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                      UnrealSpeccy 0.36.7 by SMT
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        contents

                1. features
                2. system requirements
                3. keys in emulator
                4. bugs and incompatibilities
                5. greets
                6. license


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features


  cpu
        Z80: all (un)documented commands and flags


  memory

        Pentagon 128/512/1024 and 48K ROM
        Scorpion 256/1024 RAM and 64K ROM
        Scorpion PROF-ROM with SMUC support (128/256/512K)
        KAY-256/1024 and 64K ROM
        Profi 1024 RAM/ROM and memory mapper
        ATM TURBO 1 v4.50 512/1024 RAM, 64-1024K ROM
        ATM TURBO 2+ v7.10 128/512/1024 RAM, 64-1024K ROM
        cache 16/32K
        CMOS/RTC: russian chip (512Bu1, 64 bytes, 1st day is monday) or
          pc-compatible (DALLAS, 256 bytes, 1st day of week is sunday)
        SMUC RTC and NVRAM (24LC16)

  sound

        beeper, tape saving and loading tones

        AY-3-8910/YM2149: excellent sound emulation, including digital
        and unusual effects, parallel ports on R14/R15 are not emulated

        Turbo-AY (Turbo-Sound): two AY(or YM) chips by PoS and NedoPC schemes

        TurboSound FM: two YM2203 chips (6 AY channels + 6 FM channels)

        also there is 'unreal' (not available in real Spectrum) mode:
        playing AY music using digital player - emul plays three sound samples
        with volumes and frequencies taken from corresponding AY registers
        and 'pseudo-turbo' - two parallel YM chips with some phase shift

        two covoxes - Pentagon (port #FB) & Scorpion (port #DD)

        SounDrive

        saving sound to WAV or VTX (VTX - good format for AY sound, much
        more compact than PSG, but you need lha.exe somewhere in %PATH%)

        General Sound - FX & MOD player through BASS sound system.
        You can save music and listen it in your favourite mod-player

        General Sound low level emulation (including internal Z80 on 12MHz,
        512Kb onboard memory, internal ports and DACs)

        BASS offers higher quality and more sound channels than low-level
        emulation. Low-level emulation is useful for programs altering the
        firmware player and using second Z80 for their own needs. In general,
        use BASS for games, and low-level emulation for advanced sound/music
        editors (RIFF tracker)

  video

        several video drivers, from simple and fastest to complex bi-linear
        filtering, that upsamples Spectrum display to 512x384 * 64 colors;
        'noflic' filter is specially for programs fast switching two screens
        to get more colors;
        several chunky filters for 21st century demos

        amazing video filter: Anti-Text64. Designed for reading e-zines.
        It converts 4x8 fonts to 8x8 or 8x16 on the fly and saves your eyes

        multicolors are fixed for Pentagon & Scorpion, 1T screen update
        for all border effects

        able to emulate scorpion timings, including scorpion border update

        nopaper mode for debugging border effects

        flash-color (using 128 ink colors with black paper when FLASH bit on)

        hi-res modes: Pentagon 512x192, Profi 512x240, ATM
        (works with 'double' video filter)

        ATM-TURBO color video modes (works with 'double' video filter):
        text mode 80x25, EGA mode 320x200, 640x200.
        To use custom text-mode font, place your "SGEN.ROM" to unreal directory.
        Don't use border=none with ATM video modes

        Pentagon 384x304 mode [see ZX-Guide#2, AlCoNews#32]

        Pentagon color-per-pixel mode [see Info Guide#8, #9]

        hardware multicolor

        attribute port #FF


  tune-up video/sound with hotkeys

        change video settings, such as number of t-states/frame, t-states/line,
        fix with grey+, grey-, grey*

        t-states/frame is a computer speed, so it's easy to adjust speed in
        fast (or slow) games in very wide range for comfortable playing

        alt+grey*, grey-, grey+ selects soundchip (AY/YM) and
        stereo mode (ABC/ACB), or palette


  beta 128 disk interface

        implemented all FDC WD1793 commands, including read/format track

        traps for read/write sector - more then 256 times speedup


  tape

        full TAP and TZX support

        CSW support

        tape browser

        auto-start tape when accessing to ROM load routine

        fast loading: UnrealSpeccy is able to recognize loader logic
           and speed up loader by removing delay loops and edge detection loops.
           (Of course, UnrealSpeccy leaves original t-states timing,
           so max speed mode must be enabled for fast loading - press NumLock)
           With this technique any 128K game may be loaded in 10-20 secs.
           I've developed this feature independent from RAMSOFT, but looks like
           they used the same idea in RS 0.90.38...
           For really fast loading, also choose 'normal' video driver


