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[Amything]

Sinclair Spectrum is really the only emu I'm intereseted in playing. Have so many memories from that! Seeing Skullcrushers post about many of the games are on C64 I will try that out. Do you need a keyboard for the C64 emu?

[pelago]

As pike mentioned right at the top of this thread, Dreamspec isn't much good as it doesn't accept any input.

pelago

[Kubik]

Having grown up with the spectrum also, I'd be willing to do a port if a decent codebase can be found.

-Kubik
Author DaphneX Emu

[pike-old]

Kubik,

Glad to see that you're interested. I think it's something of a SIN that the C64 is represented (very well) on the XBOX, but its arch rival is not!

Personally, I use ZX32, simply because I'm familiar with it, and when I started using it all those yeasrs ago, it was by far the best....

However, I don't think that you can go far wrong with ANY Spectrum emulator. The fact is that on the PC they have been working on such emus for years and the Speccy hardware is so archaic that it has been very well 'seen to'. There are even emus that boost the sound and add extra colours!

Anyway, the attached list should help, and includes direct links to source code where available! I'd encourage you to go for it as, if nothing else, you could have the Kudos off knocking out the first Speccy emu on the XBOX - no-one could ever take that away from you. And with a huge back catalogue of superb games available, given all the other emus already available, this really would be my next emu of choice. ANYWAY, try the below link and see what you think!

http://www.void.jump.../emulators.html


PS If you need any help in terms of documentation/beta testing or compatibility/FAQs then just shout - that is more my bag than actually coding....


The link below gives you some idea of which are most popular, by listing the number of folk who have downloaded them!

http://www.worldofsp...g/emustats.html

[PhilipG]

Of course, the Speccy blows C64 out of the water 999 times out of 1000.  The C64 palette was predominantly brown (for whatever crazy reason).

More fab games:
Exolon, Yeti
Jack The Nipper II
Black Magic
Xor
Bugeyes
Battle of the Planets
Batty
Paperboy
Arkanoid, Gauntlet, and their sequels

[evilnick]

[woo]

QUOTE (Dante_Ali @ Jun 23 2003, 01:05 AM)

It will probably run very slow... there's not a single game that the CH3 emu runs at fullspeed, let alone an app that emulates another console.

Strange.  I've always found CH3 to be the better GBA emulator on XBOX.  I've always had 100% speed with the most accurate sound emulation.  If CH3 has an issue, then it's compatability, not speed.  Maybe you're using an old version?...

I tried it on CH3 and it doesn't like the BIOS.  I'm sure it would work on another emulator.. it works on PC emulation of GBA.

There are few issues with controls really.. TheHiVE has designed them to work well with GBA controls and the GBA controls are mapped nicely on an XBOX controller.  I don't really see a problem with this.

[Dante_Ali]

QUOTE (woo @ Jun 25 2003, 03:59 AM)

QUOTE (Dante_Ali @ Jun 23 2003, 01:05 AM) It will probably run very slow... there's not a single game that the CH3 emu runs at fullspeed, let alone an app that emulates another console. Strange.  I've always found CH3 to be the better GBA emulator on XBOX.  I've always had 100% speed with the most accurate sound emulation.  If CH3 has an issue, then it's compatability, not speed.  Maybe you're using an old version?... I tried it on CH3 and it doesn't like the BIOS.  I'm sure it would work on another emulator.. it works on PC emulation of GBA. There are few issues with controls really.. TheHiVE has designed them to work well with GBA controls and the GBA controls are mapped nicely on an XBOX controller.  I don't really see a problem with this.

AFAIK there is still only one version of CH3 publicly available. And that one wasn't running at fullspeed because frameskipping was turned on in the current build.

It's better than Hikaru's Visual Boy Advance port, speed-wise, though.