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commie1974 · 20 March 2020, 08:59

Hi there, mates!
During my "stay at home" period, I had this weird idea:
Would nowadays the creation from scratch of a good, usable and accurate ZX Spectrum 48k and/or ZX81 emulator be possible on a vanilla 512k OCS miggy, like the A500?
As a hardcore emulators enthusiast during the past ages, I was wondering long ago about that... Unfortunately, I am not a coder myself, but since we have seen true programming wonders on the OCS demoscene the last years, I think that the programming techniques and knowledge of today are advanced enough for such a project...
We already have Speccy emulators like the very interesting KGB 1.3 from the nineties, but they seem poor for today's standards...

So I am just casting the idea here, for anyone who might be interested in taking such a big challenge!

*I think* (and of course I stand corrected) that e.g. an A500 hardware-wise is powerful enough for successfully sustaining such a task...
And of course, the 48k Spectrum or especially the 1/16k ZX81 must not be THAT complex systems to emulate on a way more powerful platform...

Wouldn't it be great to be able to play e.g. Bomb Jack under speccy emulation or Mazogs under zeddy emulation at a good speed on a plain rev.5/6 500, or even a 1000?

What do you people say? Any volunteer Sinclair-fan coders out there?

20 March 2020, 08:59	#1
commie1974 Amiga? What's that?!? Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Piraeus-Greece Age: 50 Posts: 260	A decent Speccy 48k/Zeddy emulator for plain OCS/68k? Hi there, mates! During my "stay at home" period, I had this weird idea: Would nowadays the creation from scratch of a good, usable and accurate ZX Spectrum 48k and/or ZX81 emulator be possible on a vanilla 512k OCS miggy, like the A500? As a hardcore emulators enthusiast during the past ages, I was wondering long ago about that... Unfortunately, I am not a coder myself, but since we have seen true programming wonders on the OCS demoscene the last years, I think that the programming techniques and knowledge of today are advanced enough for such a project... We already have Speccy emulators like the very interesting KGB 1.3 from the nineties, but they seem poor for today's standards... So I am just casting the idea here, for anyone who might be interested in taking such a big challenge! I think (and of course I stand corrected) that e.g. an A500 hardware-wise is powerful enough for successfully sustaining such a task... And of course, the 48k Spectrum or especially the 1/16k ZX81 must not be THAT complex systems to emulate on a way more powerful platform... Wouldn't it be great to be able to play e.g. Bomb Jack under speccy emulation or Mazogs under zeddy emulation at a good speed on a plain rev.5/6 500, or even a 1000? What do you people say? Any volunteer Sinclair-fan coders out there? Last edited by commie1974; 20 March 2020 at 09:04.