Spectrum Computing

• Cursor up / down - move selection
• Space / Enter - select a folder or launch a supported file
• Delete / P - navigate to parent folder
• Break / X - exit browser

• Currently supports FAT16 disks only.
• Currently only reads from esxdos device 0.
• Limit of browsing 256 files in a folder.
• Only launches .tap files (no .sna / .trd support yet).
• Doesn't start browsing from the current directory - always starts from the root folder.
• Unsupported characters (> ASCII 127) are displayed as '~'.
• Filenames (> 32 characters) are not clipped.

• Now supports FAT32.
• Improved directory handling - some folders were being truncated or listing garbage entries.
• When you launch the browser it now starts from the current esxdos path, rather than dropping you back at the root folder every time.

• Added 42 character display.
• Long filenames that spill over the screen are now truncated to fit the screen width and are indicated with an ellipsis character.
• You can now select and autostart .trd files.

emook wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:01 am
Only issue I see is that its called the same as an existing dotcommand on the Next, .BROWSE on the Next initiates the build in browser.

bob_fossil wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:15 am

emook wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:01 am
Only issue I see is that its called the same as an existing dotcommand on the Next, .BROWSE on the Next initiates the build in browser.

Thanks for the kind words. I wasn't aware of a clash as I don't have a Next. At the risk of it ending up being called .browseymcbrowseface, I'm open to new name suggestions.

lordoftime79 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 12:55 pm Does this not work on actual spectrums? I have tried it but either it dosnt find the command if i extract it where you say to or if i put it where i know the commands live it works but its a empty list I cant see any of my tap files?

nihirash wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 2:13 pm You should put it into /BIN folder.

esxDOS and divMMC(in zxuno) are the same as on usual speccy.

It should work as I understand.

XoRRoX wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:41 am Thanks a lot - nice work!

Do you have some sort of a feature roadmap so we can see what's still going to be implemented/improved? That way we'll not suggest things that are already planned.

• .sna support.
• Maybe do something with .pzx files using the loadpzx command for the ZX-UNO?
• Some sort of settings file / configuration so you can change the colour scheme?
• Bug fixing - I'm not convinced the FAT16 / 32 reading is 100% correct.

Seven.FFF wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 3:03 pm

nihirash wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 2:13 pm You should put it into /BIN folder.

esxDOS and divMMC(in zxuno) are the same as on usual speccy.

It should work as I understand.

It launches fine in the /BIN folder on my +3 with esxDOS 0.8.6, and my Next running esxDOS 0.8.6 in non-Next personalities. However it hangs on the +3 when I try to launch Castlevania.tap. After powering the +3 off and on again, my SD card seems corrupted. When I type .browse again, I get ESXDOS error #19, 0:1.

It doesn't run in NextZXOS when moved to /DOT/BROWSEBOB - hangs on entry. No idea why. Which esxDOS API calls does it make? Does it make any private non-API calls into the esxDOS ROM?

esxdos_f_getcwd
esxdos_f_chdir
esxdos_disk_info
esxdos_disk_read

lordoftime79 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:14 pm what am i doing wrong then? all i get is the backslash no list of files.

stupidget wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:08 pm Works fine when I put it in the /BIN folder on my DivMMX.

Do you know if there is any way to make this the default Browser because when I NMI it obviously defaults back to the normal browser.

Also any plans to add the ability to run .sna files?

lordoftime79 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:49 pm ok so I have just formatted a card with fat32 and it works so its my fat16 card it has issue with

bob_fossil wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:24 pm First off, apologies for breaking your SD card.

Seven.FFF wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:49 pm
No problem, I have lots of cards, and it's easy to repair or reformat any broken ones This byte mode 256MB card is also FAT16, with a single partition, so perhaps this is the problem. I will try with FAT32 on the same card, and a larger block mode card, to see if the issue goes away.

Here is the castlevania.tap file which blew up, if you want to try it yourself.

• You can now use cursor left / right to scroll up and down a page of files.
• You can now use q and a keys to jump to the first and last entries in the list.
• Fix possible issue using incorrect register when autostarting .tap files.
• Optimisations to the 42 character print routine.
• For FAT16 discs, the root cluster contains a set amount of directory entries and the code wasn't taking the size of this area into account when calculating the disk sector offset from the starting cluster of a directory entry. This would manifest itself as showing the root directory but showing garbage or empty lists for the subfolders. Thanks to Spezzi63 for supplying me with a HDF file to debug with.
• Added .SNA and .Z80 autostart support via the .snapload dot command.

Seven.FFF wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 12:20 pm

bob_fossil wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:15 am Thanks for the kind words. I wasn't aware of a clash as I don't have a Next. At the risk of it ending up being called .browseymcbrowseface, I'm open to new name suggestions.

It shouldn’t be a problem if you want to keep calling it .browse. NextZXOS keeps its dot commands in /dot/, and eaxDOS running on a Next in the other personalities still uses /bin/, so they won’t clash.

It was done that way deliberately, as NextZXOS provides enhanced versions of many of the standard esxDOS commands which wouldn’t work in esxDOS -.ls for example, is 24KB instead of 2KB and has lots of sorting and column choosing options, more like the *nix version.