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EMULATE! LETTERS

Do you know of a Sinclair QL emulator for the PC? I'd really like to get hold of one. If you do, perhaps you could give me details of how I can get it. Thanks,

N Wittering

There is not, as far as I know, a QL emulator for the PC. However, there is a large amount of resources for the Sinclair QL on the web if you know where to look. I have expanded the Internet section of the magazine, adding more QL sites for those interested and also the location of the QL FAQ. If there is an emulator for the QL out there (PC), please let me know!!


Just a quick note to congratulate you on a great magazine. I've just come across the spectrum emulator stuff on the internet, and at the moment I'm having a great time playing old classics like JetPac and Manic Miner. I bought my 16K spectrum back in 1983, and upgraded to a mammoth 48K a couple of years later. Now I have the best parts of this computer, without the dodgy ariel lead or the games that wouldnt load until my volume/tone settings were exactly correct. Keep up the great work,

Rick Bishop

Having an emulator does take some of the pain of loading games away, as we know they are virtually all going to load properly. But...sniff...it also takes away some of the magic of the Speccy...!


I've just been reading your fantastic 'e-zine'. What a "blast from the past" it has been. To me, as I am sure to so many people, the Spectrum evokes feelings of a time when computers were exciting and cheap and available to the masses. I never actually owned a Spectrum, but my friend had one, and we spent many a long hour playing the latest games, typing in games from C&VG (Remember when they were a "computer" mag ?), and just mucking about. Reading your 'e-zine' brings back many happy memories, and not only about the Spectrum. (I was a lot younger then ;) )

My first computer was the Amiga 500, bought at a time when they cost 500 pounds. I then went on to an Acorn A310M, A500, and now the latest RiscPC. So what now!? Well, I've just to get hold of a Spectrum emulator so that I can relive a mispent youth. As Boris Donko says, your'e-zine' is part of the buzz.

Well done on an excellent magazine, keep up the good work!

Paul Irvine


This is sort of a followup to some comments in Issue 4. What people seem to want is a sort stand-alone (for their machine) executable version of emulate (or failing that a common format that can be read by all).

Of course until people wanted embedded pictures... the current format is ideal, although the HTML version is nice for browsing.

I have made a quick look through most of the relevant sites and have found that there is no common hypertext format...

So it looks like someone should write one... Although if you have the cash you could try Adobe PDF although that may annoy those amiga owners...

Ben Baylis

After my comments in a previous issue, I have has quite a few suggestions as to what to do with the magazine (some of them unprintable....only kidding!) It is hard to find a modern computer platform to use, as if I opt for a PC display, other computer owners would be left out and vice versa. It is possible that in the near future I will be producing a version of Emulate in the form of a Spectrum file, as all the computers have an emulator and it seems the only "universal" thing to use!


Hey! Alright there? I'm a twenty two year old english student at sheffield university with too much time on his hands. A year ago, in the middle of a big remeniscence with my house mate about the speccy, she admitted she still, actually had hers in the loft at her mums house. Thats how it began. I thought I'd left it all behind me in 1988 but no. These days myself and all my friends spend too much of our spare time playing bloody Arkanoid and Operation Wolf. Anyway, I wondered if you could count me as a subscriber to emulate, and if you might be able to tell me where if poss I could buy old speecy games in their original taped format. I don't have an emulator or anything, neither am I particularly computer literate, I just get allowed to use the pc's for writing up essays for the most part. That's very much for your time, anyway! Hope to hear from you, I guess!

Rob Barker

You can find games on tapes at second hand shops and car boot sales, where you can pick up lots of games quite cheap. It might also be worth checking classified ads. You could also find someone with an emulator and use the TAP2VOC utility which transfers TAP files back onto tape.


More letters next issue...


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