XZX v3.0.0
posted in Emulator News by swampgas on Nov 25th, 2000
Whilst browsing Retrogames, I saw some news about a Sinclair Spectrum emulator for Unix that we didn\'t have. It\'s called XZX, written in C, and is based on XZX 1.0.2 by Des Herriott. Seems like a lot of hard work went into it...here\'s what it emulates:
Spectrum 48K, 128K, +2 and +3, Pentagon and Scorpion, Didaktik
Interface I with up to 8 microdrives,
Multiface 128 and Multiface 3
Beta 128 interface by Technology Research Ltd with 4 disk drives,
+D interface by Miles Gordon Technology with 2 disk drives,
Kempston mouse,
Kempston joystick and
built-in machine code monitor.
It loads from:
snapshots in .SNA, .Z80, .SLT or .DAT format,
tape images in .TAP, .TZX, or .VOC format,
microdrive cartridge images in .MDR format,
disk images in .DSK, .TRD, .FDI, .SCL, HOBETA, .MGT or .IMG format,
screen dumps in .SCR format and
poke instructions in .POK format.
It can save to:
snapshots in .SNA, .Z80 or .SLT format,
tape images in .TAP format,
microdrive cartridge images in .MDR format,
disk images in .DSK, .TRD, .MGT or .IMG format and
screen dumps in .SCR format.
And additionally:
Emulates Spectrum\'s speaker and AY-3-8912 chip on workstations with audio hardware.
Supports colour (8,15,16,24,32bpp) and monochrome displays, where contrasting colours are displayed with the darker colour in black and the lighter colour in white, which works reasonably well.
Supports analogue joystick on PCs with a joystick device (Linux and FreeBSD).
However, it\'s shareware...registration is US$25. The registered version supports disk images in Pentagon/Scorpion mode, emulates the Beta 128 interface with 4 disk drives, emulates the +D interface with 2 disk drives, supports printing through the +3 CENTRONICS port, supports POKEs from .POK files, loads from .VOC files and
much more.
Snag a copy from the Unix Spectrum emulators.
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