Power64 4.9.3 review
DownloadPower64 is an emulation program that allows you to run Commodore 64 programs with full color and sound.
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Power64 is an emulation program that allows you to run Commodore 64 programs with full color and sound.
Here are some key features of "Power":
MOS 6510 CPU Emulation (incl. Illegal Opcodes)
VIC (VideoIC) Emulation (Cycle Precision, incl. all Video Modes, Sprites, Soft-Scrolling, Raster Interrupts, Sprite Collision, Open Top/Bottom/Left/Right Borders), Antialiasing to emulate the blurr of a TV screen
SID (SoundID) Emulation (incl. Waveforms, Envelopes (ADSR), Ring-Modulation, Synchronisation, Filters, Resonance, Samples)
Interface to the reSID Library by Dag Lem, that offers almost 100% precise SID Emulation (incl. Filters, Resonance).
CIA Emulation (incl. Timers, Interrupts, Time of Day, Alarm)
Optional Original C64 Keyboard Layout or Macintosh Keyboard Layout
Joysticks (both via real ADB/USB Joysticks and Keyboard mapping), Mouse, Paddles and Lightpen emulated
CPU Level 1541 Floppy Disk Emulation using *.D64 and *.G41 (GCR) disks. Can handle most fast-loaders and special floppy tricks.
ROM Level 1541 Disk Drive Emulation (*.D64, *.X64 and ZipCode files supported) for fast and easy disk access.
ROM Level 1571 and 1581 Disk Drive Emulation (*.D71, *.D81) for fast and easy disk access to large disks.
Direct Access to Macintosh File System (both *.C64 and *.P00 files supported). Even ZIP-archives with collections of *.C64 and .P00 files can easily be used just like a folder on a harddisk.
Tape Drive (Datasette) emulated (*.T64 and Lynx files)
Raw Tape (TAP) Emulation for maximal compatibility
TapeDisk: *.T64 and Lynx files can also be used on disk drives
Support for Games on *.CRT ROM Cartridges
Automatic expansion of ZIP, GZ and LHA compressed Disk or Tape images. No need to expand compressed images from CD-ROM to harddisk. Just run them from the CD. Power64 can also write GZ files, saving space on the Mac HD.
Printer Emulation (Text only in C64 mode, Text & Graphics under GEOS).
What's New:
Fixed a bug that caused menus to become disabled without good cause.
Fixed a bug that caused the Finder to become upset when dragging files from a disk image to the desktop.
The Directory window are now properly updated after a drag.
Mounting Harddisks now uses the shortcut Cmd-Shift-D rather than Cmd-Option-D, since the latter is used to show/hide the dock in MacOS 10.4. Additionally a bug, that caused a single menu shortcut to be assigned to several drives at once has been removed.
The decoder for TAP-files was fitted with tighter restrictions on the amount of tape speed adjustment, so that it will no longer get carried away when a tape has long streams of extremly fast pulses (Supremacy.tap).
Power64 no longer crashes when saving files with wildcards to a floppy disk.
When selecting an item from a menu in Full Screen mode, with an automatically hidden menu bar/dock, it could happen, that the menu bar was hidden while the user was still picking an item. Hiding is now delayed until the user is done making his choice.
Digi-Sounds are now played, even if no 'regular' voice is active.
Most Internet-links in the Help Menu were broken. This has been fixed.
The C64 program "Joystick Demo" has been added. It will display the current state of both C64 joystick ports, and should help users test their joystick configuration.
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