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The Minus4w Emulator V2.3!
Copyright Mike Dailly 1996,97,98,99,00,01,02
E-Mail me on
mike@dailly.org
The latest relase can be found at
http://minus4.plus4.net
DISCLAIMER
THE BORING BIT! THIS PRODUCT IS FREE. AND AS SUCH I
ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE BY THIS
PRODUCT. IF YOU USE IT, ITS YOUR FAULT. IF SOMETHING
HAPPENS COZ YOU USED IT, ITS YOUR FAULT. IF THE EARTH
EXPLODES WHILE YOU USE IT, IT'S YOUR FAULT. IF I HAVE
A BAD DAY COZ YOU USED IT. YOU GUESSED IT - ITS YOUR
FAULT! ALL IN ALL - YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Remember In windowed mode, the window is resizeable!!
( try double clicking on title bar!! )
Quick Keys
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F5 Fast forward
F8 Load PRG file
F9 Load from D64 file
F10 Basic Debugger
F11 Reset
F11+Shift Hard reset
F12 Quit
Command line options
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-s Disable sound, Minus4 then syncs to timer
-t Disable timer (has no effect when sound is on)
-p -p "nameofprog.prg" will autorun from the command line.
The name must be in quotes
-d -d "nameofprog.d64" autoload from D64 (minus4 then presents a list of files on disk)
The name must be in quotes
-r "run" will use this command to run. If not specified, RUN is used.
-R This will record all sound output. This saves a file called "c: est.raw"
You can then make MP3's or anything else from it. Delete this file before doing this again.
NOTE: This requires and extra 40Mb of system memory. This shouldn't be an issue these days..
Only TED+SAMPLES are currently written to disk. sample is a signed 16bit RAW sample,
Whats NEW now!!
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V2.3
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1) Full screen modes now work again.
2) Save screen shot to .BMP is in (at long bloody last!)
V2.2
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1) -p "nameofprog.prg" will autorun from the command line. The name must be in quotes
2) -d "nameofprog.d64" autoload from D64 (minus4 then presents a list of files on disk) The name must be in quotes
3) -r "run" will use this command to run. If not specified, RUN is used.
4) -R This will record all sound output. This saves a file called "c: est.raw"
You can then make MP3's or anything else from it. Delete this file before doing this again.
NOTE: This requires and extra 40Mb of system memory. This shouldn't be an issue these days..
Only TED+SAMPLES are currently written to disk. sample is a signed 16bit RAW sample,
5) F8 is now a shortcut to loading PRG files
6) F9 is now a shortcut to loading D64 files.
7) New Sound system. Sound latancy is right down... should now be as expected...
If this fails to work on anyones machine, or if the sound crackles like mad, please let me know!!!
8) F5 is sort of a "fast forward" toggle... may be a bit "so-so" 
Remember, you can assosiate with .PRG and .D64 files so you can double click on them!
V2.1
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1) Fixed keyboard, should now be 100% (Explosive Net" now gets past intro - Thanks Zsolt)
2) Hardware Cursor now emulated correctly.
3) Colour registers now return top bit as set (Rockman - thanks ATI)
4) New ICON added - based on Lando's mini plus/4
5) Added option to associate .PRG and .D64 files with minus/4 for auto-running ( in prefs )
6) ALT-ENTER now kicks in and out of fullscreen mode (320x240)
V2.0
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0) This document added to archive
1) Basic emulation will now work under NT4.0 service pack 3 ( no sound or joysticks )
2) TED+Sample Sound added Via DirectSound ( Not NT )
3) ECM colour mode added ( Manic Minor )
4) Screen Blanking fixed to whole screen or none ( Manic Minor )
5) Scanline drawing fixed a little.
6) Raster IRQ delay of 8 cycles changed to 2 instructions, works a little better (Icicle works)
7) True ROM paging now in.
8) Inverse character mode fixed
9) Joysticks now available under DirectInput ( not NT - at least I don't think so! )
10) Keyboard input fixed ( Elite now works )
11) All 8 roms can now be replaced via prefrences dialog - This isn't to say they will all work!!!
Entering "none" will remove the rom - even the default ones. ( OS96, Jackattack etc )
12) Disk emulation added. Both from a D64 file, and FAKE from the current directory.
13) Saving to PC directory enabled.
14) Displaying of ".PRG" files only in directory now has an on/off switch in prefrences.
15) BCD mode fixed. Mercenary, and Exorcist now work okay.
16) HardSID support!!! Great PC SID card, find out more at http://www.hardsid.com
17) Vertical Scrolling added.
18) Top and bottom borders added. ( allows for TEXT in lower border )
19) Simulated T.V. added, ( allows text in the top border )
20) Command line added -p "filename.prg" -r "commandline" (i.e. minus4w -p "finder.prg" -r "run")
-s to disable sound.
-t to disable timer
21) Joystick emulation on Cursor keys added. UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT and CTRL for fire.
This can be switched on/off from prefs
Notes
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Play ALL samples in prefs will enable samples that DON'T set the D/A bit correctly. (ACE, TerraNova etc.)
Y scroll fudge in prefs will help with "some" games that seem to be a rasterline out...
ESCAPE mapped to escape correctly, F11 resets and F12 exits.
Known Bugs
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1) Vertical Scrolling.
This has broken several demos/intros, but many games now work...
This will be addressed in future release(s)
2) Emulated SID sound is wrong. somewhere....
3) A couple of games seem to black out....? who knows..
4) Minus4 runs slower under Windows 2000...
5) NT users may have to disable sound and timer for now
or it could be my machine is just too slow
(make a shortcut and set -s -t command line)
6) TAPE's don't work yet...
V1.2
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Basic emulation, requires DirectX 5 and up
X scrolling, Hires+MCM characters and Bitmap mode
All CPU instructions emulated
D64 .PRG loading
V1.0
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Ported from the much cleaner JAVA version(!)
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