General

It emulates the Z80 processor as well as the 48k Spectrum's other hardware: keyboard, screen, sound, tape I/O. The emulation is very close to the real thing, but it is still quite fast (It was reported to be working well on a laptop with 486 at 25Mhz!). On the other hand, the user interface is not the best. If you would like to see such features as Spectrum 128 or IF1 emulation, and don't mind the speed decrease, then have a look at xzx, another Spectrum emulator for UNIX. (Maybe sometime Spectemu will also support those.)

If you have some suggestions, or even better, you implemented a new feature, then I would be very happy to hear from you!

Latest versions

Development version: 0.99.3

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Wanted!

• PC Joystick emulation on Linux
• Sound on IRIX
• Anything else, that you would like (Well, maybe not anything :-)

Distribution version: 0.94

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(*) This is my first attempt at RPM so, if you are having trouble with it, please tell me.

If the binaries don't work, please get the source and compile it. This is quite easy to do, and it is much more likely, that the result will work correctly :-).

What's new from 0.92

• Keyboard picture:
  • In X the emulator displays the keyboard of Spectrum with Ctrl-k
  • Pressed keys are shown on the picture, and keys can be pressed with the mouse
• Configuration:
  • Spectemu can be configured with config files and command line
  • Lots of small new features which can all be configured
  • Keyboard mapping and colours can be configured
• Many small improvements (e.g. DOS version is now usable)

What architectures it runs on

Spectemu is reported to work on following machines/operating systems :

• PC-Linux
• SUN-Solaris
• Alpha-OSF1
• SGI-Irix
• Sequent-Dynix/Ptx
• PC-FreeBSD

Requirements

• Linux, or some other UNIX system
• X windows for running emulator in window
• Svgalib for running on Linux console
• A sound card supported by your kernel (if you want sound)

To compile support for the filename-completion, you will need to get and install the readline library, if it's not already installed on your system.

Features

• Quite fast
• X Support with MITSHM on a local display
• Console graphics support with Linux Svgalib
• Sound support (with Linux Open Sound System and SUN sound driver)
• Snapshot saving and loading (.z80 and .sna format)
• Tape emulation with .tap and .tzx files (I/O emulation with border striping and tape sound)
• Optional quick loading of tapefiles
• "Animated" keyboard picture
• Configuration

Development version: 0.99.3

This is the latest development version of Spectemu. It may be unstable, and is not as good, as the final release will be. But if you want to see the new features, then go ahead and try it! If anything goes wrong please tell me!

Download spectemu-0.99.3.tar.gz from here.

What's new:

From 0.95.3 to 0.99.3

• Fullscree mode in X
• Sound on IRIX by Roman Dudek
• Some nice contributions from Mikko Nummelin, Jorge Giner Cordero, Catalin Mihaila, Matthias Arndt and others
• Compilation fixes for recent gcc

From 0.94 to 0.95.3

• Linux Joystick support added (by Matan Ziv-Av)
• PC speaker support (sound is quite ugly, but better than nothing, if you do not posess a sound card)
• Snapshot and tape file path support (by Matan Ziv-Av)
• Virtual file support (looking inside zip, tar.gz, etc. files). For now you'll have to get AVFS to be able to use this, but I will do something about this.
• Usual bug fixes, notably a libc-5 incompatibility bug workaround, which caused an error while reading the config file

To see what is coming before version 1.0 see the file TODO

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