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ZX Spectrum Emulator and games - iGoogle Gadget

14Jan08

ZX Spectrum Emulator iGoogle Gadget

As promised, the mighty Sinclair ZX Spectrum in iGoogle gadget form.
I only realized a couple of weeks ago that last year was in fact the 25th anniversary of Sir Clive’s wonderful little 8-bit machine. I felt the need to pay homage, so built this gadget and compiled 26 of the best and most memorable ZX Spectrum 48k games, the majority of which are still very playable. A few classics to mention are Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Daley Thompson’s Decathlon, Elite, Bubble Bobble, Bombjack and Chuckie Egg.
All the games have a link to a help page which details the original inlay and game information, so if you’re stuck trying to figure out which keys to use then click on the link. You can also get more info here.

If you’re from the 8 bit era - an early 80’s kid - then revel in nostalgia; if you’re not then enjoy some retro gaming, and just remember each of these games originally took 10 to 20 minutes to load from a cassette tape! It may seem archaic, but this is the machine that launched the games industry proper and probably seeded our IT industry with programmers too.
I have to thank Jan Bobrowski for the guts of the emulator. I merely tweaked it, packed it up into a gadget and selected the games. I hope this is destined to become an iGoogle classic, as everyone should have this on their google homepage, for the joy of an occasional 5 minutes playing Manic Miner at least. Happy retro gaming!

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    I was surfing around google to find interesting things and find one :)
    I was playing those games with a real ZX Spectrum and waiting for ages to load and now when I see an emulator like this I still hear that digital compressed square wave loading noise in my head.

    Thank you for making this gadget.

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