Hi, I've put a pre-pre-alpha version of the Win32 SimCoupe on my web site if any windoze users want to take a look. Grab http://www.obobo.demon.co.uk/sc.zip (57K) and extract it to your normal SimCoupe directory so it can find the ROMs.
There's not much of an interface and there are still features missing (video sync, non-UK keyboards, Spectrum keyboards, joysticks, ...), but it'll give me a chance to find out whether the DirectX video works on hardware other than mine (I assume 555 for 16-bit but will add 565 soon). It runs windowed only at the moment (full-screen is working but I've not added the run-time switching) in 8-bit and 16-bit colour modes only (other depths coming soon). The startup mode is 256x192 (like 1x1 under X, so mode 3 loses alternate pixels), but you can switch to 512x384 using F5. Both these modes generate the full image in software to avoid relying on hardware scaling support. You can resize the window to scale from each standard size, but there may be a big performance hit if there's no scaling support for non-power of 2 scaling. Of course, if 16-bit mode is slow give 8-bit a try - when full-screen mode is available it'll use 8 bit regardless of the desktop depth. Any feedback welcome! Si
