Imagesource: https://www.retrovirtualmachine.org/

In Issue #57 we touched on the Retro Virtual Machine by Juan Carlos González Amestoy - @retrovm - unfortunately only tangentially.

What a shame, because the software is of such high quality, that we have to dedicate at least one whole article to it. So here we go:

RVM is a classic emulator that pretends to be a ZX Spectrum or an Amstrad CPC. That alone is almost a unique selling point, but the project comes with a whole bunch of lovingly designed goodies. Besides a virtual cassette player, and low level disk emulation you get gamepad support, SD card functionality, a perfect monitor emulation including GPU based post processing functionalities for scanlines, blur and pixel mask.

High quality audio goes without saying, and if you want to use the thing for more than just playing games, you'll get your money's worth with the integrated assembler and debugger.

Ingenious project, you’ll have to give it a try.