Sinclair ZX Spectrum

These Emulators not only let you play all your old favourites again, but the spectrum is easy to program as well (once you work out the keyboard layout!)

 

Emulators

 ZX32 This is simply the best emulator available for the PC. It emulates all forms of the spectrum, and supports most of the formats including .sna, .z80 and .tap. It also has the most comprehensive set of controls over the emulators behavior, and the best sound capabilities.  It requires Windows 9x, and preferably a Pentium machine.

Games

Manic Miner

Jetset Willy

Atic Atac

Sabre Wulf

JetPac

There are thousands of games on the internet and the largest download will only ever be 48K, so get downloading!  Click above for a couple of my favorites.

Spectaculator This is about the best Windows based emulator in my opinion, although it is commercial and a fee is required to use it after the trial period

 R80 This is another emulator that seems ok.  When  running in a  Windows 95/98 DOS box it takes advantage of long filenames.

Spectrum Emulators on WOS

History

I have gathered together a good description of each of the Spectrum incarnations. Click here for more info.

    

Programming

Spectrum BASIC is very simple to program and the machine also spawned a whole generation of very talented  machine language programmers.

Programming Information Follow the link to an online programming resource.  

David Pagett ©2000

Links

 The World of the ZX Spectrum has a huge number of games.

 Planet Sinclair II The original 'official' spectrum site.

 Spectrum FAQ's Everything a spectrum newby needs.

 Steve Smiths Spectrum Pages FAQ's and nostalgia.

 Spectrum Most Wanted is a resource for those rarer classics.

 Hack Attack III is the most comprehensive poke site out there!

 The NVG archive is the ftp site for connoisseurs.

 The Spectrum archive Lots of good stuff

 www.zxspectrum.co.uk More info and resources

 www.vintagegaming.com/spectrum_emu.html Emulators