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About Spectacol
Spectacol is an arcade app developed by BogDan Vatra.
How many times has Spectacol been downloaded?
Spectacol has been downloaded 61 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 60 times.
What is the rating of Spectacol?
Spectacol is rated 4.40 out of 5 stars, based on 390 ratings.
Is Spectacol free?
Spectacol is free to download. The APK download size is 20.65 MB. The latest version available is 1.6.0.5. The last update was on May 2, 2021.
What are the requirements for Spectacol?
Spectacol requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play March 2016.
Description
Spectacol (in Romanian means show) is a free (GPL v3+) ZX Spectrum emulator based on FUSE Spectrum emulator(http://fuse-emulator.sf.net)
FUSE emulator has, by far, the richest ZX features list. Spectacol enables the following features:
- Loads all ZX Spectrum files - Accurate 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +2A and +3 emulation - Quick load & save snapshots. It is quite useful when you play games - Easily select the Joystick type - Poke finder, disassambler & inline assambler. Allows the user to crack the games and gain infinite lives quickly - Last but not least, FUSE is very high-efficient, it needs only ~15% of CPU on a Nexus 10 to emulate your games
In addition to FUSE's features, Spectacol adds: - Online search allows the user to access thousands of ZX Spectrum apps & games! The search results are downloaded locally and they can be used to start the games offline - The UI is design with gamepad controls in mind. The user will be able to play all the games that support Joysticks using the gamepad. - On screen numeric cursor (available only when a gamepad is present), allows the user to quickly start & control the games - On Screen full/simplified 48K Keyboard needed when the numeric cursor is not enough - On screen virtual Joystick (available only when no gamepad is present), allows the user to play the games
Be aware that, Spectacol is in BETA stage! Please fell free to report bugs or ask for new features to https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol/issues or by using Menu->Help->Features and bugs
For more information please visit project page: https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol
This is an ad free application, please don't contact me to add any ads because I'm not going to do it!
Recent changes: - updated to Fuse 1.6.0 - made the keyboard usable in portrait mode - made the keyboad smaller on landscape mode (on the phones) - added sticky CS & SS, quite useful when coding in portrait mode - added save tape feature - add more scallers - add copy & paste feature to files manager - open the menu with TV remote's Guide button - fix sdcard permission for Android 10+
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Good emulator game, tested death race with Kempston joystick worked also played a Russian darts game using Kempston joystick works. Can change to landscape mode and create custom keys, but if you do create custom keys you have to change back or check if using a joystick as you may have changed fire to another key.
★★★★★GtB Films· Oct 17, 2017
Works well with Recreated ZX Spectrum keyboard. Except on my Hudl2 for some reason. Excellent app though.
★★★★★peter Time· Nov 18, 2022
Kempston does not work, but cursor works. Has xbox 360 support using android box. Games which work with cursor joystick are 3d tank, the dark, jet set willy, space walk, space racer, sabre wulf and 1942 mission. You can get these games from the game. If you use an xbox 360 wired controller: Hit x and keyboard will be displayed. Left trigger for save state, and right to load state. Start on controller will display spectacle menu.
★☆☆☆☆Steve McGarry· Sep 29, 2019
Can't believe this tripe is being showcased with high ratings, basically it inserts a text overlay over the entire screen which makes the entire opus of text adventures unplayable. What happened to grest emulators like Marvin. In the words of the Hobbit on, who made this Shire?
★★☆☆☆Seamus Doyle· Mar 13, 2024
Kempston does not work on Bluetooth joy pad
★☆☆☆☆Emanoil Daneliuc· Aug 21, 2022
It's a broken program. No documentation on how to use the initial menu (i.e. choose 128k, etc.), on how to get back to "K" or "L" mode (when stuck on direct input). I suspect functionality is incomplete, too: not possible to do the above. "Beta" was not supposed to mean "incomplete". Or if yes, it should be mentioned where describing it. It's a pity, because it looked promising. Uninstalled and don't have time to install again.
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