zx 0.7.0

Description:

zx 0.7.0

zx
ZX Spectrum Emulator written in a mix of Python and C++.

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Features

Designed to be suitable for research and development purposes
such as unattended testing of Spectrum software, timing
analysis, etc.
Meant to be easy to customize and re-use via Python interfaces.
Fast and accurate emulation.
Based on the fast and flexible
Z80 emulator.

Development status

General status: working pre-alpha.
Supported machines: 48K only for now.
Display: multi-colour effects,
accurate timings.
Sound: not supported yet.
Tape: TAP and TZX formats supported as well as conversion to WAV.
Snapshots: Z80.
Playback recordings: RZX.

Installation and running
For the latest release:
$ sudo pip3 install zx

Or directly from the repository for current development version:
$ sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/kosarev/zx

Local development setups are also supported:
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/kosarev/zx
$ cd zx
$ python3 setup.py develop --prefix ~/.local

Running:
$ zx

Controls
F1 displays help.
F2 is to save snapshot.
F3 is to load snapshot or tape file.
F6 pauses/resumes tape.
F10 and ESC quit the emulator.
F11 and double click switch between fullscreen and windowed mode.
PAUSE and mouse click pause/resume emulation or RZX playback.
Any Spectrum key stroke resumes emulation and leaves the RZX
playback mode back to the regular emulation mode.
Running snapshots, recordings and tapes
$ zx elven.z80

$ zx exolon.rzx

$ zx https://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/e/EricTheFloaters.tzx.zip

Converting files
Supported formats: .rzx, .scr, .tap, .tzx, .wav,
.z80, .zip.
$ zx jack.tzx jack.wav

$ zx eric.tap eric.z80

Dumping files
$ zx dump rick.z80
OrderedDict([('id', 'z80_snapshot'), ('a', 213), ('f', 66), ...

On the dump command, zx parses the specified file (that can
be of any supported format) in the form of raw Python data.
Reference papers

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