FBZX(1)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay bestie, say hi to fbzx — it's a ZX Spectrum emulator for X and framebuffer. yes. the whole vibe. retro games on your modern screen, we love to see it 💖

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

fbzx [-nosound] [-alsa] [-oss] [-pulse] [-mini] [-rotate] [-fs] [-hw]
[-db] [-ds] [-ss] [-jump N] [gamefile]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, here's every single flag, no gatekeeping, no skips, all of them. read them, love them, use them ✨

• -nosound — literally don't emulate sound at all. silence era 🙈
• -alsa — route the sound out through ALSA
• -oss — route the sound out through OSS
• -pulse — route the sound out through PulseAudio — this one's the default, the main character 👑
• -mini — show the screen at 320x240 inside a rotated 640x480 screen. tiny but mighty 🍓
• -rotate — rotate the screen clockwise 🔄
• -fs — start FBZX in fullscreen. immersive, periodt
• -hw — use a hardware buffer — this is the best choice for a console framebuffer, no cap
• -db — use a double buffer
• -ds — use doublescan, which means it does not emulate the TV black stripes
• -ss — force singlescan, which does emulate the TV black stripes
• -bw — emulate a black & white TV set 🖤🤍
• -color — emulate a color TV set 🌈
• -jump N — show one TV refresh and then jump over N refreshes. for slow systems that are going through it 😭
• gamefile — an optional .Z80 snapshot or .TAP/.TZX tape file. drop your game in and go 🎮

fr fr, that's the whole list — nothing hidden, nothing left out, we're thorough in this house 💅

and that's the tea, bestie 🫶 this was fbzx version 3.1.0, dated January 2016 — go emulate something iconic ✨🎀💖