• Fuse 1.7.0 released

    From Pierre@null@void.net to comp.sys.sinclair on Tue Mar 24 11:29:38 2026
    Hello fellow Spechums,

    If you have been using Fuse to emulate our beloved 8-bit microcomputer
    on GNU/Linux for the last 26 years a new version has just been released.
    Here is the mailist message from Fredrick Meunier.

    Cheers
    Pierre

    From: Fredrick Meunier <fredm@spamcop.net>
    To: fuse-emulator-announce@lists.sourceforge.net
    Subject: [fuse-emulator-devel] Fuse 1.7.0 released

    A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available
    at the SourceForge project:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/

    Highlights of this release include:

    -Add Currah μSpeech emulation

    -Improve emulation accuracy and performance, including faster emulated
    memory reads and more accurate AM29F010B flash ROM handling

    -Improve EDSK disk image handling, fixing multiple loading and
    formatting issues

    -Fix the uPD765 FDC SCAN bug, allowing formatting on CP/M Plus and Fuzix

    -Improve TTX2000S teletext handling and Spectranet socket interrupt
    behaviour GTK UI: fix deleted-file binary loads, toolbar icon display, deprecated keymap API usage and a tape browser memory leak

    -WidgetUI: rearrange AY registers and Z80 flags in the debugger

    -Win32 UI: fix multiple monitor handling and unwanted title bar
    maximising

    -Add support for loading .S snapshot files

    -Various minor bugfixes and cleanups

    Many thanks to everyone who's contributed to this release. Source code
    is currently available on the SourceForge site; compiled binaries for
    various other platforms should become available in the next few days.

    Fred