Just in time for my birthday, after two years since the past release and one thousand alpha versions, CPCE 1.92 is out!

The entire "Ecole Buissoniere" (plus the secret part) works perfectly (it stopped working on v1.90), LPTCPC doesn't forget to calculate the sector size in 1-sector tracks, file extensions are lower case by default, the new AUTOTYPE option provides a more flexible boot method, better SVGA support for DOS and DPMI, Z80 dummy DD/FD bugfix ("Skateball.cdt" by Dlfrsilver), RAR archive support, the TZX direct recording block is now operational, Simon Owen's DSK extension for unstable sectors was added, a new debugger function (bytelogger), LPTCPC is now menu-driven, LPTPC has a Windows NT/XP port, LPTPCIO, the tape motor relay pause is emulated (Opera Soft tapes need it), there's a little Easter Egg for the WIN32.IMAGE_DOUBLE=1 mode...

Aw, this is so unlucky. I had already prepared a rerelease of CPCE 1.92, fixing several small bugs, when I finally received by copy of "Orion Prime"... but while its operation on my elderly CPC 6128 has been good, transferring it to DSK files required me more than sixty attempts, and by the time I had managed to generate four valid files, CPCE disappointed me:

Well, not exactly a pistol rod, but close: I thought that I could write MHT Engineers' Gunstick support into CPCE, both for kicks and because it was my duty to dump Opera Soft's tapes for this device, and it doesn't work too badly, although not too well either: on one hand, "Target Plus", the sample game that came bundled with the Gunstick, doesn't work; on the other hand, Opera's games ("Guillermo Tell", "Solo" and "Trigger") do work. I guess that if I fine-tune a little more the emulation synchrony I'll succeed.