I have several (100s) of Amstrad music rips (YM) from games. Is this a topic for this site? I am dreaming of a page where i/you can directly link / hear the great sounds from the great CPC games.
Any comments?
Brgds
LFS
I'd like to hear that YM files.
Regarding where to put them, maybe it would be a nice idea to put them in their games' pages as an extra or maybe link a zip file from the page (if it exists) of the YM format spec.
Putting them in each game's page falls under another scope; while it'd be fantastic, it'd also be more time-consuming and would fall under the 'games' chapter, not the 'music' one.
We could arrange something! Is there an online YM player???
Hello,
I am looking for code rips of music from CPC games. Not .ym, not chip register dump.
As I ripped quite a lot of music from ZX-compatible computers, I encounter problems with CPC games.
A few questions that I have:
- do the music routines often CALL to ROM?
- is there any automated tracker music ripper?
- is there any tracker for PC that compiles music to the code (binary or disk, tape image)?
Would indeed being great to have all sounds, songs and so on at one page. :)
I have a project in my head related to this.
Sorry the double answer, but I forgot to add that my idea is about ym files. Now, you can hear them in cpc-power, but you need to search each game by hand...
Quote from: Abrimaal on 18:06, 26 February 15
- is there any tracker for PC that compiles music to the code (binary or disk, tape image)?
You mean, including the player routine? Something that you just load on an emulator or real computer and plays the music?
If that's what you are asking, as far as I know, neither arkos, wyz or vortex do that.
Soundtrakker does! ;)
It would be really cool just to have the whole lot available as a ZIP file, like a mini version of the HVSC!
Quote from: TFM on 17:27, 27 February 15
Soundtrakker does! ;)
That's not a pc tracker :P
Sorry, me not using PC stuff... :-X
Why play YM when I've carefully recorded 1600+ music directly from the CPC? There once was a CPC radio, but Grim doesn't seem interested in making it work again... Maybe someone who knows a bit about server/streaming could set up something ?
Don't forget that YM is not that simple to generate (what about samples, ripping music from demos, etc.).
Quote from: endangermice on 21:15, 27 February 15
It would be really cool just to have the whole lot available as a ZIP file, like a mini version of the HVSC!
There are about 400 songs from CPC demos in AYGOR (link (http://aygor.abrimaal.pro-e.pl/))
and just a few from games. In the most of the demo music the playing time is undefined yet and no credits to the authors.
It will be always downloadable as one .zip file
All of the music is in the .ay format.
It is planned to develop this format to support even more than ZX & CPC music.
This format, with some minor updates, may support more machines with Z80+AY/YM onboard.
The hardware requirements (Z80, AY and interrupt frequency, output ports) will be defined in the file header.
That's why code rips (player routine + music data) are needed to play samples and other non-interrupt based sounds.
Quote from: Targhan on 00:26, 28 February 15
Why play YM when I've carefully recorded 1600+ music directly from the CPC? There once was a CPC radio, but Grim doesn't seem interested in making it work again... Maybe someone who knows a bit about server/streaming could set up something ?
Don't forget that YM is not that simple to generate (what about samples, ripping music from demos, etc.).
Hm that'd be an interesting thing to have on the wiki... I'm willing to implement it if someone can develop it :)
Maybe SHOUTcast could do this job. There's a freeware version. I never used Radio software though.
If you like to have your own radio show, you can visit me and we figure things out :)
We use mairlist here. nice software, nice automation, nice room!
So now i have set up "Roland Radio" and run a smal test drive. Enjoy: Roland Radio | Amstrad CPC music & more (http://www.rolandradio.net/)
I will continue to add more informations, sounds, 8Bit-Pop, Interviews and Live-Shows right after Easter. First i need to party at the Revision 2015 in Saarbrücken! Hope to see a lot of you there.
Pictures of our radio station will appear on our homepage. You also can also follow us on facebook.
XyphoesRE
P.S.: A big thank you is going out to Targhan for his collection of Sounds.
I don't want to be too pessimistic here, but for me it's Yet Another CPC-Radio.
