ZX Spectrum BASIC httpd Server

Finally, you can write CGI scripts for serving web pages in good old ZX Spectrum BASIC.

Run with Docker

Get Docker:

wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

Run the server:

make run

In another terminal, try it out:

curl -v http://localhost:80/hello.basic

Run without Docker

• Compile BAS2TAP from https://github.com/andybalaam/bas2tap and put the exe in /bas2tap/bas2tap
• Install Apache 2 web server
• Configure Apache to use the spectrum-basic.cgi file for .basic files. Something like this: AddHandler spectrum-basic .basic Action spectrum-basic /cgi-bin/spectrum-basic.cgi
• Put your .basic files into /var/www/html
• Start Apache
• Navigate to e.g. http://localhost:80/hello.basic

Explanation

http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2015/09/09/zx-spectrum-basic-web-server/

TODO

• Docs on a derived docker container that allows you to drop in your own .basic files

• Support multiple simultaneous connections by using xvfb-run -a, and somehow kill the right Xvfb at the end. Alternatively, kill the right fuse instance, and Xvfb and xvfb-run should get killed automatically. Alternatively, kill the whole tree from xvfb-run down.