Changelog¶
5.0 (2015-10-04)¶
- Added the skool2bin.py command (for converting a skool file into a binary file)
- Added the tapinfo.py command (for showing information on the blocks in a TAP or TZX file)
- Converted the HTML templates from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5
- Added the footer template (for formatting the
<footer>
element of a page) - Added the @assemble ASM directive
- Added the
--set
option to skool2asm.py (for setting ASM writer property values) - Added the
RefFiles
parameter to the [Config] section (for specifying extra ref files to use) - Added support to sna2skool.py for reading SpecEmu’s 64K code execution map files
- Fixed how tap2sna.py does a standard load from a TZX file
4.5 (2015-07-04)¶
- Added support to tap2sna.py for TZX block type 0x14 (pure data), for loading the first and last bytes of a tape block (which are usually, but not always, the flag and parity bytes), and for modifying memory with XOR and ADD operations
- Added the
--clear
option to bin2tap.py (to use a CLEAR command in the BASIC loader and leave the stack pointer alone) - Added the
--end
option to bin2tap.py and the ability to convert SNA, SZX and Z80 snapshots - Added
--start
and--end
options to skool2asm.py, skool2ctl.py and skool2sft.py - The
--start
and--end
options of sna2skool.py now take effect when reading a control file or a skool file template - Added support to skool2ctl.py and skool2sft.py for preserving
characters in DEFW statements (e.g.
DEFW "!"
) - Added support for characters in DEFS statements (e.g.
DEFS 10,"!"
) - Fixed how tap2sna.py compresses a RAM block that contains a single
ED
followed by five or more identical values (e.g.ED0101010101
) - Fixed the erroneous replacement of DEFS operands with labels
- Fixed how instruction-level comments that contain braces are restored from a control file
- Fixed the handling of terminal compound sublengths on ‘S’ directives (e.g.
S 30000,10,5:32
)
4.4 (2015-05-23)¶
- Added support to control files and skool file templates for specifying that numeric values in instruction operands be rendered as characters or in a specific base
- Added support for @ssub block directives
- Added the
--end
option to sna2skool.py (for specifying the address at which to stop disassembling) - Added the
--ctl-hex-lower
option to sna2skool.py (for writing addresses in lower case hexadecimal format in the generated control file) - Added the
--hex-lower
option to skool2ctl.py and skool2sft.py (for writing addresses in lower case hexadecimal format) - Fixed the parsing of DEFB and DEFM statements that contain semicolons
- Fixed the base conversion of
LD (HL),n
instructions that contain extraneous whitespace (e.g.LD ( HL ),5
) - Fixed the erroneous replacement of RST operands with labels in HTML output
- Fixed the handling of uncompressed version 1 Z80 snapshots by sna2skool.py
4.3 (2015-02-14)¶
- Added support for block start comments (which appear after the register section and before the first instruction in a routine or data block)
- Added the
CodeFiles
parameter to the [Paths] section (for specifying the format of a disassembly page filename based on the address of the routine or data block) - Added the
AddressAnchor
parameter to the [Game] section (for specifying the format of the anchors attached to instructions on disassembly pages and entries on memory map pages) - The #FONT, #SCR and #UDG macros now have the ability to create frames for an animated image
- Added the
--line-width
option to sna2skool.py (for specifying the maximum line width of the skool file) - Writing an ASM directive in a skool file can now be done by starting a line
with
@
; writing an ASM directive by starting a line with; @
is deprecated - Added the
@
directive for declaring ASM directives in a control file; the old style of declaring ASM directives (; @directive:address[=value]
) is deprecated - Fixed the flip_udgs() and rotate_udgs() methods on HtmlWriter so that they work with a UDG array that contains the same UDG in more than one place
- Fixed the bug that prevents register descriptions from being HTML-escaped
- Fixed the erroneous substitution of address labels in instructions that have 8-bit numeric operands
4.2 (2014-12-07)¶
- Added support for control directive loops using the
L
directive - Added support to control files for preserving the location of @ignoreua directives
- Each image macro now has the ability to specify alt text
for the
<img>
element it produces - Added support for splitting register descriptions over multiple lines
- skool2asm.py now warns about unconverted addresses in register descriptions, and the @ignoreua directive can be used to suppress such warnings
- Added the table, table_cell, table_header_cell and table_row templates (for formatting tables produced by the #TABLE macro)
- Added the list and list_item templates (for formatting lists produced by the #LIST macro)
- Fixed the bug that prevents the expansion of skool macros in the intro text of a [Changelog:*] section
4.1.1 (2014-09-20)¶
- Updated links to SkoolKit’s new home at skoolkit.ca
- Added example control and ref files for Hungry Horace
- Removed the Manic Miner disassembly from the SkoolKit distribution; it is now being developed separately here
4.1 (2014-08-30)¶
- Added the
--search
option to skool2html.py (to add a directory to the resource search path) - Added the
--writer
option to skool2html.py (for specifying the HTML writer class to use) - Added the
--writer
option to skool2asm.py (for specifying the ASM writer class to use) - Added the
LinkInternalOperands
parameter to the [Game] section (for specifying whether to hyperlink instruction operands that refer to an address in the same entry) - Register sections in
b
,g
,s
,t
,u
andw
blocks are now included in the output of skool2asm.py and skool2html.py - Fixed how the address ‘0’ is rendered in HTML output when converted to decimal or hexadecimal
- Fixed the bug that creates a broken hyperlink in a DEFW statement or LD instruction that refers to the address of an ignored entry
- Removed the Jet Set Willy disassembly from the SkoolKit distribution; it is now being developed separately here
4.0 (2014-05-25)¶
- Every HTML page is built from templates defined in [Template:*] sections in the ref file
- Added support for keyword arguments to the #FONT, #SCR, #UDG and #UDGARRAY macros
- Added the
mask
parameter to the #UDG and #UDGARRAY macros (for specifying the type of mask to apply) - Added support for defining page headers in the [PageHeaders] section of the ref file
- Added the
--ref-file
and--ref-sections
options to skool2html.py (to show the entire default ref file or individual sections of it) - Added the
EntryDescriptions
parameter to the [MemoryMap:*] section (for specifying whether to display entry descriptions on a memory map page) - Added the
LengthColumn
parameter to the [MemoryMap:*] section (for specifying whether to display the ‘Length’ column on a memory map page)