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Atari 8bit Emulator - Altirra v4.31 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 09 February 2025

What's New:

Bugs fixed
* Cassette: Fixed a crash if decoding errors occurred while loading a raw tape.
* Devices: Fixed a crash when adding a device with certain nodes selected.
* Display: Fixed D3D9 gamma correction bugs in specific display configurations with bloom enabled.
* Display: Fixed crash when enabling frame blending at extended PAL height and artifacting enabled.
* Display: Fixed regression in NTSC high artifacting on ARM64 only.
* Input: Fixed console controller inputs being blocked in full-screen mode.
* Printer: Fixed rendering artifacts at edges when scrolling 1020 plotter output at high zoom.
* Printer: Fixed a crash when zooming in on 1020 plotter output on ARM64 only.
* UI: Fixed some cases of empty error dialogs when long operations are cancelled.

Multiple System Frontend - SimpleLauncher v3.9.0 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 08 February 2025

What's New:

Enhanced support for Xbox controllers and added support for PlayStation controllers. I tested it with the following controllers: Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4 DualShock, and PlayStation 5 DualSense.
Improved the text formatting of developer suggestions in the Edit Window.
Enhanced the translation resources: even error messages are now translated into 17 languages.
Updated the emulators to their latest releases.
Updated history.xml to the latest version.
Updated mame.xml to the latest version (0.274).
Added a tool to batch convert regular ISO files to the XISO (Xbox) format.
Added a tool to batch convert CUE, BIN, ISO, and IMG files to the CHD (MAME) format.
Added a tool to batch compress files into ZIP or 7Z archives.
Fixed some bugs.
Improved several methods and functions to enhance efficiency and reduce errors.

HP Calculator Emulator - Plus42 v1.2.3 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 08 February 2025

What's New:

* Fixed crash when trying to load invalid skins.
* Added IDENT function. This returns the app's version number as a negative integer, in -aabbccdd format, with 1.2.3f formatted as -1020306, for example. The number is negative in order to distinguish Plus42 from Free42, which returns positive numbers from IDENT.
* XROMs are now decoded immediately when pasting.
* Switched ^ and ↑ in the character set. The change is transparent to the user, but it restores code compatibility with the encoding of ↑ in Free42.

Luxor ABC 80 Computer Emulator - WinLux80 v1.0 Preview - Added

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 08 February 2025

WinLux80 is a Luxor ABC 80 computer emulator for Windows.

x86 and x86-64 Emulator - FEX v2502 - Released

Details: Category: Linux; Published: 08 February 2025

What's New

VTech V.Smile Emulator - veesem - Added

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 07 February 2025

veesem is an experimental V.Smile emulator. Game compatibility is generally quite good from what I have tested so far, though more features, a more advanced UI and better accuracy are future targets.

ZX Spectrum Emulator - zxian v23 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 07 February 2025

What's New:

fixed a border rendering bug after fast tape loading finishes. Fixed a TAP loading bug concerning custom-length header blocks. This fixes games such as Lemmings

DOSBox Staging Frontend - Turbo Stage v0.8.4 - Released

Details: Category: Linux; Published: 07 February 2025

What's New:

bug fixes

Nintendo Switch Emulator - Sudachi v1.0.14 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 07 February 2025

What's New:

Added support for booting the initial setup screen via -setup
- Only available on Linux, macOS and Windows via Terminal or Tools > Open Initial Setup
- Only partial support for now, will be improved in the future
Added several missing functions to allow the initial setup screen to be launched
- Fixes an issue where some newer games would not boot
Fixed an issue with mm:u where Get and GetOld would not return after pushing a found session's minimum value
Started rewrite of caps, caps:a and caps:su to improve accuracy

Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator - Nesmancer v0.1.1 - Updated

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 07 February 2025

What's New:

Save and load window size position

MS-DOS Player v2025/2/7 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 07 February 2025

What's New:

Implement demGetPhysicalDriveType and demIsShortPathName

MAME MacOS Intel Build v0.274 - Released

Details: Category: Mac; Published: 07 February 2025

What's New:

With MAME 0.274, an ARM64 dynamic recompiler is introduced - a much anticipated and very welcome development. This immediately renders these Intel64 builds for ARM64/Silicon Macs irrelevant, as now the 'native' Silicon build runs faster on all games.

I nevertheless provide this Build 0.274, as it also decently refreshed the Intel64 recompiler according to the release notes.

HP Calculator Emulator - Free42 v3.2.1 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 07 February 2025

What's New:

* Fixed crash when trying to load invalid skins.
* Added IDENT function. This returns the app's version number as an integer, in aabbccdd format, with 3.1.12b formatted as 3011202, for example.
* XROMs are now decoded immediately when pasting.
* iOS version: Removed noise from annunciator area in the Standard-4" and Standard-X skins.