[fuse-emulator-devel] What format to load programs from an RS232 serial stream?

[Niccolo R. <ni...@ri...>]

After several years of oblivion I revived my ZX-Spectrum software 
files. In the '90s I purchased an emulator by Gerton Lunter 
(great sofware for the MS-DOS!), but today I installed Fuse GTK 
on my Linux box.

It turned out that the serial files that I saved with the old 
emulator does not load in Fuse. If I try to load a BASIC program 
with

  LOAD *"b"

I get the error:

  Wrong file type, 0:1

After some hours of hunting, I discovered that adding an 0x2A 
byte after every 0x00 byte into the stream solved the problem.

Why is that required?

Is the serial format handled directly by Fuse or is it handled 
via libspectrum?

Btw, a big thank you to everyone who made this software!

-- 
Niccolo Rigacci - http://www.rigacci.net/
Firenze/Prato - Italy
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