ZX Spectrum 128 core ported from MiST

robinsonb5 · May 9th 2022

This one's mostly for V2 users, since there's already a Speccy core for V1 hardware - but I've ported the MiST ZX Spectrum core to TC64 - see http://retroramblings.net/?page_id=1880

There's no direct SD card or HDF access as yet, but floppy images, tape images and snapshots should work.

As usual the C64 keyboard and joystick is supported.

(I also noticed that the Speccy core for V1 on the Wiki seems to a dead link - though it can still be accessed using archive.org's Wayback machine - so maybe this core will be useful for V1 users after all...)

el_pasi · May 10th 2022

Thanks Alastair This is very welcome to V1 users also. Older V1-core didn't support tzx-files, which seems to be quite common format.

Cheers,

Pasi

OMo1972 · May 10th 2022

YAY! Thumbs up! 👍

dbugster · Sep 9th 2022

Hello !
I just wonder a little how the keyboard mapping is ? I was going to try to put stickers on a PC ps2 keyboard for Spectrum (I bought two kits of stickers) but is there a hint sheet somewhere for the special keys layout ? I know on the core page there is some keyboard info but not for all the special keys ?? Cheers and thanks for your continued porting work.

dukestah · Dec 11th 2022

I can't get it to work. I've installed the core using ChaCo, running the latest firmware for the TC64V2, placed the spectrum.rom in root of SD cart but get nothing but white/blue vertical stripes after reset using the F12 menu of the core. Anything I might have missed?

Tobias · Dec 11th 2022

Try with a clean SD Card, ie freshly formatted. Perhaps also try another card (not all cores will work with sdhc or even sdxc cards)