ZX26

ZX Spectrum tapes, snapshots and disks as archives in Total Commander

Type: Packer (WCX)
Version: 1.0.0.11
Files: TAP, TZX, CSW, SNA, Z80, TRD, SCL, D80 …

Open a plugin zip in Total Commander (Enter) and it installs the plugin itself. Each plugin comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

What's new

ZX26 is a packer plugin for Total Commander that opens ZX Spectrum tape, snapshot and disk files as archives. Open a file with Enter or Ctrl+PgDn, browse what is inside and copy it out with F5. The plugin is read-only.

Features

Tapes: every header + data pair becomes one file, e.g. 01_NAME.bas, 02_NAME@32768.cod (load address in the name), 03_NAME.scr. Headerless blocks are NN_data.bin.
Checks: blocks with a bad checksum get _badsum in the name, TZX text info goes to 00_tape_info.txt.
Tape audio: .CSW and .WAV are decoded to blocks like a tape (standard ROM loader timing only, no turbo loaders).
Snapshots: registers in info.txt, the screen as screen.scr and memory as ram48.bin or 128K banks.
Disks for TR-DOS, Didaktik (MDOS) and MB-02 (BS-DOS including directories).
Payload only: extracted files contain no flag byte or checksum, so a .scr opens in any Spectrum screen viewer.
32-bit (ZX26.wcx) and 64-bit (ZX26.wcx64) builds.

Formats

Kind	Extensions
Tapes	`.TAP`, `.TZX`, `.CDT`
Tape audio	`.CSW` (v1, v2), `.WAV` (8/16-bit PCM, associate by hand)
Snapshots	`.SNA` (48K/128K), `.Z80` (v1 to v3), `.SLT`, `.SP`
TR-DOS disks	`.TRD`, `.SCL`
Didaktik disks	`.D80`, `.D40`
MB-02 disks	`.MBD`

The D80/D40 and MBD support follows published format descriptions and has been tested only on generated images, not on real disks.

News (in Slovak)

1.0.0.11 – prvé vydanie

Prvý release pluginu ZX26 (WCX packer plugin pre Total Commander, 32-bitový ZX26.wcx aj 64-bitový ZX26.wcx64, len na čítanie).

Pásky: .TAP, .TZX/.CDT – bloky sa zobrazia ako súbory (.bas, .cod, .scr, .arn/.arc, .bin), informácie z TZX v 00_tape_info.txt, označenie zlého kontrolného súčtu (_badsum).
Zvuk pások: .CSW (v1, v2, RLE, Z-RLE) a .WAV (8/16-bit PCM) so štandardným časovaním ROM loadera. .WAV sa pri inštalácii neponúka.
Snímky pamäte: .SNA (48K/128K), .Z80 (v1/v2/v3), .SLT, .SP – info.txt, screen.scr a pamäťové bloky.
Disky: .TRD, .SCL (TR-DOS), .D80/.D40 (Didaktik MDOS), .MBD (MB-02 BS-DOS s adresármi); záložné zobrazenie surového obrazu.
Inštalácia: automatická cez pluginst.inf a doplnenie prípon skriptom add-extensions.cmd.
Dokumentácia: README v slovenčine a angličtine.