Spectaculator

Buzzing to see a modern update. This was always the best Speccy Emulator on iOS. Proper support for the original devs and pad support built in. Looking forward to some of those original features coming back. You know what I mean 🥳

Having purchased most of the games available for this IOS app in the past, a recent update (either to the app, or IOS) has completely broken the app, removing ALL sound. Any sound effects or music are now silenced. Removing and reinstalling the app doesn’t fix the issue. Spending money on games while the app still worked as expected, only to find they no longer work after a recent update, now feels like money wasted. Please fix this broken app.

Great to play these Speccy classics with more to come. The app is superb, works with the iCade, a very polished product. Top marks to the dev Jon Needle. One of the best apps i've got. Don't listen to the review by ginger tips. Obviously doesn't understand how it works! Doesn't have a clue about games as most were games from back in the day and others are great new homebrew ones Edit / now with Apple changing the rules in emulators can we go back to adding our own games ?

The main failing of this app. for me, is the lack of storage space for programs one might type in. Ok I know it’s really for playing Spectrum games but from an educational POV it would have been nice to be able to type in old BASIC programs, many of which are still available and still do a good job of introducing the novice to programming concepts, despite being a very out of date language. Life is not all about playing games but I guess they were thinking of the commercial side when designing this app. They knew many people would be more interested in playing games than programming. It’s a pity because it would have kept Spectrum BASIC alive and shown there is more to life than playing games.

Restricted to playing a handful of games that the developer chooses isn’t good enough. AND they need to make is CLEAR that this is the case.

Firstly, this is an excellent emulator in its own right. Its very well put together and if you want to write your own programs, or play a very limited number of games, most of which nobody has ever heard of, this is for you. However, if you want to play games that most spectrum owners would wish to, eg Jetpac, Way of the Exploding Fist, Knighlore, Chuckie-Egg, Manic Miner, Elite, Jet set Willy, this is NOT the app for you. You cannot download your own .Tar or .z80 files, so DO NOT purchase this if you hope to be able to. There is another comment from 7 years ago which shows a workaround to this, but sadly that was closed down with IOS 6 ! BE WARNED.

Very limited games, you cannot add more and some are just demos, controls are terrible. Feel a bit ripped off.

Doesn’t have any of the classics on it

Shame it’s no longer supported or updated though. This was always the best Speccy emu ok the App Store.

Loved my spectrum 48k back in the day and love this app more game please guys great work