PT3 driver for the Amstrad CPC/Plus
posted by Grim on 14/11/2007 at 15:53

A quick & dirty port of the latest PT3 driver (Release7) for the Amstrad CPC/Plus can be found here. This is merely a hack of the original driver to add a post-convertion of the AY3 tone and enveloppe periods from 1.773MHz (ZX Spectrum AY3 clock) to the 1MHz CPC AY3 clock frequency.

You can get the complete PTxTools package and VortexTrackerII (an AY3 chiptracker for Windows) at http://bulba.untergrund.net/.

Vortex Tracker II

For the latests news and download, go to the Vortex Tracker II homepage. There's only the Amstrad CPC PT3 Player to download here.

Vortex Tracker II is a complete music editor for creating and editing music for AY-3-8910, AY-3-8912 or YM2149F sound chips. Sound output is realized by sound chips emulation through standard Windows digital sound devices, so, real sound chips are not required. Vortex Tracker II uses standard Win32 functions and does not require any additional libraries.


Vortex Tracker II can import several ZX Spectrum music filetypes (modules) :
-Pro Tracker 3.xx (file mask is *.pt3);
-Pro Tracker 2.xx (*.pt2);
-Pro Tracker 1.xx (*.pt1);
-Flash Tracker (*.fls);
-Fast Tracker (*.ftc);
-Global Tracker 1.x (*.gtr);
-Pro Sound Creator 1.xx (*.psc);
-compiled Pro Sound Maker modules (*.psm);
-compiled ASC Sound Master modules (*.asc);
-compiled Sound Tracker and Super Sonic modules (*.stc);
-compiled Sound Tracker Pro modules (*.stp);
-compiled SQ-Tracker modules (*.sqt);
-Amadeus (Fuxoft AY Language) modules (*.fxm, *.ay).

VT II detects module type only by filename extension (mask), and no any additional checks are performed. These extensions are used in well-known player called Ay_Emul. Any other extensions are analized as text files.

Based on the original PT3 player Release 7 (April 2007).