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The World of
Spectrum (WoS), maintained by Martijn van der Heide.
Absolutely essential. As its name express, *everything* in the World of
Spectrum. If you don't already know it, what in hell are you doing here?
Go for it!!
The TZX Vault,
maintained by Steve Brown.
Steve is one of the key figures in the current Spectrum scene. Among
other things, he is responsible for the
STP
project, along with Andrew
Barker. His site holds every single TZX you'd ever dream of. A
must.
ESpectrum,
maintained by Josetxu "Horace" Malanda.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Spanish Spectrum software is
found here. A very thorough piece of work. Don't miss its section
"Qué fue de..." ("What happened to...")
Andy's ZX Spectrum Pages, maintained by Andrew Barker.
Andrew Barker is one of the most popular people in the current Spectrum
scene. He is co-mantainer of WoS and co-responsible of the STP and SDP
projects. His site holds a lot of Crash, Your Sinclair
and Sinclair User cover tapes (transferred by him), info about tape
loading schemes and other interesting stuff.
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Other sites which have kindly provided us TZXs,
DSKs, inlays scans or instructions.
El Trastero del
Spectrum, maintained by José Manuel Claros.
Arguably, the most interesting Spanish site about the ZX Spectrum,
mostly due to its frequent updates.
Its name (it means Spectrum's junk room) says it all: you'll find
here all that unclassifiable stuff we love to re-discover, along with
ten new programs every week.
Even if you don't understand Spanish, it's worth the visit
(Altavista's
translator can do the rest).
Computer Emuzone, maintained by José Luis "Karnevi"
Veiga.
Every Spanish comercial game ever released (for every known platform) is
cointained in this huge site. Also remakes and lots of info related to
the titles. Outstandingly complete.
Bytemaniacos, maintained by Miguel Ángel "Radastan" Montejo.
Bytemaniacos isn't just the website for the project "Castlevania
ZX", but also a great service for the ZX Spectrum community, since it's
feeding us with lots of new games through the interesting programming contests that
are regularly convoked there.
Proyecto B.A.S.E., maintained by Enrique Pimpinela Santos.
Proyecto B.A.S.E is another Spanish project, aimed to the retrieval and
collection of every Spectrum text adventure in Spanish.
Metsuke Zone, maintained by Metsuke.
A classic's back. Metsuke Zone is one of the eldest Spanish sites about the ZX
Spectrum, and it was probably the first in striving to get and archive scans of game
instructions in Spanish. Its comeback is, no doubt, excellent news for everyone of us.
Spectrum Power!, maintained by Javier "ICEKnight" Baldo.
Lots of original Spectrum tapes transfered by ICEKnight, which mostly
belong to his personal collection. Also some home-made programs.
ZonaDePruebas
Retroinformática, maintained by Colossus.
ZONADEPRUEBAS aims to be a meeting place for enthusiasts,
users and collectors of retrocomputers, pastime electronics, and
other devices of the 80s and earlier.
Lo más retro... lo mejor, maintained by Juan Domingo
García.
"The place for the classics". Here you'll find lots of info about
retrocomputing, an interesting section of type-in programs and a large
repository of ZX Spectrum games. Also a lot of curiosities in this
site.
Club de Aventuras AD,
maintained by Carlos Sánchez.
Nice site where you'll find anything you ever wanted to know about the world of
conversational adventures in Spain.
Deep Fried
Brains, maintained by Alfredo Lambda & Jaime "Johnny Farragut"
González.
A newborn site about retrocomputing. There is abundant information about
their own retrocollection, including an extensive list of Speccy titles
(yummiii!) ;-)
Cassettes de
revistas, maintained by yoxxxoy.
A nice project aimed to hold every cover tape from Spanish Spectrum
magazines. Currently you'll find MicroHobby Semanal, MicroHobby Cassette,
Load'n'Run and Stars.
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Real
Spectrum, by RAMSOFT ZX Spectrum demogroup.
I.m.h.o. (I could be wrong, of course), the best ZX Spectrum emulator
for MS-DOS nowadays. This italian emulator offers an excellent
emulation accuracy whilst its options and possibilities may be the most
complete at the present time. Unluckily, all versions are built to work
under MS-DOS, but Linux and Win32 (DirectX) native versions are already
on the way. As most Speccy emulators, it's absolutely free.
[MS-DOS]
X128, by James McKay.
An excellent MS-DOS alternative for Real Spectrum. It's nice to find out
that its author began it as a University Honours project!
And best of all, it's free. [MS-DOS]
R80 Spectrum Emulator, by Raúl Gómez
Sánchez.
Another good MS-DOS emulator. Although it's not been updated during the
last years, it keeps being a reasonable option.
Its TZX loading routine is rather well accomplished. Freeware.
[MS-DOS]
ZX Spectrum Emulator (a.k.a. ZX-32), by Vaggelis
Kapartzianis.
Still a very good Spectrum emulator for Windows. Vaggelis hasn't updated
it for quite a while, but anyway it's cute and very easy-to-use. Freeware.
[Windows]
Spectaculator, by Jonathan Needle.
