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DESCRIPTION

Fuse is a Mac OS X port of the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse), an emulator of the 1980s home computer and various clones.

What features does it have?

  • Working 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +2A, +3, +3e, SE, TC2048, TC2068, TS2068, Pentagon and Scorpion ZS 256 emulation, running at true Speccy speed on any computer you're likely to try it on.
  • Support for loading from .tzx files.
  • Sound
  • Kempston joystick emulation.
  • Emulation of the various printers you could attach to the Spectrum.
  • Support for the RZX input recording file format, including 'competition mode'.
  • Emulation of the DivIDE, Interface I, +D, Beta 128, Kempston mouse, Spectrum +3e, ZXATASP and ZXCF interfaces.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.10.0.2:
  • Allow both +3 disk drives to be used at once
  • Allow both +D disk drives to be used at once
  • Make .dsk code handle missing newline on "Track-Info" header
  • Fix running with sound off and with non-default speed
  • Fix colours in minimised toolbar icon on GMA950 card
  • Stop DisplayLink when quitting from emulator before stopping emulator thread
  • Decouple texture updating and drawing and only update texture when there are changes
  • Update the statusbar if nothing has changed on the Speccy screen
  • Minor fix to manual entries for the tape menu

Version 0.10.0.1:

  • Stop corruption when overwriting an existing file

Version 0.10.0:

  • Add support for TZX custom screenshot and tape inlay blocks in FuseGenerator. Allows the embedding of inlay images in tape files and their use as icons in the Finder.
  • Merge in changes from upstream Fuse release 0.10.0
    • New upd765 FDC emulation; all known +3 DSK images now work.
    • Loading acceleration.
    • Automatic saves while using RZX recording.
    • New late timings option to emulate machines with 1 tstate later timings.
    • Reading from the 128K's memory control port causes that byte to be written back to the port.
    • Reading the AY data port on the +2A/+3 is the same as reading the register port.
    • NMI causes Z80 to unHALT.
    • Emulate C, H and P/V flags on repeated IO instructions.
    • Debugger events to allow the debugger to stop when various Spectrum-level events happen.
    • Make time breakpoints work properly when more than one is present.
    • Loader detection now works with the Digital Integration loader.
    • Updated HQ2X and HQ3x scalers.
    • Revert Pentagon 128 to being the "base" machine without extra ROMs.
    • Updated +3e ROMs.
    • Allow DivIDE, custom ROMs, Kempston mouse status and Simple 8-bit IDE interface to be saved in snapshots.
    • Better (but probably not perfect) TS2068 contention.
    • Various other minor bugfixes.
  • Correct reporting of unknown classes, and log name of tape being scanned for metadata in FuseImporter and FuseGenerator.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later and hardware accelerated OpenGL.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Fredrick Meunier
Downloads:4,790
  - Version d/l:579
Games:Gaming Tools & Utilities
License:Free
Date:16 Jan 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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    Apr 16 2007
    *****

    KSBIS  THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PANTHER SUPPORT! It seems not every developer of Speccy emulators understands the ideology of accessibility of this historic platform.  
    (Version 0.8)

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