XZX-Pro file extensions

XZX-Pro is a portable emulator of ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 (8-bit home computers made by Sir Clive Sinclair) and Spectrum clones, for machines running UNIX and the X Window system. XZX-Pro is completely written in C. It initially was based on XZX 1.0.2 by Des Herriott, but has been completely rewritten since then.

Emulates:

• ZX Spectrum 48K, 128K, +2 and +3, Pentagon and Scorpion, Didaktik
• Interface I with up to 8 microdrives,
• Multiface 1, Multiface 128 and Multiface 3
• Beta 128 interface by Technology Research Ltd with 4 disk drives,
• +D interface by Miles Gordon Technology with 2 disk drives,
• D80 disk interface with 2 disk drives,
• ZX Printer,
• Kempston mouse,
• Sinclair, Cursor and Kempston joysticks,
• Fuller Audio Box and
• built-in machine code monitor.

Loads from:

• snapshots in .SNA, .Z80, .SLT or .DAT format,
• tape images in .TAP, .TZX, or .VOC format,
• microdrive cartridge images in .MDR format,
• disk images in .DSK, .TRD, .FDI, .SCL, HOBETA, .MGT, .IMG or .D80 format,
• screen dumps in .SCR format and
• poke instructions in .POK or .TZX format.

Saves to:

• snapshots in .SNA, .Z80 or .SLT format,
• tape images in .TAP, .TZX, or .VOC format,
• microdrive cartridge images in .MDR format,
• disk images in .DSK, .TRD, .MGT, .IMG or .D80 format,
• screen dumps in .SCR or .XPM format and
• audio fles in .PSG or .WAV format.

Additional features:

• Emulates Spectrum's speaker and AY-3-8912 chip on workstations with audio hardware.
• Supports colour (8,15,16,24,32bpp) and monochrome displays, where contrasting colours are displayed with the darker colour in black and the lighter colour in white, which works reasonably well.
• Supports full screen mode on X servers with the XF86VidMode extension.
• Built-in VNC server for multiplayer games.
• Supports analogue joystick on PCs with a joystick device.
• Redirects Spectrum's printer output to a file or command (pipe).
• Connects Interface I's RS232 to the workstation's serial device.