z00m's speccy corner

SjASMPlus 1.20.0 was released. Changelog: Lua: upgrade to 5.4, replacing tolua++ bindings with LuaBridge2.6 library, extending some bindings Lua: bindings slightly modified (required by upgrade), refreshed docs, added test coverage Lua: the 3rd party extensions (BTW not working for many years) are obsolete in 5.4 and removed Lua: more accurate errors/warning location reported even in complex cases warnings: added -Wall, --help=warnings shows on/off status, rdlow off by default Added HIGH mode to...

I forgot to announce the new version of SjASMPlus, which was released last week. So here it is. Changelog: added Amstrad CPC devices (AMSTRADCPC464, AMSTRADCPC6128) - by Oli Wilkinson added Amstrad CPC save snapshot and CDT (SAVECPCSNA, SAVECDT) - by Oli Wilkinson added SAVE3DOS (like SAVEBIN with +3DOS header) the deprecated "ok" warning suppression is removed, use "<warning-id>-ok" comment or -Wno-... new temporary label suffix syntax _b and _f, enabling them for all expressions fix...

The lovely ZX Spectrum / Pentagon clone Speccy2010, popular not only in east europe countries, has received a new release of firmware (iteration by mborik). Overall stability was improved and also SD card content was updated. Changelog: fully manual control over saving of speccy2010.ini config file to improve overall stability ESXDOS updated to v0.8.9 demos & games in TAPs to test autoloader feature for ESXDOS and DivMMC some TRDs to test Betadisk or ESXDOS autoloader with Pentagon...

SjASMPlus 1.18.3 was released. Changelog: added --color to enable/disable ANSI coloring of errors/warnings added --syntax=s mode to disable sub-word substitutions of DEFINEs added at-sign prefix for macro local labels to act as non-macro local label SAVETRD accepts names containing dot ("z.x.B" is "z.x" with extension "B") - by Dart Alver SAVETRD has optional argument to save BASIC with variables (length_minus_variables) minor bugfixes (conditional block parser) Get it on Github or in...

PCB scans of the Didaktik Kompakt ver-2.3 are also available. Not as good as for Didaktik M'92, but I tried it and it turned out, that low quality is still enough to redraw the printed circuit board in the Sprint Layout editor. The schematic diagram was also missing, and since the electric connection is quite different from the ver-1.5, I reversed it while drawing PCB. The result of my hard work you can find on the Hardware page, in Didaktik section....