It would be great if it didn’t remember snapshots only for the last game played. How come that it doesn’t save snapshots for every game separately? I’m in jetpac and it loads snapshot for Renegade that i played before that, although I saved JetPac snapshot several times in previous session.
Works well with Recreated Zx Spectrum keyboard. Except on my Hudl2 for some reason. Excellentapp though.
Great emulator. Very user friendly. Intuitive and not very fiddly. I have used emulators for a variety of systems and consoles, and this is one of the easiest to set up and use that I have seen. To be honest, I had never heard of the ZX Spectrum. But I downloaded this emulator because I wanted to play The Paranoia Complex. It was not one of the many games included here, so I downloaded it and it runs perfectly. The simple elegance of this emulator now has me wanting to check out the rest of the extensive catalog. This app would be a bargain if it were paid. The fact that it is free makes it a no-brainer. Highest possible recommendation.
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks a lot for your kind words.
Great emulator and supports ZX Spectrum recreated keyboard (unlike some other emulators). No ads or dodgy permissions makes it a must have retro computer app. Only issue I have is both my devices report ‘Your device does not support low latency audio”
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks for your kind words!
You can get rid of that info by setting a higher “Message level” in the settings (Options->General Options->Message level->Warning & Errors).
Online search did nothing, with and without a VPN. Nothing happened with just a single letter search too.Also, on Huawei P9+ with Android 7.0, it completely prevents the software buttons from appearing, so you are totally locked inside the app until you quit.
Developer BogDan Vatra The online search works just fine for me. Make sure you type something in the search bar (e.g. pac).Regarding the second problem, if the sliding from very margins of the screen doesn’t work, then most probably it’s a bug in the Huawei’s implementation. On Nexus 5x works with no problems.
I installed on a Samsung J2 BUT nothing works! I type on the emulated keyboard but nothing appears on the screen. What am I missing? Why are you all saying this is so great? Can someone PLEASE direct me to a PC emulator that actually works. It seems 99% of apps on the Play Store don’t work!
Developer BogDan Vatra What makes you think that 99% of developers that published apps on Play Store are a bunch of idiots? What makes you think that all the reviewers that think this application is great are stupid?
I don’t understand why on earth you never thought that it might be something wrong with your phone or, who knows, maybe with you…
I like almost everything about this emulator except that I cannot make snapshoths and save tape files. Also, typing = is difficult because the keys are exactly above one another. Hope to see an improved version soon.
Great gameplay, easy to use, built in online search too. I’ve used most of the spectrum emulators and this one for being at beta stage, looks like it could beat the rest hands down in the future. Fantastic memories.
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks for your kind words!
I purchased Spectatulator thinking it was the best all round Spectrum emulator, but Spectacol is just as good if not better.The online search for software is highly user friendly
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks for your kind words!
Honest use of permissions, so rare these days; thank you.Might you support printing out to a PDF format?Would you please do a ZX80/ZX81 emulator in a similar fashion.
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks.
Please use https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol/issues for features requests & bugs.Regarding ZX80/ZX81 emulator I’m afraid that my free time is too limited for it ?
Using this emulator with a gamepad is a great experience. As the author says, quick access to saving state is important. At last I think I am going to finish Manic Miner, saving state every time I get past a level without dying, with no need to touch the screen. This emu really inspires you to play games and have fun, with others I found myself quickly losing interest for some reason.
Occasionally it forgets the keys or the keys become sticky and you have to press a few keys to get it back to normal. Using Android TV box with it and a Sumvision wireless keyboard.
Developer BogDan Vatra Well, I’m afraid there is nothing I can do …
May I suggest you to use a recreated zx spectrum keyboard instead?
If you have any idea how to improve this situation please feel free to add it to https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol/issues
I used Marvin for a long time,and its still a great emulator,but having used this for a while on both a tablet and on android TV,this is my new favourite zx spectrum emulator.there are plenty of features,and its easy to set up.its great you can download any spectrum game,your not limited to the wos site,I can finally play jetpac,and other classics.ignore any negative comments,the developer has done a first class job,and its free.what is there not to like?
