Dating from 1983 the Memotech MTX 512 was quite a nifty little home computer from the classic days when everything used a Z80 CPU. It had fairly decent graphics, and nice sound, although these factors couldn't save it from the competition, and Memotech disapeared in 1986. Although the Memotech was not especially well known, it did have some very nice games, clones of hits on other platforms which are great fun to play.
MTX
The emulation of
Martin Allcorn's MTX is of a very high standard, with full controls, graphics
and even sound emulated very satisfactorily. Written in ARM code, the emulator
is also very fast, and runs at full speed (and above) on even low end machines.
The speed can easily be configured from a window before the emulator is
entered.
By clicking on the icon bar icon, you are suddenly immersed in the world of the MTX, quite a simple command line OS is included to allow you to list disk contents, and run necessary files to play a few games provided. You can return to the desktop at any time, and then resume later, the previous bug where the screen wasn't cleared correctly is now fixed and Martin has also added in a screenshot facility.
I've been unable to find any MTX software on the web, so it's a good job Martin has supplied the emulator with a few choice games to play. Don't let this put you off though, the games supplied are very entertaining. The emulator source code has also been released and Martin is making progress on an MTX emulator for the PC, as his signature says, he's, "The only person daft enough to emulate the Memotech MTX!".
Speed Rating: ARM
3 
ARM610
MTX v1.43 (25/9/99)
Martin's MTX page
Technical Information
CPU - Zilog Z80A running at 4 Mhz
Display- TMS9918 video controller
Sound - TI sound chip
RAM - upto 512Kb
ROM - 24Kb
reference - Martin Allcorn, author of MTX