  IDE

        UnrealSpeccy is able to use KAY, SCORPION and ATM-2 IDE interfaces with
        two devices on it (hard disks or CD-ROMs)

        for hard disks you may use image file or Spectrum drive, connected to
        computer. CD-ROM requires physical or windows-level emulated device

        schemes supported:
        Nemo - controller for ZX-BUS manufactured by Nemo and NedoPC
        ATM - ATM TURBO 2+ v7.10
        Nemo(A8) - Nemo scheme modification: uses A8 instead of A0 to
                   select high/low byte of 16bit data (easy to
                   transfer sector with just two commands INIR:INIR)
        SMUC - IDE controller for ZS Scorpion

  modem

        ISA modem, configured to use COM1 ports 03F8-03FF
        translated to Spectrum's ports #F8EF-#FFEF.
        Modem interrupt (translated to Spectrum NMI) is not emulated
        Host computer should have installed windows driver for real modem.
        At least ping/dns by Kamil Karimov tested and works fine
        with empty 'modem initialization string'


  input devices

        fully customizable keyboard
        copy text from clipboard via emulation of Spectrum keyboard
        AY-mouse (KORVET mouse, connected to AY-3-8910/12 port A)
        kempston mouse with adjustable speed and swap-buttons option,
        mouse wheel included (D7..D4 in buttons' port or UP/DOWN keys)
        kempston joystick on keyboard
        kempston joystick on mouse (joystick will follow mouse cursor)
        mouse wheel and buttons can be bound to any zx keys or kempston
        PC joystick/gamepad can be bound to any zx keys or kempston
        sticky keys mode [stolen from ZX_Emul, read description there]
        autofire (with adjustable key and period)

  files

        reading:

           SP, SNA and Z80 (all versions, 48k and 128k)
           TAP, TZX, CSW
           FDI, TRD, SCL, TD0, UDI
                  if disk image does not contain boot.B, it may be appended.
                  Disk images for every drive may be loaded automatically
                  at start of UnrealSpeccy
           HOBETA format - appends file to existing disk; if no disk, then empty
                  TR-DOS disk will be created. Best use with command line:
                  unreal.exe prog.$B prog.$C   <- will be placed on same disk
                  You can also load it from 'F3' dialog, but only by one file

        writing:

           SNA 48k and 128k
           TRD, FDI, UDI
           TD0  (saved unpacked, so expect saved file larger than loaded)
           SCR, BMP (screenshots)
           WAV, VTX


        disk images converter:

           emulator can open disk image in any format (TRD/TD0/FDI/SCL/UDI)
           and save it to any other format


  leds

        1. AY volume/status. Just for fun. White color - tone, yellow - noise,
           green - envelope; also shows YM2203 and GS volumes

        2. perfomance leds. One displays how much Z80 t-states is between two
           interrupts. While watching some demo you can see how much time
           takes one or another effect. Second led shows PC framerate - at
           normal speed it must be 50. If it is less, then your CPU is too
           slow, and sound may be jerky - try to select faster video driver,
           disable some devices, increase skipframe or decrease t-states
           per int. When running on max speed, framerate shows how fast you
           computer is. For example, 800 fps is 16 times faster than
           Spectrum, so average game will load in 20 secs.

