26 Reply by SCjoe

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Re: Almost (In-) Complete List of esxDOS DOT-Commands

Please add info about .DFWLOAD. It is used to upload other firmware to the so-called "mapram". Mapram is suitable e.g. for testing firmware without the need to re-flash divide/divmmc.

.TSPLAY is missing. Any info about it? Who is the author of this command?

27 Reply by Luzie (edited by Luzie 2021-01-11 18:19:22)

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Re: Almost (In-) Complete List of esxDOS DOT-Commands

SCjoe wrote:

Please add info about .DFWLOAD. It is used to upload other firmware to the so-called "mapram". Mapram is suitable e.g. for testing firmware without the need to re-flash divide/divmmc.

Thank you! Added this to list. Will publish new list version soon.

SCjoe wrote:

.TSPLAY is missing. Any info about it? Who is the author of this command?

Found the following text in binary executable: "Vortex Tracker II 1.0 moduleUniPT2/PT3/TS-Player"
Successfully tried playing this Turbo Sound file from:
https://zxart.ee/eng/authors/m/mmcm/spr … izzy-game/
Direct .TS-File-Download-Link:
https://zxart.ee/file/id:85719/filename … 2013%29.ts

28 Reply by Luzie (edited by Luzie 2021-01-11 21:25:47)

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Re: Almost (In-) Complete List of esxDOS DOT-Commands

New Version V017 of list is out ( same Access-URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ … s=599361c7 )

Changes:
V017 2021-01-11: Added info about .dfwload. Added .kzx, .tsplay and .checkerb commands.

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New Version V018 of list is out ( same Access-URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ … s=599361c7 )

Changes:
V018 2021-01-16: Added Usage example for .zxunocfg. Added .browse v1.2 from Garry Lancaster (for SpecNext), .browse from bob_fossil/"New File Browser for ZX-UNO"-Package v0.13 and .playay v0.03 by bob_fossil

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Re: Almost (In-) Complete List of esxDOS DOT-Commands

Thanks!

Some commands with similar names have different authors and code, e.g. STRINGS or DATE.
DATE cmd in 0.8.8 is made by ub880d and has nothing to do with Trucco's one.
Its origin is here: http://oldcomp.cz/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7798#p98622
The same with the CAL cmd: http://oldcomp.cz/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7798#p98678

Many commands for zx-uno and specnext are hardware dependent and unusable on a normal Speccy.
That could be a reason for splitting this list into separate papers?

31 Reply by Luzie (edited by Luzie 2021-01-20 18:48:54)

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SCjoe wrote:

Thanks!

Some commands with similar names have different authors and code, e.g. STRINGS or DATE.
DATE cmd in 0.8.8 is made by ub880d and has nothing to do with Trucco's one.
Its origin is here: http://oldcomp.cz/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7798#p98622
The same with the CAL cmd: http://oldcomp.cz/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7798#p98678

Many commands for zx-uno and specnext are hardware dependent and unusable on a normal Speccy.
That could be a reason for splitting this list into separate papers?

Dear SCjoe,

Yes, it´s a little bit confusing having DOT-commands with the same name but different behavior or for different hardware.

Because of lack of time and easyness I´ll keep all the commands on one page. Only mentioning special Requirements like  hardware in the Comment Column of the list.

But I will add all commands that become known to me, so even this excellent looking .CAL (or is it called .DATE ?) you mentioned:  (Have not further tested this one yet - this is just a "screenshot" from the Forum-Thread you linked).

cygnus@cygnus ~ $ cal
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Po Út St Čt Pá So Ne
    1  2  3  4  5  6
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

It´s really a great Thread you´ve linked to. I like it!