DS81 v1.3 - Zx81 Emulator for Nintendo DS Released

[wraggster]

Noddybox has posted a new release of his great ZX81 emulator for the Nintendo DS:

Well, that was a slightly longer than anticipated hiatus. Still, give it a good few days at Christmas and out pops a new version.

This fixes a few bugs, and invariably adds a few of its own. The main new feature is that a snapshot can be saved (and one even automatically loaded when DS81 runs).

Enjoy at the DS81 page.

Now that DS81 feels reasonably complete it may be time to start a VIC-20 emulation. Portable Pharaoh's Curse would rather please me...

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If you'd have told me 25 years ago that I'd be playing 3D Monster Maze on the bus on a device powered by batteries, I'd have said you were mad...

DS81 is a basic emulation of the Sinclair ZX81. It only supports text modes games (basically anything that uses the bog-standard ZX81 display file for the technically minded), so hi-res games will not work. This is being worked on.

It includes a few games to try out. Note that I did not write these games, or own the copyright to them. They are included in good faith (as far as I know the authors do not mind this work being distributed), and if any of them want their work removing I'll gladly oblige:

ZX81 ROM © 1981 Nine Tiles Networks Ltd
Mazogs © 1981 Don Priestley
City Patrol © 1982 Don Priestley
Sabotage © 1982 Don Priestley
3D Monster Maze © 1983 Malcom E. Evans

DS81 also supports the loading of external files from a FAT formatted device. To do this the internal FAT routines of libnds are used, so if you're device isn't supported then I'm afraid you're stuck with the built-in games. Don't worry, you're not alone -- I wrote the damn thing and can't use external files on my flash device!

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[hhrs]

Saludos.
Aun recuerdo cuando estudiaba, quería comprar la primer microcomputadora por 100.00 dolares, si la timex sinclair.
Ahaaaaaaaaa, viejos tiempos, aun tengo mi vieja sinclair 1000

[bombdog]

Thank you for this, and good luck with your Vic20 emulator!

[paul3100]

First time i saw this emulator and it looks great :-)

paul

[ANDRE***]

Bonjour,

Great work! Now I can carry all my ZX81 games in my pocket. Better! With this new version (with a SAVE function) I will be able to modify my programs on the go. Thanks Ian.

By the way my new program "CANNON WAR" for the ZX81-TS1000/1500 will be released (if all goes well) next week.

Have a look at the ad made with and only a ZX81!



Have fun will travel, ANDRE***
http://www.zx-team.de/andre
http://zx81.ordi5.free.fr/andre