Bizmuth

Every Spectrum, from the 16K to the Next.

An emulator of the whole Sinclair line — 16K, 48K, 128K, +2A, +3 and the ZX Spectrum Next. Play the classics, run the latest Next releases, or build your own.

Complete Next hardware

The full Next core — Z80N, Layer 2, sprites, tilemap, copper, DMA, CTC and audio — verified against the real Next FPGA.

Scriptable debugging

A plain-text ADP protocol over TCP — drive the machine, set breakpoints and read any state from any client, with no recompile.

Runs the whole library

Tapes, disks, snapshots and .nex files, plus SD-card images to boot NextZXOS — from 16K classics to the newest Next demos and games.

Cross-platform

Native builds for macOS, Windows and Linux, in a single self-contained window.

Bizmuth 1.0.0-rc3 is available

Bizmuth 1.0.0-rc3 is available to download. Seven new ADP commands let a tool drive the emulator: reset it, run a bounded number of frames, read physical RAM, swap SD cards and capture audio. The Copper and the AY mixer behave more like the…

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Bizmuth 1.0.0-rc1 is available

Bizmuth 1.0.0-rc1 is available to download — the first release candidate for 1.0.0. The headline is speed: emulation is faster, and the emulator spends much less CPU time doing it.