file extension CHX

You can load existing or create new SCR (screen files), draw images with mouse-sensitive tools like circles, rectangles, polygons etc. You have different fill styles available in tool boxes and you can alter the colour attributes very easily. Also, transparent colour effects are available here. You can also convert your BMP/JPG/GIF files with this tool, and if you want, you can hold the pictures in this format. ZX-Paintbrush converts the pictures in a Spectrum-compatible form, respecting the colour attributes and hardware limits of this machine. You also can produce exports to SCR files or to ZX-Editor's ZED files; right now, ZX-Paintbrush is the only connection to the old ZX-Editor. Also TAP and TZX files can be created including headers. Now, ZX-Paintbrush also can be used as a font editor for sinclair fonts (using 256 characters) with either 4x8, 6x8 or 8x8 (standard) pixels. You can read/write corresponding font files (with 2048 bytes of size each) CH4, CH6, CH8 or CHR and also CHX files directly.

ZX-Editor is a text editor for ZX-Spectrum emulator files, which supports (nearly all) functions you know from other text editors, and also Spectrum-related things like colour attributes, flashing, screen$-files etc. You also can change the text style (italic, bold etc.) as well as text height. But also 8x8-pixels fonts are supported.

You also can write Sinclair Spectrum Basic and Beta Basic programs with ZX-Editor. It supports a full syntax checking and keyword handling routines.

ZX-Editor is a useful tool for the ZX-Modules project, which consists of many individual and helpful programs.