PSPCAP32: Amstrad CPC Emulator for PSP v1.3.4 (better than ever !)

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Saturday, January 19. 2008

PSPCAP32: Amstrad CPC Emulator for PSP v1.3.4 (better than ever !)

Hi All,

Here is the final version of PSPCAP32 the CPC Emulator for PSP.

For those who haven't seen previous versions, Caprice32 is one of the best emulator of the Amstrad CPC home computer series running on Windows and Unix, written by Ulrich Doewich.
This emulator faithfully imitates the CPC464, CPC664, and CPC6128 models
(see caprice32 project)

What's new in version 1.3.4 :

- Many optimizations to speed up the emulation, frame rate is now 49 fps at 222Mhz in ultra mode, on CPC startup window. Main modifications :

. Z-80 part as been rewritten using several hints such as explicit jump tables for instructions decode
. CRT and sound part has been optimized

- Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off (useful for games such as defend or die !)
- Add new hotkeys to setup auto fire speed
- Bug fix in the low battery watchdog
- RTrigger/LTrigger keys can be used in the keyboard settings menu to navigate between Normal, LTrigger and RTrigger compose mapping.
- New "Command" feature in the emulator menu:
. You have now to choose the command you want to run using arrows.
- Default Hotkeys can now be set in the keyboard mapping menu (useful to add hotkeys on existing/previous keyboard files)
- Remove dead code (such as printer, breakpoint, trace support etc ...)
- Bug fix such as : while saving state using hotkey in ultra-mode, thumb image wasn't properly saved

How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file.

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license,
read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

pspcap32-v1.3.4-fw3x.zip

pspcap32-v1.3.4-fw15.zip

pspcap32-v1.3.4-src.zip

Thanks to Gryzor you can find here a set of snapshots.

If you look for disk images you can find most of them here

Want to know which games are good ? here is a good site !

Enjoy,

Zx.

If you want to discuss on this emulator, you can do it there :
zx81's forum on dcemu network or zx81's forum on qj.net

Posted by zx-81 in Amstrad at 21:42
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Great work and it feels faster on the games I've tried. Only problem is I can't seem to use my PSP's sleep function properly with it when playing a game. Works with everything else but this emulator. I flick the sleep switch on (I use this function a lot) and the power light just keeps flashing over and over instead of just a couple of seconds. Sometimes it then switches off but when you flick it back on the PSP is back in the XMB menu and not within the CPC emulator where I left off the game.

#1 Carnivac on Jan 21 2008, 04:06 Reply

Hi,

First of all thanks for your comment. For the sleep mode issue, what i do is to go fist in the emulator menu, then i use the sleep mode (and it works).

Zx

#1.1 zx-81 on Jan 22 2008, 10:42 Reply

Yeah that's what I've been trying to do but I keep forgetting cos I'm so used to be able to 'sleep' during psp and other emulated systems games. A lot of the time I do it without thinking and I'm like...darn...ruined my place in the game.

Oh well, I still love this emulator. Noticed several games speeding up without needing to raise the CPU. This is one of my most used programs on my PSP

#2 Carnivac on Jan 22 2008, 11:30 Reply

Hi,

I'm using often the "save state" hotkey, so even if the psp freeze or shuttdown i can always restore

.

And as you, it's my most used psp apps for now. I spend 2 hours and half in common transportation every day, so i've time to enjoy all good cpc games,

Zx

#2.1 zx-81 on Jan 23 2008, 13:40 Reply

What would be the easiest way to load disk 2 of some games? For example I load disk one, then I am prompted to load disk 2 by the computer, but if i press select and try to load disk 2 through the menu it simply reloads disk 2 and forgets about disk 1.

It's probably just noobness on my part, but if you can answer this it would be greatly appriciated

This is a fine emulator and you've done great work yet again.

#3 Happy user (Link) on Mar 4 2008, 06:09 Reply

In the settings menu, there is an option not to restart the emulator when loading a new disk, and you should disable auto-run option as well.

Zx

#3.1 zx-81 on Mar 4 2008, 08:30 Reply

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