wraggster
December 22nd, 2007, 02:00
Patrik Rak (http://zxds.raxoft.cz/) has released a new version of his Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator for Nintendo DS, heres some info:
There are two versions, ZXDS.nds for Slot-1 (DS slot) based cards, and ZXDS.ds.gba for Slot-2 (GBA slot) based cards. Just choose the one which suits your card best.
The provided executable was already patched with the r4tf.dldi DLDI driver, so it works fine on both my M3 DS Simply and M3 Mini SD Perfect. Of course, it should work fine on any other card which supports DLDI as well. Just give it a try and you will see. If it won't work for you right away, you might need to patch it with a specific DLDI driver for your card with a DLDI patcher, both of which you can find here. It might be wise to patch it in either case, just to make sure you have the most recent version of the DLDI driver for your card. If it still doesn't work, I am really sorry, but there is not much I can do about it. Please do NOT contact me regarding if it works or doesn't work on your card, at least at this point of time.
You should also copy some snapshots or tape files to your card. Either SNA/Z80 snapshots or TAP/TZX/PZX tape files are supported. You can place them anywhere you want, although the /ZXDS directory is looked up first by default. For your convenience, I have included few Spectrum games in SNA or TAP format, so you can at least give it a go.
ZXDS 0.7.0 beta 1 (21.12.2007)
+ Finally added keyboard graphics, for both 48k and 128k keyboard.
+ Replaced the ad-hoc file requester with proper touch screen version.
+ Configurable button to key/action binding, with 9 predefined customizable settings.
+ Tape browser and manual tape control.
+ Autoload feature, with both tape-loader and USR0 mode support.
+ Skinning support for changing graphics and color of each UI element.
+ Builtin online help.
+ Pentagon emulation (no TR-DOS yet, though).
+ Z80 snapshots are now compressed.
* Added 1 forgotten T state to EX (SP),* instructions.
* Fixed #7FFD paging decoding (A15+A1 instead of A14-15+A1), more demos now work.
* Changed #1F kempston joystick decoding (loose A5 instead of strict A5-A7), more games should work.
* Disable autoplay when tape end is reached, more flawed tape files should now load.
* Few other subtle fixes (triple buffering race, halt timing upon requester).
Download Here (http://zxds.raxoft.cz/download/zxds_070b1.zip) and Give Feedback Via Comments
There are two versions, ZXDS.nds for Slot-1 (DS slot) based cards, and ZXDS.ds.gba for Slot-2 (GBA slot) based cards. Just choose the one which suits your card best.
The provided executable was already patched with the r4tf.dldi DLDI driver, so it works fine on both my M3 DS Simply and M3 Mini SD Perfect. Of course, it should work fine on any other card which supports DLDI as well. Just give it a try and you will see. If it won't work for you right away, you might need to patch it with a specific DLDI driver for your card with a DLDI patcher, both of which you can find here. It might be wise to patch it in either case, just to make sure you have the most recent version of the DLDI driver for your card. If it still doesn't work, I am really sorry, but there is not much I can do about it. Please do NOT contact me regarding if it works or doesn't work on your card, at least at this point of time.
You should also copy some snapshots or tape files to your card. Either SNA/Z80 snapshots or TAP/TZX/PZX tape files are supported. You can place them anywhere you want, although the /ZXDS directory is looked up first by default. For your convenience, I have included few Spectrum games in SNA or TAP format, so you can at least give it a go.
ZXDS 0.7.0 beta 1 (21.12.2007)
+ Finally added keyboard graphics, for both 48k and 128k keyboard.
+ Replaced the ad-hoc file requester with proper touch screen version.
+ Configurable button to key/action binding, with 9 predefined customizable settings.
+ Tape browser and manual tape control.
+ Autoload feature, with both tape-loader and USR0 mode support.
+ Skinning support for changing graphics and color of each UI element.
+ Builtin online help.
+ Pentagon emulation (no TR-DOS yet, though).
+ Z80 snapshots are now compressed.
* Added 1 forgotten T state to EX (SP),* instructions.
* Fixed #7FFD paging decoding (A15+A1 instead of A14-15+A1), more demos now work.
* Changed #1F kempston joystick decoding (loose A5 instead of strict A5-A7), more games should work.
* Disable autoplay when tape end is reached, more flawed tape files should now load.
* Few other subtle fixes (triple buffering race, halt timing upon requester).
Download Here (http://zxds.raxoft.cz/download/zxds_070b1.zip) and Give Feedback Via Comments