Re: sz81 emulator
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:12 am
Just tried the latest windows version and whilst the player works, the display/video is made up of the standard ZX81 character set not UDGs.
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Re: sz81 emulator
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:44 pm
The 2.3.10 source and Windows binaries have been updated with a minor change for UDG. Without this change, the first "BBB" video worked, but hopefully now also the new example videos. A difference is that switching off WRX doesn't seem to be necessary. Hopefully the minor change does not give issues with other UDG programs.
Re: sz81 emulator
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:08 pm
Just tested the updated source for GNU/Linux. Now the videos play without issue!olofsen wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:44 pm The 2.3.10 source and Windows binaries have been updated with a minor change for UDG. Without this change, the first "BBB" video worked, but hopefully now also the new example videos. A difference is that switching off WRX doesn't seem to be necessary. Hopefully the minor change does not give issues with other UDG programs.
Thanks olofsen.
Re: sz81 emulator
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:07 am
Can confirm the windows version works too.
Many many thanks for this.
Many many thanks for this.
sz81 emulator Problem ZXPand version
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 10:09 pm
ZXPand-Commander doe not appear to work correctly with the ZXPand version of sz81. See the attached image. It doesn't load the contents of sub-directories for some reason. I'm running Win7 and the latest version of sz81 (I think). Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a Windows/Linux thing? Note the alternative file manager ZXFBB2 works fine, but it doesn't have as many features as ZXPand-Commander, like directly reading text files and BMPs.
Regards;
Greg
Regards;
Greg
Re: sz81 emulator
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 11:51 pm
Hello Greg, under Linux, I have to have upper case names of files and directories, and then the commander does open a subdirectory. I'm not sure how that might translate to Win 7...
Re: sz81 emulator
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2023 1:10 pm
Win7 also and spand commander just crashes the emulator so have never bothered with it.
Re: sz81 emulator Problem ZXPand version
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2023 9:10 am
From your images, looks like the version is a little behind - the latest one I could find, and got working on macOS, is sz81-2.3.12 - I will try it out laterGCHarder wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 10:09 pm ZXPand-Commander doe not appear to work correctly with the ZXPand version of sz81. See the attached image. It doesn't load the contents of sub-directories for some reason. I'm running Win7 and the latest version of sz81 (I think). Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a Windows/Linux thing? Note the alternative file manager ZXFBB2 works fine, but it doesn't have as many features as ZXPand-Commander, like directly reading text files and BMPs.
Regards;
Greg
Re: sz81 emulator
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:57 pm
If you re-read Gregs post he, like myself are having problems with Win7, not macOS/Linux and the version we have is, according to the EXE file detail, 2.1.8.1 even though the site lists it as 2.3.10 and is the newest windows version.
Running this version exhibits the faults Greg describes.
Running this version exhibits the faults Greg describes.
Re: sz81 emulator
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:29 pm
@Moggy: it seems that sz81 hangs with commander versions > 1.7; the joystick (which is not supported) initialization seems to result in a ZXpand read from an unopened file. Now this can be prevented in the ZXpand emulation or the joystick initialization needs a modification. For now, I've created a test version that excludes the joystick initialization (2.00X). The Windows version string of the executable indeed needs to be updated in a next release.