How to run ESXDOS in Fuse emulator of ZX Spectrum

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How to run ESXDOS in Fuse emulator of ZX Spectrum

1. Preparing disk image

1.1 Getting HdfMonkey, building and installing it

git clone https://github.com/gasman/hdfmonkey.git

dpkg-source -b hdfmonkey

dpkg-buildpackage

sudo apt install ./hdfmonkey_0.4.1_amd64.deb

1.2 Creating FAT32 image right way

dd if=/dev/zero of=esxdos.raw bs=256M count=1

• Install dosfstools for FAT32 support

mkfs.vfat -F32 -s4 esxdos.raw

• Install fuse-emulator-utils for raw2header

raw2hdf -v 1.1 esxdos.raw esxdos.hdf

• Copy ESXDOS files taken from https://esxdos.org/

hdfmonkey put esxdos.hdf /mnt/c/Downloads/esxdos/* /

2. Running FUSE emulator

2.1 Flashing DivMMC EEPROM

• Run FUSE (sorry for Windows =)

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Fuse\fuse.exe" --no-divide --divmmc --no-divmmc-write-protect --divmmc-file C:\Downloads\esxdos.hdf C:\Downloads\esxdos\ESXMMC.TAP

• Press a key to flash DivMMC EEPROM
• Write protect DivMMC in Options->Peripherals->Disk menu
• Run debugger in Machine->Debugger menu
• Enter command br 0 to set breakpoint at 0x0000 address, press Continue button
• Select Machine->Hard reset
• When debugger stops executing, select File->Save snapshot, and save as esxdos.szx

2.2 Finally running FUSE with DivMMC

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Fuse\fuse.exe" "C:\Downloads\esxdos.szx" --no-divide --divmmc --divmmc-write-protect --divmmc-file "C:\Downloads\esxdos.hdf"

• That's it

3. Links

Preconfigured +3e machine snapshot, SD-card image and executing script from this tutorial: zip-archive

https://github.com/gasman/hdfmonkey

https://sites.google.com/site/installationubuntu/zx-spectrum/emulate-divmmc

https://oldcomp.cz/viewtopic.php?f=148&t=9256

https://esxdos.org/

https://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/