ACE 1.2
The acidulous CPC emulator
by OffseT of Futurs'

For the latest versions, check
http://ace.cpcscene.com



Introduction
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An Amstrad CPC emulator? Again?

Yes! Yet another CPC emulator, anyway ACE is different.

ACE is not based on any existing emulator and was coded from scratch, using a
real CPC a reference; it is written in C language and its GUI is based on MUI 4.

The current version of ACE does not offer all the features I expect yet.
Nevertheless, most of the games and demos are working perfectly; actually, the
quality of the emulation is already often superior to what the existing big CPC
emulators on PC/Windows can produce.

In addition to the high quality emulation, ACE features full screen and overlay
display, memory editor, Z80 editor, CRTC editor, Gate Array & PSG analyzer,
disassembler, breakpoints management, a very powerfull set of AREXX commands for
cross-development... and much more...



History
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Version 1.2 (29/01/2012)
  - Migration from gcc2 to gcc 4.
  - Double-click support in the main window to toggle full screen mode.
  - Add of a disassembler based on the work of Cristian Dinu (support all
opcodes     including undocumented and custom Amstrad firmware RST).
  - Improved Z80 editor window (view of the code from PC and abstract of the
    stack from SP)
  - Improved memory editor window.
  - New fix in CRTC 1 emulation when registers 12 & 13 are modifed while the
    additional lines (R5) are displayed (phi2x).
  - Fix of border disabling on CRTC 1 when register 6 is reset at a non-zero
    value during the first line of a split-screen (phi2x).
  - Fix VBL activation trigger while the additional lines (R5) are displayed.
  - Improved PSG analyzer, Gate Array analyzer and CRTC editor windows.
  - Add of a new full features disassembler window (easy navigation through the
    code branchments, syntax highlight, breakpoints, ...).
  - Better internals between CRTC and Gate Array modules.
  - Better internal notification system between GUI and emulator.
  - Added an fast toolbar for breakpoints configuration in main window.
  - Disabled menu item not active when breakpoints a not enabled.
  - Added a breakpoint management window.
  - Added an AREXX command to configure advanced breakpoints.
  - Better keyboard management.
  - Added on-the-fly charset conversion between local and CPC code page.
  - Added Spanish and Danish v1.0 firmware ROMs in ACE archive.
  - Fix a bug in PSG register selection (phi2x).

Version 1.1 (18/09/2011)
  - Added Gate Array's half cycle support
    (synchronisation between Gate Array, CRTC and Z80 is now perfect).
  - Fixed sync/display alignement for CRTC 0, 1 & 2
    (it was right only for CRTC 3 & 4).
  - Fix in CRTC 1 emulation when registers 12 & 13 were modified while vertical
    adjust was managed (R5).
  - Slight improvement in CRTC 0, 2, 3 & 4 emulations (only CRTC 0 & 1 are
    actually activated in the public version).
  - Fix an interrupt management issue when a VSync started while a HSync was
    already running.
  - Fixes in the english translation (Stefan A. Haubenthal).
  - Improvements in the french version.
  - The Graph.mcc class from MorphOS 2.x is now optional (Stefan A. Haubenthal).

Version 1.0p1 (16/08/2011)
  - Omitting argument OFFSCREENCOLOR or SCANLINECOLOR generated a hit in $0
    (Grzegorz Kraszewski).
  - Some bad hits occured on foreign systems when no catalog was matching the
    locale (Grzegorz Kraszewski).

Version 1.0 (15/08/2011)
  - First public version.
 


Requirements:
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MorphOS 2 or better (not tested with MorphOS 1.x),
1MB of free hard disk space,
6MB of free RAM,
G4 at 600MHz.



Installation:
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None.
Just copy the ACE drawer where you want and execute it.
See documentation in the Help drawer for more information.



Usage:
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See documentation in the Help drawer.



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FAQ:
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Credits
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OffseT of Futurs' <offsetcpcscene.com>

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