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11-20-2009

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Like probably a lot of my generation, I grew up playing around with a Commodore 64. But it was pretty useless for anything except games. The real computer, an IBM PC kept in a locked room in the basement, was too expensive for them to dare letting me play with it, given my habit of dismantling everything I touched. (A habit I still have, fed regularly by my computer maintenance work. I'm just a lot better at putting things back together now. Smilie

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My first real computer was an IBM PC 80286-12 assembled from the detritus of old upgrades to the "main" computer. It had DOS, QBASIC, IBM Writing Assistant(anyone remember that?) and enough storage to hold thousands of handwritten programs. I continuously upgraded it all the way from grade school, through high school, and by the time I dropped out of college to pursue work experience it was a dual Opteron running Gentoo Linux.

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libspectrum

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)