        3. input led. Shows which input devices are active - keyboard, mouse,
           kempston joystick. For keyboard, displays queried keyrows.
           One example: I've noticed, that in KOL0BOK2 intro active keyrows
           are <B>-<SPACE> and A-G. <SPACE> is an exit, but why program
           scans <A>-<G> ? I've pressed <A>, and I saw that now program
           queries <Y>-<P>. After pressing A+P, program queries <CAPS>-<V>.
           When pressing A+P+X active keyrow areonly <B>-<SPACE>. So, I've
           found cheat without digging in program code! (Another way was to
           set breakpoint on reading port #FE and analyze code nearby)

        4. loading led. When saving/loading from disk, emulator shows
           blue or red diskette. When formatting track, yellow disk is
           displayed. When loading from tape, emulator displays
           cassette picture and progress for current block (or 'PS' - tape
           silence)

        5. local time - for those ZX Spectrum fans, who spend all their
           time with virtual Spectrum

        6. on-screen watches - display used RAM and ROM banks in last frame,
           count user-defined expressions

        7. using leds on AT keyboard to display AY amplitude peaks


        leds look strange when flash-color is enabled. It's not a bug


  monitor

        software that in PC world is called 'debugger', in Spectrum world
        is often called 'monitor'

        find text or code.
        Using mask: code matches when ((code & mask) == (pattern & mask))

        unlimited number of code breakpoints

        conditional breakpoints of any complexity, uses C-like expression
        syntax (with this feature can be easily done: breakpoint on range,
        breakpoint to port in and out, on instruction, etc..)

        memory access breakpoints (on reading/writing/executing of given memory
        areas)

        built-in Z80 assembler/disassembler

        save-load memory blocks

        disk editor

        ripper's tool: for ripping routines with their data.
        Marks which bytes were read/written, and saves whole 64kb memory,
        replacing unreferenced bytes with user-defined byte (default is #CF)

        hotkeys to save/restore cursor position in disasm window

        hotkeys for location instruction operand in Z80 or dump window

        on-screen watches: show memory areas addressed by register pairs


  GUI

        all settings, that present in INI file, may be changed in GUI
        (but will not be saved, for permanent effect edit INI file)

        easy entering POKEs, if you don't want to use monitor or use
        HEX addresses. Delimiters for numbers are space, comma, colon,
        semicolon - so POKEs can be cut'n'pasted from any cheats collection

        loading from archives. Now supported: CAB,ZIP,RAR.
        You can add your own archivers to INI file

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system requirements

        Windows 95 or higher, or NT (not tested).
        Windows 2000/XP/2003 are required for real HDD support.

        for running UnrealSpeccy you need:

            Pentium-166 CPU MMX for basic functionality
            Celeron-266 CPU for Profi/Pentagon/ATM/Anti-Text64 hi-res modes
            Celeron-400 CPU for GS low-level emulation
            UnrealSpeccy eats only 12Mb of RAM, so
             if you've started Windows, then memory is enough
            2D accelerared video card with hardware support of
             video overlays and color keying for overlay modes
            3D accelerared video card for hardware chunky bilinear filter
            2 Mb of video memory in fullscreen
            4 Mb of video memory for windowed mode
            16-bit sound card [optional, but recommended]


        if you have such hardware, but emulator runs slow, try the
        following:

            0. install latest directX and videocard drivers
            1. increase sound buffer size (especially for Win95) in INI file
            2. select video filter='small', video driver='ddraw'
            3. disable vsync
            4. set 'ShareCPU=0' in INI file
            5. do not use General Sound low-level emulation
            6. do not use YM2203
            7. set 'skipframe=4' in INI file
            8. set 'Frame=30000' in INI file (if nothing else does not work)
            9. disable sound (without sound emulator runs much faster)

