Guest flip2000b Posted February 18, 2003 Report Posted February 18, 2003 what i would love to see, if it could be done, is a ZX spectrum emulator. The joy of playing Manic Miner, Skool Daze, Chucky Egg etc, it would be so much fun!! does anyone think this is possible??
Guest Jam Posted February 18, 2003 Report Posted February 18, 2003 It must be able to be done, I have a spectrum emulator on my Gameboy advanced and it plays really well. It is quite amazing how spectrum games look on a small screen. They look a lot better than I remember on a TV (or PC emulator). If I'm not mistaken the screen resolution of a Spectrum is 240 by 140 or something close to that, so it would work pretty well on the SPV screen. You can get a CD with 3,000 spectrum games on for £4.99 although Codemasters have stopped any of their classics getting on it, doh, I loved Dizzy!
Guest Croccy22 Posted February 19, 2003 Report Posted February 19, 2003 Someone has to do this. It would be great. Anyone remember Chaos:Battle of the Wizards!! This would be brill on the SPV. Matt
Guest PsychoDave Posted February 19, 2003 Report Posted February 19, 2003 Oh man you just brought back some deep distant memory. Chaos was a brilliant game, I remember saving all my coppers just to get it,(awwww) Gotta get a speccy emu on the go......please :)
Guest jtsaint Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 Cloest I have got to this was the free Jet Set Willy Rom for GB Emulator - that is cool. Spyhunter, Gauntlet - this would be so good. Remember those tapes. It used to takeforever to load a game and then just as it got to the last screen it would crash.
Guest youngerpants Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 jtsaint, you can get those titles on the NES emu... with better graphics than the spectrum!!! (I was a commadore person... vic 20 & 128, so I am obviously biased againced the spectrums dodgy matrix sprites, as opposed to my commadore beaufifully crafted pixelated sprites)
Guest Croccy22 Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 How dare you say a bad word about the spectrum. It just plain rocked. I am gonna attack you with my Goldene Dragon (Which is of course an illusion because they never cast!) And then run away and hide in my magic tree!!! PsychoDave will know what I am talking about. He he Matt
Guest Methanoid Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 It must be able to be done, I have a spectrum emulator on my Gameboy advanced and it plays really well. It is quite amazing how spectrum games look on a small screen. They look a lot better than I remember on a TV (or PC emulator). If I'm not mistaken the screen resolution of a Spectrum is 240 by 140 or something close to that, so it would work pretty well on the SPV screen. Sorry, 256 by 192 so very bad really. The GBA one has to trim off pixels so you might miss action.... hate to say but the Sony P800 has a 320 x 200 screen which would be ideal.
Guest RS Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 you could turn the phone sideways, then the screen would be better. The actual cpu side has already been done with the gbc emulator so that shows that emulating the speccy can be done.
Guest midnight Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 this is what you should be looking at.... Pocket Clive pocketpc Speccy Emu
Guest agent.m Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 choas was a classic game!! so was emlin hughes soccer and power drift to name a few!! at least you cant break the emulator by accidentally taking joystick out :)
Guest Croccy22 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 Is anyone working on this at all? I think it would be so popular if done properly. I would love to do it myself but emulation is not my strong point! PLEASE Someone???? Matt
Guest adam Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 I remember all the footie management sims I played on that, hours of fun. Ah, the days before Championiship Manager, simpler times.
Guest w0mbat Posted May 7, 2003 Report Posted May 7, 2003 will pocketclive work on the SPV or does a specific version need to be compiled for us smartphone users?
Guest midnight Posted May 7, 2003 Report Posted May 7, 2003 specific version m8, needs to to remove the stylus input and implement the sp keypab
Guest spacemonkey Posted May 8, 2003 Report Posted May 8, 2003 I had a look at this last night... I really should be doing something else but... Anyway, it's tricky to get it to compile, and the pocketclive websites suggests that would be a prob so I've emailed the author of the pocketclive port to ask him what I'm missing. The main things for a port will be: it uses ATL which is application component type stuff, so dialogue boxes and stuff will probably need changing.. depends how much it actually used it. Also, it used an onscreen keyboard to allow users to type anything... this won't really work on spv at all, hopefully maybe building a T9 entry box that you can go to when you need to "type" will cover it... have to wait and see. I'll post if/when the author emails me back.
Guest Frazzyscot Posted May 8, 2003 Report Posted May 8, 2003 Wow, I sure hope Spacemonkey can convert pocketclive. Got it for the pocketPC and it rocks, Jetpac, Atic Atac, Tranz Am, Pyramid, Deathchase 3D, penetrator on the phone would be an 8 bit colour clash dream come true...
Guest w0mbat Posted May 8, 2003 Report Posted May 8, 2003 I emailed Anders Holmberg who is responsible for PocketClive asking if he was intending to create a smartphone release and he said.... "no such plans but I just finished a mail to a guy named Dave that was in the process of doing such a port. Keep your fingers crossed! /Anders" Whoo hoo! lets hope "Dave" gets on well with it.
Guest spacemonkey Posted May 9, 2003 Report Posted May 9, 2003 I got an email from Anders so following his instructions I should have a better chance at even getting it to compile :) I'll have a look at the code again tomorrow (ps I am the "dave" mentioned above)
Guest w0mbat Posted May 9, 2003 Report Posted May 9, 2003 Thats great news spacemonkey, I have every confidence in your abilities to get it working. Dont let it keep you away from the MAME port though :wink: Seriously though, thanks for taking it on, you seem pretty good at these things.
Guest Croccy22 Posted May 11, 2003 Report Posted May 11, 2003 Any further foward on this at all space monkey. I really want to be able to play chaos on my phone. That would be so kewl. I have always though about trying to write chaos but I really don't know how julian gallop wrote it. I looked at the speccy source code ages ago and it was just so huge! Oh well, lets hope you can get this sorted out would hate for it just to be an illusion that gets disbelieved!! (You'll either know what i'm talking about or you won't!!!) Matt
Guest PsychoDave Posted May 11, 2003 Report Posted May 11, 2003 HeHe I know where your comin from croccy :) :( Go SpaceMonkey :D
Guest spacemonkey Posted May 12, 2003 Report Posted May 12, 2003 Well, I got it loading, and running, get's past initiallising all the emulation engines and then displays some static... Good start anyway, tomorrow I'll see if I can tweak the graphics and find out what the static is :) For those of you interested in following this port / in need of something that will put you to sleep, I have started a little porters diary for the project that I'll try and update whenever I do anything to it. www.surrealservices.co.uk
Guest ClintEastman Posted May 12, 2003 Report Posted May 12, 2003 This will be great!! spacemonkey i love you!
Guest Frazzyscot Posted May 12, 2003 Report Posted May 12, 2003 Spacemonkey rocks!!!! Now I need someone to produce some rubber keys, dodgy joystick port and a DK'Tronics pen for the SPV and I'm sorted
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