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks.
Brother Bog Dan, just like your nicely made game, this app. working smoothly and without any glitches!?? This emulator works better than most other options available on the Play store. And also NO INTRUSIVE/SUSPICIOUS APP-PERMISSIONS like most other apps.! Keep up the good work bro Bog Dan???☺
Would love to see an option to adjust the virtual gamepad transparency.
I have reduced the rating as the controls still won’t work and she probably put it on joystick and bad communication when you leave feedback when there is a problem only when there is good feed back no help available shame as it looks good but all i can do is find a game than get killed as no controls . Please fix it and i will up my feed back
The most perfect Speccy emulator for Android. No ads, great interface and it works perfectly. Congratulations!
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks for you kind words.
Really good spectrum emulator. Would be good if I could use my physical keyboard as Spectrum keyboard, as I’m running on a Chromebook.
This has to be the best spectrum emulator out, good layout and in app game downloads
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks for you kind words.
You can save your programs in tape.
عتشقشم ولی نمیتونم دانلودش کنم
Developer BogDan Vatra You need to type something in the search bar e.g. pacman
where do I get the file names from?
Developer BogDan Vatra I’m sorry but I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean. Can you please elaborate with more details your problem?
The integrated search makes this app. Very nice emulator!
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks.
Excellent Work by App Developer. All works well. Childhood revisited!!
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks.
Bringed back to my youth ?
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks
It actually works marvelous…
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks for you kind words.
Excellent.
Developer BogDan Vatra thanks.
Doesn’t load any downloaded content or online games and seems to have a thing for 007 games there’s about 100 just for the same 007 game. Atleast Marvin & USP have all the games working perfectly and u can write your own games too on them which I’ve already written new versions called Football Champions 2017, Treble Champions 2017, Football Director 3 which goes all the way down to the Southern Premier/Northern Premier and the Evo-Stick (Ryman Premier) too also with the Champions league & Europa league,etc.
Developer BogDan Vatra I’m sorry to hear you had problems …
What downloaded games you’ve tried and they didn’t worked?
The online games work perfectly for me (and for the other people) it might not work if the SSL handshake fails …
It will be great if you can add all your problems to https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol/issues and will check them one by one.
Best spectrum emulator of all on android. Searching local files can be confusing, I guess this is where some people get stuck. Best way to search online is enter first word of title or enter the publisher name i.e. Ocean, Mastertronic etc…
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks!
Also it doesn’t seem to work with files I’ve downloaded previously which work on other emulators. I’m still favouring Xpectroid.
Developer BogDan Vatra Spectacol should work with most (all?) ZX files formats out there, can you give me more info on this matter (e.g. a link to that file)?If will be great if you can use the bugtracker https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol/issues to post the issues, because I can track them easily.
Once you get used to it, it’s great. Trouble is, I still can’t get past level one on Manic Miner..!
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks ? !
Very good indeed, no problem finding games from inside the app, loving playing jet set Willy without needing the colour card. Good amount of tinkering options. Good work.
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks
Brilliant! A 128K keyboard option would be good though. But still better than the other emus out there.
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks for your kind words!
You can switch to 128K keyboard from Options->Peripherals and uncheck “Full on screen 48K Keyboard”
The best spectrum emulator on android. The emulating compatibility is near to perfection.
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks!
Love it.Worked great and brought back so many memories of hours spent playing the speccy games on me trusty ZX 48k
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks
This a fantastic app. All the old spectrum games are easily accessed and the controls are good. Probably will become my most used app.
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks for your kind words
Can you please add support for zipped/compressed files. Thank you!
Developer BogDan Vatra It’s already added in the beta version.
Click on “Become beta tester” and you can enjoy it ?
