Klive
Ver. 1.1 , author Steve Snake, 2002. For Windows.
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Installation
is quite simple - just unpack archive somewhere. You will have only 3
files: exe, ReadMe and ini after first start.
Program emulates following hardware:
Sinclair Spectrum 48K
Sinclair Spectrum 128K
Sinclair/Amstrad Spectrum +2
Sinclair/Amstrad Spectrum +2a
Sinclair/Amstrad Spectrum +3
Sinclair Interface 2
Cursor Joystick
Kempston Joystick
Currah µSpeech
Fuller Box
SpecDrum
Spectrum 128K sound on a Spectrum 48K
AY-3-8912 or YM2149 Sound Chip (selectable) with ABC or ACB Stereo support
NEC µPD765A Floppy Disk Controller (in +3 Mode)
Of course load of standard snapshot files Z80 & SNA is supported.
It works with TAP, TZX & WAV files. There is no 'fast load' for TAP
files, author claims that there is no point. Hmm... most of games is
stored in TAP format around... Anyway, you can speed up emulator while
load (I got 3500% on my Athlon XP 2000). There is also 'Real Tape
Mode' (load via soundcard), not seen in many emulators. Program has
Issue 2 keyboard emulation too, so Rasputin will work :-). Contended
memory is emulated pretty accurate, although not perfect. Starion
countdown looks good, with slight shift in border (see pic below).
I had trouble in my Win XP with Klive (probably related to video card
driver), but it worked on other machine, also works by me in Win 98SE.
No option for custom ROMs. Because everything is in exe file, you can't
use tricks with file renames :-(
All in all, pretty good emulator, easy to use, design is simple, but
everything works well. Question is will author continue development?
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