Hello

I'm Rhino, the coder of an old Amiga demoscene group called Batman Group.
At that time we did some demos for A500 like "Batman Vuelve" which can be viewed at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaCgxYyhx4c

After 14 years since our last demo we want to return to the scene with which it will probably be the best demo for 8 bits including Amstrad CPC and C64. The reason is that Amstrad was the machine where we learned to program and believe that is clearly undervalued. We want to do justice to our cherished machine.

We have produced about 60% of the routines now, but we need the optimal source code support for play music and track disk access. We are not experts in these aspects of CPC programming and probably the best solution for this is already invented, if the source code are public domain, we appreciate those who help us find them, or if the author gives us permission to use and wishes be included in the credits of the demo.

We also need to know what is the best way to compose music for the CPC, the best tools for this, we used always the classic Octamed in Amiga and we are a bit lost in CPC. Probably also need some graphic support, we accept suggestions from anyone who wants to participate in the project...

We appreciated your help in advance.

Thanks,

Rhino.

Salut Rhino ...

CPC player STARKOS 1.2 ( Targhan/Arkos - May 2009 ) , the source code player is free (found at Grim homepage)..
Or use the port of PT3 player (Z80/CPC) , tracker "Vortex Tracker II" (win32) is available on the S.V.Bulba page

For you "trackload/fdc direct loading code" you advice to search on this pages:
https://cpcrulez.fr/TrackLoad_Hercule-BABAR.asm
https://cpcrulez.fr/coding_src44_arkos_fdctools.htm
https://cpcrulez.fr/coding_asm36b.htm
https://cpcrulez.fr/coding_asm37b.htm
https://cpcrulez.fr/coding_asm39b.htm
https://cpcrulez.fr/coding_asm40b.htm

good luck with you cpc project !!!

@Rhino: You are not in a demoscene forum... Come to
http://www.cpcscene.com/
or to IRC: irc.neoxys.org in #cpc

Thanks for your help, hERMOL.

We look at the links, it is very important for us to find the most optimal support because the routines are so tight that we can not miss a CPU clock cycle in the code.

Hello,

Nice to see motivated "new" people .

For the music, the faster player is the AYC player from Madram. The only limitation is that is uses more memory if the music is long thant Starkos, for example.

If you want to make your own music on Amstrad, the best tool is Starkos. Fortunately, a new release has just been spreaded .

T&J/GPA

Any news about this project ?

Hi, we continue working on it...

I'm sure it will be the best BASIC demo ever made !

Nah, just kidding

Not Basic, Fortran indeed...