Linux On iPod - TZX (ZX Spectrum cassette image) support
Matthew Westcott has a rad hack for Podzilla, he writes - “For those who don’t know, the ZX Spectrum was a 1980s home computer (very popular in the UK) for which software was commonly distributed on ordinary audio cassettes. These would contain several minutes of modem-like beeps and squeals that would assemble themselves into programs when played into the computer.
TZX is a file format for storing virtual images of these tapes, primarily for use with emulators - World Of Spectrum has thousands of them available for download. You could think of them as highly specialised, compressed audio files (typically under 50K for a complete Spectrum game) - and that’s exactly what this Podzilla patch does. It adds .tzx as another audio file format playable from the file browser. (The code is heavily derived from the existing WAV playback code.)
So, in short, you can now hook up your iPod to your […]
