December 1997

12/31/97
24 hours before 1998! Only a little longer to The Apocalypse.

12/30/97
N64 section to be added to the Domain shortly.

12/28/97
Fellow 0.32 has been released...see the Amiga page...CPU Bugfixes, etc.

12/25/97
Merry Christmas to all christians, and Happy 2nd day of Hannukah to jews. Check out ZSNES's gui if its past 12 midnight for you for a surprise.

PC Atari Source code for version 2.0b has been released. You can download it at the Atari2600 page.

The Links page has been updated yet again.

12/24/97
If Santa Claus comes to your house tonite, kill him, it's fun.

SNEeSe 0.13 has been released. New in this version:Color Corruption in this version is fixed, Screen display bugfixes, and a rewrite of the HDMA routines.

12/23/97
Z26 0.87 has been released! This version is the fastest version yet, and will run full speed on any Pentium Class Computer, and well on any 486.

Seasons Greetings. Tonite is the first nite of Channukah, maybe there will be a new release of an emulator as my Channukah present!

ZSNES 0.270 has been released! There are too many things new in this release to list here, but some are: SNES mouse support (for games like Mario Paint), 48mbit ROM support, 4 and 6 button joystick support, Directory Changing implemented in GUI, GUIdisable switch in cfg file, sound, SRAM and VESA2 bugfixes, and more. You can get it at the ZSNES mirror page hosted on Zophar's Domain.

12/21/97
The Links page has had a major update, and will get more updates more often.

12/19/97
Rage 0.5b has been released. This Arcade emulator now has high score saving for R-Type and requires less memory.

SNEeSe 0.12 has been released. This SNES emulator now supports HiRom Games, 6 button joypads, a config file, and more. DarkElf has unfortunately left the project, best of luck to Savoury SnaX!

12/18/97
PSEmu 0.01.99 has been released! This Playstation Emulator now has had many parts of it rewritten and it runs much faster now. However, it is an experimental beta and thus you should keep the older version just in case.

A 2nd message board has been added to Zophar's Domain, code name ZMD2. It's for non emu related posts. This should keep the non emulator related posts off of ZMD1

12/17/97
An ancient relic has been found. You guessed it, the way ZD used to look way back when! Follow the link under the logo to http://zophar.internexus.net/oldzd to see Zophar's Domain as it looked 2-2-97, frozen in time! Not all links are functional, this is all that's left of it.

madNES 0.91 has just been released. There are many new features in this release, some include: FPS counter, speedups, graphical bugfixes, improvements to more mappers, a more stable GUI and a lot more!

Z26 0.86 has been released. This Atari 2600 emulator now has a speed increase, as well as better Vertical Synchronization.

12/16/97
There has been absolutely nothing new lately, this emulation dry spell will probably end soon (I hope!)

RAGE 0.5 has been released, adding support for Son Son and R-Type now.

12/15/97
No new Emulation Stuff recently...the well's went dry for now.

12/12/97
New logo on Zophar's Domain, more sections coming soon!

12/10/97
New Logo coming soon to Zophar's Domain!

12/09/97
While you're waiting for emulator news, why not check out http://zophar.internexus.net/wwwboard/wwwboard.html for any emulator related posts you wish to read or post.

12/08/97
Not much news lately, but stay posted!

12/07/97
PC-NES 0.12b has been released. Better support for Mapper 1 in this version, as well as various bugfixes. This emulator also supports many of the iNES extended mappers.

SNEeSe 0.11 has been released, along with the source code, after being discontinued for more than a month. It now has Mode7 effects working and some various bugfixes.

12/06/97
Congratulations to ]P[2]E[, aka Brendan, who was the 300,000th visitor to Zophar's Domain! (Hey, you called me on the phone once!). Be sure to visit his page at http://www.ida.net/users/tgz

Z26 0.85 has been released. This Atari2600 emulator is now more compatible with certain games.

12/04/97
Z26 0.84 has been released. This Atari2600 emulator is now compatible with even more games.

Frodo 4.1 for Windows 95 has been released. This C64 emulator has been portted to Windows95, and some of the changes are save/load snapshots, and CPU emulation bugfixes.

NEZulator 0.0036 has been released. This new NES emulator for DOS can only run some Mapper 0 games.

Counter is malfunctioning, it does not register all the hits to a page, standby while we locate the problem.

12/03/97
EMail me if you are the 300,000th hit to Zophar's Domain!

12/02/97
Z26 0.83 and its source code has been released and added to Zophar's Domain. This Atari 2600 emulator is based off of Paul Robson's A26 emulator.

12/01/97
MadNES has been resumed by the author, when a new version is released, check here for it.

The Frontends page will be added to the Domain by the end of the week.

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