Spectemu(1)

📦 version 0.94a, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 Spectemu — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, you found the Spectemu(1) page from the General Commands Manual and honestly? you're about to have a great time. it's a whole manual about a ZX Spectrum emulator and i'm gonna walk you through every single crumb of it. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

xspect, vgaspect — a ZX Spectrum emulator 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xspect [options] [[filetype] filename]

vgaspect [options] [[filetype] filename]

like, that's it. that's the whole entrance. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so Spectemu is a 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for Linux and other UNIX operating systems. it's giving retro, it's giving iconic, it's giving your childhood but on a modern machine. 🌈

the program xspect can be started in X11, and it opens up a window to display the screen of the Spectrum. do not start xspect in the background, because it uses the terminal to read filenames, and to print information on the state of the emulator. like, it literally needs that terminal, bestie. don't abandon it. 🙈

the vgaspect program can only be started on a Linux console, and it uses the SVGALIB library. on non-linux systems this program is not available. sorry babes, that's just the vibe check. 💀

✨ OPERANDS ✨

for both xspect and vgaspect a snapshot file or a tape file can be specified on the command line. the file can have the extension .z80 , .sna , .tap or .tzx (the extension can be ommitted). yes, you can just rawdog it without the extension, she's flexible. 🫶

the option -help displays a list of available options. for a more complete list, and description see the file README. (iykyk, the README is where the real lore lives. 📖✨)

for xspect the following options also have meaning:

  • -display DISPLAYNAME — open the window on DISPLAYNAME instead of the default 👑
  • -name WINDOWNAME — change the title of the window to WINDOWNAME 🎀

✨ KEYS ✨

you can press Ctrl-H to get help on what keys to use. literally the cheat code. press it. slay. ⌨️💖

for more information on the features available in Spectemu see the file README distributed with the emulator.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

✨ BUGS ✨

the author tries to keep nasty bugs like "Segmentation Fault" out of Spectemu, so if you notice one, STEP ON IT! 🥾🔥 not me being aggressive about a segfault but honestly? correct energy.

there are some cuter and gentler bugs, which are kept in Spectemu to amuse the user (see TODO). those ones are basically pets. they live here. they're part of the family now. 🐛🌸

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Miklos Szeredi (EMAIL: mszeredi@inf.bme.hu) 💜

Spectemu is copyright (C) 1996-1998 Miklos Szeredi

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. see the file COPYING.

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU General Public License for more details.

you should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was Version 0.94, dated 18 May 1998 — yeah, she's vintage, she's a classic, she's literally older than most of us and still eating. 💅✨ go emulate a Spectrum, you deserve it. mwah. 🎀🦋💖

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