![]() So I unplugged the joystick and launched Spectaculator. ![]() I’d replaced my venerable Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback with a Saitek X52 Pro early in 2014 to maximise my enjoyment of Elite: Dangerous. It then occurred to me that the only significant hardware or software change since the last time Spectaculator ran successfully was my joystick. I even disabled DEP in both hardware and software, all to no avail. Having had some compatibility problems in the past between earlier incarnations of Spectaculator and various security programs I began by disabling anything that might be misinterpreting the emulator as malware, then turning off various Windows services. Surprisingly it crashed with an Access Violation error as soon as the emulation started. This weekend I had reason to fire up Spectaculator 8.0, one of my favourite ZX Spectrum emulators but one which I hadn’t run in over a year. ![]() A very unusual one this, recorded here for the benefit of the half dozen other people on the planet who might stumble upon it while Googling the same problem. ![]()
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