The RISC OS port, which can be downloaded from, runs at 100% emulation speed on a minimum of a StrongARM RISC PC, and features:
Originally developed for Unix, it has also been ported to Mac OS X, Windows, Amiga OS, MorphOS, and even the Nintendo Wii – and now, thanks to the efforts of Chris Gransden, it has also been ported to RISC OS. Users of modern machines have been able to put themselves in a position to try and understand the mindset of those who liked such quirky little machines by way of emulators, and one such emulator is called Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator. It sported a screen resolution of 256 x 192 pixels, or 32 x 24 characters, and actually had a slightly better palette than the Beeb you could choose any of seven colours at one of two shades (normal and bright), plus black – though, for graphics, the colour attributes could only be set for an 8 x 8 pixel block, rather than for each pixel. One of the most popular of these was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum which, it its original form, was a tiny little rubber keyed beast sporting either 16 kB or 48 kB of RAM.
ZX Spectrum and peripherals by Marcin Wichary
