ZXLDR
Новые видео канала ZXLDR на сегодняшний день 21 April 2026 года
My custom CPM 22 runs MBasic v4 and v5 from CPM disk image on SDcard on ZX Spectrum 3 CPM uses 2023 DivMMC firmware that easily toggles ESXDOS hooks Customized Fuse emulator gives access to new DivMMC firmware features ESXDOS API to access disk BASIC48 ROM to render and input text and emulate some VT52 features Native ZX Spectrum keyboard sound also presents thanks to BASIC48 ROM RAMdisk with Смотреть видео...
This project started as intention of making tech demo for russian ZXSpectrum clone known as Leningrad1 or Leningrad48k That clone has 64k of memory onboard but the lower 16k didnt used at all With little improvements of addressing system this shadow memory could be used for some crazy purposes eg for CPM This video is the first proof of concept that classic BASIC48 ROM and cheap tapes could be Смотреть видео...
UPDATE DR DRAW menu now is rendered at the top of screen If you have downloaded driver already download it once again its version updated link below In this video another attempt of creation usable GSX80 device driver DDZX for ZXSpectrum 2A3 was made Youll see some demos that try to use flood fill and tricky strange rendered old commercial software from Digital Research DRAW and GRAPH In Смотреть видео...
UPDATE Video was made with unique vertical reversing feature now it is completely removed If you have downloaded driver already download it once again its version updated link below The very first attempt to make a GSX80 device driver for Amstrads ZX Spectrum 2A3 and CPM Plus named DDZX more as a demo or a proof of concept than the final product I am ashamed to show you the source code but you Смотреть видео...
Dont forget to enable subtitles In this video tapes ROMs manager for CPM Plus OS named ZXMGR is demonstrated It scans both diskette drives of ZXSpectrum 3 for TAP tape images and ROM files and shows them as a list User could commit to run tape image or ROM from ZXMGR manager by simply pressing ENTER ZXMGR manager starts ZXLDR loader that was described in previous videos ZXMGR manager also Смотреть видео...
DONT FORGET TO ENABLE SUBTITLES In this video we will see three games Frightmare Dan Dare 3 and Falcon Patrol that are loaded from diskette in CPM OS and then played as usual Specially rewritten and improved loader ZXLDR loads tape image into ZXSpectrum 3 RAM via generic CPM file IO routines then switches to original BASIC48 ROM copies it to RAM too patches it and then calls LOAD command on Смотреть видео...
Dont forget to enable subtitles This video will show the operation of the command key R of CPM program ZXLDR With this key one can load ROM for ZXSpectrum 48k into RAM and start its program This is possible due to the switching of memory banks in the ZXSpectrum 3 and a little sleight of hand Random ROMs for Spectrum48k were downloaded from Internet and then written to diskette image to perform Смотреть видео...
In this video ZXLDR after Nth workaround now works on ZX CPM 22 start from CPM to BASIC48 is demonstrated using original ZXSpectrum 3 ROM3 possibility of edit and save BASIC48 code on exit to CPM is shown meanwhile applied patched BASIC48 syntax to exit to CPM via new convenient command RETURN CPM load BASIC48 code on start from CPM is demonstrated also youll see making of small BASIC48 Смотреть видео...