What are your favourite ZX Spectrum development tools?
Solution 1
I always used to use Roybot Assembler - which had you enter your program using the BASIC editor and REM statements. It comes with a decent debugger/disassembler that lets you single-step machine code too.
The Hisoft Gens and Mons assembler and disassembler (aka Devpak) are probably fairly popular.
For high-level compiling, the Mira Modula-2 compiler is very good.
Solution 2
Hisoft Gens and Mons assembler and disassembler for programming/debugging.
The Artist / The Art Studio for graphics:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007918
The Music Box for sound:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008481
Solution 3
Zeus assembler, was the best.
I'd add a couple of the Spectrum books in there if I could remember the names, still have them at home. One was The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly by Ian Logan and Frank O'Hara (ISBN 0 86161 116 0), which was commented and described as if it was the source, a fantastic piece of reverse engineering, including a suggested bug fix for the known ROM bugs. If only flash memory had been around in those days. I also memorised a tiny book called the Z80 Workshop Manual which was a great summary of the processor.
Solution 4
Just programming in BASIC, the commands are right there on those rubbery keys. Now if only PC's could have key-legends with while, case, switch etc. on them :-)
Solution 5
ZX ASM 3.0
It had the best user interface and good feature set compared to other assemblers at the end of the twentieth century.
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Joan Cardona about 2 years
What are your favourite assemblers, compilers, environments, interpreters for the good old ZX Spectrum?