z26 v1.48
posted in Emulator Release by outsider on Sep 12th, 2001
z26 is an Atari 2600 Emulator for DOS/Windows. Here's what's new in this version:
Screen capture now works in all video modes. If you hold down the = key, you get a fairly continuous stream of pcx files.
New fast video modes. These are accessed with the -e (for Eckhard?) command line switch. This allows the Mode-X routines to do 32-bit accesses to the video card. On my computer this more than doubles the speed of the emulator when running in these modes. Unfortunately, they may not work on all video cards. The -e command line switch also enables tall and narrow 160 pixel video modes for modes 0, 1, 2, and 3. These are very fast modes, and they give your games a Vectrex like feel.
Added support for a couple of new ROM images.
Fixed a stack overflow bug in the GUI.
Thanks to Eckhard Stolberg for help with this version. I did not suspect that so much more speed could be had from the video system.
Download it from the Atari 2600 Emulators page.
Thanks to Emu X Haven for the news
