tzxlist(1)

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✨ tzxlist — the girl who reads your ZX Spectrum tapes 💖

okay so bestie, this is tzxlist(1) from the Emulators section of the manual, and she is literally a Sinclair ZX Spectrum "real" tape file lister. like, actual tapes. real ones. she looks at them and tells you what's on them. for free. no cap. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tzxlist [OPTION] tapefile...

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one command, as many tape files as you want, go off. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

tzxlist outputs a description of the contents of TZX, TAP, PZX and Warajevo TAP tape files. yes, all four. she's versatile like that. 💅

On supported systems she attempts to handle conversions of the de-facto standard TZX Windows-1252 character encoding into whatever charset your current system is using. it's giving multilingual icon energy fr fr. 🌈

And if a problem with that conversion comes up? she doesn't crash out. any applicable strings just get output as-is. no drama, no tears, we move. 🫶

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -d block number — this one dumps the block number you specified out to files: the header goes in a .hdr, the data goes in a .dat, and a description goes in a .dsc. heads up though: the first two are binary files and the last one is a text file, so don't be opening .hdr and .dat in your notes app unless you enjoy chaos 😭. and if you want every single block, set it to -1. all of them. the whole tape. obsessed.
  • -h, --help — gives you brief usage help and lists the available options. the polite little "hey, here's what I can do" moment. 🥰
  • -V, --version — outputs version information. she'll tell you who she is and what she's running. main character behavior honestly. ⭐
  • tapefile — specifies a tape file whose contents are to be listed. you can pass more than one, bestie, the ... in the synopsis wasn't decorative. 🌸

💀 BUGS 💀

None known.

literally zero. not a single one. she ate and left no crumbs. if you find one, that's between you and the universe 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

fuse(1), fuse-utils(1), listbasic(1), tapeconv(1) tape2pulses(1)

The comp.sys.sinclair Spectrum FAQ, at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/index.html.

yes the FAQ link is http and yes it's old, it's vintage, it's iconic, leave her alone 💜

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Philip Kendall (philip-fuse@shadowmagic.org.uk).

Darren Salt wrote this man page.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌟 this version of the manual is 1.4.6, dated 25th July, 2026, and it lives in the Emulators corner of the manual-verse. go list some tapes. slay. 💅✨

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