Great update. It would be nice if the Dpad could have also been customized for games that were keyboard only, like Ant Attack and itwould be great if you could save individual configs for each game.
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks!Please add your requests to https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol/issuesand I’ll see what I can do about it.
Woow, Stand back Marvin, excellent emu, now on my mobile and android TV box, all in Stunning HD, AirMouse Keyboard and TV Controller work fine. Well done app developer. Retro is back. Its smooth, quick, and Original Retro… Welcome To Android Gaming:)
Developer BogDan Vatra Thanks!
Can’t play games that require keyboard as on my phone the keyboard covers the whole screen.If I’m missing something please let me know
Developer BogDan Vatra There are a few options:
– try to use cursor joystick (if the game allows it)
– enable portrait mode, the keyboard will be placed under the screen (though it will be very small)
– buy en external (blue-tooth) keyboard.
It would be great if it didn’t remember snapshots only for the last game played. How come that it doesn’t save snapshots for every game separately? I’m in jetpac and it loads snapshot for Renegade that i played before that, although I saved JetPac snapshot several times in previous session.
Works well with Recreated Zx Spectrum keyboard. Except on my Hudl2 for some reason. Excellentapp though.
Great emulator. Very user friendly. Intuitive and not very fiddly. I have used emulators for a variety of systems and consoles, and this is one of the easiest to set up and use that I have seen. To be honest, I had never heard of the ZX Spectrum. But I downloaded this emulator because I wanted to play The Paranoia Complex. It was not one of the many games included here, so I downloaded it and it runs perfectly. The simple elegance of this emulator now has me wanting to check out the rest of the extensive catalog. This app would be a bargain if it were paid. The fact that it is free makes it a no-brainer. Highest possible recommendation.
Great emulator and supports ZX Spectrum recreated keyboard (unlike some other emulators). No ads or dodgy permissions makes it a must have retro computer app. Only issue I have is both my devices report ‘Your device does not support low latency audio”
You can get rid of that info by setting a higher “Message level” in the settings (Options->General Options->Message level->Warning & Errors).
Online search did nothing, with and without a VPN. Nothing happened with just a single letter search too.Also, on Huawei P9+ with Android 7.0, it completely prevents the software buttons from appearing, so you are totally locked inside the app until you quit.
I installed on a Samsung J2 BUT nothing works! I type on the emulated keyboard but nothing appears on the screen. What am I missing? Why are you all saying this is so great? Can someone PLEASE direct me to a PC emulator that actually works. It seems 99% of apps on the Play Store don’t work!
I don’t understand why on earth you never thought that it might be something wrong with your phone or, who knows, maybe with you…
I like almost everything about this emulator except that I cannot make snapshoths and save tape files. Also, typing = is difficult because the keys are exactly above one another. Hope to see an improved version soon.
Great gameplay, easy to use, built in online search too. I’ve used most of the spectrum emulators and this one for being at beta stage, looks like it could beat the rest hands down in the future. Fantastic memories.
I purchased Spectatulator thinking it was the best all round Spectrum emulator, but Spectacol is just as good if not better.The online search for software is highly user friendly
Honest use of permissions, so rare these days; thank you.Might you support printing out to a PDF format?Would you please do a ZX80/ZX81 emulator in a similar fashion.
Please use https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol/issues for features requests & bugs.Regarding ZX80/ZX81 emulator I’m afraid that my free time is too limited for it ?
Using this emulator with a gamepad is a great experience. As the author says, quick access to saving state is important. At last I think I am going to finish Manic Miner, saving state every time I get past a level without dying, with no need to touch the screen. This emu really inspires you to play games and have fun, with others I found myself quickly losing interest for some reason.
Occasionally it forgets the keys or the keys become sticky and you have to press a few keys to get it back to normal. Using Android TV box with it and a Sumvision wireless keyboard.
May I suggest you to use a recreated zx spectrum keyboard instead?
