FBZX

FBZX is a Sinclair Spectrum emulator, designed to work at full screen using the FrameBuffer.

Features:

• emulates acurately the Original spectrum (both issue 2 and issue 3), the classic 128K, the Amstrad Plus 2 and the Amstrad Plus 2A. This include screen, keyboard and sound (both speaker and AY-3-8912 chip).
• Screen emulation is extremely acurate, so it can emulate border efects and even atribute efects.
• Supports Z80 snapshots, both loading and saving.
• Supports TAP (both read and write) and TZX (only read) tape files, supporting normal speed loading and fast speed loading.
• Emulates joysticks: kempston, cursor and sinclair.
• Emulates the Interface I and Microdrive.
• Is based in the great Z80 emulator created by Marat Fayzullin.
• Is distributed under GPL license (except the Z80 core, that can't be commercially distributed. See details in the homepage of Marat Fayzullin or in the documentation).

What is new in this release:

• This release adds support for 320x240 mode.
• It remembers again the last mode used (48K, 128K, etc.).

What is new in version 2.6.0:

• This version adds ULAPlus support, fixes a little bug when loading ROMs, and allows going to submenus from the HELP menu.

What is new in version 2.4.2:

• Fixed a bug in the ALSA sound subsystem.

What is new in version 2.4.1:

• emulates acurately the Original spectrum (both issue 2 and issue 3), the classic 128K, the Amstrad Plus 2, the Amstrad Plus 2A and the Spanish 128K. This include screen, keyboard and sound (both speaker and AY-3-8912 chip).
• Screen emulation is extremely acurate, so it can emulate border efects and even atribute efects.
• Supports Z80 snapshots, both loading and saving, and loading .SNA snapshots.
• Supports TAP (both read and write) and TZX (only read) tape files, supporting normal speed loading and fast speed loading.
• Emulates joysticks: kempston, cursor and sinclair.
• Emulates the Interface I and Microdrive.
• Based in a new, fully free, Z80 emulator (Z80Free).
• Is distributed under GPLv3 license.

What is new in version 2.4.0:

• Fixed a bug in SNA loader (thanks to Jose Luis)
• Added a DC filter in PulseAudio sound, to avoid losing the sound when mixing with other audio sources (thanks to Paul N)
• Added a help message at startup

What is new in version 2.1b:

• Renamed directory roms in the TAR.BZ2 package to spectrum-roms, to allow FBZX to run from a local directory, without needing to install it globally (DEB package with version 2.1 works fine, so has not been replaced).

What is new in version 2.1:

• This release changes the ROM format for compatibility with files in the Debian package SPECTRUM-ROMS.
• A new icon has been added.

What is new in version 2.0:

• The code is now completely free, thanks to a new Z80 emulator written from scratch.
• It now emulates the Spanish 128K.
• Either ALSA or OSS can be used for sound output.
• The volume settings are now stored.
• The program can be run from the local directory, without installing in /usr.
• A bug in the sound with some soundcards was fixed.

Requirements:

• SDL