Retro-X

Retro-X (Pronounce: Retro Cross or Retro-X) is my work-in-progress system for PC to Retro computers graphics conversion. It will be expanded later into a development kit for Retro Software. Currently the Conversion supports following Retro computer systems (Listed in no particular order).

• Sinclair ZX Spectrum and some clones, including special modes like Laced and ASCII
• Sinclair QL
• SAM Coupé
• Sprinter 2000
• Amstrad CPC
• Commodore C64 Standard modes and Hires FLI
• Atari XL/XE (More modes will follow later)
• MSX 1/2/Colecovision
• Acorn Electron
• Atari ST (STE will follow later)
• Amiga 500/2000 including EHB and HAM6
• Tandy Colour Computer

Other Features of Retro-X are:

• Font editor supporting up to 256 8x8 pixel characters
• Oversize conversion
• Integrated Painter for quick image touchup and Map Editor
• DiscMaster (Reading Files in TAP, MGT, IMG, and TRD Containers)
• Search for double Files and double pictures (format independend)

Planed Features:

• Retro Soundtracker
• XIDE Development Enviroment
• MBD Disc reading.

This will be open source later....

Examples of converted screens:

Present completion status: 15%

Screenshots (Windows XP, Classic design):

The Retro-X Painter showing some shapes (german version). Screenshot taken from Alpha 8 prerelease version.

Yep, thats the viewer for retro images. Looks familar?

Converter (German version screenshot)

Disc Master, with a +D image loaded in source and displaying a picture loaded from the disc image

This is the Work-in-progress XIDE, a editor for ZXB-Compiler featuring: Multiview, Syntax highlightning, Autocompletion, Foldings and tons of other features. The XIDE included in Alpha 8 is just a dummy without functionality, but this baby prepared for Beta realease, is a professional IDE created for beginners and advanced Spectrum programmers.

Downloads:

• Retro-X Installer (UPO Packed, so some bad virus scanners give false positives)
• Retro-X Instruction (PDF) [hope, this will be finished for Beta version because a instruction is like sex, is is good, then its excellent, and if it is bad, it is anyway better than nothing]
• BMP2SCR Viewer Pack 1.0

Please write comments and bug reports in the forum