World of Spectrum - Emulators

E M U L A T O R S

[ PC | PC/Russian | Unix | Amiga | Macintosh | Acorn | Psion 5 | Playstation | Atari | BeOS ] (For an exhaustive list of descriptions of all emulators for all platforms, read the FAQ)

Of course, you will need an emulator to play your Spectrum Games.
For all emulators (on all platforms), have a look in the emulators directory of the archive.
The following emulators can be had directly:

PC (several supported by SGD):

	Z80 version 4.00 (shareware) by Gerton Lunter (1,073,457 bytes) This archive contains versions for both DOS and Windows 3.1/95/98/NT [16/03/99]
	JPP (no longer updated) by Arnt Gulbrandsen (270,043 bytes) [30/09/97]
	Warajevo ZX Spectrum Emulator version 2.51 by Zeljko Juric and Samir Ribic (797,442 bytes) This emulator can handle the TZX file format! [21/12/98]
	X128 Soundblaster (167,714 bytes), or X128 Adlib (163,215 bytes) version 0.92 by James McKay You will need the ROMS (204,075 bytes) and DOS/4GW (144,016 bytes) to run it. This emulator can handle the TZX file format! [06/11/98]
	ZX-32 version 1.03a by Vaggelis Kapartzianis (1,438,591 bytes) Get the latest patch (v1.03.98.0211) Or click here to download the program files only (504,457 bytes) This emulator can handle the TZX file format! It runs under MS Windows 95/NT. [15/12/97]
	Multi-Machine version 1.30b by Paul Hodgson (1,167,905 bytes) Emulates all Sinclair machines (including ZX80/ZX81) plus lots of other machines (such as the CPC, Tandy or MSX ranges) This emulator can handle the TZX file format! It runs under MS Windows 95 and requires DirectX 5.0. [18/06/98]
	Spectrum version 0.99F by Pedro Gimeno (74,186 bytes) Currently only 48K support, but soon also 128K! [26/07/98]
	Spec version 1.4w by Robin Edwards (110,145 bytes) SpecX version 1.10 (185,344 bytes) This shareware version runs under Windows 95/NT and uses DirectX 5.0. [27/10/98]
	R80 version 0.08 by Raul Gomez Sanchez (419,140 bytes) This emulator can handle the TZX file format! [03/03/99]
	Spectre beta version 0.03 by Johan Andersson (57,233 bytes) [10/05/99]
	Z80Stealth Spectrum emulator version 0.012 by Kolpakov Kirill (135,486 bytes) [10/05/99]
	Sinbas version 1.1 by Radovan Garabik (187,327 bytes) Not strictly an emulator, but a Spectrum BASIC interpreter! [17/01/98]

PC / Russian
(All in Russian, all emulate the Russian Spectrum machines Pentagon and Scorpion and use the TR-DOS operating system)

	Spectrum 128K version 3.05 by Nikolay Shalaev (196,356 bytes) (supports .TRD/.Z80/.SNA/.SLT/.TAP) [31/03/99] Comes with English documentation file (thanks to Mac Buster) and additional loaders in the package. Also available is a patch that translates the entire interface to English. [06/04/99] The full source is available too.
	Spectrum Emulator version 0.33 by Vladimir Yudin (129,469 bytes) (supports .TRD/.Z80/.SNA/.FDI) [08/02/99] The documentation has been translated to English by Mac Buster.
	UKV version 1.2 fix#2, K. Uglekov (137,257 bytes) (supports .Z80/.SNA/.TAP/.FDI and comes with a program to convert between .FDI and .TRD images) [19/03/99] The documentation has been translated to English by Andy Schraepel.

Unix

	XZX version 2.9.0 (shareware) by Erik Kunze (338,960 bytes) [12/05/99] Needs the Contrib file (v2.7.4, 152,431 bytes) [08/03/99] This emulator can handle the TZX file format! Erik also has a time-limited demo version of the full-blown registered version available at his site. The package also contains utilities to work with TR-DOS file images.
	XZ80 version 0.1d by Ian Collier (93,703 bytes) [30/09/97]
	Spectemu version 0.94 by Miklos Szeredi (188,901 bytes) There are also pre-compiled versions available for Linux (230,733 bytes) and Solaris 2.5 (SPARC) (184,934 bytes). This emulator can handle the TZX file format! [22/06/97]

	KGB version 1.3 by KGB support BBS (34,454 bytes) [30/09/97]
	Spectrum version 1.7 by Peter McGavin (167,303 bytes) [30/09/97]
	ZXAM version 2.0 by Toni Pomar (515,634 bytes) [30/09/97]
	ZX-Spectrum version 4.71 by Jeroen Kwast (187,758 bytes) [30/09/97]
	Spectrum 128K emulator version 0.2 by Alberto Ordóñez (103,333 bytes) [24/03/99]
	CBSpeccy version 0.21b by Code Busters (165,364 bytes) It emulates a ZX-Spectrum 128K and TR-DOS file system. [19/04/99]

Macintosh

	MacSpectacle version 1.8.2 by Guenter Woigk (585,198 bytes) [30/09/97] Also uses ZX Loader Since he does not have time to update this emulator anymore, he made full source code available for other people to have a go. [21/12/98]
	PowerSpectrum version 1.0 by Bo Lindbergh (69,248 bytes) [30/09/97]

Acorn RISC OS

	Z80Em version 1.2 (shareware) by Warm Silence Software (56,458 bytes) [30/01/98]
	!MZX version 1.10 by Graham Willmott (87,534 bytes) [30/09/97] Also download the bugfix
	Spec128 version 0.13 by Joe Kelleher (63,816 bytes) [09/04/99] The first free 128K emulator for the Acorn!

Sinclair Spectrum Emulator version 2.0 by Palmtop BV (77,850 bytes)
Supports the .POK files created by SGD! [18/05/98]

Playstation

Speculator version 0.9b by Gabriele Roncolato (392,120 bytes) [22/06/98]

ZX Spectrum emulator version 2.07 by Christian Gandler (591,593 bytes) [30/09/97]

BeZX, a port of XZX v2.0.4, by Jens Kilian (469,360 bytes) [25/01/99]