I remember many other streams with 24h CPC music, which disappeared quickly in the past...
CPCScene, PushNPop, etc...
But I hope you have fun and your stream will resist for years.
May the force of neverending traffic be with you ;-)
Oh, and PM me, if you like that I add your stream into JavaCPC's Desktop...
As we finally set up the station right after easter, i will inform you about the source.
at the moment we are testing software and hardware to work permanent with the filebase and streaming servers.
Quote from: XyphoesRe on 13:03, 02 April 15
So now i have set up "Roland Radio" and run a smal test drive. Enjoy: Roland Radio | Amstrad CPC music & more (http://www.rolandradio.net/)
I will continue to add more informations, sounds, 8Bit-Pop, Interviews and Live-Shows right after Easter. First i need to party at the Revision 2015 in Saarbrücken! Hope to see a lot of you there.
Pictures of our radio station will appear on our homepage. You also can also follow us on facebook.
XyphoesRE
P.S.: A big thank you is going out to Targhan for his collection of Sounds.
well it sounds great playing on xiialive pro on my HTC one m8 at work!
Here's a little picture of the studio:
(http://rolandradio.net/wp-content/gallery/radio-studio/IMG_9107.JPG)
Just a CPC is missing, which plays the music live... ;) :P :P :P
It is just the basic setup. CPC is in the other room :-)
Haha! The Crown... Crown of BENG? ;)
Fiddling and re-coding the old (removed) PushNPop Radio player in JavaCPC:
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Want more funny logos please... ;-) 264x43 Pixels...
Click on Logo leads to radio website...
Right after easter i will do some nice graphics.
I want to try to make Roland in 3D to animate him for some ideas i have had.
So maybe i find the time during the easterparty in saarbruecken to work on this and/or the jingles and studio ids and so on.
Would appreciate it...
Preview "in Desktop":
nice work. if you dont mind i will grab the images and post them onto the rolandradio news page
maybe you should give me some informations about this desktop thing and a link for interested people to find more informations. thank you.
Quote from: XyphoesRe on 20:22, 02 April 15
nice work. if you dont mind i will grab the images and post them onto the rolandradio news page
maybe you should give me some informations about this desktop thing and a link for interested people to find more informations. thank you.
It's just JavaCPC Desktop... My CPC emulator JavaCPC Desktop - Java CPC Emulator | SourceForge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/javacpc) , based on JEMU JEMU | SourceForge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jemu)
You can download it on the Sourceforge page or on my website:
http://cpc-live.com/download.php?view.2 (http://cpc-live.com/download.php?view.2)
So if you give me the permission to use the pictures you posted here (desktop and player with roland radio in it), than i can use them on my page. But you should tell me :-) if you don't want that, thats no problem at all.
Sure you can use my screenshots, why not?
But I'll release it later (not these days)
Will wait for nice logos on top of the player (they'll change randomly)
Here's the first thing that came to mind...
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After two days of silence we now have implemented 24/7 play of roland radio (Roland Radio | Amstrad CPC music & very much more (http://www.rolandradio.net)) and also a track list showing the lst 50 tracks.
Just for info and debugging:
Some script errors are on roland radio:
(Messages in German, as I use a German Webbrowser)
can you tell me which operating system you use and which browser and version?
Windows 7, 64bit, IExplore DLL (Similar to Internet Explorer (with error messages enabled), but as embedded application)
Ok solved by disabling debug messages...
Fine.
Just for information: Windows 7 is from 2009 / 2011 and update support is cancelled by Microsoft in Januar 2015 - maybe you should update to a more modern operating system for PC. The IE-Library is pretty old on a Win7 system.
I like my Windows 7 without updates. It runs well. Windoof 8 looks as crap and I don't have time to learn everything again when ever M$ decides to release an new and usually incompatible OS. So Thanks for caring about Win7 too! :)
Win 7 extended support, which covers security etc, is ongoing until Jan 2020. No need to panic.
