Tag: Emulator

  • Apptastic idea….

    Apptastic idea….

    So it appears we’ve now gone full circle, the app coding phenomenon for the smart phones and tablets now perfectly mimics what happened 30 years ago I guess in 2013, we are at the 90’s point in the gaming world. The crossover point between hobbyist/small studios to the mega game studios. I couldn’t help but…

  • Game Harness vs Spectrum Emulator

    Game Harness vs Spectrum Emulator

    When I was looking to implement the emulator, I decided early on to move away from creating a ZX Spectrum emulator that could play any Spectrum game. Instead the idea was to produce a Game Harness that could bring the best qualities of these 30 year old games onto a modern platform without the handicap…

  • Starting the Z80 Emulator…

    Starting the Z80 Emulator…

    Other than being hugely tedious coding up roughly 1,792 op codes it was fairly simple (the op code DAA was fun though!) to write the emulator, the only resources I needed were: I had used Zaks as my main reference but in hindsight I should have started with Sean Young’s document, this document I found…