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To assemble a .zasm source file, Download the applescript below and Edit the location of the zasm executable in the property at the top of the script

Assemble zasm.scpt

Then copy to

~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Scripts/

and it will appear in the BBedit script menu

here is an example .zasm Z80 Assembly source file for ZX Spectrum to get you started

zasm can be found here http://k1.spdns.de/Develop/Projects/zasm-4.0/Distributions/

fuse zx spectrum emulator can be found here Fuse – the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator

Editing Z80 Assembler .zasm source files with BBEdit scaled 45pc Screen Shot 2015-06-05 at 12.24.17 pm

Editing Z80 Assembler .zasm source files with BBEdit

I have now moved from editing and assembling .zasm Z80 Assembler files using the custom-written zasm-cocoa app and I am now using BBEdit with a custom Z80 Assembler BBEdit Codeless Language Module plist

to use, put this .plist file

Z80 Assembler BBEdit Codeless Language Module.plist

in

~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Language Modules/ folder

zasm can be found here http://k1.spdns.de/Develop/Projects/zasm-4.0/Distributions/

fuse zx spectrum emulator can be found here Fuse – the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator

christopher hitchens kim hill interview scaled 45pc

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

Christopher Hitchens interview with Kill Him <del><del><del>Kim Hill

on Radio New Zealand Saturday Morning podcast – 22/05/2010

“Writer for Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic Monthly and many other publications who has just published Hitch-22: A Memoir.”

contains the quote at 38:06: “I’m innately suspicious of anything that involves thinking with your blood”

audio-slicer-quicktime v0.4.1

audio-slicer-quicktime v0.4 link

Takes an audio file (e.g. .mp4, .mp3, .aiff) and slices it up into a series of smaller audio files that are then (optionally) opened in iTunes

audio-slicer-quicktime v0.4 source Xcode project link

zasm-cocoa 0.2 link

Cocoa wrapper app for zasm Z80 Assembler. Uses zasm 3.1.14 and UKSyntaxColouredText v0.2

Fuse ZX Spectrum Emulator for Mac OS X link

zasm-cocoa 0.2 source code Xcode project link

chopper 2 screenplay excerpt

Unofficial version of the tale of Cowboy Johnny excerpt from the screenplay for Chopper 2: How to Shoot Friends and Influence People

petrol station parable

a deconstruction of a rather straightforward business proposition that turns into anything but…

some nights a guy just can’t get a break - except possibly his legs

zabriskie found himself

some nights a guy just can’t get a break – except possibly his legs

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” – James Baldwin

a true story from the lower reaches of the teaching profession

the food technician who stole christmas

a recollection of a party gathering on christmas day