Not so much an emulator, but a great way of launching emulators, my fave: James Burrows' 'GameBase' front end; it's used by Gamebase ZX and Gamebase Amiga (of which I use both)
SGD, our own Martijn's front end game loader for emulators. Sadly, it's only for DOS (though it runs in Windows), but it should be built into the LOAD function of all Sprecyum emulators, be they on computer, console, hand-held, or whatever.
It lets you list alphabetically all games, utilities, etc, on your drive in any folders, you can highlight a filtered selection (by year, or type, or company, or Spectrum memory required, etc), you can make any lists you like (i.e. just platform games, or just your favourite games, just games by Ultimate, etc) and it's fast, bug free, and even allows you to use/add POKEs (you can use .POK files or type the values manually), read game instruction files, and view a screenshot (usually a loading screen, but you can use an in-game shot if you prefer).
SGD is one of the reasons why I prefer X128 to any other PC emulator (the other reason being that X128 is still fanastic), as being DOS, it works great with SGD.
And in case you think I'm overselling SGD (maybe because I want to borrow money off Martijn, or something!), then try it for yourself - it really is everything you could want from a Spectrum front end.
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Not so much an emulator, but a great way of launching emulators, my fave: James Burrows' 'GameBase' front end; it's used by Gamebase ZX and Gamebase Amiga (of which I use both)
It lets you list alphabetically all games, utilities, etc, on your drive in any folders, you can highlight a filtered selection (by year, or type, or company, or Spectrum memory required, etc), you can make any lists you like (i.e. just platform games, or just your favourite games, just games by Ultimate, etc) and it's fast, bug free, and even allows you to use/add POKEs (you can use .POK files or type the values manually), read game instruction files, and view a screenshot (usually a loading screen, but you can use an in-game shot if you prefer).
SGD is one of the reasons why I prefer X128 to any other PC emulator (the other reason being that X128 is still fanastic), as being DOS, it works great with SGD.
And in case you think I'm overselling SGD (maybe because I want to borrow money off Martijn, or something!), then try it for yourself - it really is everything you could want from a Spectrum front end.
the touch screen looks great with the 48k keyboard on it, and it has nice big bottons in the menus.