Intro
XZX-Pro is a portable emulator of
ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 (8-bit home computers made by
Sir Clive Sinclair)
and Spectrum clones, for machines running UNIX and the X Window system.
XZX-Pro is completely written in C. It initially was based on XZX 1.0.2 by Des
Herriott, but has been completely rewritten since then.
Emulates:
- ZX Spectrum 48K, 128K, +2 and +3, Pentagon and Scorpion, Didaktik
- Interface I with up to 8 microdrives,
- Multiface 1, Multiface 128 and Multiface 3
- Beta 128 interface by Technology Research Ltd with 4 disk drives,
- +D interface by Miles Gordon Technology with 2 disk drives,
- D80 disk interface with 2 disk drives,
- ZX Printer,
- Kempston mouse,
- Sinclair, Cursor and Kempston joysticks,
- Fuller Audio Box and
- built-in machine code monitor.
Loads from:
- snapshots in .SNA, .Z80, .SLT or .DAT format,
- tape images in .TAP, .TZX, or .VOC format,
- microdrive cartridge images in .MDR format,
- disk images in .DSK, .TRD, .FDI, .SCL, HOBETA, .MGT, .IMG or .D80 format,
- screen dumps in .SCR format and
- poke instructions in .POK or .TZX format.
Saves to:
- snapshots in .SNA, .Z80 or .SLT format,
- tape images in .TAP, .TZX, or .VOC format,
- microdrive cartridge images in .MDR format,
- disk images in .DSK, .TRD, .MGT, .IMG or .D80 format,
- screen dumps in .SCR or .XPM format and
- audio fles in .PSG or .WAV format.
Additional features:
- Emulates Spectrum's speaker and AY-3-8912 chip on workstations with audio
hardware.
- Supports colour (8,15,16,24,32bpp) and monochrome displays, where
contrasting colours are displayed with the darker colour in black and the
lighter colour in white, which works reasonably well.
- Supports full screen mode on X servers with the XF86VidMode extension.
- Built-in VNC server for multiplayer games.
- Supports analogue joystick on PCs with a joystick device.
- Redirects Spectrum's printer output to a file or command (pipe).
- Connects Interface I's RS232 to the workstation's serial device.
XZX-Pro is known to work on the following machines/operating systems:
| Platform | Operating System |
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| Sparc | Solaris, SunOS 4.x, Linux, NetBSD |
| Intel | SVR4, SCO, SINIX, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris |
| Mips | SVR4, DEC Ultrix, SGI Irix, SINIX, Linux, NetBSD |
| IBM RS6000 | AIX 3.2.x |
| Hewlett Packard | HP-UX |
| DEC Alpha | OSF/1, Linux |
| Motorola 68K | Bull B.O.S., Linux |
| PowerPC | Linux, AIX 4.1.x, Darwin, Mac OS X |
More information about XZX-Pro including FAQ, porting information, command line
options, keys bindings, and other useful stuff, can be found in the XZX-Pro
documentation. I'm sorry for being unable to maintain an HTMLized version.
If you would like to extend XZX-Pro, port it to a new system, write new
drivers, add features, etc., please contact me by email or some other means.
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