Documentation
EF release 2.1.0:
- Release Notes (12 April 2012)
- System User Guide (PDF, 29 Feb 2012)
- System Maintenance Guide (PDF, 29 Feb 2012)
- Architectural Design document (PDF, 29 Feb 2012)
Additional documents:
- How to create a FAT 16/32 disk image (PDF, 23 Feb 2012)
- How to add emulators to the Emulation Framework (PDF, 28 Feb 2012)
- How to run emulators remotely via the Emulation Framework (PDF, 23 Feb 2012)
- Emulation Framework test report release 1.1.0 (PDF, 17 January 2012)
API descriptions (Javadoc):
EF release 2.0.0: (deprecated)
- Release Notes (29 Feb 2012)
- System User Guide (PDF, 29 Feb 2012)
- System Maintenance Guide (PDF, 29 Feb 2012)
- Architectural Design document (PDF, 29 Feb 2012)
EF release 1.1.0 (deprecated):
- Release Notes (21 Dec 2011)
- System User Guide (PDF, 21 Dec 2011)
- System Maintenance Guide (PDF, 21 Dec 2011)
- Architectural Design document (PDF, 21 Dec 2011)
EF release 1.0.0 (deprecated):
- Release Notes (31 May 2011)
- System User Guide (PDF, 31 May 2011)
- System Maintenance Guide (PDF, 31 May 2011)
- Architectural Design document (PDF, 17 June 2011)
- Requirements document (PDF, 23 April 2010)
Release notes
EF 2.1.0 - 12 April 2012
- Added German language support to Comprehensive GUI
- Fixed bug in default language setting
- Fixed bug in installer when installing EF as user with restricted rights (changed default folder)
- Fixed window resize issue in Basic GUI
- Fixed issue with automatic identification of BBC Micro and Thomson image files
- Fixed issue with shell scripts (Linux and MacOS)
EF 2.0.0 - 29 Feb 2012
- Added basic GUI.
- Added wizards to remove Emulators and Software images.
- Improved wizards to add Emulators and Software images.
- Added internationalisation functionality. Comprehensive GUI now supports English, French and Dutch user languages.
- Added functionality to start emulator without Digital Object.
- Added functionality to 'overrule' output of file characterisation. User can choose fileformat from full list of supported formats.
- Improved on-screen logging in comprehensive GUI: log messages are now displayed in scrollable panel, so user can inspect older log messages.
- Added some testdata to installer package.
- Dioscuri upgrade (to 0.7.0).
- JavaCPC upgrade (to Desktop 1.1).
- Added software images: FreeDOS v1.1, Puppy Linux.
- Now have 31 tested file formats that can be opened by the EF.
- Updated documentation and added howto document for adding emulators.
EF 1.1.0 - 21 Dec 2011
- Added emulator Thomson
- Added graphical wizards for adding new emulators and software to the archives.
- Added language settings allowing you to set the native GUI language and prefered emulation language(s).
- Added web service settings allowing you to define the remote (or local) location of the software and emulator archives.
- Improved GUI layout.
- Added double-click functionality when selecting a file.
- Added more user-supportive information about the emulator and software.
- Improved matching algorithm for automatically selecting the best software and hardware.
- Created administrator account when you have server-side access.
- Added link in menu bar to online support
- Bug fixes in emulation workflow.
EF 1.0.0 - 31 May 2011
Initial release of the Emulation Framework, containing the following emulators:
- Qemu, 8086+
- Dioscuri, 8086
- UAE, Amiga
- BeebEm, BBC Micro
- Vice, Commodore
- JavaCPC, Amstrad
- FreeDOS Edit
- Blocek
- Xzgv
- Xpdf
- Beaver
- Firefox
- MS Office Viewer
- TXT
- XML
- JPG
- TIFF
- PNG
- BMP
- ARJ
- EXE
- disk/tape images
- ...
And:
- Integration with format identification FITS
- Web services for software and emulator archives
