Spectrum Computing

Kolibri OS will dominate in the end.
It even has a ZX Spectrum emulator that works (e80) .
2-3 seconds boot time.
Can also boot from floppy drive.

We're talking about keeping alive an old computer in the future. In some years developers related to the ZX will be more difficult to find. We will only have their sources or better pre-made deb files or other. A correctly build AppImage will be our best chance to run an old abandoned ZX emulator a...

ok. This topic is not a debate about Windows/Linux. It's about making linux users (not admins) life easier and allowing them to run something without installation (modifying their system). Both windows and linux can be destroyed or made unusable in many ways*. That's why I'm mainly use DebianDog an...

Interesting that WINE performance is bad - it's not emulating anything, and the OpenGL usage in SpecBAS is literally just a simple quad blit once per frame. The rest of SpecBAS will all be native Linux binary when it's running. I'll look into a native linux build but the linux build environment (FP...

So what you're saying is that win32 isn't the magical solution for everything. We didn't say that. ... Even though I haven't found a good tool that generates good win 32 applications right now on Linux. Maybe one day, but I'm very busy right now. (I also don't have time right now doing any z80 stuf...

I wanted to add something about win32 apps. I the last years I have tried many tools with wine (I also went and tried their older version to find a working 32bit ). I noticed in many of the the issues that O had with Lantern. While the developer was compiling his app using 32bit target some of the &...

The problem with Linux is, and has always been, the myriad of different distributions all of which are almost the same but not quite. It makes the platform an enormous headache to support with rapidly diminishing returns for each different variants you try and cover. I agree . AppImages were create...

But if you want my opinion, the most compatible target in 2024 would be Win32. Just do that and I can use it with Wine. I've followed this step in the past. This is correct and win32 apps might run better BUT they are much heavier. Basin is almost imposible to use in my lab PCs or in an old chromeb...

I know how much work you do and thank you. My suggestion is to try -every now and then- to create an appimage of your emulator/program for linux. . It's an extra effort but I think it might worth it. 1. This will allow non advanced used with low knowledge in compiling to try and use your linux progr...

This should be in a chit-chat section... This is kind of irrelevant but I saw this game in itch.io: pick-and-poke ( https://twotinydice.itch.io/pick-and-poke ) The game has nothing to do with spectrum. The game title reminded of my "good old ZX days". It reminded me of the Peek and Poke se...

Hi, I understand that an emulator for Linux that you have to compile yourself is out of the question, right? Or one that has no GUI. Usually you do not need to compile- unless you have a specific reason. (btw, if someone want to compile -instead of setting up a whole dev envoroment he could compile...

Yes but as previously stated it is not in the repositories of Linux Mint and I have a policy of not installing software from outside the Mint repos. RetroVirtualMachine exists as appimage also that runs everywhere (https://retrovirtualmachine.org/download/ download a ZIP file). In general I'm not h...

I think this might interest you :
There is an AGD version that is in spectrum ROM format. Instead of starting the original ZX Spectrum ROM with your emulator, you start with the modified AGD ROM . This has ready shortcuts to create TAP files (or TZX).

1. West Bank ( I had both english and Spanish versions. I always thought that the spanish was a licenced translation). 2. Fernando Martin Basket Master. 3. Capitan Sevilla. I think I spend same time on West bank and FM Basket. I got a copied tape of Capitan Sevila -It was one of the last ZX games I ...

@firelord You do realize that later versions of Wine have 64-bit along with 32-bit, right? Otherwise, it wouldn't be a surprise that it didn't run well. Have you tried wine for windows 64bit? Many years ago I tried to setup a puppy with 64bit windows support. I couldn't make it work. If I get my ha...

MPAGD did not run well with WINE. The problem is in some of the compilers. If I remember correctly some were 64bit. The wine versions I use are for win32*. When I have time I will retry with conty.sh**. example running WINE from conty : WINEFSYNC=1 ./conty.sh wine someapplication.exe example for ste...

Funnily enough, there is a Debian-based Pup too. I even installed Fuse onto it, but I'm probably going to mostly test Windows games on it if I happen to make any. Also, I'm thinking of getting this to challenge myself in terms of limitations. It's one of the precursors to the MPAGD software and it ...

Cheez26 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 1:17 pm @firelord Lemme guess: you use Puppy Linux, right?

Yes - actually it's Debian Dog... much better

Part of my emulator based setup...

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And last but no means least, ALL my thanks go to my girlfriend Liz for putting up with me being in Southampton for so bloody long. Why didn't he brought his GF to Southampton? He thought that he would be running arround Southampton with his Ferrari and have 5-6 girls with him? :) So they were locke...

I almost forgot to mention that I also use Linux mostly, but I do know that Adventuron is basically based in the browser. On my amd64 desktop, I can use Lantern with either Wine or Mono, but on my Raspberry Pi 400 desktop, it's been tough finding some tools that work somewhat natively. Latest versi...

Thanks for the welcome. I've looked at Adventuron, but iirc, that can mostly do Speccy Next games for now. I would love to see it do something for 128k though. :3 I used adventuron for 48k games. The drawback is that 48k DAAD doesn't support graphics . Only 128k and Next version support graphics wi...

...I'm still also wanting to make a text adventure as well using either Lantern or something else. Welcome, I have used Lantern for my last projects and manage to do quite compex stuff with it. It is very easy to use but for graphics it uses scr files -so the 48k versions can have very few images. ...

Is there a story why the same company released an almost identical game with a new name?

Not directly related to ZX Spectrum but there is a charity bundle in itch.io that contains the great "https://little-martian.itch.io/beeps-escape"


For 8euros you can get 200+ more games (most are low quality).
https://itch.io/b/2321/palestinian-relief-bundle