Basic ZX Spectrum Emulation on PSP

**alex_dsnews** · August 12th, 2005, 12:39

Kind of. Using fMSX and the attached .dsk image (half way down page 2) of an ancient Speccy emulator for the MSX, it's entirely possible to run 48k BASIC at a half decent speed. Sadly, the emulator doesn't support snapshots and stuff, but it's nice to see the Spectrum BASIC prompt on the PSP screen...

Use the .dsk image I've made (zipped) as a normal MSX disk, in MSX2+ mode, then enter RUN "ROMU6.BAS" using the fMSX on screen keyboard (right trigger). And then wait about 5 seconds.

Et voila...

**xuphorz** · August 12th, 2005, 18:33

not bad

***wraggster*** · August 13th, 2005, 10:27

any screens of this working im really curious

and what games run at a decent speed ?

**alex_dsnews** · August 13th, 2005, 10:44

Pic attached.

MSX2Spec doesn't load snapshots or anything, so it's going to be tricky to load Speccy games, unless there's some way of packaging them onto the MSX .dsk file and hoping the emulator can access them that way.

BASIC works, mind.

***wraggster*** · August 13th, 2005, 10:46

does look cool

***wraggster*** · August 13th, 2005, 10:49

Heres a smaller pic for the main page

**alex_dsnews** · August 13th, 2005, 10:55

Well, we don't have any choice

I've actually got a pack of MSX games that are direct Speccy ports - about 25 of them, including some great classics - at the moment that's all we can use, until some bright spark comes up with an emulator. It's just a shame we can't use the fMSX emulator as a base, as it's ace...