Making a double-sided TZX

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Making a double-sided TZX

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I want to package my game up in a .TZX file and it's a multi-load, so I want to put the code on Side A and the levels on Side B.

I can create a .TZX using Spectaculator and add files to it via SAVE and ROM calls, however I can't find any way to "add" a 2nd side (or any other editing tools for that matter)

Does anyone know of a tool which I can use to achieve this? TAPER looks ideal, but I can't get it to run on Windows 10 :cry:
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Re: Making a double-sided TZX

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Give ZX-Blockeditor a try.
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Re: Making a double-sided TZX

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Cheers. I now realise it's much simpler than I thought... the games I have with "two sides" are just 2 individual .tzx files in a .zip :oops:
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Re: Making a double-sided TZX

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Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:23 pm Give ZX-Blockeditor a try.
This has come in very handy indeed! Allowed me to update a .tzx to replace an incorrect CODE block with ease. Would have taken much longer to rebuild it from scratch in Spectaculator. Ace, thanks!
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