ZXpand-Commander

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Re: ZXpand-Commander

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I hope it's not annoying too much, but could I ask for a version of the Commander without the initial screen?
As it will be since now my main GUI stuff (and I use it all the time, even only to travel through catalogues), the initial screen takes significant amount of time for any quick operations with the Commander.
I'm sorry for trouble.
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Re: ZXpand-Commander

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Does anyone fancy putting together a video of the ZXpand-Commander, so we can publicise it?
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Re: ZXpand-Commander

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@Yerz - The title screen 'sinks'/is displayed during the time taken to load the initial directory. Depending on the amount of data loaded you may not see a speed increase. Check your email.

@Rich - I'll see about doing that video some time tomorrow.

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Re: ZXpand-Commander

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sirmorris wrote:@Yerz - The title screen 'sinks'/is displayed during the time taken to load the initial directory. I'll make a version which has control over the display of the screen using a BASIC line which you can alter to taste. How about that?
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Aaah, so it's simply require to wait this moment? OK then, so let the "help" screen be.
I thought it's kinda... ornamental stuff, hahaha. ;)
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IN NIHILUM REVERTERIS - a big text-adventure game for ZX81: http://tiny.pl/g2m6m
"MONOCHROME" issue 5 - (Spring 2014) free paper/PDF magazine about ZX81: http://tiny.pl/q2m44
ZX81 COMPETITIONS 2007/2009: http://zx81.republika.pl/
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Re: ZXpand-Commander

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How do I get EightyOne X3 to recognise the new ZXpand firmware V2.2? I created a card.bin containing the firmware file only, but nothing happens when I restart EO...

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Re: ZXpand-Commander

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Nice try, Bernd ;)

The ZXpand 'firmware' in EO's case is a DLL. I need to re-package EO - I'd forgotten that I needed to do this :oops:

See new EO version X3.7
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Re: ZXpand-Commander

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sirmorris wrote:Nice try, Bernd ;)

The ZXpand 'firmware' in EO's case is a DLL. I need to re-package EO - I'd forgotten that I needed to do this :oops:

See new EO version X3.7
Stupid me - how could I assume that such a low level hardware bound function would be emulated :oops: :lol:
Thanks a bunch for the amazingly quick update!

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You're welcome :D
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Re: ZXpand-Commander

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Startin' programs with SHIFT+X (load and disable ZXpand) is a great thing that I was missing before when I had to leave Browser to load programs from the prompt-line (adding ";X").
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IN NIHILUM REVERTERIS - a big text-adventure game for ZX81: http://tiny.pl/g2m6m
"MONOCHROME" issue 5 - (Spring 2014) free paper/PDF magazine about ZX81: http://tiny.pl/q2m44
ZX81 COMPETITIONS 2007/2009: http://zx81.republika.pl/
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