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PSPZX81 v1.0.1 “Sinclair ZX81″ Emulator

greg | September 17, 2006

ZX-81 now releases *cough* a ZX-81 emulator! Where do I even begin? Bizarre…

PSPZX81 has been ported to the PSP from Russell Marks’ XZ81 emulator. It is responsible for emulating the Sinclair ZX81 home computer system released in 1981. Lasting only 2 years this machine was the first home computer under $100 (USD). Don’t worry, roms aren’t loaded via cassette tape recorder. ;)

Sinclair ZX81 Kit

Everything you need to know is in README.txt. For games/software, have a look here: ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sinclair/

Download: PSPZX81 v1.0.1

- source: ZX-81’s web site

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Comment by it's me
2006-09-17 15:33:20

numero uno

 
Comment by tom
2006-09-17 15:40:28

thats really pathetic bragging about being first:S

 
Comment by penguin
2006-09-17 15:43:40

ha ha /\ HdtRR thinks he is 1st

 
Comment by :)
2006-09-17 15:58:43

The long awaited namesake release. Woo hoo!

 
Comment by BLABLA
2006-09-17 16:12:29

Sounds like you would be luky just to have pong

 
Comment by Brandon
2006-09-17 16:39:04

wow a complete worthless emu wen are people going to start making progs that are worth downloading, whats the point of this to play a older version of pong then the one on atari…..yea thats what i thought…..nice job btw :)

 
Comment by MadTim
2006-09-17 19:06:36

good, Im not the only one NOT jumping up in down about something thats older than me… I’m 18 and if its older than me its not woth my time…
NES or newer.

 
Comment by stewart!
2006-09-17 19:11:04

That’s an anal view MadTim.

I’m 17 and I love my Amiga to bits (not sure if it’s before my time, but it’s hella old)

 
Comment by robocelot
2006-09-17 20:16:39

Thanks for the effort ZX-81.

And, to all the little kiddies who feel they have to negatively comment on emulators for machines that are older then them: Grow the fuck up take a look at the world around you. There’s a hell of a lot more out there than you can immediately see and touch. Do something to encourage homebrew/emulator authors rather than waste everyone elses air.

 
Comment by frip
2006-09-17 21:01:23

mother shut up you dozy retarded twat

 
Comment by DarkPacMan77
2006-09-17 21:13:05

I have written letters back and forth to zx and I think that this project is one that he has worked on for a while now… I think he had this shoved away.

I think it is awesome of him to release the zx-81… a good way to “end” the scene. After all, there isn’t much more he can do b/c he uses some rather old methods of emulation n all.

xbox 360 emulation is out of the question…

-DarkPacMan77-

 
Comment by Joe
2006-09-17 21:41:09

please let me into the chat thing, its very important, please

 
Comment by Your Mother
2006-09-17 22:05:17

NO FUCK YOU

 
Comment by Joe
2006-09-17 22:10:04

NO!!!!! FUCK YOU, STUPID BITCH!!!!!!

 
Comment by ...shadow...
2006-09-17 22:30:31

“why cant you make a 360 emulator? I could make one if i had more time…”
-mother

…!…?
…I don’t know what to say in reply to this LOL
…ok

 
Comment by Has
2006-09-17 22:32:14

Great job and all im 17 dont really see the point of having it unless your a 40 year old guy with a psp and emulating 360 are you a retard everyone knows that no one could emulate anything after the N64.

 
Comment by Jin
2006-09-17 23:11:32

Yeah a 360 emulator would be nice. : P
No offense… but this thing is fucking stupid.
Make something that makes me at least want to test it out… at least. And actually, the only good Atari game that I like is Pitfall, haha.

 
Comment by sporex
2006-09-17 23:33:48

dude what the hell is yalls problems! Does free gaming mean nuthin to yall? He spent his own time to give u this adn all yall do is talk bad about it…. how many of yall have actually tried it?

and mother………….ur a fuckn retard

 
Comment by FireFoxx
2006-09-17 23:53:08

#11 i think that making an xbox 360 emulator is impossible because the 360 has better graphics and frame rate then a psp can support

 
Comment by Snarg
2006-09-17 23:58:37

He’s just trolling. Don’t worry about him.

