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Death of Mark Woodmass, creator of SpecEmu, the benchmark ZX Spectrum emulator

RetroVault Team 12 May 2026 67 views 0 comments
Mark Woodmass, the developer behind SpecEmu, one of the most accurate ZX Spectrum emulators ever written, has died. Highly respected in the Spectrum community for its technical rigor and cycle-accuracy requirements.

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

Image credit: “ZXSpectrum48k” by Bill Bertram, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).

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