simon moreton
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This is a MUST have app if you have any zx spectrum computer or a spectrum NEXT.. as long as you have an EAR socket in your spectrum your laughing. I have just tried this on my spectrum next and loaded a game up using my mobile phone through the earphone socket and voila it actually works 10/10 for this brilliant and amazing app....NO more loading old spectrum games from tape this does exactly the same but in digital form and 1000's of them... Well done to the development team behind this...
Baltazar Studios, LLC
09 April 2024
Thank you! The "development team" is one guy (me) toying with it in a spare time, since I also enjoy loading and playing old games.. appreciate your review! 🤠🌈
A Google user
The app works really well. I have modified my ZX +2A to load games on the (then) output-only connector, and now it's perfect. It loads games from PlayZX consistently. However if the author would accept some suggestions, they would be: - To be able to configure the user interface to increase the font size, on small screens is hard to select the exact game you want - And on bigger screens (10.8 inch tablet), the fonts are also too small, there is a lot of screen estate that gets wasted - There is no way to rewind the virtual tape! This is infuriating. For example, you try to load R-Type. It's a 10 minute audio virtual tape. The initial load is about 3.5 minutes. Then there is an intro on the computer, and you have to be quick to pause the PlayZX player, or else it'll start playing the 1st stage segment. If you miss that, or forget to press pause, you're dead. You won't be able to rewind, say, 5 seconds to try and load the header again. - Also it would be VERY useful to prevent the screen saver/lock screen (as an option), because when the phone/tablet screen goes blank, PlayZX stops playing the tape. So preventing the screen saver/screen lock to happen or keep playing in background it would be perfect. All in all, it works GREAT. Thanks!
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Baltazar Studios, LLC
26 September 2019
Thank you for your detailed review. I am not actively developing this app (also, it is quite old now), but I do attend to it once in a while. I will stash your suggestions and see if they can be implemented reasonably quickly. Thanks!