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.