How to Build

By Brendan Alford (brendan.alford@gmail.com)

Original version by Dylan Smith.

Building ZX-Diagnostics from Source

Two build platforms are supported for making modifications to ZX-Diagnostics - Windows and Linux. In addition the following tools are prerequisites for the build process:

• bin2tap
• sjasmplus

Having Git installed is optional, so you may clone the repo using the Github clone operation, or simply download and use the zipped source.

To build the ZX-Diagnostics suite, run build.bat (Windows) or build.sh (Linux). Assuming the build is successful, you'll have the following output files created for use:

• testrom.bin (main ZX-Diagnostics ROM image for use with diagnostic devices)
• TapeTests/testram.tap (Cut down version for testing RAM on a semi-working machine without diagnostic hardware)
• ROMCheck/romcheck.tap (ROM checker utility)
• FlashUtils/flashutil.tap (for programming ZX-Diagnostics on to the Alioth Diagnostic board)

See other pages in the Wiki for details on how to use these utilities.