        this should help


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keys in emulator

these are default keys, can be changed in INI file


Ctrl-F1         monitor
Shift-ESC       only for windowed mode: give mouse to emulator or to MS Windows
Alt-F1          help on keys
F1              options/GUI
F2              write snapshot/disk image
Alt-F2          quicksave to qsave1.sna
Ctrl-F2         quicksave to qsave2.sna
Shift-F2        quicksave to qsave3.sna
F3              read snapshot/tape/disk image
Alt-F3          quickload from qsave1.sna
Ctrl-F3         quickload from qsave2.sna
Shift-F3        quickload from qsave3.sna
(SHIFT+)F4      select video driver (filter)
Alt-F4          exit emulator
F5              start/stop saving sound (WAV or VTX formats).
                May be used from monitor: set breakpoint to
                start/stop routines and save;
                when saving to vtx, start and end silence are wiped
F6              enter POKE(s)
Alt-F6          search in memory for changed values (cheats, etc)
F7              start/stop tape
Shift-F7        tape browser
Alt-F8          screenshot
F9              quicksave all altered disk images and CMOS
Alt-Shift-F11   NMI
Alt-F11         NMI to cache
Ctrl-F11        NMI to TR-DOS ("magic")
F12             reset to default mode, as specified in INI file
Ctrl-Shift-F12  reset to basic-128
Ctrl-F12        reset TR-DOS (128)
Shift-F12       reset to 48 basic, but port 7FFD unlocked
Alt-Shift-F12   reset to 48 basic, port 7FFD locked
Alt-F12         reset to system ROM
Ctrl-Alt-F12    reset to cache
pause/break     pause
grey/           leds on/off
grey*           select parameter to change: t-states/int (speed), fix, etc...
Alt+grey*       select parameter to change: AY/palette
grey+,grey-     change sound/video parameter (press with SHIFT for finetuning)
NumLock         max speed on/off (no sound on max speed)
Alt-NumLock     toggle autofire on/off
Alt-Ctrl-Z      toggle ATM XT(AT)-keyboard controller on/off
Alt-Enter       toggle full-screen mode
Alt-Shift-Ins   copy text from clipboard to keyboard buffer
Alt-1           set window size to 1x scale in windowed mode
Alt-2           set window size to 2x scale, useful for hardware-stretched
                modes like overlay and blitter
Alt-3           maximize window


keys in monitor

(CTRL,SHIFT,ALT+)F1,F2,F3,F5,F11,F12 - see above
Ctrl-F1         exit, run program
F7              step
F8              trace, skip calls and loops
F9              show Spectrum screen
Shift-F9        show alternative 128k screen
Alt-F9          show screen until painted point with border, mc and 2-scr 
effects
F11             run program until address (SP)
TAB             next window
SHIFT-TAB       previous window
Alt-D           toggle text/hex dump
Alt-B           write to port 7FFD (select bank / screen)
Alt-M           write to model-specific extended memory port (like 
#1FFD,#FDFD,#DFFD,...)
Alt-P           enter POKE(s)
Alt-F6          search in memory for changed values (cheats, etc)
Alt-R           load memory block from file
Alt-W           save memory block to file
Alt-F           fill memory block with hex pattern
                (note: to copy block, please use save+load)
Alt-G           General Sound status (double-click - play sample)
Alt-T           ripper's tool
Alt-O           configure on-screen watches
Alt-U           disasm to file
Alt-S           cycle screenshot (ray-painted) / screendump (screen memory) / 
watches
Alt-F           render current frame to video buffer without border and MC 
effects
Ctrl-U          set user-defined watch address
Ctrl-L          view labels, visible for Z80 in current memory state
Ctrl-J          select and go to label
Alt-C           breakpoints manager
Alt-Y           switch active sound chip in Turbo-Sound mode


       manager can handle 3 types of breakpoints:

       1. conditional breakpoints and on-screen watches
       are using C expression syntax.

       operators (in priority order):
         () ! ~ M(x) -> * % / + - >> << > < == = <= >= != & ^ | && ||
       operands:
         a,b,c,d,e,h,l,bc,de,hl                 - common registers
         a',b',c',d',e',h',l',bc',de',hl'       - alternative registers
         ix,iy,pc,sp,i,r                        - control registers
         FD     - memory port #FD (also known as #7FFD)
         OUT    - port used in 'OUT' command (or 0FFFFFFFF when no outs)
         IN     - port used in 'IN'  command (or 0FFFFFFFF when no ins)
         VAL    - read/written value to port (only meaningful when OUT != 
0FFFFFFFF or IN != 0FFFFFFFF)
         numbers - hex, must start with digit: DFFD - wrong, 0DFFD - right
         characters - must be enclosed in single quotes ('A','B',etc..)
       All calculations use 32-bit unsigned interger arithmetic.
       If you are not familiar with C, use brackets as much as possible, due to
       non-intuitive operator's precedence, e.g.
       out & 0FF == 0FE   is treated as 'out & (0FF == 0FE)' <- always 0

