This emulates the ZX Spectrum 48k and 128k models and should be fairly accurate
although imperfect; it is considered experimental for now. Save States are not
fully implemented, you may wish to avoid using them for this core.
No controller interface is currently exposed, meaning games must be played with
the keyboard at this time. It is planned to support the Kempston interface,
while supported by the underlying core, the UI interface for attaching expansion
port devices has not yet been implemented.
You must map a "Keyboard Capture" hotkey to allow ares to emulate the keyboard.
Ares maps most ZX Spectrum keys 1:1 with the same key on the host keyboard.
CAPS SHIFT is mapped to Left Shift, and Symbol shift is mapped to Left Control.
For special characters, it may be beneficial to look up the ZX Spectrum
keyboard layout. For the 48K it is necessary, as BASIC uses hot keys
rather than typed commands, for example, to load a game on the 48k,you must
type `J <symbol shift> PP` and then hit enter, which results in `LOAD ""`
being entered on the screen.
For the ZX Spectrum 128k, you can just use the Tape Loader menu option.
The emulator only implements support for raw WAV dumps right now; this is
because the TZX format is over-complicated, and I did wish to implement it at
this time.
There are many tools available for converting TZX to WAV, for all platforms,
so this isn't really seen as a blocking issue.
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