libspectrum - emulator support library

What is it?

libspectrum is a library designed to make the input and output of some ZX Spectrum emulator files slightly easier. It is intended to be usable on Unix variants, Win32 and Mac OS X. Currently, it is mainly (only?) used by Fuse, but other Spectrum emulator and utility authors are encouraged to use it.

Which formats does it support?

Snapshots:
- read/write: .z80, .szx, .sna
- read only: .zxs, .sp., .snp, +D snapshots
Tape images:
- read/write: .tzx, .tap, .spc, .sta, .ltp
- read only: .pzx, Warajevo .tap, Z80Em, CSW version 1, .wav
Input recordings:
- read/write: .rzx
Timex cartridges:
- read only: .dck
IDE hard disk images:
- read/write: .hdf
Microdrive cartridge images:
- read/write: .mdr
Compressed files: reading of zipped, gzipped and bzipped files is transparently supported.

There are also some useful utility routines to do things like identify Spectrum files, or give the timings for various machines. For more details, see the supplied documentation.

Downloads

libspectrum is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Please read this before downloading libspectrum if you're not already familiar with it.

Source

libspectrum-1.5.0.tar.gz (PGP signature).
The source code release above is signed with the Fuse Release Key, ID D0767AB9, which has fingerprint 064E 0BA9 688F 2699 3267 B1E5 1043 EEEB D076 7AB9. This is different from the key used to sign the 0.1.1 release as I forgot the passphrase for that key :-(.

Binaries

Packages are available for some Unix distributions; in general, any problems which are specific to the packages should be sent to the package maintainer.

Arch Linux has 1.4.4 available from the Arch User Repository.
Official packages of 1.4.4 for Debian, maintained by Alberto Garcia, are available.
Fedora (1.4.4)
FreeBSD (1.4.4)
Gentoo (1.4.4)
NetBSD has 1.4.4 available as emulators/libspectrum in pkgsrc.
OpenBSD has 1.4.4 available as libspectrum package.
openSUSE (1.4.4)
Slackware has 1.4.4 available from SlackBuilds.
Ubuntu (1.4.4)
Homebrew for macOS (1.4.4)

Development

If you're interested in working on libspectrum, subscribe to the fuse-emulator-devel mailing list and/or see the project page on SourceForge. If you just want news of new versions, you probably want the (low volume) fuse-emulator-announce list instead.

Finally, the latest development version should always be available as the 'master' branch from the git repository on SourceForge. Don't expect any support for this, or even that it can be compiled...