> Hey, I got 100% with ASM ZX Spectrum emulator on a low end 386 :-) (I do > not remember the CPU freqeuncy anymore, maybe 25MHz).
Yes, in ASM a simple 25 or 33Mhz 386 computer was able to emulate the Spectrum. At least, under MSDOS, like did Warajevo, Z80, x128 and "Spectrum" from Pedro Gimeno. > First emulator in C that appeared on the emu-scene (I guess it > was x128) needed 486 (~80MHz?) to run at realtime. Pentium and > Pentium II was A LOT of power :-) x128 was not pure C. The first emulator written in pure C was Aspectrum, although Philip Kendall "finished" FUSE (Free UNIX Spectrum Emulator) before my emulator was able to emulate 128K models. But currently only FUSE and ASpectrum can be compiled in lost of platforms (Wii, Dreamcast, PocketPC, NDS...) just by translating the O.S. dependent functions or if the destination platform supports the Allegro library... And at least a P1-P2 is needed for that :-) > http://perl-spectrum.sourceforge.net/ > > It is quite fast IMHO. It does not run 100% in my 1.8Ghz centrino computer :-(, but almost. At least, is a good start to see that is possible, at least no current DualCore computers :-) Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list