Nowadays, my favourite Spectrum emulator for Windows. It's full of
options (it supports a lot of Sinclair models and peripherals) and
its Graphical User Interface (GUI) is really friendly. Thumbs up! Shareware.
[Windows]
SPIN, by Paul Dunn, Mark Woodmass and Mark Boyd.
Despite of not being yet as popular as deserved, SPIN is quite probably
the best free alternative in Windows for Spectaculator. SPIN is a great emulator:
it's frequently updated, with a lot of "modern" features
(as RZX support) and outstandingly refined. Freeware.
[Windows]
Fuse, by Philip Kendall.
I haven't tested yet so I can't give my personal opinion, but I've heard
it's the best option for UNIX users (including Linux). A great emulator,
according to its technical specs. Freeware. [UNIX]
fbZX,
by Sergio Costas.
Nowadays, one of the best Spectrum emulators made in Spain. It can be run in
fullscreen mode within a console (fbZX uses SDL), so its minimum requirements
are relaxed, while the screen emulation remains very precise. Freeware.
[UNIX]
ZZ Spectrum, by Triels Noergaard.
A very good Speccy emulator for Java. It supports 16/48/128K modes,
joystick emulation as well as sound and snapshot saving. It's used at The World of
Spectrum to play online. Freeware. [Java]
JaS, by Alberto Sánchez Terrén.
The first Spanish Spectrum emulator written in Java. It also emulates
128k models, supports the TZX format, and features a superb debugger.
Source code available. Freeware. [Java]
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Speccy.org: El Portal del Spectrum,
maintained by Santiago Romero.
The home site where SPA2 (this site) is hosted. Here you'll find some
recent news, a monthly poll and links to other valuable sites. Don't miss it.
MICROHOBBY.COM, maintained by Chema "Stalvs" Matas.
Lots of interesting information about Sinclair computers and
peripherals, along with a really curious section called MHR
(MicroHobby Revisited), maintained by Albert Valls. Astounding collection
of scanned Spanish Spectrum magazines in the "Project Scanner"
section. It's much worth the visit.
El hardware del Spectrum, maintained by José Leandro Novellón.
The home for the Spanish hardware preservation project for the ZX Spectrum.
Documentation, photos, schematics, and everything you can think of!. Nonetheless,
José Leandro also runs a very interesting hardware repair service for the
Spanish community.
Planet Sinclair,
maintained by Chris Owen.
Lots of information about anything related to Sinclair Research
(including their computers, obviously). Everything is very well
documented and shown in a nice style.
Sinclair FAQ,
maintained by Bethany Carlton, among others.
Although it was initially intented to be a FAQ document for the
comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup, it turned out to be an excellent place
to look for almost any kind of information related to the Speccy.
Don't miss it!!!
The
Spectrum hardware page, maintained by Paul Jenkinson.
Are you looking for technical information about the ZX Spectrum and/or
its peripherals? Don't look any further! Check this out...
El Mundo del Spectrum (EMS) 2.0, maintained by Alejandro
Ibáñez.
A real classic coming back to life. EMS is one of the oldest
Spanish sites devoted to the ZX Spectrum. Long life to the
King!.
Sinclair
Research Ltd,
maintained by Cyberpoint Ltd.
If you thought that Sinclair Research was dead, guess again! This is his
current official site, where you'll find their latest devices.
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K y Enter,
maintained by Elfo Oscuro.
Elfo's idea is really attractive: a site for hosting every MicroHobby
type-in program together. There is still a lot of work to do, so
why don't you lend him a hand?
The Tipshop,
maintained by Nick Humphries and Gerard Sweeney.
Another interesting project. This one is aimed to collect and make
available every tip/poke/cheat/map/... for every Spectrum game.
The Your
Sinclair Rock 'n' Roll Years, maintained by Nick Humphries.
Nick Humphries brings us another superb site, devoted to a superb
British magazine: Your Sinclair. Articles, reviews,... and lots of
Rock 'n' Roll (yeah!).
CRASH -
The Online Edition, maintained by Matthew Wilson.
It's similar to the referred Your Sinclair's site, but this one is
devoted to its great rival magazine: Crash!
El Spectrumero, maintained by Tony Brazil.
Weekly updated, El Spectrumero features sections that are full of
character. For instance, "Juego de la Semana" (Game Of
The Week), where Tony, that absolute gamer, offers tasty
suggestions.
Spectrum Forever, maintained by Ferrán Criado.
Another Spectrum gaming review site, with a very cute design and cleverly
organized.
Magazine ZX,
maintained by Santiago "NoP" Romero, Federico J. Álvarez and
Pedro J. "Pedrete" de Celis.
The only (monthly) magazine in Spanish about the world of ZX Spectrum
that still keeps on active service. It's aimed to take the place left by
MicroHobby magazine, though it's just available on-line.
ZXF Magazine,
maintained by Colin Woodcock.
Wonderfully presented and exquisitely written, ZXF Magazine would arguably be the
best-selling Spectrum magazine if it wasn't free! ;-) Another "don't miss!".
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