Emulators
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An emulator is a program which reproduces the behaviour of one computing platform while running on another.
There are a wide variety of emulators for Sinclair machines.
List of emulators
A more complete list can be found at WoS; many of the links here point to the WoS FTP archive.
Multiplatform
Fuse (Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) by Philip Kendall.
- Despite the name, also runs on non-Unix systems including Windows and Mac OS X.
- Fuse homepage.
- Fuse for Windows
- Fuse for Mac OS X
- Fuse source code, libspectrum source code, fuse-utils source code; both Fuse and fuse-utils require libspectrum, but fuse-utils is optional. Your vendor/distribution may have a packaged version; the Fuse home page has links to some unofficial packages.
JSpeccy by José Luis Sánchez. Written in Java.
Spiffy by Edward Cree.
- Spiffy repository
- Available as source, and binaries for Linux and Windows, and can be compiled for Mac OS X.
- Windows binaries are built by Guesser.
Windows
SpecEmu by Mark Woodmass. Freeware.
- Runs on anything from 95 onwards.
- No longer under active development.
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Zero by Arjun Nair. Freeware.
- Requires Windows XP and above.
- Homepage
ZX Spin by Paul Dunn. Freeware.
- Runs on anything from 95 onwards.
- No longer under active development.
- Last stable version
- Experimental version with ULAplus support
BASin by Paul Dunn. Not strictly an emulator, but a Spectrum BASIC Development environment.
- No longer under active development.
- Last stable version
- Experimental version with ULAplus support
Spectaculator by Jonathan Needle. Shareware.
- Runs on XP and above (older versions for 9x onwards exist).
- Spectaculator home page
Spud by Richard Chandler. Freeware
RealSpectrum by Ramsoft.
- Originally DOS-based, runs on XP and older.
- No longer officially available.