AY Player

VincentGR · 21:45, 02 November 19

Is there any AY/YM player for the CPC that supports ym files (not converted)?
I would like to listen some music with my M4.

ASiC · 22:31, 02 November 19

There's no such thing as an YM player, as far as I know.
Many moons ago, I've used the YMCruncher by F-KEY to convert YM -> AYC on the PC and play them back using the Dual Module Player by HERMOL on the CPC.

Solo Kazuki · 19:01, 13 August 24

Is there any AY player nowadays?

robcfg · 07:01, 14 August 24

@Prodatron , Does SymPlayer on SymbOS play YM/AY files?

Prodatron · 10:10, 14 August 24

No, unfortunately not yet. I was planning to add AYC in SymAmp. AFAIK YM requires too much CPU time and AY is just too large.
Maybe I can talk with Madram about AYC later this year.

Solo Kazuki · 12:11, 14 August 24

Quote from: Prodatron on 10:10, 14 August 24AY is just too large.

How large? I have Gemini 2MB RAM expansion, so maybe You can add AY support for expanded configs? This way some new software for RAM extensions would appear, which is now scarce.

Prodatron · 11:23, 15 August 24

IIRC AY files have sizes around 100K or so. Yes, of course SymAmp could reserve additional ram for this. I will think about this as soon as I am back on SymAmp again later this year.

Solo Kazuki · 15:39, 18 August 24

Is possible to replay AY with 128KB RAM?
Maybe someone could also make AY player for AmDOS with expanded configs? Or even better is possible to add AY replay (with additional RAM) to some players already exist?

Prodatron · 19:43, 18 August 24

Quote from: Solo Kazuki on 15:39, 18 August 24Is possible to replay AY with 128KB RAM?
Maybe someone could also make AY player for AmDOS with expanded configs? Or even better is possible to add AY replay (with additional RAM) to some players already exist?

AFAIK SymAmp for SymbOS is the only multi-format (+multi-musichardware/multi-platform/songlist) player for the CPC (?).

PulkoMandy made a VGM player (IIRC for OPL2) with UniDos support for streaming big files. Maybe that can be used as the base for an AY-player as well, as it is nearly the same like VGM?

Brocky · 06:08, 19 August 24

im interested in AY files playing in SymAmp!...
i found a ton of them the other day n wanna hear them on the CPC!

Prodatron · 21:14, 19 August 24

Sorry, it seems that I mixed something.
AY isn't just a sound chip register dump like VGM but something like the SID format, where the player code is included and has to run in an emulator.
YM on the other side is a register dump, but compressed in a way, which is too hard for the CPC.
If I am wrong, please tell me.
So it seems, that AYC by MadRam is the one, which makes most sense.

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