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ZEsarUX - ZX Second-Emulator And Released for UniX

Created by Cesar Hernandez Baño

It's a ZX Machines Emulator for UNIX based operating systems (and Windows), including all the Sinclair computers:

MK14
ZX80
ZX81
ZX Spectrum
QL
Z88

And also:

Microdigital TK80, TK82, TK82C, TK83, TK85, TK90X (Portuguese and Spanish), TK95 (Portuguese and Spanish)
Czerweny CZ 1000, CZ 1500, CZ 2000, CZ 1000 Plus, CZ 1500 Plus, CZ Spectrum, CZ Spectrum Plus
Timex Sinclair 1000, 1500, 2068
Timex Computer 2048, 2068
Inves Spectrum +
Sam Coupe
Pentagon
Chloe 140 SE, 280 SE
Chrome
Prism
ZX-Uno
ZX-Evolution BaseConf (beta)
ZX-Evolution TS-Conf
ZX Spectrum Next
Jupiter Ace
Amstrad CPC 464, CPC 4128, CPC 664, CPC 6128
Amstrad PCW 8256, PCW 8512
MSX1
Spectravideo 318/328
Colecovision
Sega SG1000
Sega Master System

ZEsarUX source code and binaries are distributed under GNU GPL license. ZEsarUX also includes a folder, "my_soft", which has some programs and data made by me. The entire folder is also covered by the GNU GPL license.

ZEsarUX also includes third-party roms, media, programs and games NOT covered by this license.

This is my second ZX Spectrum emulator after ZXSpectr https://github.com/chernandezba/zxspectr

I recommend you to read FEATURES, INSTALL and HISTORY files, as well as other documents in this emulator. You can open them from the help menu or from an external viewer.

ZEsarUX distributed under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3. You may read it on the LICENSE file.

Please read the other licenses used in ZEsarUX, from the menu Help->Licenses or just open files from folder licenses/

Available releases for download:

Source code
Binary compiled versions:
GNU/Linux 32/64 Bits
FreeBSD 64 Bits
Haiku OS
Mac OS X
Windows
Raspberry pi (raspbian)

Other by 3rd party:

Arch Linux
Slackware
Retropie/EmulationStation
Open Pandora
PocketCHIP
MorhpOS

Also an experimental Docker image

ZEsarUX has won the "Best Emulator" award from Retrogaming Total blog on 2015 and 2017

DONATE

ZEsarUX is free software and you don't need to pay to use it. ZEsarUX will always cost you nothing to use, but that doesn't mean it costs me nothing to make. So if you want to demonstrate your appreciation to it, you can donate using Paypal. Just click:

ZEsarUX donation

All donors will appear in the DONORS file

Thanks!

