Hi All,
Simon Goodwin is probably the best person to contact if you need to get
hold of William James (his emulator was called SPECULATOR, and Simon helped
on the code) They are both involved deeply with Linux and Amigas now, and
that emulator hasn't been updated since about 1993.
If its a PD emulator you're after, ZeXcel is by far the best. Written by
Ergon (Davide Santachiara) and was the one I used for the Spectrum Emulator
CD I did for the QL a while ago (this has about 300Mb of games on it,
ordered alphabetically). Needs the Pointer Environment and a very fast
processor ie. Super Gold card or QXL or a fast QPC machine. Very compatible
with all the files I tried - runs the common .Z80 files found on Spectrum
internet sites just fine.
I always found Spectator a bit crap (sorry Dr. Delhez) and hasn't been
updated in donkeys years - Xtricator, the ZX81 emulator he did was much
better (he did a QL and PC version). Speculator looks good on screen and
even came with a funky little piece of software called QSPEC which allowed
you to read spectrum audio cassettes directly via the QL network ports in
much the same way as a real spectrum, although this had to be purchased for
the full version - the version in the QUANTA library is limited to small
files I think. I'll ask Simon.
ZeXcel is probably the best one to be updated for GD2 use if any are, as
its the most recent of all QL Spectrum emulators, and works on all systems
I've tried, plus its pointer driven, and overall is very polished. It
already uses some clever shading techniques to give the illusion of 8
colours of the Spectrum when you are actually running it in MODE 4 on the
QL. There are a vast range of configurable options in it - ie. you can run
games in monochrome to speed them up if running on a slower system.
Maybe Davide can throw more light on this if he is listening..... Davide?
Cheers,
Darren Branagh,
Bank Of Ireland Card Services,
Nassau House, 33/35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2.
Tel: 01-6176368 (Direct Line) Fax: 01-6176034
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>Does anyone know of the status of the Spectrum emulators on the QL?
>Specifically:
>
>1. Were they released to the pd?
Some were, I think the zmht wasn't. Most of the spectrum emulators
came from Davide Santachiara's company Ergon Development in Italy.
Spectator was by Dr Carlo Delhez (he of QL Ungif and Zxtricator ZX81
emulator fame)
There is another Spectrum emulator by William James, don't remember
its name.
ZexCel from Ergon is freeware.
>2. Are the authors still involved in the QL scene.
In most cases, no. Dr Carlo Delhez has his own Zxtricator website and
may be contactable via that. Davide Santachiara is contactable (I
think he's still ont his list), but not very active at the moment,
while I don't know about William James
>3. If they are, and if they read this list, would it be possible to
update
>(especially the Dynamic Compiler emulator (It was the ZM/Ht IIRC)) to
use
>the GD2... (and maybe some other roms apart from the mainstream 48
and 128 K)?
Darren Branagh has compiled a Spectrum CD recently and may be able to
add further information.
--
Dilwyn Jones
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