your broken original rom-boards ;-)
Arcade Roms from Japan; as the name indicates, here you find japanese rom-dumps (most of them not supported by emulators yet) and a nameless ftp-site on which you can find a lot of not-yet-emulated romdumps (unsorted).
13. February 1998
- I added the samples for Alien Syndrome to the Samples-page!
12. February 1998
- Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela release Rage v0.8!
The new features are:
- Legend of Hero Tonma
- Bugfixed version of Hammerin' Harry (still no sound thou)
- Chris Hardy released his Juno First Emulator v1.23!
The new features are:
- Added sound (via samples) for Legend of Hero Tonma.
- Missing sprites fixed. This was due to incorrectly read roms. You will need to download the new set of roms to fix this.
- Save game support for LOHT.
- Fixed the crash at the end of level 1 of LOHT.
And the best thing of all: Chris finally decided to seperate the core emulator from the samples making the updates for all users and webmasters more easy. Get the samples (Juno First, Legend of Hero Tonma, R-Type II and Tutankham) from here!
- Larry Bank released CAGE v1.01!
This emulator supports the following games: Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Bubbles, Colony7, Defender, Joust, Qix, Robotron, Sinistar, Splat, Stargate and Super Pacman.
11. February 1998
- There is a small but entertaining interview with Mirco Buffoni that can be found here!
10. February 1998
- Have you heard about 'Retrocade' yet ?
There has been a lot of speculation about a new arcade emulator called Retrocade and all I was able to find out is that Neil Bradley (of EMU fame), Mike Cuddy (KEM mastermind) and Zonn Moore (Cinemu chef de maison) have banded together to do a new multi-game emulator which should run the games great even on pre-pentium machines! :-)
Now there is finally some proof for all of this. Neil Bradley posted a message on Dave's arcade emulation board from which I will quote some extracts here:
"It [Retrocade] incorporates the same games as KEM and EMU with the addition of the Cinematronics games and quite a few others. Count on roughly 50 games to start with, and more as the emulator matures."
"BTW, Star Wars is in there as well with full sound and speech. It ran nicely on my friend's P100 with sound enabled, and runs quite well on my P60 as well."Doesn't this sound great ? :-) Read the full message here!
09. February 1998
- Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela release Rage v0.70!
There are two new emulated games from IREM: Dragon Breed and Hammerin' Harry.
- JROK finally released his multigame emulator JAS v1.0!
His single-game emulators: Dig Dug 2, Gaplus (and Galaga 3), Mappy and Super Pacman are merged into JAS and a new game has been added: Sky Kid!
- Brian Levine announced on his homepage that a new version of his Rockulator emulator will be coming real soon!
- No kidding, SYS2064 recieves the third award in three days! :-) This time it's the Bronze Award from Nielsen Web Sites & Business Graphics!
If you like to see a complete list of all awards, feel free to click here! :-)
08. February 1998
- Li Jih Hwa and Thierry Lescot release their System16 emulator v0.76!
Here's what's new in this release:
- Out Run added and playable.
- Tetris added and playable.
- Alien Syndrome added and playable.
- Super Hang-On added and playable with musics.
- YM2151 emulation for every System 16 games (yes, it's music and sfx!)
- Joystick support (analog & digital modes)
- Minor fixes and speed ups
- And in addition, they released the System 16 Sound Emulator!
The Sound Emulator is a stand alone music emulator for System 16 games. With this player you can listen the musics from every System 16 games, even the protected ones ! Working in this version : Shinobi, Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Out Run, Quartet II, After Burner II, Alex Kidd, Alien Syndrome, Tetris, Wrestle War, Time Scanner, Passing Shot, Super Hang-On, Thunder Blade and Line of Fire
- I added the samples for Golden Axe and Altered Beast to the samples-page!
- I am going to revamp the links-section in the near future. So if you want me to add a link to your site, just contact me.
- I feel very honored to announce that SYS2064 has won the Critical Mass Award!
07. February 1998
- Sorry about the lack of updates, but nothing really happened the last days except for the tons of front-end releases ;-) ! Like all of you, I am anxiously waiting for the release of the System16 emulator which should be real soon.
- Another unofficial MAME version was released yesterday with minor changes (no new games) to the original source code. I will never support any unofficial versions of existing emulators on SYS2064, so please don't ask me about those.
- SYS2064 has won another award and is the RPG-NET Site of the week :-))
04. February 1998
- SYS2064 celebrates its half-year birthday today :-) Thank you for your continued support!
02. February 1998
- Sorry but JROK's Multigame emulator is again delayed. Directly from his webpage:
"Argghhh... Nothing EVER goes to plan does it... Time hasn't worked out so I'm pushing things back to sometime after the 7th Feb. when I get back from San Francisco. Sorry for the delays.. please be patient, it will get completed..."
01. February 1998
- I did the first minor face-lift, a new logo is coming next and maybe new and improved buttons. Hope you like it! :-)
Click here to get to the top of the page!
