Tag: Game Harness

  • Skinning the games

    Skinning the games

    It was important to apply a ‘skin’ to each of the games… firstly to make the games more appealing to those who’d never played the games and secondly to separate the games from the other Spectrum emulators that are available. As I’d used the ‘game harness’ skinning the games was fairly simple. The most important…

  • 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…