Good news! ;D
More news:
Last Windows 7 update also included Downloader for Windows 10... So don't react too Quickly...
You don't believe it?
Check your C:\Windows\System32 folder... You'll find folder "GWX" and inside.... Surprise!
For getting BTT: as Win7 doesn't get "new features" but security updates you can work with this system. But you shouldn't expect everything to work - so JS and stuff. But if you can fix the issue by turning off the alerts - everything is fine.
You don't need to visit the Roland Radio Homepage to use the streams. Also the track list is available as a "raw" html block you can embed in your homepage if you like to.
Track list: http://rolandradio.net/radio/tracklist.php (http://rolandradio.net/radio/tracklist.php)
Single Track: http://rolandradio.net/radio/track.php (http://rolandradio.net/radio/track.php)
Quote from: Roland Radio on 18:57, 09 April 15
You don't need to visit the Roland Radio Homepage to use the streams. Also the track list is available as a "raw" html block you can embed in your homepage if you like to.
Track list: http://rolandradio.net/radio/tracklist.php (http://rolandradio.net/radio/tracklist.php)
Single Track: http://rolandradio.net/radio/track.php (http://rolandradio.net/radio/track.php)
If I want to add an auto-updater to gain actual informations, how often would you allow that? per minute or so?
i'll write an autoupdater at the weekend where i can manage the handling for the single track (actually played), so you can embed it by iframe. so i can work on the script to optimize the things in the background.
If you want to embed the whole "track list" please do not automatic update if not necessary.
Does any .ym format player for Z80 exist? Is there a chance to write such a player?
What about compressed .ym files?
I use Winamp + Chipamp for my retro music needs.
Sadly radio Roland doesn't play for me in JavaCPC.
The app starts up but when I click on play it doesn't do anything.
Win 8.1 x64. Everything else in JavaCPC works perfectly
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/gdmusic.htm
After some long time I will now try to get RolandRadio up2date. A lot of cpc tunes where uploaded to our ftp server. And I will try to get them all on the station within the next two weekends.
regards
http://www.rolandradio.net
thank you for this radio station. I listen to it often :)
Hi! I'm Robcfg, and I'll be listening to Roland Radio!
Thanks for the update!
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Super cool. Just when I thought I should be recording some new ones, I'm soon on holidays :).
I also listen roland on my pi and android.
Well not anymore due work but I will get back to it in a few days.
Hi There,
we have printed some nice handouts in DIN A5-Format for RolandRadio.net and we will be happy to send a buch of 50s each to Amstrad CPC-Fans going on parties at their country and put some of the handouts to other retro/cpc-sceners.
Anybody who wants some flyers/handouts by snail mail? If so, please send me your address by mail to: info@rolandradio.net and I will send you some. Maybe you can also tell me how many you want to get. can be everything between 50 and 250 of them.
A PDF would be nice to have. :)
Quote from: Devilmarkus on 14:42, 02 April 15
I don't want to be too pessimistic here, but for me it's Yet Another CPC-Radio.
I remember many other streams with 24h CPC music, which disappeared quickly in the past...
CPCScene, PushNPop, etc...
But I hope you have fun and your stream will resist for years.
We are celebrating our fifth anniversary this month. :-)
Quote from: Targhan on 00:26, 28 February 15
Why play YM when I've carefully recorded 1600+ music directly from the CPC? There once was a CPC radio, but Grim doesn't seem interested in making it work again... Maybe someone who knows a bit about server/streaming could set up something ?
Don't forget that YM is not that simple to generate (what about samples, ripping music from demos, etc.).
Where can I found this? I don't like emulated CPC music.
https://rolandradio.net
I told its Creator to put the link in his signature, but he seems afraid to communicate about his hard work :).
Quote from: Targhan on 17:03, 26 July 20
https://rolandradio.net (https://rolandradio.net)
I told its Creator to put the link in his signature, but he seems afraid to communicate about his hard work :) .
Great! They only play music issued from a real CPC?
I recorded most of the music, and all from a real CPC, with a high-end sound card. No crappy emulation!