Best Spectrum emulator?

Paul Potter

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Jul 1, 2010, 9:32:10 AM7/1/10

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Ok, what would people say is the best free Spectrum emulator for Windows?

Paul

Matthew Westcott

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Jul 1, 2010, 10:05:00 AM7/1/10

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Paul Potter wrote:
> Ok, what would people say is the best free Spectrum emulator for Windows?
>
> Paul

ZX Spin, which you can get from:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html#pcwin

OwenBot

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Jul 1, 2010, 10:39:38 AM7/1/10

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Best is very subjective. It depends entirely on what you want to do.
For most Windows users ZX Spin does seem like a good match for what
they require. However it is not being developed further and the author
is not interested in receiving bug reports.

deKay

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Jul 1, 2010, 11:28:38 AM7/1/10

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On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Paul Potter wrote:

> Ok, what would people say is the best free Spectrum emulator for Windows?

Spin.

It's also the best for the Mac, when run under WINE :)

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Guesser

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Jul 1, 2010, 11:49:52 AM7/1/10

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What he said.

ZX Spin is probably the best for playing games and coding (the debugger
is great) but I was recently caught out by it's +3e emulation. For
accurate emulation of the various hard disk interfaces I'd go for fuse
or eightyone.

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Matthew Westcott

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Jul 1, 2010, 12:47:56 PM7/1/10

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Guesser wrote:
> ZX Spin is probably the best for playing games and coding (the debugger
> is great) but I was recently caught out by it's +3e emulation. For
> accurate emulation of the various hard disk interfaces I'd go for fuse
> or eightyone.

True enough, but I'm banking on the assumption that anyone who's deep
enough into Spectrum emulation to know or care what +3e emulation is,
probably won't have any need to ask which Speccy emulator is the best. :-)

Daniel Mandic

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Jul 1, 2010, 5:29:11 PM7/1/10

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Paul Potter wrote:

Klive

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Paul E Collins

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Jul 1, 2010, 7:38:10 PM7/1/10

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"Paul Potter" <potte...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, what would people say is the best free Spectrum emulator for Windows?

I'd go with Spectaculator, but it's only available for Windows and isn't
free (costs about a tenner).

ZX SPIN supports some things that Spectaculator doesn't, but it has an
inferior user interface and in my experience it is less stable.

Eq.

OwenBot

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Jul 2, 2010, 2:20:40 AM7/2/10

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On Jul 1, 10:29 pm, "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_man...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Potter wrote:
> > Ok, what would people say is the best free Spectrum emulator for
> > Windows?
>
> > Paul
>
> Klive

Not a bad choice. It's by Steve Snake if that means anything to anyone.

OwenBot

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Jul 2, 2010, 2:22:18 AM7/2/10

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On Jul 2, 12:38 am, "Paul E Collins" <find_my_real_addr...@CL4.org>
wrote:

The main selling point of Spectaculator is that it has a very polished
user interface. However, unless Jon cares to differ, it also seems to
be 'finished' with no further development work being done.

Daniel Mandic

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Jul 30, 2010, 12:38:41 PM7/30/10

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OwenBot wrote:

I like its simplicity and the full-screen mode makes it a pleasure to
see into Sinclair ZX Spectrum world ;-). Wonderful piece of software,
IMHO.

ASp on AMIGA is my second (if not first) choice. Also a great emulator!

Where's Steve Snake?

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Andrew Owen

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Jul 30, 2010, 5:07:47 PM7/30/10

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No idea. Is it important?

http://user.tninet.se/~puc549i/features/snake_int1.htm

Daniel Mandic

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Aug 1, 2010, 6:21:48 PM8/1/10

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Andrew Owen wrote:

No, just asking...

Thanks for the link!

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