help with turning an old pc into a spectrum

grim

My pc is knackered (something to do with the c drive), but I was wondering if I could get a bootabe emulator iso and run a speccy OS off a cd (might be far fetched, but hey its worth a try). If so what are the steps to doing so.
cheers

Pegaz

You can try Puppy Arcade 9 Linux live cd with various emulators including spectrum.
Its very easy to use, just burn iso file and boot from your cd/dvd rom.
More info on home page:
http://scottjarvis.com/page105.htm

fog

new hard drive is cheap.. or just use a IDE > cf adapter etc even.


why not just run windows or linux again?

you can use a bootable cd.. but well long winded , you'd be better off booting of a HD

Arda

I know exactly what you need:

http://www.dudziarz.art.pl/zxspectrum/

Requires CDROM, VGA, 486DX100 and 2MB ram.

Ofcourse I would prefer Fuse, anyone?

neardark

Hi,

Sorry for hijacking your thread,but I have been interested in doing something similar for a while now.

I downloaded the ISO image,and have booted from the disc.
But I cannot locate and run the games which are included.
Can anyone offer help in this area please.Also to add further games,must they be copied to the PC HDD,or can the image be updated?

Thank you

john999

Just get a MSDOS boot disk and Warajevo or X128 for DOS.

zeropolis79

Or get old of an old IDE hard drive with a few hundred meg on, install Windows 3.1, get a DOS based emulator and write an autoexe.bat file to autoload the emulator. If you need help with that, I'll write it for you.

Failing that, install Windows 95, install an emulator, put it into the Start Up menu (it loads programs on boot) and set the emulator to work full screen. You can even replace the Windows 95 boot-up screen with a speccy related screen.