Автор: shrek128 (code, release)
Год: 2026
Языки:
Английский
Требования:
ZX Spectrum 128K, 
esxDOS
Ссылки:
Страница на ZXArt
Скриншоты:
Описание:
<h3>About</h3>
<br>
Bow Commander is a classic dual-panel file manager brought to the ZX Spectrum 128K. It lets you browse two directories side by side, copy, move, rename and delete files and directories, mark groups of files with wildcard masks, inspect file and directory information, and even peek inside files with a built-in Text/Hex/Decimal viewer - all from the keyboard, no mouse required (the Spectrum never had one anyway).
<br>
It is styled after the author's own earlier ZX Spectrum project, MB Commander, rebuilt for 128K machines with DivMMC/esxDOS storage.
<br>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<br />
• ZX Spectrum 128K (or compatible: 128K, +2, +3, or a Next/clone in 128K mode).<br>
• DivMMC (or compatible) interface running esxDOS, with an SD card / CF card / similar mass storage device formatted with a filesystem esxDOS can read.<br>
• An emulator that supports 128K paging and esxDOS/DivMMC (for example CSpect or a recent Fuse build) also works fine for trying it out without real hardware.<br>
<br />
<h3>Running it</h3><br>
Bow Commander is distributed as a single .TAP file. Copy it to your esxDOS storage and load it the normal way for a .TAP file on your system (for example via the esxDOS browser, or "LOAD" from BASIC pointed at the file). The loader brings in the resident kernel plus its overlay code banks and starts the file manager automatically.
<br>
<h3>Features</h3><br>
• Two independent panels, each with its own current directory, cursor position and scroll position.<br />
• Fast directory browsing with cursor auto-repeat, page up/down, and jumping to the parent directory.<br />
• Copy and Move, with a confirmation prompt, an overwrite guard, and safety checks that refuse to copy/move something onto itself or into its own subdirectory.<br />
• Delete and Rename, also with confirmation.<br />
• Make Directory.<br />
• Multi-selection: mark individual entries, or mark/unmark/invert a whole group by wildcard mask (e.g. *.TAP). Operations act on every marked entry if anything is marked, or just the entry under the cursor otherwise.<br />
• Quick Search: start typing a name and the cursor jumps live to the first matching entry in the current directory, narrowing further with every keystroke.<br />
• File Info / Directory Info: size, date, time and MS-DOS style attributes (read-only/hidden/system/archive) for a file; a recursive scan (file count, directory count, total size) for a directory, cancellable with BREAK.<br />
• System Info popup: memory size and program version.<br />
• Built-in file viewer: Text mode (with word-wrapping and fast scrolling), Hex dump and Decimal dump modes, and an incremental Find within the file.<br />
• Built-in text editor: a proper gap buffer under the hood, so inserting or deleting text stays fast regardless of file size, and only the part of the screen that actually changed gets redrawn (never a full-screen flash for an ordinary keystroke). Held-down keys auto-repeat, Page Up/Down account for lines long enough to wrap across several screen rows, and there's word-skip, jump-to-end-of-line and jump-to-end-of-file shortcuts plus Save/Save As and its own in-editor Help popup.<br />
• Press ENTER on a .TAP or .SNA file to load/run it directly from the panel.<br />
• An in-program Help screen listing every shortcut.<br />
• A pull-down menu bar as an alternative to memorising every key.<br />
• Keyboard click feedback and colour-coded panels/highlights throughout.
Год: 2026
Языки:
АнглийскийТребования:
ZX Spectrum 128K, esxDOSСсылки:
Страница на ZXArtСкриншоты:
Описание:
<h3>About</h3>
<br>
Bow Commander is a classic dual-panel file manager brought to the ZX Spectrum 128K. It lets you browse two directories side by side, copy, move, rename and delete files and directories, mark groups of files with wildcard masks, inspect file and directory information, and even peek inside files with a built-in Text/Hex/Decimal viewer - all from the keyboard, no mouse required (the Spectrum never had one anyway).
<br>
It is styled after the author's own earlier ZX Spectrum project, MB Commander, rebuilt for 128K machines with DivMMC/esxDOS storage.
<br>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<br />
• ZX Spectrum 128K (or compatible: 128K, +2, +3, or a Next/clone in 128K mode).<br>
• DivMMC (or compatible) interface running esxDOS, with an SD card / CF card / similar mass storage device formatted with a filesystem esxDOS can read.<br>
• An emulator that supports 128K paging and esxDOS/DivMMC (for example CSpect or a recent Fuse build) also works fine for trying it out without real hardware.<br>
<br />
<h3>Running it</h3><br>
Bow Commander is distributed as a single .TAP file. Copy it to your esxDOS storage and load it the normal way for a .TAP file on your system (for example via the esxDOS browser, or "LOAD" from BASIC pointed at the file). The loader brings in the resident kernel plus its overlay code banks and starts the file manager automatically.
<br>
<h3>Features</h3><br>
• Two independent panels, each with its own current directory, cursor position and scroll position.<br />
• Fast directory browsing with cursor auto-repeat, page up/down, and jumping to the parent directory.<br />
• Copy and Move, with a confirmation prompt, an overwrite guard, and safety checks that refuse to copy/move something onto itself or into its own subdirectory.<br />
• Delete and Rename, also with confirmation.<br />
• Make Directory.<br />
• Multi-selection: mark individual entries, or mark/unmark/invert a whole group by wildcard mask (e.g. *.TAP). Operations act on every marked entry if anything is marked, or just the entry under the cursor otherwise.<br />
• Quick Search: start typing a name and the cursor jumps live to the first matching entry in the current directory, narrowing further with every keystroke.<br />
• File Info / Directory Info: size, date, time and MS-DOS style attributes (read-only/hidden/system/archive) for a file; a recursive scan (file count, directory count, total size) for a directory, cancellable with BREAK.<br />
• System Info popup: memory size and program version.<br />
• Built-in file viewer: Text mode (with word-wrapping and fast scrolling), Hex dump and Decimal dump modes, and an incremental Find within the file.<br />
• Built-in text editor: a proper gap buffer under the hood, so inserting or deleting text stays fast regardless of file size, and only the part of the screen that actually changed gets redrawn (never a full-screen flash for an ordinary keystroke). Held-down keys auto-repeat, Page Up/Down account for lines long enough to wrap across several screen rows, and there's word-skip, jump-to-end-of-line and jump-to-end-of-file shortcuts plus Save/Save As and its own in-editor Help popup.<br />
• Press ENTER on a .TAP or .SNA file to load/run it directly from the panel.<br />
• An in-program Help screen listing every shortcut.<br />
• A pull-down menu bar as an alternative to memorising every key.<br />
• Keyboard click feedback and colour-coded panels/highlights throughout.