Give Tommys PSPVBA v0.1 A Try

For many of us PSPVBA is synonymous to Zx-81. but it’s very nice to know that there are new blood that get inspired by the work that other people do (perhaps a result of homebrew going mainstream?). Tommydanger‘s PSPVBA is based on Zx-81‘s creation. It may be based on his work, but Tommy made sure that his version will not be engulfed in the shadow of Zx-81’s work. He decided to add more features in his release instead of making it run faster.

New features:

• improved rom browser
• displays rom size
• marks roms red that are incompatible
• ability to delete roms in the rom browser
• multiple rom settings
• autoload last played rom at startup

However, even if he says that he didn’t focus on making it faster a lot of those that have downloaded and tried the program found that games run smoother and the sound is better. A lot of them attribute it to its 1.2.1 engine.

Those that are already familiar to ZX-81’s work on the PSPVBA will not find it hard to use Tommy’s work, but those that are going to use it the first time, a complete How-to is included in the Read Me file.

To give credit where credit is due, Tommy would like to thank Zx-81 for being both a nice guy and coder. Also Shadow, for his beautiful icons and backgrounds.

Download: [Tommy’s PSPVBA v0.1]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]

For many of us PSPVBA is synonymous to Zx-81. but it’s very nice to know that there are new blood that get inspired by the work that other people do (perhaps a result of homebrew going mainstream?). Tommydanger‘s PSPVBA is based on Zx-81‘s creation. It may be based on his work, but Tommy made sure that his version will not be engulfed in the shadow of Zx-81’s work. He decided to add more features in his release instead of making it run faster.

New features:

• improved rom browser
• displays rom size
• marks roms red that are incompatible
• ability to delete roms in the rom browser
• multiple rom settings
• autoload last played rom at startup

However, even if he says that he didn’t focus on making it faster a lot of those that have downloaded and tried the program found that games run smoother and the sound is better. A lot of them attribute it to its 1.2.1 engine.

Those that are already familiar to ZX-81’s work on the PSPVBA will not find it hard to use Tommy’s work, but those that are going to use it the first time, a complete How-to is included in the Read Me file.

To give credit where credit is due, Tommy would like to thank Zx-81 for being both a nice guy and coder. Also Shadow, for his beautiful icons and backgrounds.

Download: [Tommy’s PSPVBA v0.1]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]