January 1998
31. January 1998
- Chris Hardy released Juno First Emulator v1.22!
Now with support for the game Legend of Hero Tonma!
- Somebody (J3d?) released Raine (Rainbow Islands Emulator) v0.06!
Raine is supposed to be a very-early release of a multi-game emulator. Almost none of the games are playable yet. I can't seem to get it to run, because there is only one video-mode supported. If you want to take a look at it, I will add it as soon as I can see what it does and what is missing, so if you need it right now, I suggest that you download it from Dave.
29. January 1998
- Directly from JROK's homepage comes the following information:
"JAS-Multi games is almost ready for release, my own deadline is to have it ready on Saturday Jan 31st, so far it supports Gaplus & Galaga 3, Mappy, Super Pacman, Dig Dug2 and Sky Kid."
- Chris Hardy released another bug-fix to v1.21b for his Juno First emulator. Joystick support back for RType I and II. Please note that the filename still is jnupd121.zip!
28. January 1998
- Chris Hardy released a second bug-fix today :) to v1.21a for his Juno First emulator Now the emulator supports the US R-Type I romset. Please note that the filename still is jnupd121.zip!
- Chris Hardy released a bug-fix (v1.21) for his Juno First emulator a few hours later. These bugs were fixed:
- RType II's elevator bug is fixed
- Track'n'Field is no longer slower than the previous release
- RType I has proper dipswitch settings
27. January 1998
- Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela release a Rage-bugfix: Rage v0.6b. The new features are:
- F8 to toggle between the old(360x256) resolution and the new(384x256) for all Rtypes
- Sound is now working on AWE32 and some other cards that had problems before
- Sound is improved since 0.6 and there is also music in Rtype 1
- The elevator bug on level1 in Rtype II is fixed
- Gunsmoke reset bug is hopefully fixed (atleast one)
25. January 1998
- Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela release Rage v0.60. The new features are:
- 4 new games/variants: Rtype I (US-ver), Rtype II, 1943 KAI and Gunsmoke (JP-ver)
- Sound FX support in all IREM games
- New resolution for all Rtypes, 384x256
- Correct colors in Victory Road
- Option -v now enables v-sync (disabled is default)
- F11 shows current framerate
- F10 does not show framerate automatically
- Chris Hardy released his Juno First emulator v1.20, too.
- 2 new games: Rtype I and Rtype II (with a sprite bug)
- Fullscreen mode
- MUCH faster screen display code
- 100% colours in Roc'n'Rope, Circus Charlie, Track'n'Field and Hypersports
- Save and Load the current game state in RType I and II
- Sound support for RType II via samples which came from a real RType II board. Unfortunately due to the size of the music samples they have been omitted from this release. A future version will have native YM2151 support and won't require the samples
24. January 1998
- Cabbe and Org's Romlist page is back up (no roms yet) with a new look and on a new location, so update your bookmarks.
- There are two Netstat counters up there for a short while, because I am testing the brand-new German Netstat :-)) Unfortunately the German version is still in beta-test, so I keep the Dutch-counter as long as the beta-tests are running :-)
23. January 1998
- I am deadly ill *g* and there are no real news out there...bad luck it seems ;-)
But I'd like to take the time and place to say thank you to all of you who wrote those encouraging emails in the last weeks. I will improve SYS2064 continuously and hope that you all will find at least one reason to came back often and check for all your arcade-emulation needs. Again thank you for the kind words and take care! - Did I just say no news ? hmmm ;-) To quote from Dave's Arcade Message Board:
Dave Spicer: "Yup, you're right - the new Sparcade won't even come close to Mame's numbers, supporting as it does around 30 odd titles. What I've tried to do is provide quality emulations of some of my favourite games. Three titles in particular really make the emu as far as I'm concerned."
There are even more posts from Dave Spicer regarding the upcoming Sparcade, so i suggest you all take a look for yourself.
21. January 1998
- Blood found a nasty bug in FeMAME 1.72 and released the bug-fixed FeMAME 1.73.
20. January 1998
- The last version (1.95b) of Sparcade was released on January, 25th 1997. He released the update-pack with the Starforce.rat file on February, 11th 1997. Maybe Dave Spicer wants to release the new version exactly one year later...I guess we all have to sit and wait :-)
- Roberto Venture released Vastar 0.51 which obviously emulates the game Vastar ;-)
The emulator has no sound yet, but is much faster and has more accurate colors than the MAME version.
- Another game has been added to the upcoming release of the System16 emulator...TETRIS, the Sega version!!!! Click here to see some screenshots.
18. January 1998
- If this ain't good news: I just saw this update on the Sparcade homepage:
"The Sparcade page is down for the time being. Watch this space for a new page and a new version of Sparcade in the near future."
