TilEm is dead, long live TilEm2Benjamin Moody (floppus maximus) and myself Thibault Duponchelle(contra-sh) are proud to announce the first release of TilEm2.You probably already know TilEm "old" because it was a good emulator serving the community since 2000 (written by Julien Solignac then improved and maintained by Moody Benjamin)
For those who don't know, TilEm is an emulator that reproduce behavior of z80 based Texas Instrument Calculator (TI73 through TI86 including the TI81 :p). As the others emulators, TilEm2 needs an official rom of course.
TilEm old was available for GNU/Linux natively then ported to Windows and Mac.
TilEm2 is already available for
GNU/Linux and
Windows (TilEm2 is likely to work on Mac OS X, but we have not tested it)
3 years ago, I joined the team and we started to work on a new version of TilEm.
Even if it seems to be a sequel, all the code was written from scratch, including a new emulation core written by Benjamin.
This new version is released for beta testing.
It features highly detailed hardware emulation.
TilEm 2's hardware emulation is greatly improved - it's now at least on par with, and in some cases better than, any other emulator released to date.
All of the Z80 models are supported (including both hardware revisions of the TI-81 and both revisions of the TI-82); the only part of the hardware that is not currently emulated is the TI-84 Plus USB controller.
Sending/receiving programs, variables, and applications :- TilEm2 uses libticalcs and provides visual feedback by printing progress and allowing cancel.
- You can send single or grouped vars, flashapp, or whatever you want.
- A nice receive window allow you to save programs from your calc to you computer.
- There's also the possiblity to send and receive to and from the ti81.
Grayscale emulation : - TilEm has had grayscale support for many years (originally an FIR filter supporting only 4 levels; later changed to an IIR filter supporting 64 levels, but with a tendency to flicker.) TilEm 2, however, uses a completely new grayscale algorithm based on a modified FIR filter, which should work a lot better.
Saving screenshots :- You can record animations (gif) or simply grab a static screenshot (png, bmp, gif output and more...).
- There's a lot of setting as size (at least 3 default size per model plus custom size), foreground/background color, animation speed.
- And of course a preview window to see before saving what you have done.
A full featured debugger for assembly programming :- With memory view (could be edited), disassembly view, registers (could be edited), stack, breakpoints, step by step, and more ...
Macro :- It allow to record key press and execute automatically (at startup or when you load the macro file).
New pack of skin and new skin format (TiEmu skin file) :- You can now do a skin for TilEm2 in 15 min and you can do some funny stuff(see the documentation about skins)
This version has a new and improved user interface, as well as many
improvements to the hardware emulation.
See the project website at
http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilem/ for more
information.
This release is only a step, development goes on. We will add some new features to TilEm2 soon. In addition to the features you will request and bug we will have to fix.
You will find a long user manual here :
http://contra-sh.users.sourceforge.net/user_manual.htmlThis program was made for YOU users.
Please report bugs and feature request (on the Sourceforge forum :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tilem/forums/forum/84646)
The current maintainers of TilEm are
Benjamin Moody and
Thibault Duponchelle (but many other people have played a part in making this program possible especially Hugues Luc Bruant "fullmetalcoder" who started a qt gui and helped us a little for other stuff and Scott Zeid which provides the pictures from which are based the icons).
Have fun with TilEm2 !!!
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