Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

From what you written, the needs would be this: 1. catch any print output coming into the parallel port. 2. Convert to what ever the local printer is 3. Send to local printer. For #1, a daemon could be written that read the parallel port device. With Linux/Unix all ports are files, so the program wo...

I've seen the z88dk tutorial posted on the German ZX81 forum. I've tried reading it, but it's been 30 years since my high school German. There was some suggestions in this board about using Google Translate, which was a good idea. I took each of the parts of the tutorial, ran them through Google Tra...

Back in college I did some research into One Dimensional Cellular Automata (1DCA). I wrote my research paper and the accompanying software on the QL. Now that I am tinkering again with the ZX81, I decided to write a couple of1DCA programs for the ZX81. I just wanted to show that it is still possible...

Since I'm looking to completely move from Windows to Linux, I've been working on ZX81 tools for Linux. For the emulator, I've found sz81 version 2.1.7 compiles fine under Lubuntu 12. I've tried xz81 and it failed to compile. SZ81 is slow, but it is Linux native. Another option is to use DOSBOX and r...

I've been doing my ZX81 work on Linux and using DOSBOX, so having a Win32 version of ZXTEXT2P will not work for me. If you've made changes to ZXTEXT2P, why not publish the changes or the new code and others can compile to their own environment. Heck, I wonder if it would compile under Linux. May hav...

Actually, spaces are needed, just before and after the **. My line of basic was like this: if y<(x**2) then ..... I changed it to: if y<(x ** 2) then .... (note the space before and after the **) That worked. I guess zxtext2p likes spaces between the tokens. I'll have to tinker with it a bit more to...

I'm using ZXTEXT2P to write a ZX81 program. I need to use the exponent math function (**). I type two asterisks in the code, but ZXTEXT2P does not convert the two asterisks into the single exponent token. Looking at the short docs on ZXTEXT2P, I don't see any mention of this issue and getting around...

I was a member of the Capital Area Timex Sincair (CATS) group from late 1988 to early 1993. Where you there then?

Tim Swenson

Another way to run DOS programs (ts1000 & Xtender) is to use DOS-BOX. I'm doing with under Windows XP and under Linux. Should work the same under other versions of Windows.

Tim Swenson

Thanks for the feedback. The whole thing was done in OpenOffice with layout done with Scribus. GIMP was used for the front graphics and Irfanview for the internal graphics. (All the programs are either OpenSource or freeware) Since I've worked with Scribus for about 5 years, it was pretty easy to do...