NEWDIV

A plug-and-play ZX Spectrum game collection for DivMMC, built on esxDOS and the ZEsarUX emulator.

NEWDIV is a distribution of the ZX Spectrum Top 100 — a lovingly curated collection of the greatest games ever made for the machine. It comes ready to run in ZEsarUX, with esxDOS and a file browser already set up inside the disk images. Pick a game, load it, play it. Just like it always should have been.

Root directory	Navigate into a game	Load and play

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What's in the box

The collection is split across two volumes:

Volume	Games	Range
NEWDIV 0.1.1	1–151	180 → Lunar Jetman
NEWDIV 0.1.2	152–302	Mad Mix Game → Zzoom

Each volume is a self-contained .mmc image with esxDOS, the BROWSE launcher, and all games installed under /GAMES.

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Requirements

• ZEsarUX — the emulator (macOS, Linux, Windows)
• hdfmonkey — only needed if you want to rebuild the images from scratch
• akeley's game collection — ZXSpectrumTop100-noDoc — only needed for rebuilding

If you just want to play, the pre-built .mmc images are all you need.

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Quickstart

Launch (ZEsarUX)

# Volume 1
./launch_newdiv1.sh

# Volume 2
./launch_newdiv2.sh

The launch scripts auto-detect ZEsarUX in the following order:

1. macOS app bundle — /Applications/zesarux.app
2. System PATH
3. ./zesarux in the current directory

128K games: the scripts launch in 48K mode by default, but esxDOS in USR 0 mode supports 128K software and AY audio. To enable this, open the launch script and change --machine 48k to --machine 128k. The MMC images need no changes. Note that 128K BASIC is not supported by esxDOS — the machine will still boot to a 48K prompt, which is normal.

Mount (macOS — inspect the image directly)

./mount_newdiv1.sh
./mount_newdiv2.sh

Note: the mount scripts use hdiutil and are macOS-only.

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Rebuilding the images from scratch

If you want to repopulate the .mmc images yourself from akeley's collection:

1. Create the empty MMC images:

hdfmonkey create newdiv1/newdiv1.mmc 64M
hdfmonkey create newdiv2/newdiv2.mmc 64M

2. Download ZXSpectrumTop100-noDoc and unpack it somewhere.
3. Open distro/makediv1.sh and distro/makediv2.sh and set the two variables at the top:

GAMES_SRC="/path/to/ZXSpectrumTop100-noDoc"   # <-- set this
MMC="newdiv1/newdiv1.mmc"                       # <-- set this if needed

4. Run:

bash distro/makediv1.sh
bash distro/makediv2.sh

Requires hdfmonkey on your PATH.

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Repository structure

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├── README.md
├── NEWDIV_0.1.1__GAMES.txt   # Volume 1 — full game list and acknowledgements
├── NEWDIV_0.1.2__GAMES.txt   # Volume 2 — full game list and acknowledgements
├── launch_newdiv1.sh          # Launch Volume 1 in ZEsarUX
├── launch_newdiv2.sh          # Launch Volume 2 in ZEsarUX
├── newdiv1/
│   ├── ESXMMC.BIN             # esxDOS ROM
│   └── newdiv1.mmc            # Volume 1 disk image
├── newdiv2/
│   ├── ESXMMC.BIN             # esxDOS ROM
│   └── newdiv2.mmc            # Volume 2 disk image
└── distro/
    ├── makediv1.sh            # Rebuild Volume 1 from source
    ├── makediv2.sh            # Rebuild Volume 2 from source
    ├── mount_newdiv1.sh       # Mount Volume 1 (macOS)
    ├── mount_newdiv2.sh       # Mount Volume 2 (macOS)
    ├── esxdos/                # esxDOS 0.8.9 binaries
    └── fossil/                # Bob Fossil's BROWSE file manager v1.01

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Acknowledgements

Full credits are in the game list files. In brief:

• akeley — the curated Top 100 collection at the heart of this release
• Bob Fossil — BROWSE file manager and Spectrum documentation
• Miguel Guerreiro & Mario Prato — esxDOS
• Cesar Hernandez Bano — ZEsarUX
• Steve Wetherill — veteran Spectrum and Amstrad developer (Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Nodes of Yesod, Robin of the Wood, Projectyle), currently chronicling his memoir at stevewetherill.substack.com

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NEWDIV 0.1.1 / 0.1.2 — The ZX Spectrum Top 100 Collection