PASTA/80 Integration

Klive IDE supports PASTA/80 out-of-the-box, provided you have the PASTA/80 Pascal compiler installed on your machine. After setting up the integration, you can use Klive IDE to edit, compile, run, and debug ZX Spectrum Pascal programs written for PASTA/80.

Prerequisites

1. Install SjasmPlus

PASTA/80 does not assemble the generated Z80 code itself — it delegates that step to SjasmPlus. Install SjasmPlus and note its installation folder.

2. Configure SjasmPlus in Klive

Run the sjasmp-reset command (alias sjasmpr) from the Klive Command window, passing the SjasmPlus installation folder:

sjasmp-reset <full path to the SjasmPlus installation folder>

For example:

sjasmp-reset /usr/local/bin

Klive will append the sjasmplus executable name to this path automatically.

3. Install PASTA/80

Visit the PASTA/80 releases page to download the compiler for your platform. After installing it, note the full path to the pasta80 (or pasta) executable.

Setting up PASTA/80 in Klive

With SjasmPlus already configured, run the pasta80-reset command (alias p80r) from the Command window:

pasta80-reset <full path to the pasta80 installation folder>

For example:

pasta80-reset /usr/local/bin

Klive stores only the installation folder; the pasta executable name is added automatically.

The command will:

1. Verify that SjasmPlus is configured (and stop with an error if it is not).
2. Store the pasta80 installation folder in Klive.setting.
3. Check whether ~/.pasta80.cfg exists:
   • If not, it creates a minimal ~/.pasta80.cfg containing the correct assembler path pointing to your SjasmPlus executable and prints a confirmation message.
   • If it does exist, it reads the assembler setting and warns you if it does not match the SjasmPlus path that Klive has configured.

pasta80-reset /usr/local/bin -p

To remove all PASTA/80 settings from Klive, run the command without arguments:

pasta80-reset

Compiler settings

The following settings control PASTA/80 compilation. You can read or change them with the set / setl commands or by editing Klive.setting directly.

Supported targets within Klive IDE

Using PASTA/80

After completing the setup, create a Klive project and add .pas source files. Promote a .pas file to the build root to designate pasta80 as the compiler for that file.

When you build, pasta80 compiles the Pascal source to a raw binary and Klive injects it into the emulator at the target’s load address (the entry point is always the first byte of the binary — a jp __init instruction generated by the runtime).

Troubleshooting