Useful Zilog Z80 coding and optimization resources

Z80 ASM Optimization Tricks - v2.1 (by Adam Ziemba, 2006) https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/285/28502.html

Z80 Optimization Technies v1.1 (by Christopher Tremblay, 2000),  https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/108/10821.html

Z80 instruction set https://clrhome.org/table/

Retro Programming (by John Metcalf) http://www.retroprogramming.com/ 

Twitter bot for BASIC and Assembler programming online: https://twitter.com/ZxSpectrumBot1

How to Write Spectrum Games v1.1 (by Jonathan Cauldwell): https://jonathan-cauldwell.itch.io/how-to-write-spectrum-games

First Steps in Z80 Assembly Language v1.2.4 (by Darryl Sloan): http://ped.7gods.org/z80.pdf + YouTube (4 videos)

Z80 Assembly Language Subroutines (by Lance A. Leventhal and Winthrop Saville, 1983): http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/osborne/books/Z80_Assembly_Language_Subroutines_1983.pdf

The ZX-Spectrum screen layout: part 1 + part 2 + part 3

Floating pont math labs for Z80: z80float + DW0RKiN + lpfp

Z80 Optimisation Tricks

8 videos - Z80 Assembly Language for the ZX Spectrum Tutorial

3 video lessons - Learn Z80 Assembly 2021 Edition

several video lessons - Zilog Z80 Part X

Offline tools

SjASMPlus, command line z80 assembler: download + documentation

SpecEmu emulator (for snow/rain "enable ula snow") http://www.emucr.com/2022/02/specemu-v32-build-20220221.html?m=1

List of all actual ZX Spectrum emulators https://github.com/redcode/ZXSpectrum/wiki/Emulators

Compression tools:

Online tools

53c Chunkypaint: https://53c.nw-lab.com

Resources

Screen optimizers

Screen Optimizer v1.0e by g0blinish, Den Popov (2016, Win) https://vtrd.in/pcutilz/SCROP10E.zip

OpAL v1.0 by Lethargeek (2017, Win) https://vtrd.in/pcutilz/OPALV1_0.zip

ZX Spectrum SCREEN$ Optimizer by HeartWare (2022, Win) https://www.facebook.com/groups/specnext/?multi_permalinks=1775766416114004

Basinc (Paintbox's "Optimise for tape saving") https://github.com/ref-xx/basinc

scr2AnimGIF (-opt switch) https://github.com/ZXDunny/scr2AnimGIF