Updated: 26/02/06
Written by Davide Santachiara and Marco Ternelli . Now
compatible with 65536 colours mode of QPC2, QXL, Q40 and Q60. ZeXcel is
the first and only ZX emulator for the QL which makes full use of the
extended environment and it is the only one which supports SMSQ/E 65536
colours mode. ZeXcel can be used with SMS2/SMSQ monochrome screen drivers
too. It can emulate a Spectrum 128k +2 or a standard 48k ZX Spectrum with
or without Interface 1 emulation. Zexcel can read Z80 snapshot files (so
it is fully compatible with Z80, the PC Spectrum emulator written by
Gerton Lunter) or ZTA tapefiles. The original Mode 4 and Mode 8 colours
modes are still supported if 65k colours mode is not supported by your
emulator or hardware. ZeXcel does not contain utilities to convert ZX
tapes or discs into a suitable QL format (for that you will need ZM/128 or
ZM/hT systems) - ZeXcel documentation, though complete, assumes you
already know how to use ZTA or Z80 files. If you need a full tutorial this
is included with ZM/128 or ZM/hT system. Please note you need the Extended
Environment (or SMSQ/E) and Menu extensions to run ZeXcel. This version of
ZeXcel is freeware.
Download ZeXcel (180K)
Download seven ZX games for ZeXcel in .z80 format
(121K)
zexcel_patch.zip (3KB) ZeXcel ROM PATCH - This is a small BASIC patch program by Phoebus R. Dokos to patch ZeXcel to allow the inbuilt rom image to be replaced by other ones. The patch is known to work with Gosh Wonderful, SDOS-64 and Pentagon ROMs. Further details in the short README.TXT file in the downloaded zip file.
Spectrum 48k/128k emulators written by Davide Santachiara
and Marco Ternelli. The ZM/hT system comprises: two Spectrum emulators,
ZM/128 and ZM/hT; ZM/Accessories to convert Spectrum tapes/disks into a
suitable format; 96 page manual. The ZM/128 system includes all the above
stuff except the ZM/hT dynamic compiler - ZM/hT is a code compiler which
converts Z80 machine code to 68000 instructions as it runs.
Download ZmX emulators (301K)
A QDOS port of a Spectrum Snapshot to _z80 converter, to
allow several Spectrum snapshot files to be used in the .z80 format used
by most Spectrum emulators on the QL
Download SPconv (127K)
Spectator is a Z80 Emulator in a 48k Sinclair ZXSpectrum
environment, written for the Sinclair QL and its clones. The Z80Emulator
is able to execute programs written in the Z80 machine code language.The
ZX Spectrum environment includes the original ZX Spectrum ROM plusZX
Interface 1 ROM (edition 2) and additionally caters for "hardware
compatibility" such as keyboard reading, screen output control and
redirectingof signals originally heading for devices such as tape,
Microdrive and RS232. Written by Dr Carlo Delhez.
Download Spectator (73K)
This is the first release of SPECULATOR, a freely distributable 48K
ZXSpectrum emulator package for Qdos micros, written by William James,with
help from Dave Barker, Simon N Goodwin, Mark J Swift & Dave Walker.
Note - decompress the archive with QDOS LHQ, see
Archivers Page. I had to use LHQ rather
than QL ZIP since ZIP could not handle files of non-standard QDOS file
type used by this package for the various Spectrum file type encoding.
Download speculat.lhz (241K)