Chapter 12. Plugins
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Invert Colours.
Inverts the Spectrum colour palette, sometimes helps visibility.
Frameskip
Sets the number of frames to skip before displaying one. With zero
frameskip ZXBox tries to display 50 frames per second.
Sound.
Turns sound on or off.
Volume.
Controls volume of sound output.
Predefined Keymap
Select one of the predefined keymaps. For example
2w90z
means: map ZXBox’s
Up
to
2
,
Down
to
w
,
Left
to
9
,
Right
to
0
and
Jump/Fire
to
z
. This example keymap is used in the “Chuckie Egg” game.
Custom Keymap
This menu allows you to map one of the Spectrum keys acces-
sible through the plugin’s virtual keyboard to each one of the buttons.
Quit.
Quits the emulator..
Hacking graphics
Due to ZXBox’s simple (but fast) scaling to the screen by dropping lines and columns
some games can become unplayable. It is possible to hack graphics to make them better
visible with the help of an utility such as the “Spectrum Graphics Editor”. Useful tools
can be found at the “World of Spectrum” site (
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/utilities.
12.4. Applications
12.4.1. Alarm Clock
This plugin is an alarm clock, which resumes a paused song at a given time.
Key configuration
Key
Remote Key
Action
Left
/
Right
Volume Down
/
Volume Up
Switch between hours/minutes selection
Up
/
Down
Forward
/
Rewind
Increase/Decrease hours/minutes
Select
Mode
Set the alarm
Rec
Rec
Exit
Setting an alarm
First select a track and play it, then launch the “alarmclock” plugin. The plugin pauses
the playback. Enter a 24h-time (e.g. 13:58) and set the alarm. Music playback will
resume when the set time is reached.
The Rockbox manual
(version 3.14)
Iaudio M5
