Gp81

[mr.spiv]

Heh.. I can't wait playing 1K chess game there was for ZX81

 

[Matty Jetman]

Woogal,

Just had a play with the emulator and it is very cool indeed.

Just a few things, what's newline on the chatboard????????

Also any plans for a virtual keyboard as well??

Thanks,
Matt

 

[woogal]

I couldn't seem to use the virtual keyboard, and I don't have a chatboard, so with some more input options this would be really nice!

Without a chatboard your only option is to assign keys to buttons by pressing help followed by select.

Just a few things, what's newline on the chatboard????????

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that . It's shift+p (same as quake and edgepad). Also, the zx81 shift key is right arrow, not the chatboard shift (there is a valid reason for that, trust me), which means that backspace is right arrow+0 and " is right arrow+p etc. Now you know this you can load .ppp files using only the chatboard if you want to - just do load "filename" (without .ppp)

Also any plans for a virtual keyboard as well??

I don't have any more plans for gp81 at all (well actually that's a lie, but I'll probably never find time to work on this again), but the source is there for anyone who wants to add more stuff.

 

[Matty Jetman]

Cheers Woogle,

Shame you might not continue with the emulator... It's times like this that I wish I could code!

If anyone else out there wants to carry on with the emulator I have a few ideas.

Adios,
Matt

 

[BaDToaD]

Nice one Woogal. Have you emulated the dreaded Ram pack wobble crash?

 

[qbranch]

I had a QL.

There were some good games.

Karateka
Blocklands warrior
Citadel


As for theres no point.....its a bit like mountain climbing.

You do it cause they are there.

Alright fair enough you win. Persuade someone to create or port over a QL emulator for the sake of 3 or so games and i'll be impressed.

Theres many other machines (Eg Oric / Dragon) which could be ported which have a far better range of games than the QL.

I'm a huge Speccy fan but i dont think a QL emulator would be that good or hardly used by many people.

I found this site by searching for another news item on a super fast QL emulator. I write a colum in a QL magazine that has been going for 9 years and I have to tell you there are many QL emulators, including a commersial one that runs under XP in full 16 bit colour! There may not be as meany games for it as for teh Speccy but have a look at RWAP Software.