home of the ZX Spectrum emulator for .net
Why break new ground when you can dig up the past?
Remember the days when keys stuck down, the kettle boiled quicker then loading one game and at times it didn't load at all "R Tape Loading Error", When you sat for hours typing in code from a magazine for a DIY game (cheap skate) ... yet it never ran!... hundreds of lines of code with an unknown typo (somewhere)... priceless.
Well it never really went away and just for your pleasure we are proudly and somewhat sadly ready to release a .net windows emulator for you to relive it all over again, who needs super fast computers, amazing graphics, games in gigabytes when kilobytes could provide enough space to draw a stick man ( and we used our imagination to build the rest ) who needs Microsoft Windows and 8086 processing power when... Well... actually we do - without it this isn't going to work... anyhow download play, moan, and help out don't be shy, We need funding, and Your old spectrum tapes to preserve get them from the loft and don't bin them, kind caring homes waiting! So if you have something we are missing please help out.
Other ZX Spectrum related projects
Along with building the emulator we started a few other Spectrum related projects and when ready will be released here at ZX Spectrum 4 .net for public use - we are working hard... time and money permitting.
One of these off shoot projects is a portable tape database of ZX Spectrum cassettes, there's been some great work over the past hmm couple of decades, with new initiative ways of storing the "sound waves" on a tape and turning them in to digital files, thus allowing greater storage and flexibility manipulating the tape data, Some guys have worked hard to try and preserve and find all possible Spectrum cassettes to mention a few sites worldofspectrum.org - tzxvault.org - among others (if you want to be added to the links, contact us), each is not just the administrator or webmaster it takes many people sending in tapes and tzx / tape files and research in order to create such detailed databases and collections
well done guys keep up the good work.
ZX Spectrum cassette database
We have decided to attempt to consolidate the know cassette's (via their data) in an aim to help find the missing and unknown ones, but we also found many existing spectrum tools a bit difficult to use none we saw had any record of known cassettes, We felt anyone should be able to just plug in a cassette player into their pc and with a click of a button the image could be created and then checked against the latest known list / database of all cassettes ... sounds pretty straight forward ..? well its a little more technically complicated than that and still needs a lot of work, but first impressions of what we have so far shows some promising results we now have a local database application which will detect over 8000+ game cassettes and growing ... and hope to release parts / betas and other tools too... book mark us and check back.
If you like the site, emulator or any of the tools or just the ZX Spectrum then please link to us, help us climb the google
Thanks for reading, please if you can help out do so - Enjoy ZXSpectrum4.net Team.
Key Points
we need your help!
ZX Spectrum Cassette Database
In order to maximise the database we need to find as many cassettes as possible, from unknown ones to ones known but we are unable to locate.
If you can help us with any old cassettes you may have in the loft you no longer want or know someone that has then please contact us and give them to a good home, If we can't get there in person we can get them collected by courier - please don't throw them!
If you have a tzx of any ZX Spectrum cassette which we are missing please contact us and send it across.
Don't worry if you have no old cassettes or hardware donations to help purchase others for sale are welcome, every bit helps.
A big "THANK YOU!" to everyone the has donated, time, money, knowledge, tapes and hardware we are truly grateful - ZXSpectrum4.net Team.
emulator
ZX Spectrum Emulator for Microsoft Windows, developed under Microsoft .net framework.
The emulator currently supports 48k rom, tzx tape file and tape deck emulation, Sound, Border (loading boarders), Basic, Snapshot saving and more ...other supported file formats include sna, z80, tap
The ZX Spectrum emulator was the result of getting to know the .net environment a little better, and since staring have found ourselves up against barriers within the environment leaving no choice but to use some existing native windows calls, thanks Microsoft.
GAMES!
We've now included a couple of games in different formats to help those non-techie get started.
Requirements
Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Possibly others
(let us know), 32bit and 64bit.
Microsoft .net framework (Vista and Windows 7 has this built in)
NO install required, and NO registry garbage.
Download the ZXSpectrum4.zip
Latest Version 1.0.3636 Build: 23465
