Isn't that the greatest emulator name of all time? Not only is it spectacular, but it is always SPECTACULATOR!

"Spectaculator is the world's premier Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Microsoft® Windows® 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP & Vista."

What's new in version 7.00?

 

New display options

• User-selectable resolutions for full screen mode. Asus Eeepc users can now use 800 x 480 to avoid having to scroll.
  
• LCD friendly refresh rates. CRT users can still use 100Hz for a more authentic display.
  
• Support for widescreen (16:9) display modes. Spectaculator will maintain the correct aspect ratio when using these modes.
  
• Support for 16 bit (high colour) full screen display modes.
  
• Significantly improved performance on Windows Vista in full screen mode.
  
• Fixed initial flicker when Spectaculator first loads and the user's display settings are applied.
  

On-screen virtual keyboard

• Spectaculator now has an on-screen virtual keyboard.
  
• The layout can be switched between the original rubber-keyed Spectrum and the Spectrum +/128K
  
• All keys are clickable.
  

MGT/Datel Plus D emulation

• Emulates standard G+DOS and Uni-DOS variants.
  
• Supports two virtual disk drives.
  
• Reads, writes and formats standard .mgt and .img disk image files. Support for extended .mgt and .img files which have 81 tracks, e.g. AlchNews 20.
  
• Reads, writes and formats real Plus D / DISCiPLE 3½" disks (Windows 2000 and Windows XP only).
  
• Disk drive sound effects.
  
• Disk drives window for easy management of disk images. Disk images can be write protected, formatted, ejected, inserted and written to real floppy disks.
  
• Capture the Plus D's printer port output to a file, the Windows clipboard or any serial or parallel port attached to your PC.
  
• Emulation of the snapshot button to write snapshots to disk images or real floppy disks.
  
• Added new blocks to the zx-state (.szx) format to support state loading and saving.
  
• Support for loading and saving .z80 snapshots with Plus D information. Unfortunately the .z80 format knows nothing about the contents of the Plus D's RAM, the number of drives attached, state of the printer port, type of ROM installed etc. Use zx-state (.szx) instead.
  
• [... more changes on website ...]
  

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zxspv is a ZX Spectrum emulator running under Mac OS X.

New in this preview version:

 

* Working on generic emulation of the b&w machines:

* Jupiter Ace: memory (3K), keyboard and video decoding. tape i/o mostly usable.

* ZX80: memory (1K), keyboard and highres video decoding. tape i/o partly usable.

* ZX81: memory (2K), keyboard and highres SLOW/FAST video decoding. tape i/o mostly unusable.

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Thanks to our affiliate, AEP-Emulation, for the news!

John IV, co-author of MAMEUI, has done some MAMEUI CPU benchmark tests.

Basically wanted to see how things scaled going from 32bit Mame on 32bit Vista to 64bit Mame on 64bit Vista on some of the tougher games. Answer, about 35% increase going x64.

 

A few more percentage points also for the 6MB L2 cache on the Wolfdale clocked at the same speed as the Conroes.

»» Benchmarks

Thanks to MameWorld for the news!

AmiArcadia emulates these Signetics-based machines:

 

* the Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.);

 

* the Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Fountain, Interton, Prinztronic, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddington, etc.);

 

* the Elektor TV Games Computer; and

 

* PIPBUG-based machines (such as the EA 77up2 and the Signetics Adaptable Board Computer).

 

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

 

Changes since 7.0a:

. Bug fixes.