SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

A lot of "Demo Scene" youtube videos have been popping up on my feed as of late. Many claim to be ZX Spectrum, but in reality many are created on the Pentagon or Scorpion ZS-256. This gives a false impression that the stock Sinclair machine can do this.

This is an example.
The first give-away once it is extracted, is that the file extension is trd. The emulator Fuse, identifies this as a Scorpion ZS-256.

For an real example that actually is for a ZX Spectrum 128K.

You can find the files over at https://www.pouet.net/index.php

I wanted to put a like but that AY is painful to my ears! Olifers could of gone for a nice bassy twin SID. Not interested in original hardware just emulators that are better

Quote from: Baggey on March 22, 2025, 19:10:23I wanted to put a like but that AY is painful to my ears! Olifers could of gone for a nice bassy twin SID. Not interested in original hardware just emulators that are better

They are not the best examples of the AY on the ZX Spectrum. And and I've never yet come across an emulator that is better than real hardware.


When it comes to the crunch. The Russian clones were far superior, especially with the addons you could get for them.

QuoteAnd and I've never yet come across an emulator that is better than real hardware.

I have much work todo