After 26(!) years there finally is a new release of M2000 - the Philips P2000 emulator originally created by Marcel de Kogel in 1996-1997.
New in this 0.7 version:
- A completely new user interface with drop-down menus for Windows, Mac and Linux, which allows you to load cassettes and cartridges, save screenshots, change display size, and much more.
- The emulation speed and sound quality of the Windows and Mac versions has been improved dramatically.
- Fixed a lot of SAA5050 emulation bugs (thanks to @yqxq for helping to reproduce these issues)
- Uses "symbolic keyboard mapping" by default, which basically maps the keys of a modern keyboard to corresponding keys on the P2000 (as far as possible). The previous default "positional keyboard mapping" is still available as option.
- Support for emulating [ZOEK], [START] and [STOP] key presses directly from the menu.
- A few additional cassettes (Basic Demo Cassette zijde A and B) and an additional cartridge (Familiegeheugen 2.0 NL) are now included in the M2000 install packages. After running M2000, these will be available in the 'M2000' folder inside the user's Documents folder.
- M2000 now supports default file-type linking. That means that - depending on your OS - you can double-click a file with the
.casextension and then select M2000 as the default app to open it directly. - Full-screen and joystick support for Windows and Mac.
Note that this will be the last release that supports MS-DOS.
Thanks to @yqxq, @ifilot and @dionoid for helping to keep the P2000T alive!