ZXDS 0.7.0 beta 1 - Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator for Nintendo DS

[wraggster]

Patrik Rak has released a new version of his Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator for Nintendo DS, heres some info:

There are two versions, ZXDS.nds for Slot-1 (DS slot) based cards, and ZXDS.ds.gba for Slot-2 (GBA slot) based cards. Just choose the one which suits your card best.

The provided executable was already patched with the r4tf.dldi DLDI driver, so it works fine on both my M3 DS Simply and M3 Mini SD Perfect. Of course, it should work fine on any other card which supports DLDI as well. Just give it a try and you will see. If it won't work for you right away, you might need to patch it with a specific DLDI driver for your card with a DLDI patcher, both of which you can find here. It might be wise to patch it in either case, just to make sure you have the most recent version of the DLDI driver for your card. If it still doesn't work, I am really sorry, but there is not much I can do about it. Please do NOT contact me regarding if it works or doesn't work on your card, at least at this point of time.

You should also copy some snapshots or tape files to your card. Either SNA/Z80 snapshots or TAP/TZX/PZX tape files are supported. You can place them anywhere you want, although the /ZXDS directory is looked up first by default. For your convenience, I have included few Spectrum games in SNA or TAP format, so you can at least give it a go.

ZXDS 0.7.0 beta 1 (21.12.2007)

+ Finally added keyboard graphics, for both 48k and 128k keyboard.
+ Replaced the ad-hoc file requester with proper touch screen version.
+ Configurable button to key/action binding, with 9 predefined customizable settings.
+ Tape browser and manual tape control.
+ Autoload feature, with both tape-loader and USR0 mode support.
+ Skinning support for changing graphics and color of each UI element.
+ Builtin online help.
+ Pentagon emulation (no TR-DOS yet, though).
+ Z80 snapshots are now compressed.
* Added 1 forgotten T state to EX (SP),* instructions.
* Fixed #7FFD paging decoding (A15+A1 instead of A14-15+A1), more demos now work.
* Changed #1F kempston joystick decoding (loose A5 instead of strict A5-A7), more games should work.
* Disable autoplay when tape end is reached, more flawed tape files should now load.
* Few other subtle fixes (triple buffering race, halt timing upon requester).

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[crookedmouth]

Sounds great, thanks for the update!

[paul3100]

I love any new release of emulators on the DS and the speccy was the first computer/console i ever owned so very pleased to see an early xmas update :-)

Yep spent many an hour playing on my zx 48k+ and my gray 128+ with built in tape drive, and its a sad fact but most games then are ten times better than todays games for game play and addictiveness.

Happy xmas everyone and cheers to the author ...paul

[motomono]

Thank you very much for the update. Now I can say: this is and will THE BEST SPEECY EMU FOR NDS.

Again, thanks for the great work. :thumbup:

[Amiga]

err im having trouble getting the keyboard to display and also view the file list,alls i get is just the ds extremes boot screen,no keyboard ,it works but i cant see anything,the top screen works fine bottom screen is not displaying keyboard or filelist

[crookedmouth]

err im having trouble getting the keyboard to display and also view the file list,alls i get is just the ds extremes boot screen,no keyboard ,it works but i cant see anything,the top screen works fine bottom screen is not displaying keyboard or filelist

Did you dldi patch it?

[Amiga]

i did yes

[Amiga]

it didnt work just incase the smiley face gave u the impression it works lol