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To finally close the issue https://imageup.ru/img15/4030923/error.jpg This browser is running on MiSTer. Apparently, the file with the full name did not open, and I wrote it into the image a little shorter. It still didn't start. That's why I decided that it was because of the specific name Z80. Th...

New test version available here . The tape browser (_TPE plugin) can now be started with Caps Shift + T regardless of whether you have a .tap file attached (the plugin displays 'No tape file to browse!'. Pressing Shift + N inside the tape browser window lets you create a 0 byte empty .tap file which...

I'm sorry but it's loading fine now. Perhaps I tried to load on another computer, about three weeks ago. Perhaps there is not the latest version of the browser. But I can only double-check this in two days, sorry again. No problem. At least I've fixed the issue where the filename wasn't being displ...

link The file is archived. in emulators, it loads with such a "wrong" name, but did not want to in the browser, I had to rename it. This, of course, is not very important, but it is interesting what exactly the parser "stumbles" on. By the way, this test works on zx-uno, but rat...

And also in the browser. As far as I remember, he refused to load a file with this name "Z80 Test Program (2005-01-16)(Woigk, Gu¦Inter)[!].tap" I think it stumbles at the beginning of the name Z80? I did not come up with such a file name, but the author of the test, if anything) Can you p...

The converse statement is also true, that it is not so easy to modify and assemble the plugin code for the SJAsm assembler :) Swimming, we know.. It is necessary to port at least two main files "plugin.asm" and "esxdos.asm" and the main plugin file itself. Is the sheepskin worth...

It would be great if you could implement the execution of this command in your browser in case you detect a ZX-Uno and ENTER is pressed on a file with .ZX1 extension. Thanks. I'll add it to the list for the next version. Might be easier if Antonio had a look at the plugin SDK or source for one of t...

Just to let you all know that I've updated the latest v0.23 release with the fixes for attaching tapes and TurboSound playback in the PT3 plugin. If you downloaded v0.23 before this post, then you may want to download it again to get the fixes. Any other bugs and feature requests will now roll over ...

Last August 6 I left you this message in the ZX-Uno Telegram group: I have noticed that the PT3 plugin does not correctly play tracks in Turbo Sound, such as those that can be found in the Summer of '22 distribution in the /SPECCY/MUSICA/TS-PT3 folder. I have tested it with versions 0.22 and 0.23a5...

That is great, Bob, thanks :) But what I am asking is a BASIC loader that I can type up in my Spectrum, save it in a tape and load it before the actual game, so the incompatibility is gone when I play the game in my +2A :) Untested but it looks like it's doing the right thing. :) 1 REM Scaramouche ...

Could it be a Loader in BASIC? Thanks! I assmbled the code provided by goodboy and used this to load in the .tzx file of Scaramouche. After some fiddling around I got it into a normal .tap file. It will load a bit faster than the original does as it skips the first 16k of data loaded over the top o...

desUBIKado wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 7:06 pm Yes, it works fine now.

Thanks.

Thanks for testing and confirming. I'll update the latest version .zip file in a couple of days with this fix just in case any other bugs are found.

Hi @bob_fossil , I am testing version 0.23 on my ZX-Uno and I have noticed that it does not work to attach a file with CS+I or CS+O. The red led on the ZX-Uno lights up, but the bottom line indicating that it has done so does not appear. I also don't get any evidence that the opposite action works ...

Nice speed increase :) If I use version 0.23 and load a TAP file containing a BASIC program, the BORDER and PAPER are 0 rather than 7, and INK is 7 also rather than 0. Judging from the release notes for version 0.22 this appears to be a regression. The actual .tap loading is done by esxDOS not the ...

Hello I'm new here and a ZX Spectrum fan. 8-) First of all I would like to thank you for the great work here. I am using ZX Spectrum 128K with Lotharek's DivIDE 2k14 with ESXDOS v0.8.9. Browser version 0.22 works fine (no RAM version). The new version 0.23 shows files but cannot start anything. Got...

v0.23 Large amounts of the long filename processing and FAT reading code were re-written in assembly language to try and improve performance. Anecdotally, a folder that used to take ~5 seconds to display now takes ~3 seconds. Thanks to Chris23235 for helping to debug this. _CLP plugin now displays a...

OK, thanks. Ketmar's response was what I thought was going on. It's a limitation of how an emulator running on a machine with a graphics system with one set of timings can display the screen of an emulated machine which uses a different set of timings. Bob confirmed it's OK on real hardware. I'd al...

It's rock solid running on my +2 with an LCD TV.



The photo is not brilliant but there are multiple lines of grey visible in the 8x8 block.

Many thanks for this new version @bob_fossil I finally found the time to try the new version on my Omni. The ".brwsfont -l" and ".brwsfont -r" commands don't work for me, I always get the error "Couldn't open font file". Switching between bold and 64 character font usi...

New test version available here.

You can now do: to list the available fonts for the browser.

Barring any late breaking bugs or issues, this will be the last test version before the full v0.23 release.

Hi!! I'm having this browser into my "DivIDE REVISED" with a 48K Speccy, and everything works really fine, but not the NMI button. Everytime I press it, ir crashes, or boots, or does nothing, butit works the 5% of times. Do you think this is a hardware issue, or has something to do with t...

A bit of manipulation with this tzx and the official release in a hex editor shows that both turbo blocks are nearly identical. Aside from the difference in spelling of the first BASIC block and some tape block checksum differences, there's a couple of small changes near the start: Pre-prod: 000001f...

New test version available here.

More behind the scenes changes and optimisations with the added potential to break the core file browsing code. Also added a new font called SMART which is the font posted on here a while back that was 'borrowed' from the Retroleum Smart Card browser software.

Are you also planning to include the jukebox functionality for mym files? The music plugins are all based on 3rd party source or playback routines and it so happens that the PT2/PT3 source supported the option to not loop the song which is used for playing the next song. The MYM source doesn't offe...

Many thanks for this new version @bob_fossil. I was able to try it out on my Omni today and everything worked fine. The new font feature is amazing, the long filenames of the TOSEC set work very well with the 64 characters font while everything still keeps readable even on the Omni Laptop display. ...