Release Pandora-Colem V1.1.0


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Hi All,

ColEm is one of the best emulator of the ColecoVision videogame system running on FreeBSD,
HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, and other Unix systems. There are also ports to MacOS, MSDOS,
Windows, OS/2, PocketPC and other systems. See http://fms.komkon.org/ColEm/ for further informations.

Pandora-Colem is a port on Pandora of my previous Wiz port version of ColEm.

What's new in version 1.1.0 (compared to original version) :

- File requester with real and virtual keyboard to choose
sequentially rom files beginning with a given letter
- Thumbnail images for save states & file requester
- Save state files use gzip compression (with STZ as file extention).
You can use gzip or 7-zip to convert old STA to STZ.
STA file format is still supported for loading, so you
convert your previous saved files inside the emulator.
- Cheat support !
- Memory monitoring engine to find your own cheat code !
- Text editor to modify the global cheat.txt file
- Text editor to write your own comments on games
- Display first comment line while browsing game files
- Auto fire support for second joystick
- Zip rom files are decompressed in memory
- Add documentation for settings in help menu
- Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off
- Add several new hotkeys :
. settings such as fps, render mode, auto fire speed
can now be directly modified inside the emulator
(no need to enter in the settings menu)
. quick save / quick load current state
(no need to enter in the main menu)
- Add ntsc/pal option

Sources are included, read COPYING.txt & README file for more information about it.

Here is a full working PND version, & source code : http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,129

Enjoy,

Zx
 
Great, nice menu etc.

One thing like previous versions, the sound is not right it is too high pitched . Try Skeezix's version, the sound pitch is correct on that one (unfortunately the menu is not finished).

Hopefully you can fix this, maybe ask Skeezix for his source and compare.

Thanks for the ports.
 
DaveC said:
Great, nice menu etc.

One thing like previous versions, the sound is not right it is too high pitched . Try Skeezix's version, the sound pitch is correct on that one (unfortunately the menu is not finished).

Hopefully you can fix this, maybe ask Skeezix for his source and compare.

Thanks for the ports.

ok thanks for your feedback :)
 
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zx-81 said:
DaveC said:
Great, nice menu etc.

One thing like previous versions, the sound is not right it is too high pitched . Try Skeezix's version, the sound pitch is correct on that one (unfortunately the menu is not finished).

Hopefully you can fix this, maybe ask Skeezix for his source and compare.

Thanks for the ports.

ok thanks for your feedback :)
Is there any chance you will look at it or maybe you don't believe me :p

I am a pretty good "expert" on ColecoVision as I had one as a kid and played the hell out of it.

I am not sure what Colem version you port is based off of. Maybe it is old and they have fixed it since? Even the Skeezix Colem sound is not perfect as there are some issues with white noise like your port. he pitch is much closer there though. It is "deeper". If there is a setting for that somewhere maybe it is an easy fix?

I am surprised no one else mentioned it.

Thanks again.
 
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DaveC said:
Is there any chance you will look at it or maybe you don't believe me :p

I do beleive you, since in my childhood i've never own a coleco, nor any of those console i've ported (i had only a zx81 and later a CPC).

DaveC said:
I am a pretty good "expert" on ColecoVision as I had one as a kid and played the hell out of it.

I am not sure what Colem version you port is based off of. Maybe it is old and they have fixed it since? Even the Skeezix Colem sound is not perfect as there are some issues with white noise like your port. he pitch is much closer there though. It is "deeper". If there is a setting for that somewhere maybe it is an easy fix?

I am surprised no one else mentioned it.

Thanks again.


Is this one better ?
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/public/pandora/colem/pandora-colem-v1.1.1-beta.pnd
 
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zx-81 said:
Is this one better ?
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/public/pandora/colem/pandora-colem-v1.1.1-beta.pnd
This seems a bit better for the pitch. The music in some games seems a bit fast though. Also some of the sounds are just weird. For example if you climb the vines in DonkeyKong jr it has an odd bleeping type sound. If you try it in Skeezix's port it sounds right. They are both ports of "Colem" so I am not sure why the big difference, it is odd.

Maybe the best way is to take his source and put on your better menus?
 
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