Hello Spechums!

Fredrick Meunier has posted the announced release of Fuse 1.8.0

Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 12:38:30 +1000
From: Fredrick Meunier <fredm@********.net>
Subject: [fuse-emulator-devel] Fuse 1.8.0 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 SDL 2 compatibility

-Make 2x the default display scaler so Fuse is more usable on modern
screens

-Speed up display dirty-bit scanning for improved rendering performance

-Debugger: remove $-prefixed hex syntax to avoid clashes with variables,
and fix missing bit numbers in DD/FD CB disassembly

-GTK UI: fix loading binary data from deleted files and avoid redraw
seams in GTK3

-Unix: Store the configuration file in the XDG configuration directory,
while still reading ~/.fuserc as a fallback

-Win32 UI: if networking is blocked at startup, disable Spectranet with
a warning instead of aborting

-Remove GTK2 support from the build and codebase

-Add and expand unit tests, including display rendering, dirty-region
handling and disassembler regression coverage

-Various minor bugfixes and cleanups

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

Fred