About PlayZX
PLEASE READ THIS TEXT IN FULL BEFORE INSTALLING: Select from thousands of Sinclair ZX Spectrum games and play them through the headphone jack to load them onto your Speccy. You can also select your local (on the device)...
PLEASE READ THIS TEXT IN FULL BEFORE INSTALLING:
Select from thousands of Sinclair ZX Spectrum games and play them through the headphone jack to load them onto your Speccy. You can also select your local (on the device) TAP or TZX files, convert them to sound files and play them. This way you can load games for not only the ZX Spectrum micro but also any other retro computer that have compatible audio jacks.
IMPORTANT:
1. This is not an emulator, *it* will not play those games! You need an actual ZX Spectrum.
2. If you cannot browse and select your own files, it is likely caused by new Android permissions that Google changed with their newer development kits.
3. Make sure that your Android device is *not* connected to USB (for example, to charge it), while using this app. (Electrically, its ground needs to be floating with respect to the ZX Spectrum power supply)
4. Put your Android device in "Do Not Disturb" mode (*not* the Airplane mode as it needs internet access). This will prevent random notifications to disturb the signal output.
5. Use a good quality, preferably short, audio cable. For best results, use a stereo cable and turn the option to invert one stereo channel. Play with the volume: you may get different results on your phone vs. on your tablet, for example.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of PlayZX since it was posted on our website on 2017-01-02 23:22:57.
The latest version is 3.9 and it was updated on 2026-06-11 16:35:56. See below the changes in each version.
PlayZX version 3.9
Updated At: 2026-04-20
Changes: What's new in 3.9
- Settings page: pick any detected audio device (USB DAC, Bluetooth, speaker…)
- About page now shows the app version
- Fixed stereo setting getting stuck in stereo after playing a ZX81 .P file
- Playback errors (bad WAV, etc.) now surface in the UI instead of failing silently
- Player progress timer stops when nothing is playing — lower idle battery draw
- Qt 6.10.3, Android 15/16-ready (16 KB page size)
- Misc. cleanup: memory leak on repeated plays, minor robustness fixes
PlayZX version 3.7
Updated At: 2025-08-25
Changes: The device will not go to sleep while this app is active
Fixed saving last wave file (in Settings) for all devices
PlayZX version 3.5
Updated At: 2025-07-08
Changes: Settings: new switch to add some visual padding on the app screen bottom. Some users' phones OS would overlay system buttons making the bottom tab sunreachable.
PlayZX version
Updated At: 2024-07-15
Changes: Maintenance release to update the Android API level requirement.
PlayZX version
Updated At: 2024-01-15
Changes: Added option to save the last wave file to Downloads folder.
PlayZX version
Updated At: 2023-10-13
Changes: Fixes (legacy) local file management
Fixes ZX81 wave generation (from .P)
Correctly refresh favorites
PlayZX version
Updated At: 2023-10-12
Changes: Support for newer Android devices.
New local file picker.
PlayZX version
Updated At: 2020-09-07
Changes: Added ZX81 .P file support
Added MSX .TSX file support
Loop test track
PlayZX version
Updated At: 2020-05-23
Changes: Added a rewind button.
Added a square wave option.
Added Amstrad .CDT file support.
PlayZX version
Updated At: 2019-06-16
Changes: This is an arm64-v8a release, otherwise functionally identical to previous application release.
Disclaimer
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