z26

Name

z26

Version

2.13

Release Date

May 23 2004

Homepage

www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html

Author

John Saeger

Download

z26 2.13 Windows (95/98/ME/2000/XP) version

z26 2.13 Source Code

z26 1.58 DOS version

Other downloads

x26 - GUI frontend for z26 Windows version

Documentation

PDF User manual

Tutorial by Tim Warner

Release notes

Converted MASM assembly code to NASM syntax, preparatory to the...

...Linux port! z26 can now be compiled for Windows, Linux, or just about any other x86 environment that supports a UNIX-like build environment with GCC. The Linux support is solid; preliminary testing has been done on FreeBSD and BeOS. There are a few Linux-specific command-line options, see below. A Linux static binary is available for those who don't wish to compile z26 from source.

Improved documentation. We now have a PDF manual and a man page for Linux.

Added ability to selectively disable graphical objects. This feature is mostly intended for developers.

We now lock the audio device before filling the sound queue. This should prevent the long startup times that were plaguing some Windows users. It also should allow z26 to run correctly on multi-processor machines.

Also we made the INTIM timer random at the emulator start again. Berzerk should start with a different screen each time you play it now.

Other than the audio device locking and the random INTIM timer, version 2.13 for Windows should behave identically to version 2.12. If this isn't the case, please let us know.

Thanks to Brian Watson, Eckhard Stolberg, and James Wilkinson for help with this version!