ZX-Poly platform emulator

ZX-Poly is attempt to jump over ZX-Spectrum limits and get way to have graphics without atribute clash. The idea of the platform was developed by Igor Maznitsa in april 1994. The first emulator was developed in 1998 and the current emulator was developed in 2014 to prove the idea.

By default the emulator works in ZX-Poly mode, you can move it into ZX-128 mode through Options->ZX-Mode menu item.

License

Supported formats

1. Snapshots: Z80, ZXP, SNA, ZIP (Spec256 SNA)
2. Disk format: TRD, SCL
3. Tape format: TAP

Emulated components

1. ZX-Spectrum keyboard (SHIFT = CAPS SHIFT, ALT = SYMBOL SHIFT)
2. Beta-disk interface
3. Kempston mouse (one click by mouse on the emulator form - trap mouse, ESC - free mouse)
4. Kempston joystick (emulated by cursor keys of keypad!)
5. Tape (only reading)
6. Beeper (by default is turned off, can be enabled through Options->Beeper)

Game controller support

Since 2.0.5, gamepad and joysticks are supported. Menu Service->Game controllers opens window where you can activate found game controller and assign it to emulate either kempston or interfaceII. Support of game controllers provided through JInput library and sometime it work not well in detection of new conected devices, so I recommend restart emulator after game controller connect.
Emulator uses only X and Y as position parameters and all buttons recognized as Fire.

Keyboard shortcuts

• F1 - this info
• F3 - turbo mode
• F4 - play/pause TAP file if loaded
• F5 - show keyboard layout
• F8 - make screenshot
• F12- reset
• CTRL+mouse wheel - screen scale

System properties

• zxpoly.rom.path contains ROM file path
• zxpoly.int.ticks number of INT ticks between screen refresh request

Emulation of Spec256