 
Comment by Jin
2006-09-18 03:27:39

Holy shit someone thought he was serious about making a 360 emulator?

 
Comment by Coasterfreak212
2006-09-18 03:47:54

It’s not impossible, just gonna be really shitty. Heck, it’ll work at 1/1000000000 of the speed and it’ll probally crash after the x fuses into the ball. “Your Mother” just wants to be “kick ass” by saying all this crap even though no one cares. Plus, zx-81 makes these cause he wants to see if you can take all of these old tech and have it playable on the psp. He’s done a good job. His goal is not to create “good” and “worth downloading” emulators so that all the people that have 1.5 psp can enjoy their psp by using products of past value and so they can jump up and down so that all the fucking morons like “your mother” can have no life and spend the rest of their lives playing games on a psp when you could just get it on ebay and play the real deal. I like emulators, and I think that zx-81 is great by emulating these old gaming consoles on a small portable system. It’s history. Back then it was thought imposible to have portable gaming systems. I don’t download these old emulators that zx-81 makes, but I apreciate his work for defying past thought of technology.

 
Comment by Kenny
2006-09-18 03:49:25

Would some of you lot please look up the word ‘irony’ in a dictionary. It’s a big book with words in it. You can find them in buidings called ‘libraries’ or ’schools’.

Nice one ZX81. My strange uncle had one of these in the early 80s, and it had a bloody frightening game called 3d monster maze. Or maybe it was my uncle I was frightened of?

Love

Kenny

 
Comment by Metalica Wolf
2006-09-18 04:10:05

WOW. Thats going back some years! I can go even further with my first computer, the Spectrum 48k. The loading times were crap and the games even crapper! lol. But i will allways remember the first game i played on it, Manic Minor. WHAT A GAME……….

 
Comment by :)
2006-09-18 04:21:17

^^ I remeber waiting 30 minutes (or certainly seemed like it at the time) for Robocop to load on my friends spectrum.

ScreeeeCHCHCweeeeeeSCreeeeeeeeeCHCHCH

 
Comment by Delerium
2006-09-18 04:39:12

rofl I remember my first computer… a trash-80 (trs-80). I remember loading up the tape drive and popping in some taxi game that had horrible graphics. but man, I would mess around with that thing for hours on end programming in numeric line code (basic language) just to make a dot bounce around on the screen… those were the days. wonder if someone is working on a trash-80 emulator. rofl that would be funny

 
Comment by ZeroTrace
2006-09-18 06:42:00

Why are there so many retards in the world? I’m a mere 16 and my favourite console overall would be the Commodore 64 w/ tape drive. I bet I could still sit around playing Spy vs Spy until the end of days.

 
Comment by MadTim
2006-09-18 07:33:52

Yeah, well some of us are graphics whores and would like to play a game that has more than just two blobs that represent people. And on the NES is about when we get that,
Im all for retro, as long as its NES or older.
You get into that commodore 64, while the rest of us enjoy sprites that actualy look kinda like what they are supposed to look like.

 
Comment by pepsiman
2006-09-18 08:07:02

mhm, maybe zx should fuse all his emulators into one that supports like all types of roms, so people don’t have to load up 32 different programs. just an idea.

 
Comment by DannyQ
2006-09-18 11:18:05

wow another pointless prog? yea, i think so. GREG JUST STOP RETIRE IF YOUR GOING TO MAKE SHIT LIKE THIS !!!!

.dan

 
Comment by slickkill
2006-09-18 12:13:32

@28 nes or newer dipshit

 
Comment by cadaber
2006-09-18 15:21:56

i guess i support the genereal concensus here, emulators that are older than dirt really show no purpose other than to say “wow i can make this work too” the only worth while release that zx-81 can come out with now would be a universal old crap emulator like # 29 suggested. and that should be the name of it or maybe “old shit you’ll never use emulator”

 
Comment by Your Mother
2006-09-18 16:58:30

I am gonna make an Xbox 360 Emulator, right after I finish my PS3 emulator, I am almost done, just you wait and see!
It is gonna be awesome! You will be able to play Halo 2 and shit!
Remeber a while ago when that Halo thing was shown on the PSP? yeah, I made that! It was an original Xbox emulator! I am gonna put out my emulator, and best of all, It will work on the 3.0 firmware, because I work for sony and know how to bypass all the firmware stages. I
could downgrade from 2.80 if I sat down and took the time…

 
Comment by Heartless Angel
2006-09-18 17:02:32

if ZX81 is reading this, all i have to say is keep up the great work, you do a terrific job programing these vintage system emulators, i for one think its great to get a blast from the past on a new gen platform. so on behalf of all the old guys who own psps (like myself) thanks for bringing back the good old days.

