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The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse): an emulator of the 1980s home computer and various clones for Unix, macOS and Windows.

Accurate 16K, 48K (including the NTSC variant), 128K, +2, +2A and +3 emulation.
Working +3e, SE, TC2048, TC2068, TS2068, Pentagon 128, Pentagon "512" (Pentagon 128 modified for extra memory), Pentagon 1024 and Scorpion ZS 256 emulation.
Runs at true Speccy speed on any computer you're likely to try it on.
Support for loading from .tzx files, including accelerated loading.
Sound (on Windows and macOS, and on systems supporting ALSA, the Open Sound System, SDL or OpenBSD/Solaris's /dev/audio).
Kempston joystick emulation.
Emulation of the various printers you could attach to the Spectrum.
Support for the RZX input recording file format, including 'competition mode'.
Emulation of the Currah µSource, DivIDE, DivMMC, Interface 1, Kempston mouse, Multiface One/128/3, Spectrum +3e, ZXATASP, ZXCF and ZXMMC interfaces.
Emulation of the Currah µSpeech, Covox, Fuller audio box, Melodik and SpecDrum audio interfaces.
Emulation of the Beta 128, +D, Didaktik 80/40, DISCiPLE and Opus Discovery interfaces.
Emulation of the Spectranet and SpeccyBoot interfaces.
Support for the Recreated ZX Spectrum Bluetooth keyboard.

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vrbd Edited 2021-06-22

This is great stuff. Full stop. I installed it on Windows 10x64 and it ran right out of the box. Portable version would of course be appreciated, but it is sufficient to just grab the files the installer dropped and accept the minor issue that Fuse puts a file called fuse.cfg into the %USERPROFILE% directory once you save the configuration. People who want to use the Interface 1 would need to grab a ROM from somewhere, as this peripheral ROM for whatever reasons is not part of the bundle. I simply took it from EightyOne (which does not handle the IF-1 well), renamed it to se-1.rom and copied it into ./Fuse/roms/. Worked like a charm. Configuration hint: I recommend disabling the weird "Random Length MDR Cartridge" (Fuse|Options|Media) option and set MDR Cartridge Len to 254 which is as long as it can possibly get with the MDR format (254 sectors). Thanks for the effort put into this great piece of software. It is highly appreciated.
andreyu Posted 2017-11-28

One of the best ZX-Spectrum emulator.

1 user found this review helpful.
dr-bed Posted 2017-09-26

Jewel for retro archaeologists!
abrimaal Edited 2016-11-10

Panda antivirus detects the installation file as suspicious (Windows 32bit). It should be sent to Panda stuff to eliminate the suspection if the file is not malicious. I will not install it and still use the previous version of Fuse.
captaingold12 Posted 2015-12-18

IT PRETTY MUCH KILLED MY COMPUTER