Version: V1.89 Beta13 (12/05/99) Welcome to Hu6280, The PC-Engine Emulator for Windows!!! Homepage: http://www.hu6280.com Instructions for use: just double click the bitch, then click on the pce file you want to run... Donations: If you have any of the following items to donate, please email jamsponge@hotmail.com and we can trade addresses... :) 1) HU7 Devkit! 2) Official Pc-Engine documentation 3) Any Hucards (USA or JAP) 4) Any Pc-Engine CD-Roms 5) Any Pc-Engine related hardware 6) Any Pc-Engine related magazines etc. 7) Any Pc-Engine backup devices 8) $$$ ;)-~ Requirements:- Pentium Processor (333mhz+ recommended :) Some Ram (64mb+ recommended :) a decent video card a decent sound card Windows 95 or Windows 98 or Windows NT A Keyboard Some Hucards to play (Jamanoid,Galaga88,Tigerheli & Gunhed recommended) Features:- It runs the hucards... :) Keys are: 'F1' = Load a new rom (tasty feature eh?) 'F5' = Load game (VERY tasty feature eh?) 'F6' = Save game (VERY tasty feature eh?) 'F9' = Save a screenshot (in .tga format) 'ESC' = Quit! (not that you`ll want to...) 'CURSORS' = up,down,left,right 'A' = pc-e joypad button 1 'Z' = pc-e joypad button 2 'SHIFT' = SELECT 'RETURN' = RUN in six button pad mode (just run sf2!) the following keys are mapped: '1' = pc-e joypad button 1 '2' = pc-e joypad button 2 '3' = pc-e joypad button 3 'Q' = pc-e joypad button 4 'W' = pc-e joypad button 5 'E' = pc-e joypad button 6 please send bug reports (or cool tech infos) to: jamsponge@hotmail.com Thanks going out to : M.J. jens C H - yeah, vpce is nice... - THANKS FOR THE HELP DUDE! BT Garner - thanx dude JL_Picard - nicey nice mr nice! ;) david shadoff - heh, TGSIM! kewl!!!! kad77 - cheers mate videoman - cheers mate Zophar - (thanx for the spreading!) Lance-MC - (thanx for the spreading!) Emanuel Schleussinger (never spoken to you, but you helped in docs I read) David Michiel - ok, I admit it, magic engine rocks the world! Paul Clifford (never spoken to you, but you helped in docs I read) Bero - K - cheers for the donation man :) Marius Fodor - thanx for the sidewinder/gpp reading code ;) the guy who coded 'SEAL' audio library!!! :) Spex [TAC] PRIMEGL and all the other pc-engine hackers out there... --------------------- WIN32 HISTORY --------------------- V1.89: Initial release, only tested it on my machine, so, give me some feedback dudes... --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA2) NOW USES A 16BIT SCREEN! HOORAY! now we have all 512 pc-engine colours!!!!! Optimized screen dump code & Palette emulation code Fixed palette bug (erk, casting error!) Now added romloading on F1 Now added screenshot code (TGA) on F9 --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA3) Added sound emulation! (WORKS really nicely on a pII450, forget it if you`ve got anything less than a pII 266) Fixed another palette bug that somehow cropped in there... Fixed some memory leaks and general bugs... (bounds checker kicks ass) Generally sweetened source code up a bit... --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA4) Added Load/Save state on F5/F6 DONATE SOME STUFF... QUICKLY --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA5) Added a .ini file, edit this for your own custom settings... (rompath,savegamepath,screenshotpath and sound options) much more friendly loading and saving games... (assumes a nice filename) much more friendly saving screenshots (assumes a nice filename) Fixed a memory leak --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA6) Improved detection of usa roms, now SPACE HARRIER (USA) & LEGEND OF HEROTONMA (USA) work ok. 'Final Soldier Special Version' (JAP) now runs ok. Added Detection of supergrafx roms (taste the message!) Fixed a dirty bug in shutdown code... :) should leave your system sweet after a shutdown now... :) --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA7) SPEED! SPEED! SPEED! SPEED! SPEED! SPEED! SPEED! SPEED! SPEED! as you may have guessed, this bitchcow is running a tad faster thanx to jamsponge getting off his arse and coding some tasty x86 ASM with a MASM/VTUNE combo. :)-~ Please report any bugs you find... --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA8) - mucho faster... :)-~ Optimized more of the cpu core into x86 ASSEMBLER. Please report any bugs you find... --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA9) - Fixed a bug in ASM cpucore that stopped beball,coryoon,chasehq,xevious and others from working... Improved cpu timing, this results in lots of games glitching less, and lots of games don`t slow down as much anymore... (hero tonma,raiden,magical chase etc.) Converted some more of the cpucore into x86 ASSEMBLER. Please report any games you find that wont run... jamsponge@hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA10) - Coded up some text printing routines so i could add FPS meter... Added FPS meter (look in the .ini file dudes...) - just so you can see what fps you are getting... :) Optimized another 15 cpu opcodes into x86 assembler... (nice little speed hit!) StripFighter now works - So, is that all the hucards running now? eh? YOU TELL ME! Added some ** SECRET ** options... (only for the hardcore) --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA11) - Optimized another 28 opcodes in x86 assembler (tasty speedhit) Optimzied sprite draw a little... huwin.exe is now 4k shorter because of ASM optimizations... I dread to think what the compiler was doing... bwhahahah Many games now running at 80fps+ on my p200, let me know what FPS results you are all getting... mail me at: jamsponge@hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------- V1.89 (BETA13) - converted more opcodes into x86 assembler Added Throttling for people with fast pc`s... :) (see the .ini file for details) donate some hucards / cd`s : jamsponge@hotmail.com