Topic: Someone Please Port A Decent Speccy Emu (Read 292 times)

pike-old · « **on:** June 21, 2003, 10:35:00 AM »

Bump, in anticipation!

IraqiDrunk · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2003, 11:11:00 AM »

Maybe nobody's made an emulator yet because nobody knows what the Spectrum is. I've never heard of it so I don't care if they ever came out with an emulator for it. Sounds like some really old video game system.

Carcharius · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2003, 11:16:00 AM »

I've been thinking about porting a speccy emu for some time (since I released the first version of Xenesis)

I've been pretty busy since then working on upgrades to Xenesis, so haven't had a chance to pursue it any further.

It's going to be a little while before I've got time to think about it again (in the middle of a major revision to Xenesis), in the meantime if you can find a decent opensource speccy emu (that is windows/directx based) and drop me a line and point me at it. That would give me more info to help me decide if it's soemthing I can do.

No promises, and like I said I'm busy for the time being - but having all the info to hand would definitely help.

Carcharius

Carcharius · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2003, 12:46:00 PM »

Pike,

yeah sorry - just read your new message and realised you'd sent it to me before! My fault for having my head buried too far in the source for Xenesis!!

When I get time I'll have a look at the info you sent and see if there is anything useful there.

Carcharius

EvilWays · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2003, 01:13:00 PM »

You're gonna have slower emulation then (maybe a helluva lot slower) if you emulate the Spectrum thru another emulator, as the Xbox then has to load two sets of opcodes and everything else and it becomes double interpretation of code.

PindaKaaz · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2003, 02:16:00 PM »

Jet set willy, attic attac, way of the exploding fist

No1XBoxWizard · « **Reply #6 on:** June 21, 2003, 02:30:00 PM »

Or even 'manic miner / monty mole'

pike-old · « **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2003, 02:39:00 PM »

Now you're getting the plot!

Failed to get a speccy emu running off another emu. The closest I got was with the Amiga and Playstation emus, but no joy. Won't give up though, pending someone doing the honourable thing and porting a Speccy emu for the XBOX outright

Carcharius · « **Reply #8 on:** June 22, 2003, 01:12:00 AM »

Just a thought,

Bochs lets you emulate a pc on your xbox right? (haven't tried it myself)

If that'll then let you run dos (or win95 or whatever - likeI said I haven't tried it) then you can probably run a spectrum emu from there.

And it ought to give keyboard support too.

And you can probably do something similar with Xbox Linux - again I haven't tried it myself so I don't know for sure.

Carcharius

pike-old · « **Reply #9 on:** June 22, 2003, 07:37:00 AM »

Phil -

Highway encounter
Alien Encounter
Head over Heals
Anything by Rare
School Daze
Deathchase 3D

The list is as comprehensive as it is enduringly impressive.

woo · « **Reply #10 on:** June 22, 2003, 08:23:00 AM »

A friend of mine, TheHiVE, has a very very nice Speccy emulator on GBA called ZXAdvance... You could try that out via CH3 (or other GBA emulator) and see if it works I guess.

May work well.. maybe not... Just a suggestion. I haven't actually tried this.

pike-old · « **Reply #11 on:** June 22, 2003, 01:30:00 PM »

bump..

Dante_Ali · « **Reply #12 on:** June 22, 2003, 04:05:00 PM »

QUOTE (woo @ Jun 22 2003, 05:23 PM)

A friend of mine, TheHiVE, has a very very nice Speccy emulator on GBA called ZXAdvance... You could try that out via CH3 (or other GBA emulator) and see if it works I guess.

May work well.. maybe not... Just a suggestion. I haven't actually tried this.

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.

desertboy · « **Reply #13 on:** June 22, 2003, 11:34:00 PM »

back to skool
robocop
gremlins the graphic adventure
sim city
mercenary
bard's tale

derf · « **Reply #14 on:** June 23, 2003, 03:13:00 AM »

It would be excellent if someone was to port one.

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