JSSpeccy on-line emulator ready for testing

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What about jspeccy java emulator by José Luis Sánchez?
http://jspeccy.speccy.org/
https://github.com/jsanchezv/JSpeccy

It's one of the best and most accurate emulators I've seen, I suppose it can be used online?
José is a member here (zx81) and maybe he can help...
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[mention]Pegaz[/mention] thanks for this, but it looks like it's based on Java rather than JavaScript so not really suitable for modern browsers.

Changing the subject, are you linked to Fire and Ice? It's a top game! When I joined WoS in 2004 (I know I don't look that old) it was to ask how to load .TRD files so I could play it.
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PeterJ wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:15 pm @Pegaz thanks for this, but it looks like it's based on Java rather than JavaScript so not really suitable for modern browsers.

Changing the subject, are you linked to Fire and Ice? It's a top game! When I joined WoS in 2004 (I know I don't look that old) it was to ask how to load .TRD files so I could play it.
I wasnt linked as part of the team, but I was a big fan from the beginning and its title screen has become my first and only Spectrum related avatar through all these years. :)
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Does anyone speak Russian here?

Going through my Spectrum bookmarks I found this Russian site which uses its own Javascript emulator which looks rather nice. It looks like they have a forum so if any Russian speakers could ask if they would be willing to share their code that would be great.

http://viva-games.ru/novosti-sajta/novy ... x-spectrum

http://viva-games.ru/game/baby-monkey-alba

http://viva-games.ru/game/crystal-kingd ... 17-edition
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My Russian is a little rusty these days, but it seems that the emulator was made for this website needs and isnt publicly available.
However, it would be good if a Russian native speaker asks for permission to use this emulator on the SC, because its really good.
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The emulator seems to load TZX files in real time only: http://viva-games.ru/game/firefly. This kind of defeats the purpose of having it on SC or any other site, which hosts perfect tape replicas.
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Another emulator is JBacteria.

Qaop java applet is opensource. See Qaop128 on Sourceforge, it's a fork to allow 128K. Could be easily rewritten as Java Web Start as explained here : https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/deploy ... s-jnlp.htm
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Thanks [mention]hikoki[/mention] but we don't want to use Java. I did try JBacteria but again no virtual keyboard that I could see.

There seems to be no perfect solution. I'm wondering if we bother with an online emulator for now
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[mention]Ast A. Moore[/mention] you are quite right. Most of these emulators seem to need .tap files. We could only offer it when we have these available.
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PeterJ wrote: Mon Mar 26, 2018 2:30 pm Thanks @hikoki but we don't want to use Java. I did try JBacteria but again no virtual keyboard that I could see.

There seems to be no perfect solution. I'm wondering if we bother with an online emulator for now
Antonio Villena is a SC member and author of JBacteria. You could ask him if he's interested in adding ne features.

Well it's a pity that you don't want to try Qaop128. Its author was very kind to implement drag and drop last year upon my request. I could ask him to make the conversion to java Web Start as I'd like to provide it on my site. Java has advantages over Javascript as you are using OS resources not just web browser resources. It works fine on all kind of low spec PCs so it'd be nice to provide links to play with different emulators based on javascript but also on java like this one.
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PeterJ wrote: Mon Mar 26, 2018 2:30 pmThere seems to be no perfect solution. I'm wondering if we bother with an online emulator for now
IMHO an online emulator that only works on desktop is still better than no online emulator!

Also you can also replace online emulator later, when you find something better. Or offer multiple choices for online emulation, so each user can click on the emulator choice more suitable for their system.
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[mention]hikoki[/mention] the problem is that many browsers including Chrome block Java by default.
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PeterJ wrote: Mon Mar 26, 2018 2:50 pm @hikoki the problem is that many browsers including Chrome block Java by default.
Are you sure? I thought only applets were blocked, not "Java web start"

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Something to investigate https://stackoverflow.com/questions/429 ... me-browser
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[mention]hikoki[/mention] I'm no expert these things, but looking at your link and others you still have to do some configuration in Chrome and Firefox. JavaScript seems to be the modern way of doing things.
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PeterJ wrote: Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:02 pm @hikoki I'm no expert these things, but looking at your link and others you still have to do some configuration in Chrome and Firefox. JavaScript seems to be the modern way of doing things.
Fine, you mean I'm getting older :) this play online thing is only for new PCs

BTW are virtual keyboard really important for you? they are quite unusable in my experience. I wonder if this minigamepad will work with javascript emulators.
https://youtu.be/poXFOpEMVfE
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[mention]hikoki[/mention] I'm 50! The virtual keyboard is for tablet and phone users. Otherwise you can't control the game.
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PeterJ wrote: Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:35 pm @hikoki I'm 50! The virtual keyboard is for tablet and phone users. Otherwise you can't control the game.
50 is the best age!
It may be better to take some phone/tablet gamepad holder
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ZX-Art uses Unreal Speccy Portable running in javascript. If you ever need a help with running it - please let me know, I've taken it from zxn.ru (with a permission of emulator developer) and cleared javascript startup code a bit, making it clearer and shorter.
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[mention]pavero[/mention] has kindly carried out some more work on the emulator section. We have gone for the following solution:

Games will be available to play on both jsspeccy and QAOP (external site)

An example is shown in the link below (Scroll down to the Play Online section)

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=27997

We will do more with the design, but we wanted to let you have a play.

No emulators are perfect, but we feel these two give the best options that are currently available.

Thanks again to [mention]pavero[/mention] for his hard work.
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Nice job, it's working just fine!
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PeterJ wrote: Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:07 pm
No emulators are perfect, but we feel these two give the best options that are currently available.

Thanks again to @pavero for his hard work.
Thanks, but it was quite easy job, this time. :-)
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