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New 48K Spectrum Emulator

MikeSitchMikeSitch
edited July 2013 in Emulators
Hi there,

After a year in the making the first version of my emulator is available at www.specwin48.co.uk

Written in C# the source is also available.

I have a ton of ideas for improvements and I would love to hear your feedback.

Thanks
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  • def chrisdef chris
    edited July 2013
    hi, thought I'd give it a go...it's telling me I need to install NetFrameworkv4.0 before I can run it, whatever that is?
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited July 2013
    def chris wrote: »
    hi, thought I'd give it a go...it's telling me I need to install NetFrameworkv4.0 before I can run it, whatever that is?

    I get the same error, and the cheeky thing suggested I try to download this doohickie ... which is silly because that computer isn't connected the Inter-tubes.

    But then I discovered the User Guide, which talks about this extraneous-yet-apparently-needed piece of software.

    I still don't have the Internet on that computer. Oh, well.

    I wish I could give different feedback than this negative bit of experience :-(

    EDIT: Hmmm, so is this the first Speccy emu "fully" compatible (i.e. out of the box) with Win8?
  • MikeSitchMikeSitch
    edited July 2013
    Thanks for the feedback.

    I built the emulator against .NET 4 as that is what was installed on my machine. I've now changed it to .NET 3.5 so it should work on Windows 7 without any additional installers being required.

    You may still need the installer for Vista and XP and a link is on the website.

    Thanks and I hope you like the emulator.
  • ArjunArjun
    edited July 2013
    Firstly, congrats on writing an emulator! It's a great feeling when the copyright message comes up eh? ;)

    Good to see that you've implemented TZX and SNA support. The latter is a bit picky though as it didn't like some of the snapshots I threw at it.

    One thing that detracts from the experience is that the emulator window doesn't scale correctly on my laptop. The bottom part of the screen sometimes cuts off as I re-scale the emulator window.

    I hope you continue to build and polish the emulator. Emulator can be a bit of a thankless endeavor but at the same time can be immensely gratifying personally.

    Cheers!
    Zero - A modern Spectrum emulator for Windows.
    Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
  • ZXMAKZXMAK
    edited July 2013
    Congrats! Nice to see new emulator written in C#. Did you saw ZXMAK2? It also written entirely in C# :)

    PS: I have rattling sound in SpecWin, it seems that emulator has too small sound buffer or something like that. I'm trying it on i5 760 @ 3.2GHz, GTX460 videocard and integrated sound

    PPS: also, to use rom images with your emulator, you need to include copyright message "Portions of this software are copyright ? Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc. Amstrad have kindly given their permission for the redistribution of their copyrighted material but retain that copyright."
  • Philip KendallPhilip Kendall
    edited July 2013
    ZXMAK wrote: »
    PPS: also, to use rom images with your emulator, you need to include copyright message "Portions of this software are copyright ? Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc. Amstrad have kindly given their permission for the redistribution of their copyrighted material but retain that copyright."

    No, you don't. Cliff Lawson's message says "we appreciate it if [...]" but does not make it a requirement. The only requirement is that the copyright messages are not altered.
  • KorinelKorinel
    edited July 2013
    Philip Kendall wrote: »
    No, you don't. Cliff Lawson's message says "we appreciate it if [...]" but does not make it a requirement. The only requirement is that the copyright messages are not altered.

    Also, technically, it is Sky that should give the permission as they have bought Amstrad and their assets.

    The community is assuming that because Amstrad gave permission Sky would do too, which they probably would....
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