PocketCaprice v1.0 roadmap:
- 0.5 and minor, port code to WinCE, speed and code considerations
- 0.6 experimental, without user interface.
- 0.7 preview, experimental code.
- 0.8 work in progress, more defined code and functionality.
- 0.9 Beta, code defined and all funtionality in test status.
- 1.0 final release.
30 - January - 2005 - v0.8 (WIP release)
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The 'work in progress' release adds some improvements and bugfixes since the 'preview' release v0.7. Please, make sure that you uninstalled any previous installation before install this release.
- Sound seems to work better.
- Added support for the alternative file selector 'gsgetfile.dll' (copy the file in the same directory where you installed PocketCaprice).
- Added all features available in portrait view to landscape views.
- Added different screen zooms to get a better fit in the device screen.
- Added experimental CPC disc file selector with autorun.
- Added VGA support using GETRAWFRAMEBUFFER. Thanks to Patrice LE COQ for his encourage to include this feature.
- Documentation still very uncompleted, sorry.
- Source ported to Visual Studio.NET 2005, also is a bit more clear now.
- Additions in configuration screens.
- PocketCaprice should be usable with square devices, if you try it in one of those devices please, write to me commenting your experience.
- Thanks to all those people that send me emails with comments and greetings. Don't hesitate to write to me if you want to tell me anything.
26 - December - 2005 - v0.7 (preview release)
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I released this preview because I think that the emulator works good enough to be functional, the most part of the emulator works excepting some issues, the most important are detailed below:
- Sound emulation is not smooth in some devices and is not synchronized in most of them. For example, I tried PocketCaprice with a IPaq 1945 and the sound worked fine, at full speed, but the sound emulation causes some lost of speed with a IPaq 2790 that is a higher machine (IPaq 1945 works at 266Mhz while the IPaq 2790 works at 624Mhz).
- File selector fails the second time that you don't select a file and fails in some circumstances when it goes up a level in the directory tree. Really the file selector is the most unstable part of the emulator and may present other failures.
- Landscape view still in a temporal state, it should show the same control panel that the portrait view.
- Some options are not present in the configuration screens, for example, printer emulation, and with some devices sometimes does not present the 'OK' button.
- Sometimes, the configuration is corrupted when you unplug memory cards, if this occur, delete the file 'cap32.cfg' and run PocketCaprice again.
- Documentation is not completed.
- There are some minor issues that does not affect directly the emulation functionality, but you can send me any other thing that you find if you think convenient.
Enjoy!
manu (at) pocketcult (dot) com