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Markus has released an updated version of the open source Amstrad CPC emulator package, JavaCPC. JavaCPC powers the Amstrad CPC Online Arcade at one of my other websites, girv dot net.

Version 6.3 of JavaCPC brings the following changes:

• Added CDT/TZX tape image support
• Added convert CDT/TZX to WAV function
• Implemented tape saving to WAV
• Can drag & drop all supported file formats directly into the emulator window
• Added breakpoints to the built in debugger
• Added debugger auto-update
• Improved YM-Recorder
• Improved scan-effect and scanlines in bilinear filter mode
• Improved memory usage
• The usual collection of bugfixes

I helped a little with this release by converting the TZX2WAV utility (by Francisco Javier Crespo) from C to Java and integrating it with the JavaCPC sources. I didn’t implement a full conversion though, but just enough to decode CDT/TZX tape image files and convert them to WAV format in an internal JavaCPC buffer, ready for use by the emulated tape drive. The code is still a little rough and uses too much memory but improvements will come in later releases.

For more details, see the official release notice or download JavaCPC from SourceForge.