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ZX Desk brings GEM-style windowed desktop to 48K ZX Spectrum

A developer has built ZX Desk, a full graphical desktop environment for the 1982 ZX Spectrum 48K, written entirely in Z80 assembly. It supports overlapping resizable windows with z-ordering, pull-down menus, a file manager, notepad, calendar, clock and settings panel, all running within the machine's 48K memory and real-time frame budget, on actual hardware rather than an emulator.

github.com · 2026-09-19

Developer explores multichannel 1-bit sound tricks on the ZX Spectrum

A hobbyist developer documented an experiment attempting to bring advanced PC-speaker-style audio techniques, including PCM and PWM sample playback, to the ZX Spectrum's single-bit beeper. The main breakthrough was getting rudimentary multichannel sound, essentially chords, to play through the one-bit speaker, though the original goal of full PC-style playback fell short.

bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com · 2026-09-08