.SCR files from ZX81/ZX80 programs

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TMD2003
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.SCR files from ZX81/ZX80 programs

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Recently, I've found a few of these turning up on ZXDB, and I'd never before found a way to do it - I'd just stuck with screengrabs from EightyOne that were cut down in GIMP and had the brightness turned down. But I have now found a way to do it - but it's so "round the houses" that, if anyone knows a better way, make it known and you will earn a corned beef sandwich.

My method:
(1) Open the .P or .O file in EightyOne.
(2) No need to load it, just click the floppy disc icon and save as a .TZX file.
(3) Open Fuse, set it to 128K Spectrum with the Interface 2 attached.
(4) Insert Paul Farrow's ZX80-on-128K or ZX81-on-128K emulation ROM into the Interface 2.
(5) Select the model (preferably 16K whether it's ZX81 or ZX80), and insert the .TZX file.
(6) LOAD, select the CASSETTE from the menu, and hit F8 to start the tape. And that was a genuinely new experience - a .TZX making ZX81 sounds!
(7) RUN, and find the screen to capture...
(8) Save the .SCR screenshot.

If I had a hundred ZX81 .SCRs to make, I'm be screaming blue murder soon enough. Fuse seems to rely on a lot of point-click-point-click (and I'm not very accurate with a mouse at the best of times) rather than shortcut keys (probably due to using CTRL as the equivalent of SYMBOL SHIFT which cuts down the number available) - so if there's an alternative to EightyOne out there that can make .SCR files from an emulated ZX81, rather than having to mount that on top of a 128K Spectrum, it would be very useful to know.

On the downside, I just ate the last of the corned beef for dinner. Had Asda delivered as they were supposed to, I wouldn't have had to resort to that. Blame them!
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GCHarder
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Re: .SCR files from ZX81/ZX80 programs

Post by GCHarder »

XavSnaps emulator does all that "in house".

See his thread here...

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3295

and also here...

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3825

Regards;

Greg
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kolbeck
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Re: .SCR files from ZX81/ZX80 programs

Post by kolbeck »

Use the screen converter here:

https://zxinfo.dk/scr

It was made to support adding entries to ZXDB :-)

/Thomas
https://api.zxinfo.dk/v3/ - ZXDB API for developers
zxinfo-file-browser - Cross platform app to manage your files
https://zxinfo.dk - another ZXDB frontend
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