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AYAY Kaeppttn tracker / player source code released

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Apr 132014

BSC, probably best known for his Soundtrakker, just released the source code of a new music tracker, which is also capable to play SID voices on the Amstrad CPC. Currently the graphical user interface is quite rudimentary, but the tracker is useable, produces an awesome sound and hey… after the source code release, you can write a GUI by yourself :-).

AYAY Kaeppttnn – a SID music tracker / player by BSC

Well, the following audio examples stand for themselves:

You can get the source code and a snapshot for an emulator from GitHub. The technical discussion is available in the CPC Wiki forums including a description of the keyboard shortcuts.

Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) 3.4.0

Amstrad CPC, Development 4 Responses »

Apr 122014

A new version of the SDCC C compiler is available. You can use SDCC to develop for the Amstrad CPC, e.g. with using the SDCC Code::Blocks template or the programming tutorials by Mochilote. The new version contains also some optimisations for the Z80 port, so be sure to update it. You can download it from http://sdcc.sourceforge.net.

Changes:

New TLCS90 (Toshiba Z80 clone) target support
New STMicroelectronics STM8 target support
Support for named address spaces in ROM
Detects supported devices by gputils when building SDCC
Numerous feature requests and bug fixes are included as well.

CPC projects for 2014/2015 – Push’n’Pop

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Apr 112014

Push’n’Pop published an article about the community Amstrad CPC projects for 2014 and 2015. You will find a lot of software here and see that the Amstrad CPC users are still active :). There are some new demos on the way, there are some games in production and you can expect some new hardware, too. Toms and Hicks try to keep the list up to date, so if your project is missing, you should write them and change that.

You can find the list in the articles section of Push’n’Pop.

CBM (Command Bar Menu) v1.8

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Mar 272014

TFM released a new version of the application framework CBM (Command Bar Menu) for FutureOS. The biggest feature of this new version are hotkeys, which you can use for every menu. CBM v1.8 is fully compatible with older versions.

You can download the new version from http://www.futureos.de (in the download section).

FOReVER 2014 meeting report

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Mar 242014

Pulkomandy and Bonefish wrote a meeting report for the FOReVER 2014 party, which was held from 14th-16th March 2014 in Horna Suca, Slovakia. On the FOReVER 2014 party, Brink participated in the “Other platforms graphics” competition and ranked first with his picture “French Garden” (see below). He also ranked 1st in the “Other platform Music” with his song “Jive Turkey”. Congratulations!

You can read the full meeting report, see images of the party and download the competition entries at Push’N’Pop.

French Garden by Brink

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