If you have any idea how to improve this situation please feel free to add it to https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol/issues
I used Marvin for a long time,and its still a great emulator,but having used this for a while on both a tablet and on android TV,this is my new favourite zx spectrum emulator.there are plenty of features,and its easy to set up.its great you can download any spectrum game,your not limited to the wos site,I can finally play jetpac,and other classics.ignore any negative comments,the developer has done a first class job,and its free.what is there not to like?
Brother Bog Dan, just like your nicely made game, this app. working smoothly and without any glitches!?? This emulator works better than most other options available on the Play store. And also NO INTRUSIVE/SUSPICIOUS APP-PERMISSIONS like most other apps.! Keep up the good work bro Bog Dan???☺
Would love to see an option to adjust the virtual gamepad transparency.
I have reduced the rating as the controls still won’t work and she probably put it on joystick and bad communication when you leave feedback when there is a problem only when there is good feed back no help available shame as it looks good but all i can do is find a game than get killed as no controls . Please fix it and i will up my feed back
The most perfect Speccy emulator for Android. No ads, great interface and it works perfectly. Congratulations!
Really good spectrum emulator. Would be good if I could use my physical keyboard as Spectrum keyboard, as I’m running on a Chromebook.
This has to be the best spectrum emulator out, good layout and in app game downloads
You can save your programs in tape.
عتشقشم ولی نمیتونم دانلودش کنم
where do I get the file names from?
The integrated search makes this app. Very nice emulator!
Excellent Work by App Developer. All works well. Childhood revisited!!
Bringed back to my youth ?
It actually works marvelous…
Excellent.
Doesn’t load any downloaded content or online games and seems to have a thing for 007 games there’s about 100 just for the same 007 game. Atleast Marvin & USP have all the games working perfectly and u can write your own games too on them which I’ve already written new versions called Football Champions 2017, Treble Champions 2017, Football Director 3 which goes all the way down to the Southern Premier/Northern Premier and the Evo-Stick (Ryman Premier) too also with the Champions league & Europa league,etc.
What downloaded games you’ve tried and they didn’t worked?
The online games work perfectly for me (and for the other people) it might not work if the SSL handshake fails …
It will be great if you can add all your problems to https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol/issues and will check them one by one.
Best spectrum emulator of all on android. Searching local files can be confusing, I guess this is where some people get stuck. Best way to search online is enter first word of title or enter the publisher name i.e. Ocean, Mastertronic etc…
Also it doesn’t seem to work with files I’ve downloaded previously which work on other emulators. I’m still favouring Xpectroid.
Once you get used to it, it’s great. Trouble is, I still can’t get past level one on Manic Miner..!
Very good indeed, no problem finding games from inside the app, loving playing jet set Willy without needing the colour card. Good amount of tinkering options. Good work.
Brilliant! A 128K keyboard option would be good though. But still better than the other emus out there.
You can switch to 128K keyboard from Options->Peripherals and uncheck “Full on screen 48K Keyboard”
The best spectrum emulator on android. The emulating compatibility is near to perfection.
Love it.Worked great and brought back so many memories of hours spent playing the speccy games on me trusty ZX 48k
This a fantastic app. All the old spectrum games are easily accessed and the controls are good. Probably will become my most used app.
Can you please add support for zipped/compressed files. Thank you!
Click on “Become beta tester” and you can enjoy it ?
Great update. It would be nice if the Dpad could have also been customized for games that were keyboard only, like Ant Attack and itwould be great if you could save individual configs for each game.
Woow, Stand back Marvin, excellent emu, now on my mobile and android TV box, all in Stunning HD, AirMouse Keyboard and TV Controller work fine. Well done app developer. Retro is back. Its smooth, quick, and Original Retro… Welcome To Android Gaming:)
Can’t play games that require keyboard as on my phone the keyboard covers the whole screen.If I’m missing something please let me know
– try to use cursor joystick (if the game allows it)
– enable portrait mode, the keyboard will be placed under the screen (though it will be very small)
– buy en external (blue-tooth) keyboard.