Software Supporting PlayCity

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Introduction

All the software that supports the PlayCity expansion board is listed in this page for giving it better visibility.

It's interesting to explain in a few sentences which features of the board the software is using and if you need to press any key or select a menu option to enable these special features. Of course, if the graphical side is improved, then don't be shy and add a few screenshots for catching the eye of future users of your software.

Emulators

JavaCPC

JavaCPC emulates sound part.

MAME

MAME emulates the 2xYMZs and the CTC lets you set YMZs clock, NMIs and Cursor Interrupts. In this moment only lacks of the support of daisy chain setup to acknowledge IRQs for using the normal timer/counter interrupts.

Operating Systems

Firmware

There is software using the native CPC OS supporting the PlayCity (see below)

FutureOS

Space Chicken for FutureOS supports the PlayCity, that's an enhanced version of CyberChicken. FutureOS itself provides support for playing music and NMI handling. The configuration bytes tell if an PlayCity is connected.

SymbOS

Software for SymbOS exists which supports PlayCity (see below)

Games

Cyber Chicken

Cyber Chicken is using the YMZ chips. {{#ev:youtube|0O7ejXpf1zM|300}}

Music Players

ReSeT #10

ReSeT #10 (File:Playcity examples.zip) is a music disk with a few PT3 Turbo Sound songs.

SymAmp

SymAmp for SymbOS (using the YMZ chips for playing 6 channel PT3 Turbosound modules){{#ev:youtube|B8-MoO1VJx4|300}}

Shining's PT3 player

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/programming/playcity-6-channel-sound-(and-3-channel-music-and-3-channel-sfx)/msg92545/#msg92545