Spectrum Computing

Apparently, sooner or later I will have to admit the terrible truth - my emulator is not worthy of your money. Well, I can live with it)

At the moment, apart from standard emulator functionality, the full version of my emulator has: - multilanguage adjustable interface - advanced window/picture customization - extended ZX Spectrum emulation settings - advanced emulation control - smartest auto loading for media files - best Spec256 m...

But now I am considering the possibility of releasing my emulator through a crowdfunding scheme. If there are people here who wants to support the author financially and sponsor the release of my emulator for free use, please write in a personal message the estimated amount of your donation in the s...

Let's summarize. I was completely disappointed in the monetization scheme I chose. I found only one user who agreed to support the project according to the specified scheme, Bedazzle . He supported the project (to be honest, the author) financially all this year, for which I am grateful to him. He w...

@djnzx48, thank you for your interest. You were interested in the project back in the day, and I implemented some of your requests in my monitor but sadly not all of them. But I still want to implement them someday)

As for your question, now I have some thoughts which I share in the posts below:

The project is closed.

I completed Manic Miner in March 2017 on my emulator without saves and pokes, after two weeks of trying and training. It was not that hard)

I'm at work so I will try this later, but does it matter if it is the angle laser or the circle laser? I have beaten the boss a couple of times, but I can't do it consistently yet. It seems so frenetic, I'm just blasting away and sometimes I kill it and sometimes I don't. I've tried to detach the f...

I don't think anyone's mentioned this yet... When you get to the boss, fire the Force into the face that eventually starts appearing in the middle of the boss. Move your ship to the top of the screen, out of the way of the tail, and let the Force do it's work. An easier way is to stand in the corne...

Unfortunately R-Type suffers from “Gradius syndrome” a lot. If you manage to stay alive and collect all power-ups the game is relatively doable. But if you loose a life, you’re left with a seriously underpowered ship and it is very hard to recover from that. Yes, it's true. As far as I remember, th...

ionut76 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:39 pm R-Type is impossible to finish without pokes. Dixit.

I finished it without pokes (but after almost 2 months of training with saves and rollbacks). I have a bunch of my fair RZX-walkthroughs from this period

I was very impressed with the "no shooting" video that Xela posted. In the comments section of that, someone mentioned your ship in the arcade version has only a 1 pixel hitbox in its center, something that became a sort of standard for those bullet hell games that came much later. I had ...

Joystick, I’ve always used a joystick for Speccy games. Well, it will be more difficult with joystick, because some places require very precise positioning (for example, level 6 with the maze). Level 5 is impressive, more than halfway on a such a tough game is nothing to sneeze at. Level 5 is tough...

Nice. Congrats. Did you play The Hit Squad release? Is that version fixed? Thanks :) I played the Electric Dreams/Activision release with normal 8th level. As for the Hit Squad release, I have version that does not have levels at all except the first one. After 4 days I’ve beaten level one only onc...

I completed R-Type (all 8 levels) without cheats after almost 2 months of regular play, but on my emulator, and I trained with rollbacks. And I knew how to pass levels 1-3 from my youth.

Some additional words about my creature :) So, who might be interested in my emulator? Those who like to play Spectrum games on an emulator. The functionality of the emulator allows you to do this with additional comfort (among the functions disabled in the demo version are a training game mode, con...

Mmmmh heavy crippled software to evaluate honestly. Fade out etc. are reasonable for a demo, but working external input devices and other features should be enabled just for testing and be sure the emu works fine with them... :? Sorry, the contol form for game control adjustment is fully disabled I...

Mmmh, Kempston stick doesn't seem to work (XInput devices tested: gamepad XBox One BT, 8BitDo Arcade Stick)... Demo version doesn't support game devices, full version does. And screen is a bit dark... and randomly gets darker leaving the emu in background (?). Default settings (and Direct3D). Demo ...

So, I proudly present the public demo version of the ZX Miracle emulator: https://easyupload.io/5fpfcw . https://i122.fastpic.org/big/2023/1215/de/ba775c05090b07bdec3f0d2da300c9de.png A few words about it: some functions are disabled, some functions have their names hidden, some functions are comple...

I'm going to release a public demo of ZX Miracle one of these days. Be prepared for disappointment

Morkin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:16 am Every emulator author after reading this:

Not me) I'm glad to update my emulator everytime when new info about emulation accuracy comes. I know that there is no perfection in emulation but we can get as close to it as we can

In the meantime, the ZX Miracle emulator is gradually developing - a convenient, powerful, customizable monitor and other tools have been added. Also, the emulator has official alias Spectramine now) as the name ZX Miracle is a bit pretentious IMO. The emulator is still only available to sponsors an...

I have implemented the first edition of SNV format in my emulator, and - I like how it looks in hex viewer: https://zx-pk.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=79270&d=1692037715 Specified configuration flags for now: snv8kbPages = $80000000; snvLongPageNumbers = $40000000; snvLateTimings = $00000001; ...

Luckily emulator authors are always very well behaved when implementing snapshot export code, so finding snapshots with data stuffed into unused/reserved bits from an original specification to support extra hardware for their particular emulator basically never happens! :D Maybe sometimes. I don't ...

Use szx because it's not perfect but most of the bugs caused by confusing design issues have been squashed out of everyone's implementation by now. But szx is not viewable/explorable/modifiable almost at all. Or create something new where every piece of configuration and memory block is its own blo...