The new 2024-02-11 release is available. On the menu: monochrome mode, RAM expansion, and keyboard bug fix. Monochrome mode zeST was having display issues when running in monochrome high resolution mode. There was an unwanted white border on the left side of the screen, some pixels were not displayed properly and the scanlines were larger than the expected 640 pixels of width. This is fixed now. In parallel, I have been conducting experiments on enabling a monochrome mode that would be more compatible than the standard one of some monitors, especially because of the non-standard 71.

The 2024-01-21 release is not a major release, but is the result of quite some under-the-hood rework. The most important highlights are the following: Support for USB joysticks. This part is still very much in a beta state, and still requires quite some debugging effort. It was only tested on a Sony PS4 controller, which allows to emulate both a joystick (using the direction pad) and a mouse (using the touch pad).

It’s been an issue since PC keyboard interfaces appeared, and has prolonged with emulators. It has always been a real pain to get PC keyboards to work properly on the Atari ST and its successors. PC Keyboards and Atari machines In most cases - and this is what zeST does - keyboard management is a 1:1 mapping of keys, which is sufficient for alphabetic keys, but causes problems when trying to produce other characters, as they are on different keys between PC and ST keyboards.