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Message: 5821
Author: dunny291073
Date: 27/04/2006
Subject: Re: Various current matters
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel"
> 4. To Dunny:
That would be the safest way. Even though I would say that the current
> If it is a fact, then the "supreme arbiter" could only be the real
> Spectrum, I guess, e.g. to judge the completability of any given
> game.
top three emulators (for windows) are as close to 100% perfect for 48k
emulation as we're ever going to get, you can never be sure.
> Fortunately, I think that the emulator imperfections described so
None of the Willy games use any special z80 or ULA/z80 combination
> far do not really affect the completability of MM/JSW games, as far
> as I can see.
tricks, and no I or R register mucking around. They should be good
enough (aside from PC-side keyboard quirks) to test any JSW or MM
game. No use was made of any of the undocumented features, and the z80
coding really is very, very simplistic - characteristic of the time,
or of Mr Smith's abilities, I couldn't say :)
You'd be pretty safe so long as you tested your game as a TZX file
under each machine type.
D.
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