Why are there so many emulators? Here's the list I've found so far:-
SpecEmu
Retro Virtual Machine
Fuse
ZXSpin
Spud
ZERO
ZEsarUX
Unreal Speccy
EightyOne
EmuZWin
Speccy
X128
R80
RealSpec
Spectaculator
JSpeccy
+F Spectrum Emulator
Qaop
Z80 Stealth
ZX Bare Emulator
SoftSpectrum 48
Spectramine
I have been using Fuse ever since I discovered it after having tried one or two others. The version I have is 1.2.2 and to date it hasn't presented me with any problems at all, in fact I haven't even read the manual, just unpacked it and everything was tickety boo (name that movie or its star)
I recommend it to anyone that asks, for that reason and nobody has complained - yet.
Over at S.C theres a post about running a test program on a whole bunch of emulators, Fuse failed two of the tests but it obviously doesnt matter much as far as my use is concerned because all I ever do with it is write Basic programs mostly in 48k mode though once or twice I've used 128k mode when I lost my keyboard conversion map.
I suppose that people who feel the need for a different emulator have special requirements like wanting it to emulate some peripheral or orphaned clone. Yeah but that doesnt explain why there are so many emulators, surely only one or two would be required to cover every eventuality?
I cannot begin to imagine how difficult it must be to write an emulator, I take my hat off to anyone thats done so. You'd obviously have to be really knowledgeable about the workings of a PC, its way beyond my comprehension I'm just grateful they exist.
SpecEmu
Retro Virtual Machine
Fuse
ZXSpin
Spud
ZERO
ZEsarUX
Unreal Speccy
EightyOne
EmuZWin
Speccy
X128
R80
RealSpec
Spectaculator
JSpeccy
+F Spectrum Emulator
Qaop
Z80 Stealth
ZX Bare Emulator
SoftSpectrum 48
Spectramine
I have been using Fuse ever since I discovered it after having tried one or two others. The version I have is 1.2.2 and to date it hasn't presented me with any problems at all, in fact I haven't even read the manual, just unpacked it and everything was tickety boo (name that movie or its star)
I recommend it to anyone that asks, for that reason and nobody has complained - yet.
Over at S.C theres a post about running a test program on a whole bunch of emulators, Fuse failed two of the tests but it obviously doesnt matter much as far as my use is concerned because all I ever do with it is write Basic programs mostly in 48k mode though once or twice I've used 128k mode when I lost my keyboard conversion map.
I suppose that people who feel the need for a different emulator have special requirements like wanting it to emulate some peripheral or orphaned clone. Yeah but that doesnt explain why there are so many emulators, surely only one or two would be required to cover every eventuality?
I cannot begin to imagine how difficult it must be to write an emulator, I take my hat off to anyone thats done so. You'd obviously have to be really knowledgeable about the workings of a PC, its way beyond my comprehension I'm just grateful they exist.