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Title: CPC tunes
Post by: Sacrosanct on 19:38, 10 January 18

Does anyone know where I can download CPC tunes from (and I mean a source other than YouTube)?

Thanks in advance
:-*

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: Vyper68 on 20:38, 10 January 18

Hi
This site has both Spectrum & CPC chip music and AY Chip music players.

https://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/index.htm (https://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/index.htm)

I have added this as the ftp at WoS is broken. :doh:

https://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/music/ay/

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: Carnivius on 23:36, 10 January 18

Many of the game pages on CPC-Power have the music available in the very compact YM format that you can either play right there on the page or download (by clicking the animated floppy disk character by each tune) and play in a program such as XMPlay.

For example here's the page for Glider Rider (which has fantastic tunes).
http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=zicym&num=983 (http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=zicym&num=983)

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: blackdalek on 14:42, 11 January 18

Anyone know how to play YM format files in linux? Is there a player available?

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: Skunkfish on 15:01, 11 January 18

There are these:

http://www.svgalib.org/rus/aylet.html
http://www.bannister.org/software/ao.htm

Can't comment on how either of them work as I've not tried myself!

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: blackdalek on 15:11, 11 January 18

OK, I found ymplayer is part of stymulator package. That works ;)

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: blackdalek on 13:47, 12 January 18

Quote from: blackdalek on 15:11, 11 January 18
OK, I found ymplayer is part of stymulator package. That works ;)

Oddly enough, some files on CPC Power need to be extracted first to .ym5 files otherwise ymplayer refuses to play them.
e.g. music from Mask III Venom Strikes Back will not play from the downloaded .ym file until it gets extracted.

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: Vyper68 on 10:05, 15 January 18

This is another site with CPC & ZX Spectrum AY Chip Music

http://aygor.abrimaal.pro-e.pl/

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: Gryzor on 17:36, 20 January 18

Interesting, but that's just a downloadable archive, ain't it?

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: Vyper68 on 10:47, 21 January 18

Quote from: Gryzor on 17:36, 20 January 18
Interesting, but that's just a downloadable archive, ain't it?

Yes you would need an AY player to use them and there are a lot of AY files in the archive, and many are Spectrum rather than CPC.It is quite interesting if you go into Composers/Musicians and navigate to David Whittaker there is the CPC & ZX versions of Xenon and it's interesting to hear the variance in the sound between the two i prefer the CPC's sound.

Title: Re: CPC tunes
Post by: grouik1er on 21:32, 03 March 18

There is a (easy) way to rip music/demo game to ay ?

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