ZX Spectrum Emulator section
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Updated: 30/08/16
Written by Davide Santachiara and Marco
Ternelli . Now compatible with 65536 colours mode of QPC2, QXL, Q40 and
Q60. ZeXcel is the first and only ZX emulator for the QL which makes
full use of the extended environment and it is the only one which
supports SMSQ/E 65536 colours mode. ZeXcel can be used with SMS2/SMSQ
monochrome screen drivers too. It can emulate a Spectrum 128k +2 or a
standard 48k ZX Spectrum with or without Interface 1 emulation. Zexcel
can read Z80 snapshot files (so it is fully compatible with Z80, the PC
Spectrum emulator written by Gerton Lunter) or ZTA tapefiles. The
original Mode 4 and Mode 8 colours modes are still supported if 65k
colours mode is not supported by your emulator or hardware. ZeXcel does
not contain utilities to convert ZX tapes or discs into a suitable QL
format (for that you will need ZM/128 or ZM/hT systems) - ZeXcel
documentation, though complete, assumes you already know how to use ZTA
or Z80 files. If you need a full tutorial this is included with ZM/128
or ZM/hT system. Please note you need the Extended Environment (or
SMSQ/E) and Menu extensions to run ZeXcel. This version of ZeXcel is
freeware.
Download ZeXcel (180K)
Download seven ZX games for ZeXcel
in .z80 format (121K)
zexcel_patch.zip (3KB) ZeXcel ROM PATCH - This is a small BASIC patch program by Phoebus R. Dokos to patch ZeXcel to allow the inbuilt rom image to be replaced by other ones. The patch is known to work with Gosh Wonderful, SDOS-64 and Pentagon ROMs. Further details in the short README.TXT file in the downloaded zip file.
Spectrum 48k/128k emulators written by
Davide Santachiara and Marco Ternelli. The ZM/hT system comprises: two
Spectrum emulators, ZM/128 and ZM/hT; ZM/Accessories to convert
Spectrum tapes/disks into a suitable format; 96 page manual. The ZM/128
system includes all the above stuff except the ZM/hT dynamic compiler -
ZM/hT is a code compiler which converts Z80 machine code to 68000
instructions as it runs.
NOTE: This is an older demo version of this package, retained here for
posterity.
Download ZmX emulators (301K)
A QDOS port of a Spectrum Snapshot to _z80
converter, to allow several Spectrum snapshot files to be used in the
.z80 format used by most Spectrum emulators on the QL
Download SPconv (127K)
Spectator is a Z80 Emulator in a 48k
Sinclair ZXSpectrum environment, written for the Sinclair QL and its
clones. The Z80Emulator is able to execute programs written in the Z80
machine code language.The ZX Spectrum environment includes the original
ZX Spectrum ROM plusZX Interface 1 ROM (edition 2) and additionally
caters for "hardware compatibility" such as keyboard reading, screen
output control and redirectingof signals originally heading for devices
such as tape, Microdrive and RS232. Written by Dr Carlo Delhez.
Download Spectator (73K)
This is the first release of SPECULATOR, a freely
distributable 48K ZXSpectrum emulator package for Qdos micros, written
by William James,with help from Dave Barker, Simon N Goodwin, Mark J
Swift & Dave Walker. Note - decompress the archive with QDOS
LHQ, see Archivers Page.
I had to use LHQ rather than QL ZIP since ZIP could not handle files of
non-standard QDOS file type used by this package for the various
Spectrum file type encoding.
Download speculat.lhz
(241K)
A QL and Thor reader for other UK disk systems. This can read
disks written by MGT SAMDOS, MasterDOS, ZX Spectrum
GDOS, G+DOS, BetaDOS, and UniDOS (root files) from SAM Coupe or SDI,
Plus D or double density Disciple. The task can cope with MasterDOS
directories of up to 198 files, or more with minor tweaks and extra
task dataspace. GDOS and SAMDOS disks are limited to 80 files by the
DOS. Full source code provided.
GDOS.zip (19K)