fq/format/tzx/tzx.md

TZX is a file format designed to preserve cassette tapes compatible with the ZX Spectrum computers, although some specialized versions of the format have been defined for other machines such as the Amstrad CPC and C64.

The format was originally created by Tomaz Kac, who was maintainer until revision 1.13, before passing it to Martijn v.d. Heide. For a brief period the company Ramsoft became the maintainers, and created revision v1.20.

The default file extension is .tzx.

Processing JSON files

When needing to process a generated JSON file it's recommended to convert the plain data bytes to an array by setting bits_format=byte_array:

fq -o bits_format=byte_array -d tzx -V d /path/to/file.tzx

Authors

• Michael R. Cook work.mrc@pm.me, original author

References

• https://worldofspectrum.net/TZXformat.html