Acorn Gaming: Emulation - Sinclair Spectrum

EMULATION

Spectrum

There are five Sinclair Spectrum emulators:

Spec128 --- MZX --- Z80Em --- Speculator --- Speccy

Name	Spec128
Author	Joe Kelleher
Port of	None: Original code
Available	The author's website or Acorn Gaming
Supports	Most games
Speed	Full (?)
Version	0.15 - 9/4/00

Spec128 emulates a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128.

Name	MZX
Author	Graham Willmott
Port of	None: Original code
Available	Acorn Gaming
Supports	Spectrum 48 games
Speed	Full
Version	1.10 patch level 1 - 3/5/94

MZX emulates a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48.

Name	Z80Em
Author	Warm Silence Software - commercial product
Port of	None: Original code
Available	Warm Silence Software (£15 + VAT = £17.63)
Supports	Nearly all games
Speed	Full
Version	3.00

Play Spectrum 48 and 128K games with this commercial emulator. Snapshots can be loaded in both SNA and Z80 formats, and WSS also sell 3000 games on CD-ROM to go with it if you want! (Also £15). They will also sell you a tape interface with software for £20.

Name	Speculator / Spectrum
Author	?
Port of	None: Original code
Available	?
Supports	?
Speed	?
Version	/

I have to admit I don't think I've ever come across this ancient emulator - I've included it for completeness. According to Matthew Hambley, it "crashes on the Risc PC and is unstable on earlier machines. It was never released properly, and contains no documentation."

Name	Speccy
Author	?
Port of	None: Original code
Available	Commercial product (from ?)
Supports	?
Speed	?
Version	/

Another Spectrum emulator I don't have first-hand experience of. Matthew Hambley writes: "Commercial emulator from Germany. Rumoured to emulate a Spectrum 128?"

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