oh, there is introductional thread here! so if you're interested, i am from xUSSR. Speccy (actually,
Robik) was my first "really personal" computer. before that, i was at regional computer "club" with MSX computers. of course, i wanted MSX, but there was no way to get it (at least for the price we could afford). so i got Robik, which was 48K Speccy clone, with totally incompatible timings, and without a disk drive. i never had 128K, and never had a disk drive, so it was hard to program in asm. tapes sux! ;-)
my first emulator was something called "spectrum.exe", it ran on 286, and i still don't know what it was. it didn't even used external ROM, afair. yet it was able to play 2-channel music on PC speaker, and that was cool.
of course, being a programmer myself, i was interested in writing my own emulator. and i did that several times! ;-) 3 times in Delphi, almost two times in C, and once in D. my first emulators were based on Z80 cores i found in internet, but later i wrote Zymosis.
as i never owned 128K, i am mostly interested in 48K software (because this is what brings back my childhood memories). i am also not interested in supporting TR-DOS or +3DOS in my Z80 code (but my emulator supports 128K/+2/+3, and TR-DOS).
i always wanted to write some Speccy games, but never progressed beyond some engine prototypes.
i love platformers and shooters, my favorite games are Zynaps and Rex. i found JSW too hard (but loved to play Phantomas). and i am avoid playing AGD/Churera games (for various reasons; don't take it personally, please, it's my internal mental bug ;-).
i wasn't very active in any online/offline Speccy communities.
i also love to write walls of text in bad English (which is quite obvious from this post, i think ;-).
