Hello everybody! After 11 years I decided to refresh one of my unfinished projects, which was just about to be completed when I got my PC 486. :-) I found both literature and software in my archive, but I'd like to get some better software if there is one. I write this e-mail to ask for help.
I still use the original orange ZX Spectrum manual as a Z80 instructions reference. I originally used Comet 1.4 for programming, I liked it much. I found both dikette and manual, so I can use it atill, but maybe there is a newer (and free) version, or preferably something yet better - I think that a cross-assembler for PC could be better for me. (But I need to convert the Comet source to it somehow.) Any advices? And, finally, E-Tracker. I have original version. Is there any new version, or possibly a new player routine (some bugfixes?). The original player routine works perfectly for me. I don't know wether there were more versions, or any known bugs in there. I just wonder why does it read from memory addresses around 0 - I tested it yesterday in ZX Spin debugger and SamPlay SAA player, and found that E-Tracker player reads memory at addresses around zero. Does anybody know, what does it mean? Some kind of "random" numbers? This is important also for my SAA player "SamPlay" for PC, because it doesn't contain ROM, and if E-Tracker needs ROM there, it probably doesn't play 100% as on original Sam. Any experiance? /--- Aley
