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Another year has passed, so it must be time for a new z88dk release!

Despite the project being almost 22 years old we're still making major changes and improvements

This release of z88dk sees support for two new processors:

• gbz80: zsdcc, sccz80 and classic now support gbz80 machines
• 8080/5: sccz80 and classic now support 8080/5 machines

Support for the following machines has been added:

• Nintendo Gameboy
• Tesla PMD85 (8080)
• CP/M based: Excalibur 64, Sony SMC-70/SMC-777, Sharp X1
• Hübler/Evert-MC, Hübler Grafik-MC, Kramer MC
• Nichibutsu My Vision, Hanimex Pencil II
• Toshiba Pasopia7, Bandai Supervision SV8000, Videoton TVC
• RomWBW based machines including Retrobrew and RC2014
• SCZ180 family machines... read more

The official release packages are available both here on Sourceforge and on GitHub.

This is the third transition release in anticipation of v2.0.

Install Instructions:
https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk/wiki/installation

It's been a while since the last release and all of our doc refers to nightly builds, so a nightly build has been promoted into a release.

This release of z88dk contains many significant changes over the 1.99B, significantly increasing the number of supported systems, improving source code compatibility between the two compilers and natively supporting more z80 derivative CPUs. The major changes are detailed below:... read more

The official release packages are available here on Sourceforge.
Visit us on github for more information: https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk

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Z88DK - v1.99B 10 Jan 2017
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This is the second transition release in anticipation of v2.0.

Install Instructions:
https://www.z88dk.org/wiki/doku.php?id=temp:front#installation

Compiling for Generic z80 Embedded Systems Using the New C Library:
https://www.z88dk.org/wiki/doku.php?id=libnew:target_embedded... read more

z88dk-src-1.99A has been updated to z88dk-src-1.99A-1
z88dk-osx-1.99A has been updated to z88dk-osx-1.99A-1

Issues Corrected:

z88dk/build.sh
grant execute permission

z88dk/libsrc/DEVELOPMENT/Makefile
prevent new c lib build from stopping on error while making the float library "m"

z88dk/libsrc/DEVELOPMENT/EXAMPLES/zx/demo_tritone/songs.asm
fix filename case issue

z88dk/libsrc/DEVELOPMENT/EXAMPLES/zx/demo_tritone/build.sh
added as counterpart of existing "Winmake.bat" for Windows

v1.99A represents significant changes within z88dk. This version is a transition version and anticipates a v2.0 when the entire project will have completed the development roadmap.

A release candidate for v1.99 is available for testing until Dec 23 at:
http://nightly.z88dk.org/Releases/

Details about the upcoming release here:
http://www.z88dk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9172

Version 1.8 of z88dk has now been released, the main changes in this release are improved stability for platforms which reserve registers for either hardware or software purposes, high res graphics for the ZX81, ports of the SP1 sprite engine to the ZX81 and TS2068 and an Xlib emulation wrapper that should work on all targets with graphics capabilities.

A bug was introduced during the windows version compilation.
The new windows installer is "z88dk-1.7.0a-setup.exe".
For a quick fix (without repeating the installation) you can update your binary files with the ones got from "z88dk.org": http://www.z88dk.org/forum/uploads.php?file=z88dk-win32-bin-20070721.zip

The current package is now also available in "auto-installable" form to help the non-expert windows users in the setup process.

The first in our regular cycles of z88dk has been released. This release contains changes that have been applied over the past two years, including a number of new platforms, changes to the core libraries to make compiled programs smaller and faster and a large number of other changes. For the rest of the details we can remember please see the changelog.

It is now possible to link external CP/M's REL files !
The "rel2z80" tool (located in the "/support" folder) is able to extract object code modules from a REL library and write them in Z80ASM format.
This permits to make external libraries (or even entire programs) compatible with Z88DK and all its platforms.

After more than 2, here's a new release.
There are many small fixes and upgrades.. so many that we forgot half of them !
This time we provided a Windows installer for the lazy people of the windows world :-)

Version 1.5 of the multi-targetted Z80 C cross compiler has been released. This release supports over 20 Z80 based machines and is a significant improvement on previous releases.

Binary releases are available for Win32, Amiga and Solaris. A source code archive is available for all unix-alike platforms with GNU make and gcc.

Since it wasn't used and feature requests go into support requests in anycase.

Work on z88dk is still ongoing. We're planning a new release soon which will support many more machines and have many new features compared to the last release over a year ago.

After this long pause we'll try to make slightly more frequent releases.