Joyce v2.2.9 by John Elliott, an Amstrad PCW emulator
-Joyce v2.2.9 by John Elliott (unix and windows) adds support for the Electric Studio light pen.
Be aware than his web domain has changed, please update your boorkmark.
Joyce v2.2.9 by John Elliott (unix and windows) adds support for the Electric Studio light pen.
Be aware than his web domain has changed, please update your boorkmark.
A new version (v1.6) of the CDT2WAV utility (windows/linux/mac) by DevilMarkus.
It let you use resulting .WAV on a real CPC with a tape drive or a MP3 player.
For Linux and Mac users, launch the cdt2wav.jar with the following parameters : cdt2wav.jar -Xms512m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m (or set all to 256 if you want only 256 Mb max. ram usage).
A new version of the Amstrad CPC emulator Sugarbox is out.
You wish enhancements for the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator ? Then ask to its author on CPCWiki.
Just 16 months late to announce the latest version of the Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.2.7 by John Elliott (unix and windows).
Be aware than John's web domain has changed, please update your boorkmark.
The last version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CapriceRPI (v 1.3) by KaosOverride for Raspberry PI is available.
This emulator base on the sources of Caprice32 (Ulrich Doewich) can also be compiled on something else than a PI with the following command : make -f makefile.notpi.
At least a new version of the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator by Richard Wilson.
En résumé elle apporte des améliorations sur l'émulation du Z80, changement de palette, émulation sonore, support des cassettes, assembleur et désassembleur.
Also, there is a new version of ParaDOS, a ROM (for CPC old and +) used for disc and files manipulations. Source of ParaDOS is available too.
The Amstrad CPC use 3" disks because Alan Michael Sugar got a large batch of 3" drives, and then stayed with it for compatibility. Game editors started to add protections to avoid piracy. Amstrad CPC emulators are using the .DSK format to store the content of a disk (but it assumes that each track have only one size). This format can't manage well protections, for this you need the extended DSK format where each track can have a different size to support more protections, but still not all of them. That's why hardware solutions are necessary to preserve the exact content of the original disks in their totality (and then you can write them again to real disks) such as :
There is a problem to create .IPF for Amstrad CPC programs, the real disks have been either :
Every emulator can use the raw or CT Raw kryoflux files if using the SPS decoder library. If an emulator doesnt use this library, then the best thing is to use .DSK created from kryoflux files with Samdisk like those dumped by Maxit on CPC-Power. SuperCard Pro support must be added internally into an emulator. Sugarbox already supports the SCP and of course the kryoflux (from a kryoflux raw or CT Raw, sugarbox can create a SCP file). Samdisk will soon support the SCP hardware, so it will be possible to read one track only.
The Amstrad notepad NC100 was out in 1992 with the protext word processing (already on Amstrad CPC and Amstrad PCW). But it's also possible to use it with ZCN by Mark Russel wich is a native CP/M, or use the all new Fuzix (fuzix announced on google+), this time an unix (system 5) by Alan Cox. You can emulate an Amstrad NC100 (and also NC150 and NC200) with nc100em (still by Mark Russel) for linux or ms-dos, and since start of 2014 as I just discovered for windows (port by Stefano Bodrato). The MESS emulator also supports the 3 Amstrad notepad NC. If you dont have the original NC100 ROM, you will need the ZCN.BIN file included in ZCN v1.3. You will find more informations about the Amstrad Notepad NC on the excellent Tim's Amstrad NC users site (see ZCN page).
Today a new version of the Amstrad CPC emulator Sugarbox is out :
Today with the LCD screens, the Amstrad CPC emulators don't display the same result than with a real Amstrad CPC and a Cathodic Ray Tub (CRT) television.
So Alex76gr has created a collection of 75 loading screens pictures of Amstrad CPC games with a scanline effect (1536x1080 resolution).
However adding scanlines isnt enough to looks like a CRT television set.
Winape and Caprice32 are 2 Amstrad CPC emulators which can provide a CRT rendering.
A new version (v1.3) of the CDT2WAV utility (windows/linux/mac) by DevilMarkus.
It let you use resulting .WAV on a real CPC with a tape drive or a MP3 player.
For Linux and Mac users, launch the cdt2wav.jar with the following parameters : cdt2wav.jar -Xms512m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m (or set all to 256 if you want only 256 Mb max. ram usage).
Two online Amstrad CPC emulators have been updated with bugs corrections and new features :
Sugarbox is a new Amstrad CPC emulator (beta) for windows. Beware, there are some problems with windows XP SP3, it works without problems on windows 7 or 8.
A new version of the desktop JavaCPC is available. It's an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator written in Java by Markus Hohmann (DevilMarkus).
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