       M(x) is byte from memory address x (same as x->0)
       '=' is an alias for '==' (for Pascal programmers)

       examples:

           (out+1) | (in+1)       - in/out to any port
           (in & 8001) == 0       - read keyboard row from <B> to <SPACE>
           !(out & 1)             - any out to port #FE
           (out & 0FF)==0BB && (val==0F3 || val==0F4) - reset General Sound
           (out & 0FF)==0FD && (val&7)==3   - set 3rd memory page
           (FD & 7) == 3                    - the same
           M(pc)==0CB && pc->1 >= 10 && pc->1 <= 17
                - set break on executing instruction "rl <reg>"

       I hope, these examples will be enough to get idea

       note: double-click on breakpoint to edit it

       2. execution breakpoints (also set in CPU window by pressing SPACE).
          In manager window it is easy to setup breakpoint on execution
          range like 6000-FFFF

       3. breakpoints on reading/writing memory. Similar to execution
          breakpoints, but have flags "R" and "W" to issue interrupt on
          reading/writing memory address (flags may be set together)


monitor: registers window

Cursor          select register
ENTER,0-F       change register
Ctrl+A,F,B,D,H,S,P,X,Y,I,R,M,1,2 edit A,F,BC,DE,HL,SP,PC,IX,IY,I,R,IM,IFF1,IFF2
Alt+S,Z,5,H,3,P,N,C              toggle flag
'               go to value under cursor in CPU window
;               go to value under cursor in memory window


monitor: CPU window

F4              trace to cursor
Alt-F7          find text
Ctrl-F7         find code with mask
HOME            go to PC
Ctrl-G          go to address
SPACE           set/reset breakpoint under cursor
ENTER           edit Z80 instruction, opcode bytes or cursor address
A-X             assemble new Z80 instruction
Z               set PC to cursor
Ctrl-1,.,Ctrl-8 save current position to slot 1-8
1-8             save current position to stack, go to saved position in slot 1-8
Backspace       restore position from jumpstack
'               push cursor position and go to instruction operand
;               jump to instruction operand in data window
Ctrl-A          reading labels from XAS or ALASM, using 3 methods:
   1. XAS7: assembler should be in bank 6 (or bank #46 for Pentagon-512)
   2. ALASM: version 4.42-5.0x should be in 128k-memory (pages 1-7)
   3. ALASM+STS: STS should be in bank#7 (or bank #47 for Pentagon-512)


monitor: memory window

Alt-F7          find text in memory / disk track
Ctrl-F7         find code with mask in memory / disk track
Cursor,Home,End,PgUp,PgDn        move
Ctrl-G                           go to address
Ctrl-M                           select memory editor
Ctrl-V                           select disk editor (physical track)
Ctrl-O                           select disk editor (logical sectors)
Ctrl-T                           select disk/track/sector in diskeditor
Ctrl-TAB                         move to hex/ascii
Ctrl+S,P,B,D,H,X,Y               go to SP,PC,BC,DE,HL,IX,IY
other keys                       edit

monitor: Beta 128 window

here is a typical FDC indicator content
CD:1820
STAT:21
SECT:09
T:01/01
S:3C/00

first line is command and data register (cmd18,data20 - seek track 20)
2nd line - status register
3rd line - sector register
4th line - actual FDD head position and track register
5th line - Beta disk system register and DRQ/INTRQ port

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bugs and incompatibilities


   some programs, such as Manic Miner and Lode Runner, require
   old 48K ROM (1982.rom), while some other programs require
   ZX Spectrum 128 ROM (48for128.rom + 128tr!.rom)

   some TR-DOS programs (Unreal Megademo by KSA, Street Fighter)
   work only if TR-DOS traps are disabled and all delays enabled

