JSSpeccy on-line emulator ready for testing

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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"

Edit:

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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