Peace

 
Comment by Snarg
2006-09-18 17:04:31

When he’s done all that, he’s going to split the red sea and set my people free!!

 
Comment by duh
2006-09-18 17:11:17

—>good, Im not the only one NOT jumping up in down —>about something thats older than me… I’m 18 and if —>its older than me its not woth my time…
—>NES or newer.

NES is 23 years old (Japan), guess you aren’t interested in it. 21 years old in America.

 
Comment by zx-81
2006-09-18 17:26:58

@all crying babies: you don’t like it, that’s your right lol, but what i don’t understand is : “why do you waste you time on this thread, and post such comments ?”

@all: thx ! It was may be my last emulator port ;) …

Zx

 
Comment by Master Balls
2006-09-18 18:37:07

Ey! ZX-81, and what now? what its your future goal for the PSP?????

We want to know

 
Comment by Master Balls
2006-09-18 18:38:51

Why dont’ you follow the steps of Exophase in the programming way he is doing??

 
Comment by Coasterfreak212
2006-09-18 19:06:29

Hm, “your mother” seems ticked and wants to say that he’s a great computer coder just cause he can change font on a commenting board into bold faced. first off, the xbox emulator for a pc isn’t even up to speed. The halo on psp was not an emulator it was a homebrew prog. The ps3 isn’t even out yet. Hmm, “your mother” I suggest you to see a phycologist cause you suffer from gender confusion, false knowledge, and stupidity. Did your mother not give you enough hugs? cause I believe that you choose to call yourself “your mother” cause you never really had one. Further more, you choose to get angry and rant about stupid things. I’m guessing you spend your time on the computer cause you have no other hobbies besides saying that you made things you didn’t make and accusing hard working people that don’t get paid of not working hard enough. take my advice, get a shrink.

 
Comment by Jin
2006-09-18 21:57:10

ZX-81 post, crying babies because we don’t give a shit about an emulator? Good one. Anyway, you asking why we waste our time leaving dissaproving comments, that’s like saying leaving a nice comment is any better. A comment is a comment, they all take time to type. And would everyone, espically the guy above me, give that 360 emu a break, he is just messing around. Let it go.

 
Comment by zx-81
2006-09-19 03:10:43

@41: How can you post a comment to an emulator, when you haven’t even tried it ;) ?? How, i see, it’s only because this is old school computer, so it should be a big shit ?? … Anyway, many thanks for your great contribution to the psp scene …

Zx

 
Comment by Jin
2006-09-19 07:52:09

Bing-o. I like to get an idea of what my character actually looks like.

 
Comment by theman
2006-09-19 10:52:06

well I used to have a ZX Spectum 48k and games took an age to load sometimes they never load! My best ZX spectrum game was Deathchase 3d. We should make a good homebrew update of that game will be ace!

 
Comment by delerium
2006-09-19 16:46:39

bah. to all you graphics junkies: where are your imaginations? not every good game out there HAS to have great graphics. some of us grew up with a mind of our own and imagination. I remember growing up with some of the best games out there, and they had crap for graphics. pitfall, galaga, etc… just because something doesn’t have the best graphics doesn’t make it a bad game. also zx, if you still want a project, I hear an apple II emulator calling your name. ;)

 
Comment by Your Mother
2006-09-19 18:12:27

of course i am fucking around you tards… if i could actually make a 360 emulator I would be getting paid for my usefull talent, and to number 40, If you couldn’t figure that out, your the one who is stupid and should get a shrink…

 
Comment by Jin
2006-09-20 02:30:33

Hey, I already said the only good classic is Pitfall. So I’m not a “graphic junkie,” I’d just rather have great graphics. That’s why I have a PSP, and not a DS. : )

That and it’s a media powerhouse.

 
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