Posted December 10, 2025 by Leonis
I'm in high spirits this evening, as I finally received two wonderful boxes with Curse of Rabenstein and Tristam Island, and I was able to clarify their release dates. This was a real surprise, as I'd given up hope of seeing them. Now I just have to wait for two more orders from poly.play.
But let's get to the really important news.
Kio (I'd never heard of him before, although he's probably a great guy) added support for Z80N instructions to his zasm assembler, so it's now another of many assemblers for ZX Spectrum Next. However, this news is only for Linux users for now; a Windows version hasn't arrived yet.
Now I'll tell you about another utility. My search for a solution to run Atic Attack in an emulator (the recipe is the ZEsarUX emulator, read its FAQ) led me to a previously unnoticed utility called HDFmaker by Luzie. It can be used to create a disk image for Next. But there's a catch. The download link doesn't work, and I have no idea where to download this utility. If anyone knows, please let me know.