libspectrum(3) [debian man page]

libspectrum(3)							     Emulators							    libspectrum(3)

NAME

       libspectrum - Sinclair ZX Spectrum support library

DESCRIPTION

       libspectrum  is	a library for reading and writing some of the file formats used by emulators of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It also contains
       routines providing information about the various Spectrum clones which were available.

       The file formats currently supported by libspectrum are:

       o Snapshots: .z80, .szx, .sna (all read/write), .zxs, .sp., .snp and +D snapshots (read only).

       o Tape images: .tzx, .tap, .spc, .sta, .ltp (read/write) and Warajevo .tap, Z80Em and CSW version 1 (read only).

       o Input recordings: .rzx (read/write).

       o Disk images: .dsk (both plain and extended), .fdi, .sad, .scl, .td0, .trd and .udi (identification only).

       o Timex cartridges: .dck (read only).

       o IDE hard disk images: .hdf (read/write).

       o Microdrive cartridge images: .mdr (read/write).

       Additionally, any files compressed with bzip2(3) or gzip(3) can be read and will be transparently decompressed.

       Full documentation for libspectrum is provided in `libspectrum.txt'.

SEE ALSO

       bzip2(3), fuse(1), fuse-utils(1), gzip(3)

       The comp.sys.sinclair Spectrum FAQ, at
       http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/index.html.

AUTHOR

       Philip Kendall (philip-fuse@shadowmagic.org.uk)

Version 1.0.0							16th December, 2010						    libspectrum(3)

snapconv(1)							     Emulators							       snapconv(1)

NAME

       snapconv - Sinclair ZX Spectrum snapshot converter

SYNOPSIS

       snapconv [ -c ] [ -n ] infile outfile

DESCRIPTION

       snapconv converts between ZX Spectrum snapshot files.

OPTIONS

       -c     specifies  that  all data in the output snapshot should be compressed, even if that compression will result in a bigger file than if
	      some data is left uncompressed. This helps compatibility with some buggy programs that can only read entirely compressed .z80 files.

       -n     specifies that the output snapshot should be uncompressed.

       -f     specifies that the A and F and A' and F' registers should be swapped.  Version 0.5.0 and older of  libspectrum(3)  had  a  bug  that
	      resulted	in  these registers being swapped in SZX snapshots only. Version 0.5.1 and newer of libspectrum(3) automatically recognise
	      these snapshots and correct the problem, but this flag is necessary to fix some snapshots created by development	versions  only	of
	      libspectrum(3) which had the bug fixed, but cannot be distinguished from snapshots containing the bug.

       infile specifies the snapshot to be converted. This file can be in any of the snapshot formats supported by libspectrum(3).

       outfile
	      specifies  the  output snapshot. The format will be determined by the file extension and can be in any of the formats libspectrum(3)
	      supports for output.

BUGS

       None known.

SEE ALSO

       fuse(1), fuse-utils(1), libspectrum(3), listbasic(1), snap2tzx(1)

       The comp.sys.sinclair Spectrum FAQ, at
       http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/index.html.

AUTHOR

       Philip Kendall (philip-fuse@shadowmagic.org.uk).

Version 1.0.0							16th December, 2010						       snapconv(1)