[v2p2] importing zxbas project does not run

[Ultrahead]

After importing this project to SpectNetIDE 2 preview (changing all the files from .bas to .zxbas and ditto in code):

http://www.alessandrogrussu.it/Adlunam.html

... nothing happens when you compile and run the game (ad10.zxbas file)

[Dotneteer]

Hi @Ultrahead, I will check it soon.

[Dotneteer]

@Ultrahead, thanks for reporting this error. The AdLunam project is a very good one to test ZX BASIC integration, as it is complex, and using many ZX BASIC features. I identified a number of issues (probably just the surface) that I need to handle in SpectNetIDE:

• The ZX BASIC integration had bugs with command line option handling
• I need to find a way to specify ZXB command line options within the main .zxbas file so that options could be passed to ZXB.EXE (using the default options that you can set for SpectNetIDE is not enough)
• Compiling AdLunam from ZX BASIC to assembly takes more than two minutes, so I need to provide some visual feedback to the user
• The SpectNetIDE assembly does not recognize the INCBIN pragma (it uses INCLUDEBIN).
• etc.

I try to process this long feature queue still this year...

[Dotneteer]

I managed to run the AdLunam project within SpectNetIDE. I will carry out the necessary changes and release them in Preview 4.

[Dotneteer]

@Ultrahead, the fix for the AdLunam project released in Preview 4.

A new SpectNetIDE feature allows you to add command line options to the main file of a ZX BASIC program. Accordingly, to make AdLunam work, you should add this top comment to the ad10.zxbas file:

REM @options --array-base=1 --string-base=1 -O3 -H 2100 -S 24600

You can find more details about compilation options here: https://dotneteer.github.io/spectnetide/getting-started/use-zx-basic#option-comments

Please note, the compilation takes about 2 minutes by the ZXB compiler. Then, SpectNetIDE adds about two seconds to compile the output .z80asm file to machine code.

[Ultrahead]

Great! Works like a charm ...