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Title: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 05:18, 18 May 23
Here are some sound sample discs I made in the early 90s.  Enjoy them in either winape, or on a Real CPC with an AMDRUM or sound card that emulates an AMDRUM like the Llamdaspeak or Symbiface 3.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 05:38, 18 May 23
cpc-3d.jpg

Has anyone tried to make a 3d game on CPC before using wireframe and the crosseyed method?
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 06:59, 18 May 23
Musics ripped from games and a few demos... Weee is the best!

How come we don't have music compilations for CPC that run from mass storage on CPC - like the high volage SID collection, but CPC version.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 07:20, 18 May 23
My first ever games...

2PLYRLC - 2 Player Laser Cycles
BOUBLE - Bouble Trouble (with speech)
D-ZONE - Danger Zone (with dynamicaly changing speech)
FLEET - Game that never really got started
KRACKIT! - This is really my first ever game, not sure why it doesn't work right on WinApe
KRACKIT2 - Better version, really is a sequel
LCIMPP1 - Laser Cycles Improved
LCPART1 - Laser Cycles Part 1 (not sure what the difference is)
LCPART2 - Laser Cycles Part 2, much better, my programming skills got better in a few weeks
N&X - Naughts & Crosses, my first game with sprites and some AI
ROBOT - can't remember, looks like it might be using laserbasic or similar
S-LORDS - Space Lords, crappy conversion of BBC game, yuk, look at that BASIC code
SPACE - can't remember, looks like it might be using laserbasic or similar
STARMAIN - part of starfleet
TRONN - Laser Cycles (with speech by my hischool friend Craig)
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 07:27, 18 May 23
For those who play D&D, this is the only D&D tool I know of for CPC?  It could be so much better these days, but sometimes my friend and I would use this program as the actual dungeon master.  From memory I had a way to create characters randomly outside of this program too but so far haven't found that character generator.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 07:46, 18 May 23
Some graphics I converted from Amiga, a friend of mine coded a utility in AMOS that allowed different methods of maching IFF images to CPC pallets (Colour and Green)

CP.BAS is for colour monitors
GGIRLS.BAS and SPACE.BAS are for green or greyscale monitors

As shown in CPC Oxygen magazine.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: Philippe Lardenois on 17:23, 18 May 23
Nice little games. TRONN with speech samples is a good game. But very hard...
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 01:35, 19 May 23
Quote from: Philippe Lardenois on 17:23, 18 May 23Nice little games. TRONN with speech samples is a good game. But very hard...
Thanks. Those games for most part was me learning to program, I guess we never stop learning but I mean getting the grasp of logic.  That time I stayed over at my friend Craigs house and his big brother Kevin was giving me tips how to do things and I would code it.  Thats is why so many variants of the same thing, as I learned a bit more I wanted to make it a bit better.  Craig had a vic20, his brother Kevin a ZX Spectrum, and I had a CPC464 with green screen.  It was my portable, id put the 464 and monitor in a sleeping bag and ride my motorbike to my friends with it - I was 15 at the time, so safety is never a thought.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 14:05, 19 May 23
Quote from: zhulien on 07:46, 18 May 23Some graphics I converted from Amiga, a friend of mine coded a utility in AMOS that allowed different methods of maching IFF images to CPC pallets (Colour and Green)

CP.BAS is for colour monitors
GGIRLS.BAS and SPACE.BAS are for green or greyscale monitors

As shown in CPC Oxygen magazine.
CP.BAS
Best viewed on a large screen at 720p (YouTube Setting)


Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingl
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 18:19, 22 May 23
I hope those 5 images didn't get your youtube terminated?
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: Prodatron on 21:01, 22 May 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 14:05, 19 May 23Not emulated - original hardware and software. [...]
Peter, what happened to your channel?? :o
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 04:46, 23 May 23
Quote from: zhulien on 18:19, 22 May 23I hope those 5 images didn't get your youtube terminated?
Har Har, nope.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 05:05, 23 May 23
Quote from: Prodatron on 21:01, 22 May 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 14:05, 19 May 23Not emulated - original hardware and software. [...]
Peter, what happened to your channel?? :o
YouTube giveth and YouTube taketh away.....

So, "three strikes and you're out" is alive and well at YouTube.....
If any of my videos featured nudity I gave them the 18+ restriction, or indeed YT did that itself occasionally.

But without warning (no previous strikes!) I was sent an email stating that I had contravened the YT Community Guidelines and my channel was cancelled. I appealed, asking for examples, but the appeal was turned down.

So a major pain in the arse but I've always known that this was a possibility.

Anyway I have all the original videos and there is always Vimeo and Dailymotion......



Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 07:19, 23 May 23
errr, those 5 images didn't have nudity - well it has nude faces i guess 
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: roudoudou on 07:35, 23 May 23
if you still have all original videos, please sort them before upload or make some playlists!
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 08:00, 23 May 23
Quote from: roudoudou on 07:35, 23 May 23if you still have all original videos, please sort them before upload or make some playlists!
I'd already started creating playlists (5 up to now with another 3 or 4 sometime in the future) on YT when this happened.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: roudoudou on 08:07, 23 May 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 08:00, 23 May 23
Quote from: roudoudou on 07:35, 23 May 23if you still have all original videos, please sort them before upload or make some playlists!
I'd already started creating playlists (5 up to now with another 3 or 4 sometime in the future) on YT when this happened.
you should not have titled one of them "BOOBS", i told you!  ;D
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 15:53, 23 May 23
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8l6awe

Best viewed on a large screen at 720p (Dailymotion player setting)

Only another 2600 to go.........
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: poulette73 on 17:38, 23 May 23
Hello,

The video is private, can you change paramaters to public view ? Thanks 😉
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: Prodatron on 18:10, 23 May 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 05:05, 23 May 23But without warning (no previous strikes!) I was sent an email stating that I had contravened the YT Community Guidelines and my channel was cancelled. I appealed, asking for examples, but the appeal was turned down.
This sucks so much! >:(
I have no idea how this is possible with these 80ies pixel graphics...
Good, that you still have all the nice videos and seem to take it easy. I really like your mission to make videos of everything ever existed on the CPC, even the small things.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 18:14, 23 May 23
Quote from: poulette73 on 17:38, 23 May 23Hello,

The video is private, can you change paramaters to public view ? Thanks 😉
Changed :)
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 18:23, 23 May 23
Quote from: Prodatron on 18:10, 23 May 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 05:05, 23 May 23But without warning (no previous strikes!) I was sent an email stating that I had contravened the YT Community Guidelines and my channel was cancelled. I appealed, asking for examples, but the appeal was turned down.
This sucks so much! >:(
I have no idea how this is possible with these 80ies pixel graphics...
Good, that you still have all the nice videos and seem to take it easy. I really like your mission to make videos of everything ever existed on the CPC, even the small things.
I agree with you 100% - any "problematic" videos should be highlighted individually & immediately to the YT channel administrator (IE me) with the option to delete them or to proceed at your own risk.
As I gradually (and slowly) upload the videos I've already made to Dailymotion I'll avoid most of those lovely French slideshows full of ladies.
Yes even the "small things" - the CPC was a 1st class (all round) home computer and there should be a record of the software that was/is available for it.
Bah Humbug!
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: villain on 22:14, 23 May 23
Come on guys... What do you expect from a company, based in a country where "some people" seriously are considering Michelangelo as porn... 
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: genesis8 on 13:38, 25 May 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 05:05, 23 May 23
Quote from: Prodatron on 21:01, 22 May 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 14:05, 19 May 23Not emulated - original hardware and software. [...]
Peter, what happened to your channel?? :o
YouTube giveth and YouTube taketh away.....

So, "three strikes and you're out" is alive and well at YouTube.....
If any of my videos featured nudity I gave them the 18+ restriction, or indeed YT did that itself occasionally.

But without warning (no previous strikes!) I was sent an email stating that I had contravened the YT Community Guidelines and my channel was cancelled. I appealed, asking for examples, but the appeal was turned down.

Doh, I had several youtube video of games/demos linked of you linked on my web site :-(
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 14:08, 25 May 23
Quote from: genesis8 on 13:38, 25 May 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 05:05, 23 May 23
Quote from: Prodatron on 21:01, 22 May 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 14:05, 19 May 23Not emulated - original hardware and software. [...]
Peter, what happened to your channel?? :o
YouTube giveth and YouTube taketh away.....

So, "three strikes and you're out" is alive and well at YouTube.....
If any of my videos featured nudity I gave them the 18+ restriction, or indeed YT did that itself occasionally.

But without warning (no previous strikes!) I was sent an email stating that I had contravened the YT Community Guidelines and my channel was cancelled. I appealed, asking for examples, but the appeal was turned down.

Doh, I had several youtube video of games/demos linked of you linked on my web site :-(
Which ones?
I may be able to prioritize them, and if so provide new links.

And apologies to you zhulien for "hijacking" your thread.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 18:07, 25 May 23
D-ZONE by 'Vorax'

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8l7c45

Without playing the game I let it Run on so that the sampled speech can be heard. These are good quality (quite clear) samples - I wonder what hardware/software combo was used to make them?
Please note that due to a hardware issue the sound gradually slips out of sync but this problem is specific to my capture device - NOT the game.
Title: Re: Interesting Discs I made in the 80s & 90s
Post by: zhulien on 19:48, 28 May 23
It was captured with the 464 tape deck after being recorded with a microphone into another boombox type tape deck. The samples are 1 bit.  Although clear it doesn't actually sound like me due to the low quality.
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