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Zeus Category: Development Tool Genre: Unknown Status: Released Format: Digital Cost: Free Team: Design-Design Author(s): Neil Mottershead, Simon Brattel (with contributions by Simon N Goodwin and Jim Bagley) Language: English Website: https://simon.mooli.org.uk/nextech/z80n/index.html#Zeusx

I've been delving again into Zeus, the Spectrum assembler formerly sold by Sinclair Research in 1983 and now free in tools/dev on your Next SD. I've fixed the bug which stopped it working in 128 BASIC (previously requiring extra memory and a code patch on Next) and made a minimalist NextBASIC 'IDE' to save remembering addresses and typing LOAD and SAVE commands in BASIC to transfer assembler source or assembled code to SD, ZX Net or wherever.

Here is the Patched version of Zeus, with better 128 compatibility and stability on Next (patches by Simon N Goodwin, original courtesy of Simon Brattel). My 'mini IDE', ZEUSx.bas gets around the regression of 128 BASIC wiping the screen of T command output. It also allows us to load source and save source and binary without any risk of mistyping CODE arguments. It just fits in the same space as the original patch loader! It uses ZEUSx.bin from the patcher, as linked above.

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