ZX Spectrum 48K emulator for Xbox 360

Posted Feb 10, 2007 at 5:33PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Commodore 64, UK, XNA, YouTube, ZX Spectrum

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When the home computer ZX Spectrum was released in the UK back in the early 80s, its significance was likened to that of the Commodore 64 in the USA. So it's good that Jan Jones (aka Jonesy) came up with an emulator for ZX Spectrum 48K using Xbox 360's XNA Studio Homebrew program.

Sound exciting? Jonesy mentioned that while the emulator is in its very early stages, it is already able to run most games at top speed. If you want to know, most tests were done on games Sabre Wulf and Alien8. However, there are still certain features that need to be polished such as sound support, better keyboard mapping, and better ROM selection.

Speaking of which, the Spectrum ROM is included but there are currently no game ROMS so you need to find some on your own. As Jonesy said, the emulator is still in its infant stages so the help of other.NET and XNA developers are highly appreciated. Anyway, feel free to try this one and if you are not convinced yet, just see this YouTube video clip below:

Download: [ZX360 Source Code]

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Comments

# WOW — Guest 2007-02-10 08:10

NICE TV!

# questions — Guest 2007-02-10 08:16

1) the video doesnt work for me

2) how do you get the files onto your xbox360?

3) where do you go from there?

# Dude!!! — Guest 2007-02-10 10:36

I would like to have a Snes,Genesis,Ne o geo, CPS2, all the good emulators that have good games for this I can just Use my computer to emulate the games. Xbox 360 a power console.

# DXFVDV — Guest 2007-02-10 11:16

WHY THE HELL BUY A NEXT GEN CONSOLE, ONLY TO RUIN AND PLAY SH**TY ARCADE GAMES ON THEM?

# a — Guest 2007-02-10 12:11

because not all of us were born after 1995 and some of us think those games are great classics. you'll understand one day little kid.

# Please Avalon — Guest 2007-02-11 10:26

I really hope MS will bring out an official Spectrum emulator in the arcade download section as the One game I want amongst all others is AVALON(and the follow up Dragontorc) from the zx spectrum they were a fantastic games.

# What ? — Guest 2007-02-11 10:34

I hope MS bring out ZX spectrum games Avalon and Dragontorc soon.

# excellent! — TracerTong 2007-02-12 09:01

Might be worth investing in XNA for this!

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