NAME

snap2tzx — Convert ZX Spectrum snapshot to .tzx tape images

SYNOPSIS

snap2tzx [-1 string] [-2 string] [-b colour] [-g string] [-l string] [-o filename] [-r] [-s speed] [-v] [-$ filename] snapshot

snap2tzx converts a ZX Spectrum snapshot into a .tzx tape image.

-1 string: causes string (which has a maximum of 32 characters) to be shown while loading.
-2 string: causes string (maximum 32 characters) to also be shown while loading.
-b colour: specifies the border colour while loading.
-g string: causes string (maximum 32 characters) to be used as the game name while loading.
-l string: causes string (maximum 8 characters) to be used as the BASIC filename in the loader.
-o filename: causes the output to be sent to filename.
-r: causes the final line of attribute data in the loading screen to be bright.
-s speed: specifies the speed of the loader; available values for speed are 0 (1500 bps), 1 (2250 bps), 2 (3000 bps), 3 (4500 bps), 4 (5000 bps) and 5 (6000 bps).
-v: specifies verbose output.
-$ filename: specifies that the ZX Spectrum screen stored in filename should be used as the loading screen.
-h, --help: give brief usage help, listing available options.
-V, --version: output version information.
snapshot: specifies the snapshot (in a format supported by libspectrum(3)) to be converted.

In any string parameter, the tilde (~) will be converted into a copyright symbol.

None known.

Philip Kendall (philip-fuse@shadowmagic.org.uk).

Tomaz Kac wrote z802tzx (ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/tools/unix/z802tzx-1.2.tar.gz), on which snap2tzx is very heavily based.

Martijn van der Heide wrote the turbo-loading code, originally for Taper (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/taper.html).