ZX Spectrum Emulators for Linux

FBZX is an emulator specially designed to work in full screen mode using FrameBuffer, also supports working in X's.

• emulates acurately the Original spectrum (both issue 2 and issue 3), the classic 128K, the Amstrad Plus 2, the Amstrad Plus 2A and the Spanish 128K. This include screen, keyboard and sound (both speaker and AY-3-8912 chip).
• Screen emulation is extremely acurate, so it can emulate border efects and even atribute efects.
• Supports Z80 snapshots, both loading and saving, and loading .SNA snapshots.
• Supports TAP (both read and write) and TZX (only read) tape files, supporting normal speed loading and fast speed loading.
• Emulates joysticks: kempston, cursor and sinclair.
• Emulates the Interface I and Microdrive.
• Emulates the ULAPlus
• Based in a new, fully free, Z80 emulator (Z80Free).
• Is distributed under GPLv3 license.

Cross-platform emulator of ZX Spectrum and other 80's home computers with many features. Graphical interface is based on GTK2/GTK3. Various installation packages can be found on the emulator's official site. The fuse-emulator package is present in many distributions.

• Accurate 16K, 48K (including the NTSC variant), 128K, +2, +2A and +3 emulation.
• Working +3e, SE, TC2048, TC2068, TS2068, Pentagon 128, Pentagon "512" (Pentagon 128 modified for extra memory), Pentagon 1024 and Scorpion ZS 256 emulation.
• Runs at true Speccy speed on any computer you're likely to try it on.
• Support for loading from .tzx files, including accelerated loading.
• Sound (on Windows and Mac OS X, and on systems supporting ALSA, the Open Sound System, SDL or OpenBSD/Solaris's /dev/audio).
• Kempston joystick emulation.
• Emulation of the various printers you could attach to the Spectrum.
• Support for the RZX input recording file format, including 'competition mode'.
• Emulation of the DivIDE, Interface I, +D, Beta 128, Opus Discovery, Kempston mouse, Fuller audio box, Spectrum +3e, ZXATASP and ZXCF interfaces.
• Emulation of the Spectranet interface.

ZX Spectrum emulator for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Graphical interface on Qt.

Emulator of Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16kB / 48kB / 128kB, Spectrum +2 / +2A / +3 and Timex Sinclair TC2048 / TS2068 for Linux.

XZX-Pro is an excellent ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 emulator for UNIX and X Window systems. XZX-Pro is written entirely in C. It is based on the XZX 1.0.2 source code by Des Herriott, but has been completely redesigned to improve performance.