20170731: ninth public release. New special case for arpeggios: the nibble F stands for -12 and changes the loop behavior. Sound playback is now wavelength-based rather than frequency-based, and thus closer to the hardware. Minor bugfixes in the keyboard map handling. Added CHUBBYGR.CHP, CHUBBYGS.CHP, MEGAPHNX.CHP and MEGAPHNY.CHP.
20170724: eighth public release. Fixed a serious bug in the noise generator: playback and WAVE output randomly skipped pure noise notes. New ATEAM.CHP, BURNINR1.CHP, BURNINR4.CHP, SOLOMON2.CHP, UNDERWTR.CHP, WESTBNK1.CHP, WESTBNK2.CHP and WINGSOD4.CHP: 32 sample songs
20170719: seventh public public release. New extended tremolos (60-9F) lead to important changes in the amplitude effect byte: old 60-6F become 5F, old 80 becomes 9E, old 81-8F become 61-6F, old 90-9F become A0; 70-7F stay as they were. Minor optimisations in the player. New command line options -b1, -b2 and -b3. New CATABALL.CHP, FREDDY_H.CHP, HYDROFOL.CHP and SCOR3020.CHP
20170708: revised sixth public release, with just one change: pressing backspace in order list panel updates pattern panel
20170707: sixth public release. New command line options -y and -Y (generate YM3 file, either full song or song loop), commands Control-W (apply transposition to current pattern), Control-D (detect duplicates and optionally erase them), Control-E (check for duplicates and optionally create them). Minor changes in CHIPNSFX.I80 extended mode vibratos, in the file dialog and the INCLUDE file compression. New DEFLEKTR.CHP, GRANGEHL.CHP, PHANTIS1.CHP, PHANTIS2.CHP, SCOR3020.CHP, THINGBBK.CHP and TIMETRAX.CHP
20170616: fifth public release. Fixed a file dialog bug reported by Garvalf (who also wrote CHIPNSFX's first new song from scratch), as well as minor internal consistency bugs. Pattern panel allows using Control-D. New ATOMINO3.CHP and DESPERA2.CHP
Fourth release of CHIPNSFX by CNGSoft, a multi-platform tracker and player for Z80 systems
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Fourth release of CHIPNSFX tracker+player suite by CNGSoft : new command Control-D tells whether the current instrument is unused or the current pattern is a duplicate (Shift: erase unused instrument, turn current pattern into a link to the pattern it is a duplicate of). Minor bugfixes: inconsistencies in -P mode and in channel toggling, better compression when generating INCLUDE files, etc. Minor changes in several songs. New DESPERA1.CHP.
Third release of CHIPNSFX by CNGSoft, a multi-platform tracker and player for Z80 systems
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Third release of CHIPNSFX tracker+player suite by CNGSoft : new command line options -P (cursor follows playback), -k1, -k2 and -k STR (set QWERTZ, AZERTY or custom keyboard map), following a suggestion from Beb..
iMPdraw v1.2 (2016) by AST/Imp4ct, a painting program for Amstrad CPC, new demo incoming
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Released in April 2016, iMPdraw v1.2 is the last version of this Amstrad CPC painting program by AsT. A new version will be available this year.
Other painting program exists : GOS (CPC+ only) and Claudia (CPC and CPC+).
Also, on his site, he is announcing the 1st June that he is working on a one screen demo, without a release date (soon he hopes).
New release of CHIPNSFX by CNGSoft, a multi-platform tracker and player for Z80 systems
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Second release of CHIPNSFX tracker+player suite by CNGSoft : new command line options -F (48000 Hz) and -L (linear amplitude). A blue bar makes the active items stand out. Minor changes in the documentation file.
Samdisk v3.8.10 by Simon Owen, Amstrad CPC disks tranfers on PC
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SAMdisk v3.8.10 by Simon Owen is out since the 18th December.
The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.
Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.
added read and write support .qdos (QL) disk images
added --irregular option for blind output image if first track isn't regular
added --fill to set filler byte for regular formats
fixed setting perpendicular mode for 1Mbps data rate
fixed reading directly to single-sided formats from a:/b:
fixed short data indicator showing on no-data sectors
fixed raw output not using source format fill byte for missing sectors
changed raw output to allow blank head 1 to mirror head 0 format
CHIPNSFX tracker+player suite by CNGSoft, a multi-platform tracker and player for Z80 systems
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CHIPNSFX tracker+player suite is a musical software suite focused on lightweight code and data (the player itself is under 950 bytes long, and can be as small as 550 bytes) for the Amstrad CPC, Sinclair Spectrum 128 and MSX1 platforms; other hardwares can be supported with minor modifications in the player code, such as Sega Master System. The tracker can create songs up to 256 patterns long, patterns can be up to 96 ticks long, and there can be as many as 255 different instruments. The player itself is hardware-independent, the programmer can provide the external functions required to make it work on any Z80-based platform. CHIPNSFX was succesfully used in past projects such as :
Today the news are good, a teaser for a new version (v2) of Arkos Tracker as an Amstrad CPC intro with a 9 channels music song, a conversion of a Rob Hubbard music. To listen to the 9 channels, you need a PlayCity sound card or an emulator like JavaCPC Desktop (check PlayCity on misc tab of preferences).
Arkos Tracker v2 will feature :
works on windows, linux and mac
play both psg and sample sounds
unlimited channels
overhauled interface
4 effect columns per tracker
arpeggios and pitches inside tracks
slow pitch and glide fxs
import from AT1, SKS, 129, WYZ and MOD
export to binary or sources
any freq from each psg
subsongs
new format called AKY allows replay from 7 to 12 scanlines for 3 channels with a much
better compression ratio than YM players
The code of this teaser is written by Targhan, font by Super Sylvestre.
Amstrad CPC X-Mass, ACMEDOS and YANCC (by SOS)
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Everybody knows the hardware interfance X-Mass by ToTO for Amstrad CPC, a MX4 mass storage expansion with 128 Mb of flash for storing files on your beloved computer.
AcmeDOS is an Amstrad CPC ROM which lets you use the Microsoft FAT file system with the X-Mass.
YANCC (Yet Another Norton Command Clone) is a text interface to manage your files on the X-Mass and the AcmeDOS ROM with an interface not unknown to olders : ms-dos and norton (or linux and midnight commander).
Samdisk v3.8.9 by Simon Owen, Amstrad CPC disks tranfers on PC
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SAMdisk v3.8.9 by Simon Owen is out since the 18th December.
The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.
Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.
fixed clipping extent of non-error sectors
fixed raw .2d file reading (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
fixed HD track error during 2DD to 2HD promotion (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
fixed use of scanning data rates not supported by FDC
fixed --offsets crash if 2 stored copies were present
changed gap indicator from g to +, added - for short sectors
added support for double-density MB-02+ disks (thanks Jan Kucera)
SugarConvDisk : converts Amstrad CPC disks images between differents formats
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Coming from Sugarbox code, SugarCOnvDisk can convert disks images between differents formats : dsk, edsk, supercard pro, HFE, IPF, CT-raw, Raw (kryoflux) to dsk/edsk, scp, IPF, HFE. It also supports batch and filtering.
SymbOS v3.0 Release Candidate 1 available for Amstrad CPC
Changes since the last update : fixed bug in the widget management of the extended desktop, the widget feature can now fully used as well, and increased booting speed.
CDTMaster v3, a windows utility to manage tape images (CDT) for Amstrad CPC
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The windows utility CDTMaster by Oscar Martin exists as v3 since 2015 (works also under linux with mono). It is a Taper like utility, it includes other options like importing files from a DSK, converting files into TZX/CDT blocks (like 2cdt) and convert CDT to WAV (like playtzx).
