Spectrum-related software for UNIX and/or DOS

LILO menu screen

This program generates menu screens for the Linux loader LILO, which look something like the Spectrum 128 power-on menu.

zxlilo-1.0.0.tar.gz (3k)

The menus generated by ZXLILO 1.0.0 look a bit weird, because the blue bar isn't wide enough. If you're not afraid of applying a patch to LILO and building it from source, you can get a better-looking menu by using ZXLILO 1.1.0:

(1.0.0) versus (1.1.0 + patched LILO)

zxlilo-1.1.0.tar.gz (6k)

xv(1) patch

This patch allows xv (3.10a) to load/save screens in the Spectrum SCREEN$ format. The screens must have a +3DOS header so that xv can identify them.

Download the patch here.

To install, use these commands (assuming that you have an xv build tree in /usr/src/xv-3.10a, and that you saved the patch in your home directory):

    cd /usr/src
    patch < ~/xv-zx-patch
    cd xv-3.10a
    make 

zmakebas patch

This patch extends zmakebas so that it can output files in +3DOS format as well as .TAP.

Download the patch here.

TAPTOOLS

These utilities are for manipulating .TAP files - for example as part of an automated build of Spectrum software. Utilities included are:

SPECFORM

Adds a +3DOS header to a file, like the COPY ... TO SPECTRUM FORMAT command.

UNSPECFORM

Removes a +3DOS header.

TAPCAT

Combines files into a .TAP file.

TAPLS

Lists the contents of a .TAP file.

TAPGET

Extracts one or more files from a .TAP file.

TAPSPLIT

Extracts everything from a TAP file in one go.

TAP2DSK

Builds a +3 or PCDOS disc image from a TAP file.

MKP3FS

Builds a +3 or PCDOS disc image from separate files.

BIN2BAS

Wraps a machine-code program in a 2-line BASIC program that runs it.

TAPTOOLS.ZIP (207k) contains the compiled programs for DOS (also usable under Windows, but no long filename support), plus source.

TAPTOOLS-W32.ZIP (244k) contains the compiled programs for Win32, plus source.

taptools-1.0.3.tar.gz (85k) contains the source code and configuration scripts to build TAPTOOLS on a UNIX system. For best results you'll need LibDsk installed before doing the build.

IDA script

This script is designed to be used with the IDA disassembler (version 3.7 freeware) to disassemble Spectrum snapshots in the .SNA format.

Download SNA.IDC (5k) here. It should be saved to your IDA install directory.

To use it, start IDA with:

	IDA -c -pz80 filename.SNA

and, once it has started, load the .SNA file at segment 0x1000, offset 0x3FE5. Then go to File, IDC file and open SNA.IDC.

John Elliott 2007-06-28