FEATURES

Runs on any UNIX based operating system and Windows: tested on GNU/Linux x86, GNU/Linux x86_64, GNU/Linux Raspbian, GNU/Linux RetroPie, FreeBSD x86_64, Haiku, Mac OS X, Windows native, Windows + Cygwin
Emulates:
- Science of Cambridge MK14
- Sinclair ZX80
- Sinclair ZX81
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum models: 16k, 48k (English and Spanish), 48k+ (English and Spanish), Spectrum 128k (English and Spanish), Spectrum +2 (English, Spanish and French), Spectrum +2A (English and Spanish), Spectrum +3 (English and Spanish)
- Sinclair QL
- Cambridge Z88
- Microdigital TK80, TK82, TK82C, TK83, TK85, TK90X (Portuguese and Spanish), TK95 (Portuguese and Spanish)
- Czerweny CZ 1000, CZ 1500, CZ 1000 Plus, CZ 1500 Plus, CZ 2000, CZ Spectrum, CZ Spectrum Plus
- Timex Sinclair 1000, 1500, 2068
- Timex Computer 2048, 2068
- Inves Spectrum +
- Sam Coupe
- Pentagon
- Chloe 140 SE, 280 SE
- Chrome
- Prism
- ZX-Uno
- ZX-Evolution BaseConf (beta)
- ZX-Evolution TS-Conf
- ZX Spectrum Next
- Jupiter Ace
- Amstrad CPC 464, CPC 4128, CPC 664, CPC 6128
- Amstrad PCW 8256, PCW 8512
- MSX1
- Spectravideo 318/328
- Colecovision
- Sega SG1000
- Sega Master System
Is the only emulator for machines: Chloe 140/280, Prism and Chrome
Almost perfect emulation of timing of all Spectrum machines
Emulates undocumented Z80 flags, features, and MEMPTR register
Emulates idle bus port, contended memory, ULA early/late timings
Emulates Motorola CPU 68008 (Sinclair QL)
Emulates SC/MP CPU - INS8060 (MK14)
Emulates perfect ZX Spectrum 16k/48k colour palette
Emulates ULAplus: Standard 64 colour palette, linear modes with 16 colours per pixel: Radastan Mode: 128x96, ZEsarUX modes: 256x96, 128x192, 256x192
Emulates Flash Color mode (128 color)
Emulates Chroma81 ZX81 Colour mode
Emulates Spectra Video Modes
Emulates Amstrad PCW Colour Video Modes
Emulates Timex Video modes (Mode 0 standard, 1 dual screen, 2 hires colour 8x1, 6 512x192 monochrome)
Emulates Pentagon 16C mode
Emulates All Video modes from Prism machine
Emulates ZGX Sprite Chip
Emulates snow effect on Spectrum models
Emulates interlaced, scanlines and Gigascreen effects
Emulates hi-res modes on ZX Spectrum (rainbow effects and others) and ZX80/ZX81 (UDG, CHR$128, WRX, HRG and some other hi-res modes)
Supports reducing the screen to 192x144 (0.75 scale)
Uses its own powerful window environment (ZX Vision) inside the program application window, having the same GUI style on all plattforms. Allows to have an extended display to hold menus and multitask windows in the GUI (ZX Desktop)
Partial support for Spanish and Catalan language on menus
Can be used with joystick and environments without keyboard, like Raspiboy / Retropie
Emulates all the oddities of the Inves Spectrum +: 64 KB RAM, RAM initialization with FF00H pattern, OUT ula AND RAM, EAR and MIC XOR, no contended memory, snow in border, colour ula delay, interrupt starts at end of top border (not at the beginning of the border), corrupt memory on every interrupt, no idle bus
Uses Video drivers: X-Windows, SDL, Cocoa (Mac OS X), Framebuffer, ncurses, aalib, cacalib, stdout(console), simpletext(console)
Uses Audio Drivers: PulseAudio, Alsa, SDL, DSP(OSS), One Bit Speaker (PC Speaker and Raspberry Pi GPIO speaker, without any kind of sound card), CoreAudio (Mac OS X).
Supports dumping audio & video to file
Allows to save screen to formats: SCR, PBM, BMP, TXT, STL (3D Model)
Supports loading from real tape (any external audio source, like tape player, mp3 player, etc)
Supports real tape loading of file formats: RWA, SMP, WAV, TZX, PZX, CDT, TAP, P, P81, O. It handles loading of turbo load tapes or any type of tape loading for standard/non standard loading routines
Handles binary tape format files (TAP, TZX, PZX, O, P, P81, CDT, CAS) on standard ROM routines for ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81, Amstrad CPC, Jupiter Ace, MSX, Spectravideo
Handles real audio loading (RWA, SMP, WAV) on standard ROM routines for ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81, Amstrad CPC, Jupiter Ace
Simulates real tape loading on standard ROM routines for ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81
Handles snapshot formats: ZSF, ZX, Z80, SP, SPG, NEX, SNA, P, P81, O, Z81, ACE
Handles floppy disk formats: DSK
Handles MMC/SD card formats: HDF, IMG, RAW (.MMC)
Handles IDE hard disk formats: RAW (.IDE)
Handles cartridge formats: DCK, ROM, COL, SG
Handles RZX playback
Emulates the following Copy Interfaces: Defcon, Dinamid3, Hilow Barbanegra, Interface007, Microhobby Pokeador Automatico, Multiface One, 128 and Three, Phoenix, Ramjet, Spec-Mate, Transtape
Emulates Dinamic SD1
Emulates Datagear/MB02 DMA, ZX-Uno DMA
Emulates Nec PD765 floppy disk controller, used on Spectrum +3, CPC 664, CPC 6128, PCW
Emulates Betadisk/TR-DOS. Direct support for .trd files. scl files can be converted from file selector pressing space
Emulates ZX Spectrum MMC Interfaces: ZXMMC, DivMMC
Emulates ZX Spectrum IDE Interface: DivIDE, 8-bit simple
Emulates ZX Spectrum ESXDOS file access using files from your computer
Emulates Sam Coupe IDE Interface: Atom Lite
Emulates ZXPand MMC Interface on ZX80 and ZX81
Emulates ZX Dandanator! Mini, CPC Dandanator! Mini
Emulates Speccy Superupgrade
Emulates Kartusho, iFrom interfaces by Antonio Villena
