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Philip Kendall - The Sinclair Spectrum

Congratulations, you have (re-)discovered the Sinclair Spectrum, the greatest computer of all time!

There isn't actually too much on this page; if you're looking for general information on the Spectrum, read the comp.sys.sinclair FAQ (mirrored on this site). There are a few specialised things here, though:

Fuse - the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator

• Fuse: my Spectrum emulator for Unix. Now up to version 0.7.0, and getting somewhere towards being usable.
• And libspectrum is a library for handling some ZX Spectrum emulator file formats.

The Spectrum ROMs collection

• The Spectrum ROMs collection - the operating system ROMs for the various Spectrum models.

Spectrum Instructions Project

• The Spectrum Instructions Project: an attempt to get instructions for more of the games on World of Spectrum.

There were previously two other mini-projects for WoS hosted here, the In-Game Screens and Loading Screens projects, but they are now completed.

Data mining

A couple of bits of data mining from the World of Spectrum and SPOT*ON databases:

• Best developers
• Overrated programs

Utilities

A few Spectrum-related utilities written by myself; all written in ANSI(-ish) C for your new computers, rather than utilities which run on the Speccy itself; mostly, these are 'proof of concept' type programs and/or not that generally useful.

• Basic: a ZX Spectrum BASIC interpreter.
• My Lemmings level designer.
• CheckBasic: a BASIC syntax checker.
• itm2tap: Convert .itm files to .tap files.

Games Stuff

• My walkthrough for Head over Heels.
• The complete solution to Sherlock - originally from 'What Now? The Handbook for Adventurers'.

Out of date stuff

• The Threat to Spectrum Emulation.
• SnapConv: for converting between different snapshot formats.