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There are many ZX Spectrum emulators declaring they can be run on WinCE
etc. Which of them is working on HP Jornada 720 (HPC2000 alias WinCE 3.01)?
Here is a summary of what I have found so far.
Best source for emulator list is [WoS][1].
[1]: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html#wince
There are
* **Sinclair Spectrum Emulator** from Palmtop Software alias today TomTom
(but it is not selling this emulator anymore). It's development was
abandoned in 2000. This is the only emulator, that I am able to start on
Jornada 720, it is able to load Z80 snapshots and plays OK, however, for
some reason in this emulator, there is not working a key "O" and I am not
able to type any kind of quotes, semicolons etc. There are no extended keys
like CAPS SHIFT or SYMBOL SHIFT working. Therefore this emulator can not be
used for any reasonable work. You also can not load any .tap program, as
you need to type LOAD "", which is impossible. I did not found any
documentation for this emulator, except the included help, which is really
brief.
* **PocketClive** release 2B is requiring GAPI (kind of DirectX for
WinCE) to work, however it has hard coded 320x240 screen resolution and is
not able to work correctly on Jornadas' 640x240 screen size. You may rotate
the screen thru GAPI by 90deg. and you may get the welcome screen of Pocket
Clive, but that's all. No further action can be taken.
* **SpectrumAnyWhere** - I was not able to find a CAB file for this
emulator, the only way is to install it thru ActiveSync. After a painful
install thru ActiveSync, when you start the emulator, you'll receive a
message that "You need a 320x240 screen resolution or better with 16bit
color depth." Which is Jornada 720 fulfilling however after you press OK,
the emulator quits. You are done.
* **PocketSpeccy and UnrealSpeccyPPC** both require WinCE 4.2.
PocketSpeccy needs also GAPI. I managed both application to run by faking
the aygshell, coredll and rewriting of the required system version in the
.exe. UnrealSpeccy however always quits after setup. PocketSpeccy runs with
GAPI default J710 setup, but is somehow too small, and is very slow. Also
there are some problems with keyboard layouts, as it is not designed for
J720 hw keyboard. There is a config file for a keyboard, that may help to
fix the issues, but I did not try that.
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