Death of Mark Woodmass, creator of SpecEmu, the benchmark ZX Spectrum emulator
The ZX Spectrum community is losing one of its most respected figures. Mark Woodmass, creator of SpecEmu, has passed away. The news was confirmed by those close to him and relayed by the Spectrum community.
SpecEmu, an exceptional emulator
SpecEmu is one of the most precise ZX Spectrum emulators ever developed. Woodmass had devoted years of painstaking work to it, obsessed with cycle-accuracy-the faithful cycle-by-cycle reproduction of the behavior of the original Spectrum hardware. In the Spectrum emulation scene, he was considered an absolute reference.
As his epitaph perfectly summarizes in the community:“His legacy will live on in each Spectrum precisely emulated. »Woodmass was one of those developers who work in the shadows, without seeking notoriety, driven only by a passion for technical accuracy. Its disappearance leaves a real void.
Source: Time Extension
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