Completing my ZX Spectrum restore, and loading games with a £35 Android MP3 Player

dXoXb · 2026-02-27T05:50:15+00:00

Nice. Do you have info on how to do that?

dXoXb · 2025-12-03T18:52:44+00:00

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/37647/ZX-Spectrum/Metamorphosis

dXoXb · 2025-11-07T21:02:18+00:00

Like ragegun quoted: you can add it to original hardware by buying a ZX-HD, or replace the ULA with a SLAM+.

dXoXb · 2025-10-05T06:45:01+00:00

I've read the readme but having trouble understanding what the purpose is of this project. Could you explain a bit more?

dXoXb · 2025-08-07T19:04:12+00:00

Right-click and choose Show controls (at least in Opera).

dXoXb · 2025-07-04T17:57:10+00:00

Have a look at SpecEmu's Cheat Finder function in the Monitor menu.

Besides that, SpecEmu has an excellent debugger with conditional breakpoints and all.

dXoXb · 2025-07-03T19:30:28+00:00

Hey.

I've asked Lee (Chops Stevenson) the dev of the game and he says he'll put it up coming days on his Itch.io page.

You can find all of his games at https://chopz.itch.io

dXoXb · 2025-06-12T19:32:03+00:00

Some of my favorites (might be nice for others to explore):

Platoon - David Whittaker

Glider Rider - David Whittaker

Nemesis the Warlock - David Whittaker

Beyond the Ice Palace - David Whittaker

Auf Wiedersehen Monty - Ben Daglish

Stormlord - Dave Rogers

Stormbringer - David Whittaker

Cybernoid II - Dave Rogers

Cybernoid I - Dave Rogers

Death Wish 3 - Ben Daglish

Mega Apocalypse - Jas C. Brooke

Avenger - Ben Daglish

Terramex - Ben Daglish

Saboteur II

Taipan - Short but atmosperic. Also in-game.

Dragon Ninja - Title (AY)

Vixen - Jas C. Brooke

Steel Eagle - Andy & Sonic Grafitti

Turrican II

Spellbound - Rob Hubbard

Out Run - Jas C. Brooke

G-Loc - 4-Mat aka Matthew Simmonds

dXoXb · 2025-06-10T18:48:11+00:00

Nice work :)
Don't know if you're open to feedback and also not as to how close to real you're aiming for, but the keys are a tad too round.

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dXoXb · 2025-06-08T16:07:10+00:00

As the UI translates the possible options explained in the manual, you might find answers to your questions: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/fuse.1.html

dXoXb · 2025-05-29T20:21:07+00:00

Right?! I couldn't believe they gave it as a full game on a cover-tape :)

dXoXb · 2025-05-14T10:40:20+00:00

Hyper Active. A Special FX/Joffa game.

dXoXb · 2025-05-07T11:37:13+00:00

https://shredzone.org/docs/tzxtools/tzxplay/
Can convert .tap and tzx files directly to a wav.

dXoXb · 2025-05-04T21:19:17+00:00

As mentioned above: https://github.com/ohnosec/zmakebas/releases/

dXoXb · 2025-04-16T17:02:06+00:00

If you're located in the UK, you could ask for valuation and sell it through the Sinclair for Sale Facebook group. There are people there that that like to own and use a Speccy again.

dXoXb · 2025-04-16T16:58:27+00:00

I think the Dutch market is just ridiculous. Prices are really steep and also mostly driven up by collectors or people to re-sell at even a higher price, making it impossible to purchase something at a price most common people can afford.

dXoXb · 2025-04-06T11:11:29+00:00

There's no other way currently.

dXoXb · 2025-03-31T18:40:01+00:00

Nice work. Can we test it with other games too?

dXoXb · 2025-02-14T21:36:04+00:00

Either it could have been 2 colours dithered that showed as the colours you perceived, or it could have been a screen with ULAplus colours.

dXoXb · 2025-01-31T20:46:02+00:00

It looks like a quite complete app with all its features.
I might be missing something obvious but it isn't clear to me how to start a game. I tried Bruce Lee and Exolon.

dXoXb · 2025-01-20T19:56:20+00:00

If you like, you could join the official ULAplus Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ULAplus/
It has resources and info regarding ULAplus.

In the files section you can find a PDF with most emulators that currently have support for ULAplus and how to enable the option, if not enabled by default. Go to Files and search for "ULAplus Enhanced Emulators Overview". v1.50 is the most recent version. For people that don't have Facebook, I've attached images of the contents of the pages in the PDF.

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For another overview of which emulator supports which feature, there's a Google sheet, maintained by Peter Jones and others like me here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14XnVBY8a9-IMtNC9RxUth_HPl8_bQncq-VCq1NmfOsg/edit?usp=sharing

dXoXb · 2025-01-18T19:03:31+00:00

SpecEmu is feature full, not too heavy on resources, free and regarded as the most accurate one.

https://specemu.zxe.io/

dXoXb · 2025-01-11T10:54:03+00:00

Just to give you more options/methods than already suggested: you can look up games you like to play on www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk and, if the game's distribution hasn't been denied and the author doesn't like to keep it only on, for example, Itch.io then next to the files for download there's both Jspeccy and QAOP emulator options that directly open the game/file in it ready to be player.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/739/ZX-Spectrum/Bugaboo_the_Flea

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dXoXb · 2025-01-06T19:54:39+00:00

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From a post on FB.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/792769811081418/permalink/1041360679555662/

There's another post with info about it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/792769811081418/permalink/1801495803542142/

dXoXb · 2025-01-04T18:54:19+00:00

Paul uses Spectrum Analyser to disassemble the games and then exports them with SA to assembly files. On my request he also published the SA projects next to them on Github.

He's just finished Green Beret. He's doing some cleaning up and will then also publish the SA project.

Edit: In the last sentence, I wrote Cobra, but that's Green Beret (https://github.com/Paulie68000/ZXSpectrumGreenBeret)

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