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A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Add TTX2000S emulation
• Experimental PulseAudio sound driver
• Fix activation of joystick and IF2 peripherals when loading a snapshot
• GTK/Win32: New higher resolution keyboard picture on GTK and win32 UIs
• GTK: Add Fuse icon to the about dialog and the main window
• GTK: Load/save binary dialog remembers last values
• GTK 3: Improve moving and sizing Fuse's window under Wayland
• GTK 3: Fix kempston mouse values on Wayland
• GTK 3: Fix bug when resizing from 2x to 3x
• SDL: Fix crash when using dispmanx backend on the Raspberry Pi
• SDL: Allow forcing fullscreen mode when SDL doesn't report available screen modes
• WidgetUI: New dialog to load/save binary data
• WidgetUI: Enable HOME and END keys in menus
• WidgetUI: Use monospaced characters on memory browser
• WidgetUI: Fix crash when trying to overwrite read-only files
• Win32: Fix bitwise operation in debugger
• Xlib: Try to keep graphic filter when the user resize the window
• Fix display corruption with HQ 3x scaler
• Fix antialiasing effect of AdvMAME3x scaler
• Add 4x, TV 4x, Pal TV 4x and HQ 4x scalers on GTK, SDL, win32 and Xlib UIs
• Allow screenshots with TV 3x, PAL TV and Timex 1.5x scalers
• Various minor bugfixes

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• GTK+ 3: Make the offset entry wider in memory browser
• GTK+: Remove duplicated surface creation code
• GTK+: Remove use of deprecated gtk_device_(un)grab functions
• GTK+/Win32: Add *.bin as an allowed filetype to file selectors and amend .fmf filetype
• Improve Fuse's Kempston mouse handling under GTK+ 3.x
• "Save binary" command can now save 65536 bytes again (regression introduced in 1.5.6)
• Various minor bugfixes

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Z80 flags register is now correct after SCF and CCF
• "Variant" Alkatraz loaders (e.g. Gauntlet 3 and Shadow Dancer), "Variant" Search Loader programs (e.g. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and Space Crusade) and Dinaload loaders (e.g. Astro Marine Corps) are now accelerated
• More improvements disabling phantom typist after finishing loading TAP or standard ROM TZX files
• Saving and loading binary data no longer increments tstate count or triggers breakpoints
• Stop RZX playback/recording on machine reset/change
• Various minor bugfixes

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Improve sound accuracy on Unix 64 bit systems
• Allow the use of real joystick hats/dpads in the SDL joystick code
• Rename compat_get_home_path() to compat_get_config_path()
• Various minor bugfixes

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Add *.FMF as an allowed filetype to file selectors
• Save SCR from current display file
• Use 44.1KHz as default sound frequency
• Upgrade to libspectrum 1.4.3 to fix TC2048 and TC2068 timings regression
• Various minor bugfixes

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Disable inactive peripherals after loading a snapshot
• Re-enable sound after phantom typist finishes loading TAP, standard ROM TZX or +3 DSK images
• Upgrade to libspectrum 1.4.2 to fix writing RZX files containing a snapshot which cannot be compressed

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Emulate ROM bug loading zero length blocks when using tape traps
• Fix the format of double-sided +3 disks
• Spectrum reset is accelerated when phantom typist is enabled and a file is loaded from the menu
• Add options UI for phantom typist
• GTK+ 3 UI: Memory browser dialog allows to go to specific offset

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Prevent crash when we try to disassemble an instruction with many DD or FD prefixes.
• Fix crash when setting debugger variables.
• Prevent crash when we try to profile an instruction with many DD or FD prefixes.
• GTK+ UI: Improve behaviour of default button on dialogs.
• GTK+ and win32 UIs: Support hex numbers in load/save binary and pokefinder dialogs.
• SDL UI: Allow to select the video mode used in full-screen.

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Autoload snapshots replaced by a "phantom typist" which types LOAD "" or similar.
• Alkatraz loaders (e.g. Cobra and Fairlight) are now accelerated.
• Debugger: Ensure conditional timed breakpoints work correctly.