Emulates SamRam interface by Gerton Lunter (author of famous Z80 emulator)
Emulates HiLow DataDrive
Handles RAM, EPROM, Intel Flash and Hybrid (RAM+EPROM) cards on Z88
Handles QL microdrive/floppy file access using files from your computer. Allows reading Q-emuLator file headers. Allows EXECuting files without headers
Handles compressed formats zip (with internal decompressor), and tar, rar, gz through external utilities
Emulates AY Audio Chip, Turbosound (2 AY Channels), 3 AY Channels, MIDI channels, different DAC: Specdrum, Covox, ACB/ABC/BAC/CBA Stereo
Emulates General Sound
Emulates SN76489AN Audio Chip
Emulates Quicksilva, ZON-X81, and VSYNC-based sound on ZX80/81
Emulates Speaker and Soundbox sound on Jupiter Ace
Experimental simulation of the Sam Coupe Audio Chip (SAA1099)
Emulates i8049 QL sound
Supports RAM size up to 1024 KB on Spectrum and Pentagon
Supports RAM packs on ZX80/81 up to 56 KB
Supports RAM packs on Jupiter Ace up to 51 KB
Joystick emulation with real joystick and keyboard cursors: Kempston, Sinclair 1&2, Cursor Joystick, Cursor & Shift, OPQA, Fuller, Zebra, Mikro-Gen, ZXPand, SAM Coupe Cursors, CPC, MSX, Spectravideo, Cascade, DKTronics. Autofire function too
On Screen keyboard useful when playing with joystick, two types: one with keyboard letters, and another with words, useful for playing Text Adventures. Also a tool to extract words from text adventures (Daad, Paws, Quill and Gac)
Emulates Spectrum keyboard ghosting error feature
ZX Spectrum Recreated keyboard support
Emulates native turbo modes on ZX-Uno, Chloe, Prism and ZX Spectrum Next, and manual for other machines
ZX Printer emulation
Lightgun emulation: Almost perfect emulation of Gunstick from MHT Ingenieros S.L and experimental emulation of Magnum Light Phaser
Kempston mouse emulation
Supports Network gaming using its own protocol (ZEsarUX Network Gaming protocol - ZENG), which allows you to play in two different ways: using two or more (up to 16) ZEsarUX instances, located each one on any part of the world or in a local network, or with a central server (ZENG Online). Games doesn't have to be modified, you can use any existing game
Uart bridge emulation: allows you to use a real uart-wifi device connected to your computer, on GNU/Linux only (Windows, Mac can simulate it)
Can browse online ZX81 games
Can browse online Spectrum games
Supports Input spool text file to simulate keyboard press
Supports reading Pokes from .POK files
Audio Chip Tools: For the 3 emulated audio chips (AY-3-8912, SN76489AN, QL i8049): Sheet, Piano, Registers, export music to midi (.mid) files
Real Time playback from Audio Chip Sound (AY-3-8912, SN76489AN, QL i8049) to external MIDI device
AY Player: allowing to play music from .AY files
AY Mixer
Visual Real Tape: you have an audio render of your tape, see tape blocks and rewind or move forward the cassette player
Visual Floppy: allow to see floppy activity: disk movement, reads, writes, head seek, etc
Supports ZEsarUX remote command protocol (ZRCP). This is a powerful communications protocol between a client and ZEsarUX, using a simple telnet client. One of the things you can do it is enhanced debugging on ZEsarUX from Visual Studio Code (see https://github.com/maziac/DeZog)
Can use a reduced Spectrum core, with some features disabled, useful on slow devices, like Raspberry Pi 1/Zero
Can generate Automatic Snapshots to RAM and also do a Rewind operation
Powerful debug features: Reverse Debugging, CPU History, Assembler, Registers, Dissassemble, Conditional Breakpoints using text expressions, Watches, Step-to-step, Step-over, Runto, Show TV electron position, Load source code, Hexadecimal Editor, View Sprites, View Tiles, Find bytes, Infinite lives finder, CPU Transaction log, View BASIC, View BASIC variables, verbose messages on console
Text adventure debugger: On a Quill/Paws/Daad/Gac text adventure you can Step to Step condact, watch flags/objects, list messages (objects, user/system messages, locations, compressed tokens, vocabulary), connections, Text Adventure Map. Can also view graphics from a Quill, Paws, Daad or Gac aventure.
Use artificial intelligence to get realistic images for location description on Text Adventure games
File utilities menu: Allowing to view, expand and convert some common file formats: tap, tzx, pzx, trd, dsk, mdv, hdf, ddh, etc. Can also browse inside file system images (.mmc, .img, etc)
Accessibility support: Print char traps allows to capture generated text from almost any program or game, using standard ROM calls (RST 10H) or even non standard print character routines. Can send generated text from a game to a text-to-speech program. It's ready for text to speech support for blind or visually impaired people. Menu emulator can also be read by a text-to-speech program.
Translation support: Can translate text from almost any program or game using external scripts
Simulates upper RAM memory refresh on Spectrum 48Kb, losing its contents when changing R register very quickly
Supports command line settings, configuration file settings and per-game configuration settings
Supports execution on Docker, tested on Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora containers
Other features: Visualmem menu, CPU Statistics, Toy ZXeyes, Toy ZXlife, Ascii Table, Sensors
Includes seven easter eggs. Can you find them? :)