#CSpect 2.19.0.3

#CSpect V2.19.0.3 changes


Massive update, with virtually all rendering components touched to properly allow for blending modes. While there has been a concerted effort to beta test this, please report any rendering oddities that you see on the Spectrum Next discord channel.
Also in this version, is a major update to audio/video syncing, producing far smoother and more playable results. The recommended command line for gamers will now be "-60 -vsync [game]". This should give full audio, and nice smooth gameplay.
General timing has also been improved, so without audio running at 60hz and vsync in fullscreen, everything should "glide" nicely again - as it used to in the C++ version.

Plugin authors be aware of a change to the Plugin system. Due to the new Audio/Visual syncing system, the emulator "could" now be running on a different thread, and as such, you can no longer do GUI/OS work from callbacks. ALL UI/OS work must now be managed via the new OSTick() callback. Like the Tick() callback, but this is always called from the OS thread, allowing you to open windows, and refresh/draw them. Please see updated plugins on my github for further example code.

Hope you all enjoy this one, it's been some time in the making - thanks to all who helped beta test it.


V2.19.0.3

• Fixed Timex Hires non-ULANext ink/paper orders
• Fixed Timex Hires ULANext ink/paper orders
• Added wildcard support in F_OPENDIR ($a3)
• Added better exception reporting to the LOG for loading plugins
• Fixed DeZog plugin building - DLL has been properly updated with new Plugin interface

V2.19.0.2

• Fixed up keyboard cross threading issues
• Fixed up File open cross threading issue
• Added a new OSTick() call to plugins to allow UI/OS function calls - please note the changes in plugins to avoid crashes
• Fixed Timex hires with ULA Next ink/paper shift mode
• Added a "Standard Plugin Keys" section to the readme.txt file

V2.19.0.1

• Fixed 2 profiler crashes, when clicking on the profile window in different states
• Fixed ULA last line drawing
• Fixed sprite in border bugs with new screen rendering
• Fixed L2 640x256 and 320x256 clipping
• Fixed Timex border colour issues
• New Audio/Video syncing system
• Fixed 320x256 window

V2.19.0.0

• Fixed a crash in Mode 6 and 7 when the tile window was larger than the screen
• Fixed blending of tiles to border when in Mode 6 and 7
• Fixed border when in Mode 6 and 7 when ULA is being used in blending
• Fixed an esxDOS emulator issue, when a game requests too many bytes than is left in the file, and it fills the extra space with 0s resulting in game crashes
• Timing fixed. 50hz and 60hz were both running slowly/weirdly both with and without sound. Should now be correct.
• -60 and -VSYNC should now be perfectly smooth again
• -fps added to show FPS on title bar
• -freerun disable all timers and run as fast as we can (must use -sound as well)
• ULA Y scrcolling fixed to use Yscroll value MOD 192 (instead of anything over 192 being 0)
• ULA+TILE Stencil mode added. Stencil will use any ULA mode (normal, timex, lowres)
• Mode6/7 blending can now be used with stencil mode (where ever the hardware allowed it)

Download: #CSpect V2.19.0.3 Emulator

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