Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V1.dev

Development build, not for general use

Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V1.1

NOTE: If you have problems running the Windows emulator, please install the latest Microsoft VC redistributable.

Emulator/Firmware

• plusBASIC v0.23n (Release notes)

Emulator

• Support for unlimited turbo bit
• Support for case-sensitive filesystems (Linux)

Firmware

• Added back support for mDNS

Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V1.0

NOTE: If you have problems running the Windows emulator, please install the latest Microsoft VC redistributable.

If you're using the AQMS core, please update your SD card with the updated version. The protocol to the ESP32 has slightly changed and needs an updated core.

Emulator/Firmware

• plusBASIC v0.23k (Release notes)

Firmware

• Settings program (ESP:SETTINGS) has been replaced with a display overlay menu
  • press CTRL-TAB to toggle display overlay
  • navigate menu with:
    • ESC: go back
    • Enter: enter menu
    • Up/Down: change item
    • Left/Right: change value
• Completely rewritten WiFi and Bluetooth subsystems.
• Support for remembering multiple WiFi networks
• Support for multiple Bluetooth LE devices
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Gamepads (only Xbox controllers tested)
    • Overlay menu can be navigated using the gamepad as well. Toggle the overlay using the Guide button (the big X button that lights up)
• Support for systems without physical Z80 CPU (Aquarius+ mini vZ)
• Support for higher CPU speeds when using Z80 core in FPGA (set external Z80 to off in menu).
• Custom keyboard to hand controller mappings with support for loading/saving presets.
• Custom gamepad to hand controller mappings with support for loading/saving presets.
• Custom gamepad to keyboard mappings with support for loading/saving presets.
• Option to automatically bypass the start screen after a few seconds (press any key during this time to stop the bypass) .

Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V0.34

NOTE: If you have problems running the Windows emulator, please install the latest Microsoft VC redistributable.

Emulator

• Debugger: Option to enable/disable stop on HALT instruction. (Thanks @iratahack)

Emulator/Firmware

• plusBASIC v0.23 (Release notes)
• esp:settings now switches to 40 column mode on start

Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V0.33

NOTE: If you have problems running the Windows emulator, please install the latest Microsoft VC redistributable.

Emulator

• Added support for game controller (eg. Xbox controller connected to your PC)

Firmware

• Replaced bluetooth code with new implementation.

Emulator/Firmware

• Implemented new GETGAMECTRL command to get full game controller status.

Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V0.32

Emulator

• Windows: added support for TCP/IP (this was already supported on macOS/Linux emulator).
• Windows: added support for HTTP(S)

Emulator/Firmware

• PlusBASIC v0.22x

Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V0.31

Emulator/Firmware

• PlusBASIC v0.22w

Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V0.30

Emulator

• Correcting line at which v-blank interrupt is generated to align with hardware. (Thanks MackW for reporting!)

Emulator/Firmware

• PlusBASIC v0.22m

Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V0.29

Emulator / Firmware

• Updated plusBASIC to v0.22l

Aquarius+ Emulator & Firmware V0.28

NOTE: Unfortunately, GitHub has changed some of its certificates again. This release contains a few additional root certificates so that updategh will work again, but you need to install this release by hand before the feature will work again.

Firmware

• Added extra root certificates to solve problem with updategh not working.