   Profi service ROM can work only when all TR-DOS delays are enabled

   Bumpy does not work in default configuration, it tries to read port
   #FFDF for kempston joystick - so disable kempston mouse before
   playing [bug found by Paul Pavlov]

   sounddrv=wave does not work with CTSB128PCI (Creative Sound Blaster),
   there is a bug in drivers for this card. [bug found by Nuts]

   some ABS adventures (ALIEN.SCL, LENIN.SCL) do not work with TR-DOS 5.04TM,
   use version 5.03 - it is most compatible [bug found by Paul Pavlov]

   Vixen 1,2,3 - incompatible with SounDrive [bug found by Paul Pavlov]
   Fernandez - incompatible with SounDrive [bug found by Shadow Maker]

   port #FF sometimes is not responding when SkipFrame!=0
   (the same to SkipFrameMaxSpeed!=0 and max speed mode)

   Scorpion 'MAGIC' generates NMI even if PC < #4000, but shadow
   monitor is not designed for this situation and may crash

   CacheVox by AlCo requires TR-DOS delays enabled and [BETA128] IL=1

   If the emulator after returning of focus seems to have a sticky key,
   press Scroll Lock, deactivate blinking key, then press Scroll Lock again.

   If emulator control keys work wrong after returning of focus, press Enter,
   and keys must go normal.
   
   If emulator hangs with General Sound, try DSPrimary=0.

   If emulator crashes with General Sound, try GSType=Z80.
   
   If Kempston Joystick doesn't work, go to menu, press NumLock there,
then return.

   In case of bad sound, try DSPrimary=1 (may crash emulator eventually!)
or SoundDrv=wave in .ini.

   Screenshots are saved to the emulator directory.
   Files to read and write via debugger are situated in a current directory
(which is seen by F3).

Download sys.trd (for drive B:) from http://alonecoder.narod.ru/zx/SYS.rar
Download xBIOS for ATM Turbo2+ from http://atmturbo.nedopc.com/
Get WNASPI32.DLL from Ahead Nero or from Ahead website

BASS.DLL v2.3 was taken from http://www.un4seen.com/ 

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greetings from SMT:

   * dj.Z, IMP and MIC - I enjoyed your music a lot !
   * Nik-O and Fatal Snipe - for adherence to ay scene
   * Hacker KAY - thanks for most accurate information about AY/YM
   * Paul Pavlov - maintainer of largest TR-DOS archive
   * Raul Gomez Sanchez (author of R80)
   * Stalker - thanks for STS
   * Placebo, Extreme, Digital Reality, CBS - for quality demos
   * V_Soft (Roman Scherbakov) - for Vortex format
   * Sergey Bulba - for AY_Emul
   * Alone Coder - you keep Spectrum alive
   * Ian Luck - thanks for BASS
   * SirX - just a hello
   * all ZX Spectrum fans - Speccy is da best!


special thanks to people, who were interested in
UnrealSpeccy's development and sent me info about hard/soft:

   * Maxim Vasilyev - sent me many bugreports
   * Mac Buster - some info about beta 128 disk interface
   * Shiru Otaku - sent me GSPAK.ZIP
   * Alexey Kravchenko - Scorpion timing info
   * Vitaliy Pigo - testing and benchmarking
   * Alex Baskakov - helped me with TD0 format
   * Alone Coder - thnx for many info about Pentagon hardware
   * Dexus - for integrating YM2203 support
   * Maksagor - ATM information
   * and many others, who emailed me congratulations/suggestions/etc

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license

        UnrealSpeccy is completely freeware. You may use this emulator
        and its sources without any restrictions. You may use the
        sources in your own emul or to release bugfixed/new versions.
        in this case you do not have to release updated source code,
        (unlike GNU Public License requires, for example). You may port
        emulator to any other platform (but there are many
        MSVC-specific language constructions, so it's doubtful that
        you can compile it with another compiler)

Send me bug reports, ideas, and changed source lines
http://dlcorp.nedopc.com/viewforum.php?f=8