2021, a CPC Odyssey
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Intro submitted at Shadow Party 2021 in category "Old School Intro", ranked #6.
The prod in a few words.
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This intro is for Amstrad CPC, all models.
It features:
* a 3D starfield
* in overscan (384x256 instead of the normal 320x200)
* plus a scrolltext
* all animated at solid 50Hz
Direct credits (see more credits below):
* project, coding by cpcitor
* music by The Other Days
* font by delta force
Files to accompany the prod
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This text file
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__a_cpc_odyssey.txt
Visuals of the prod
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(Screenshots running in an emulator)
image:2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__2021_a_cpc_odyssey__visual_summary.png[Composite visual summary]
image:2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__2021_a_cpc_odyssey__screenshot_00_joke_z80_booting_amiga_rom.png[First screen]
image:2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__2021_a_cpc_odyssey__screenshot_01_3D_starfield_scrolltext.png[Second screen]
Files to run the prod
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2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__a_cpc_odyssey.dsk
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Disk image. Open in a CPC emulator, type this:
....
run"cpcitor
....
You can also transfer the image to a real floppy disk, but that’s beyond
this text.
2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__a_cpc_odyssey.cdt
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Tape image. Open in a CPC emulator, type this:
If the emulated CPC has a disk (disc) drive, first type:
....
|tape
....
or for a French CPC:
....
ùtape
....
Then in all case:
....
run"
....
2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__a_cpc_odyssey.flac
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Audio file. Play this through a special jack-to-CPC-din cable plugged to
a real CPC.
If the CPC has a disk (disc) drive, first type:
....
|tape
....
or for a French CPC:
....
ùtape
....
Then in all case:
....
run"
....
Credits
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* Shadow Party organizers
* A.M.Sugar for Amstrad CPC series,
* L.Torvalds for Linux, git,
* many people for GNU, Debian, Ubuntu,
* S.Dutta, P.K.Krause for SDCC,
* K.Thacker for many things CPC,
* J.Pelletier for hex2bin,
* Users and admins at CPCWiki and forum,
* cpc-dev-tool-chain users,
* F.Gallego(lronaldo) for understanding the power of cpc-dev-tool-chain and forking it into CPCTelera,
* C.Pitrat, Sebhz for Caprice32,
* J.Nevo(Thargan) for ArkosTracker2,
* C.N.Gonzalez(CNGSoft) for CPCEC,
* Roudoudou for Rasm,
* Norecess for an early report on SDCC on CPC and his cpcec-plus tracing Z80 code with symbols,
* Borilla for borilla.co.uk/z80.html,
* Z80Heaven,
* Intro font credits: by delta force, used in syntax terror demo on ST in 1990, ripped by alpha from tsk of anarchy. https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/STEEL_ST.png
