A browser-based ZX Spectrum live-coding environment
https://bazematic.demozoo.org/
At the NOVA 2023 demoparty, there was a live-coding jam organised on the premise of "if you can broadcast your screen, you can code in whatever tools you like". So, because I'm an awkward bugger, I decided to try my hand at live-coding for the Spectrum in Z80 assembler. Unfortunately, since no-one has made a dedicated live-coding environment for that, it involved a whole lot of switching between the emulator, text editor, and command line for the assembler.
bazematic is my attempt at addressing this obvious gap in the live-coding ecosystem. It brings together my JSSpeccy emulator, roudoudou's rasm assembler (cross-compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten), and the Ace code editor into a single coder-friendly package.
Following the precedent of Bonzomatic being named after Bonzaj / Plastic who spearheaded live shader coding, bazematic is named after legendary Spectrum coder Baze / 3SC.
There isn't a proper build script right now - compiled assets from jsspeccy, rasm and ace are included directly into the repo.
- jsspeccy is built from commit 429daf15 with
npm run build- the contents ofdistare copied intojsspeccy - rasm is built from commit af8013ed of my fork, using
emmake makewith an emscripten environment active. The resultingrasm.jsandrasm.wasmare copied intorasm - ace is the
src-minsubtree of commit d065fe88