Spectrum-related files to download

A patch to xv (version 3.10a) allowing it to load and save files in the SCREEN$ format (with +3DOS header). To apply it (assuming that you have an xv build tree in /usr/src/xv-3.10a)

    cd /usr/src
        patch < xv-zx-patch
    cd xv-3.10a
    make

A Windows font (5k) containing the Sinclair typeface. This has been updated and might even work on Windows other than NT now.

This is the last time I design a Windows raster font. The process is _so_ ill-documented. The only documentation that might be of some use has been hidden away in the MS Knowledge base and on the MSDN archive CD; you have to guess - once for each bit of the documentation - the right combination of keywords to find it.

If you use the font conversion tools included with WINE, this font can be converted into an X Window font for Unix computers.

Two Windows 95 startup screens (4.5k). For the conoisseur, these ones have:

My stripes and Program: text;
Damien Burke's aspect ratio and palette;
Joseph Aron's 128k extras, but not his interference pattern.

Two Windows 98 startup screens. These are identical to the Windows 95 ones above, except for the caption.

STRIPIFY.EXE (8k) adds the familiar blue/yellow loading stripes to a Windows 95 startup screen. See below for instructions.

STRIPIFY.C (2k) is the C source for STRIPIFY.

ZX2LOGO.EXE (9k) converts a Spectrum SCREEN$ file to a Windows 95 startup screen, adding loading stripes.

ZX2LOGO.C (2k) is the C source for ZX2LOGO.

TAPSPLIT.C (2k) is a C program to split a .TAP file into several +3DOS files.

TAPCAT.C (5k) reverses TAPSPLIT and combines +3DOS files into a .TAP.

Gooey Blob screensaver for Windows. 32-bit version and 16-bit version. You can also obtain MFC source if you're really that twisted.

SNA.IDC (5k) is an IDA 3.7 script that creates labels for all the registers and system variables in a .SNA format snapshot. To use it, start IDA with:

	IDA -c -pz80 filename.SNA

and, once it has started, load the .SNA file at segment 0x1000, offset 0x3FE5. Then go to File, IDC file and open SNA.IDC.

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Instructions for STRIPIFY and ZX2LOGO

How to use STRIPIFY

Create the screen you want to display, as a 320x400 BMP file with 256 colours.
Using (for example) Paint Shop Pro, ensure that all the colours used in the image are at the beginning of the palette; if your image uses 16 colours, then these should be the first 16.
Fill the area to be striped with one of the other colours; for example, number 17.
Save the file.
Run STRIPIFY like this: STRIPIFY myfile.BMP LOGO.SYS n where n is the number of colours you are using (16 in the above example); myfile.BMP is the file you just saved; and LOGO.SYS is the Windows 95 startup screen which should result.

How to use ZX2LOGO

Get the screen you want to use into SCREEN$ format - either with or without a +3DOS header. Then simply use ZX2LOGO myfile LOGO.SYS to convert it to a loading screen with animated stripes.

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John Elliott 20-4-2000