Remember...you read it here first :-)
17. January 1998
- I know that you are all craving for new emulators, updates, news and even rumors but unfortunately there is nothing to report, sorry :(
16. January 1998
- Li Jih Hwa annonced today that the next release of the System16 emulator will probably be during the first week of February! :-)
- Blood released FeMAME 1.72 ... FeMAME is in my opinion the best MAME front-end. Now with support for MAME v0.30!
- This is too good to be true: SYS2064 recieved a second award: the PURE GOLD AWARD of the real estate library :-)))
15. January 1998
- SYS2064 is the Totally Awesome! site of the day from The 80s.com and recieved the Totally Awesome! Award:
14. January 1998
- Paolo Faccini and Paolo Medda released Callus Manager 95 v1.06!
- Ian Pleasance released MAMEaud v1.36 ;-) Again I tell you that this programm is a real must-have for all MAME users!!! It compares the list of needed files ( roms ans samples) with all the files you have and lists all files that are missing, those that are not needed and even more...Get this to check your roms and samples!
12. January 1998
- Some sad news: Roberto Ventura quit the development of his Sega System 8 emulator. He sent a documentation to the MAME team though, so we might see System 8 games on MAME in the future...
11. January 1998
- System 16 emulator news: Another game has been added: Alien Syndrome! Still no release date, but you can take a look at some screenshots here.
10. January 1998
- University and MAME v0.30 kept me busy the last days ;-)
I finally added all new samples and updated a lot of the old sample-sets according to the latest MAME version. The Database of currently emulated games is updated, too.
- Please feel free to give me feedback on SYS2064...
09. January 1998
- I am a bit busy right now, the Windows95 port of MAME v0.30 is now up but the new samples will be added later today or tomorrow, sorry...
08. January 1998
- 1:03 am ... the wait is finally over :-))))
MAME v0.30 is out and will blow you away...
88 new supported games (including clones) - ZOOKEEPER - and major improvements regarding graphics, sound (emulated sound in all nintendo games) and fixes...
07. January 1998
- Since there aren't any new emulators, I did some internal restructuring to speed up the loading time of the multi-game emulators page...
- On the RAGE homepage you can see a scrennshot of R-Type II running on RAGE...there is no release date but it is something to look forward to :-) Click here to see the image!
05. January 1998
- MAME v0.30 is not out...YET!
It won't be long before it is released so be prepared...from what I heard, it will blow you away, not only regarding the new games, but the fixes, too :))
- Paolo Faccini and Paolo Medda released Callus Manager 95 v1.04!
03. January 1998
- Chris Pile updates his Asteroids emulator to v3.02!
A small bug-fix and a sleight speed-up makes v3.02 the final version of the emulator. Chris has released the source-code, too.
- Paolo Faccini and Paolo Medda released Callus Manager 95 v1.03 a few days ago. It is just a minor bug-fix though.
02. January 1998
- The unjustly neglected Replay emulator will have an update soon: This is a *must* read!!!
Kevin Brisley is currently rewriting the core and is creating Replay+ which will be a slight step back regarding supported games but will have major improvements over most existing emulators. Directly from the authors homepage:
- The framework has been rewritten in C++ to allow flexibility and extensibility. This makes new drivers easy to add and allows similar drivers to share code through inheritance (Done).
- Source code will be publically available.
- Integrated debugger available in a development version for driver writing (In Progress).
- A nice new builtin Front-End (Done).
- Easily portable to such platforms as DOS (Soon), Unix/X (Done), Win32 (Soon), Macintosh (Not yet planned).
- Support for ASM CPU cores for speed in Linux/X (Done), DOS (Soon) and Win32 (Soon).
- 68000 CPU support with C/ASM cores in (In progress).
- Cocktail mode support for all games (Done).
- Allows startup & in-game rotating/flipping of the screen (Done).
- Games can be added without recompiling Replay+ through shared libraries in Unix/X (Done) and .DLLs in Win32 (Soon).
- Game state save/load in all games (Done).
- Dip Switch setting/saving (Done).
- Allows setting of global key definitions (e.g. set the "Player 1 Up" key for all games) which can also be overridden by local key definitions. All definitions saved (Done).
- 16/24 Bit Unix/X support (Done).
- Movie capture and playback for all games. Turn on the recording of your game and play the movie back later. Trade with your friends ;-) (Done).
- Network support for all games. Allows players as well as observers over a TCP/IP connection (Done).
- High score saving for all games (Done).
- And much more.
Just imagine playing the games in a network :-) And I really love the thought of movie capturing. I can't wait to see the next release!!!!
- The framework has been rewritten in C++ to allow flexibility and extensibility. This makes new drivers easy to add and allows similar drivers to share code through inheritance (Done).
- No MAME v0.30 yet..."very soon" is a very long time indeed...
01. January 1998
- Happy new year :-)
Thanks to all of you for making the first milestone for SYS2064 possible: 10.000 hits on this humble page since August 1997. THANK YOU!!!
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