zmakebas

Emscripten conversion for zmakebas which converts BASIC to a TAP tape file.

Usage

npm install zmakebas

import zmakebas from "zmakebas";

const tap = zmakebas('10 PRINT "Hello"');

Build library

Note that you need to have the Emscripten SDK installed and available on path.

Install & activate emsdk from Emscripten:

git clone https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk.git
cd emsdk/
git pull
./emsdk install latest
./emsdk activate latest
source ./emsdk_env.sh

Build the library:

npm install
npm run build
npm run test

zmakebas notes

Description

zmakebas converts a Spectrum Basic program written as a text file into an actual speccy Basic file (as a .TAP file, or optionally a raw headerless file).

Using zmakebas rather than (say) writing the Basic in an emulator means you can write using a nicer editor, and can use tools which work on text files, etc. Also, with the -l option you can write without line numbers, using labels in their place where necessary.

The program was originally intended to be used simply to make little loader programs, so they wouldn't have to be sourceless binaries. However, I went to a fair amount of effort to make sure it'd work for bigger, more serious programs too, so you can also use it for that kind of thing.

Miscellaneous

There's a short demo file showing the use of escape sequences for UDGs and block graphics characters etc. here, named demo.bas. You can use zmakebas demo.bas to generate an out.tap file from it. A version using labels is in demolbl.bas, which can be converted with zmakebas -l demolbl.bas.

Contacting the original author

You can email me at [email protected].

Share and enjoy!

-Rus.

Licenses

zmakebas

Public domain by Russell Marks.

emscripten-fs-example

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Damián Silvani

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