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Improvements to the loader acceleration code to reduce errors - Blood Brothers, City Slicker, Driller, Dynamite Dan, Games Compendium (by Gremlin), Joe Blade II, Kokotoni Wilf, Powerplay, Saboteur, Trapdoor and Zanthrax now all load successfully
• Multiface 3 returns values stored from ports 0x1ffd and 0x7ffd
• Set contention for DivIDE/DivMMC EPROM memory and clear data to 1's
• Debugger: Allow an exit code to be specified when using the "exit" command
• Debugger: Add new "tape:microphone" and "spectrum:frames" system variables to allow access to the current tape level and frame count since reset
• Correct enabling of ide slave menu item
• Add *.mlt as an allowed filetype to file selectors... read more

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Add DivMMC emulation
• Add ZXMMC emulation
• Add support for MLT format screenshots

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Add workaround for Multiface One and 128 clash
• Limit RZX sentinel warning to once per playback
• Disable Melodik interface on 128K machines
• Correct the list of machines for Multiface One
• Document --mdr-len and --mdr-random-len options
• Document support for the Recreated ZX Spectrum
• GTK UI: Destroy tape browser dialog on close
• Fix Z80 snapshot writing when +D is enabled
• Fix offset of keyboard mappings in Z80 v3 snapshots

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Add Multiface One/128/3 interface emulation
• Restore +2A/+3 ALL_RAM mode from snapshots
• SDL: Hide cursor when UI runs on a console (Raspberry Pi)
• Fix crash when saving CSW tapes

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Add Covox interface emulation
• Disable accelerate loader while recording RZX files
• WidgetUI: Disable RollbackTo menu option
• Work around invalid "used bits in last byte" field in TZX tapes
• Save SpecDrum level as unsigned in SZX snapshots

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Disable tape traps when playing/recording RZX files
• WidgetUI: Fix memory leak in file selector
• Silently skip PLTT blocks in SZX snapshots
• Validate "used bits in last byte" field in TZX tapes
• Fix the load of PZX tapes with malformed strings

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Fix syntax for "breakpoint read" debugger command
• Fix Z80 unit test 39 to test the right opcode
• Win32: Fix joystick initialisation
• FreeBSD: Use power-of-2 sound buffers

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Add support for the hidden MEMPTR register
• Mark new disks as needing to be saved
• Show more information on disk modification status in menus
• Fix multiple save of disks
• Allow overwriting disk images

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Allow keyboard arrow keys to be used as a cursor joystick
• Limit sound generation to less than 500% speed
• WidgetUI: Fix order of Z80 flags in debugger
• Win32: Limit sound generation from 50% to 300% to work around bugs in the DirectSound driver

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Warn on inserting disk images for disks larger than the emulated drive
• Win32: Re-enable standard output for Windows builds
• Win32: Minimum supported OS is now Windows 2000

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Recreated ZX Spectrum Bluetooth keyboard support
• Reset the emulated machine when auto-loading TRD/SCL disks
• Update the +3e ROMs to v1.43
• WidgetUI: Add an About Fuse dialog with less cluttered text
• Print a summary of enabled features when building Fuse

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Support for loading the first tape, snapshot, dock cartridge or RZX file found inside .zip files.
• Support for auto-booting TR-DOS disk images without a boot file.
• Fix +3 disk autoload.

A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Add Z80 registers, last byte written to the ULA, tstates since interrupt and the primary and secondary memory control ports as debugger variables.
• Extend breakpoints on paging events to more peripherals: Beta 128, +D, Didaktik 80, DISCiPLE, Opus Discovery and SpeccyBoot.
• Fix crash on widget UIs when hitting the close icon on the title bar several times.
• Fix loading bugs when the detect loaders feature is being used.

After a long gestation, and on behalf of the Fuse team I’d like to announce that a new version of Fuse, the 1.2.0 release of Free Unix Spectrum Emulator has been released at the SourceForge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

Highlights of this release include:

• Emulation of the Currah µSource and Didaktik 80/40 interfaces.
• Capture BASIC video functions to SVG file.
• Allow continuing RZX recordings.
• Support bash completion.
• Really lots of bugfixes and miscellaneous improvements.... read more

The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse): an emulator of the 1980s home computer and various clones for Unix, Mac OS X and Windows.

Fuse 0.10.0.1 has been released. This is a bug-fix release for 0.10.0, which fixes some critical issues:

* Fuse: overwriting a file would lead to a corrupt file if the new file were shorter than the old file (thanks, Matthew Westcott)
* Fuse and fuse-utils: ensure all necessary header files are distributed (thanks, various people)

Fuse 0.10.0 and libspectrum 0.5.0 have been released. Highlights of this release include:

* Much improved upd765 emulation
* Loading acceleration
* Automatic saves while RZX recording
* Many improvements to Win32 UI
* Improved widget UI