On the way to the commercial version of Cyber Huhn...

[robcfg]

Waiting for it!

[qbert]

Got it !
The 3 musics are very nice.... T&J is still strong and green ! 
But... something very strange happens, whereas the BOTH option is available and selected, I can only get the music... I cannot hear the fire sound when music is on... am I deaf or what ? 

Very nice smooth scrolling, by the way !... and the cyber chicks are sooOoo cute : it got me hungry and I ran to KFC !!!

[TotO]

But... something very strange happens, whereas the BOTH option is available and selected, I can only get the music... I cannot hear the fire sound when music is on... am I deaf or what ? 

As printed on the document, this mode is CTC-AY related only.
Music is always played by the internal sound chip, but the sfx are played by the expansion.

[dcdrac]

Got the game is good honest old fashioned fun

[MacDeath]

As printed on the document, this mode is CTC-AY related only.
Music is always played by the internal sound chip, but the sfx are played by the expansion.

Is this the first official release for the CTC-AY ?

[TotO]

I don't know if it is official, but the feature is here as TFM added it with help of the Devilmarkus custom emulator.

[Devilmarkus]

It's officially unofficial

[MacDeath]

let's add a sticker on the Box : "enhanced sonic experience with CTC-AY supported !!!" "TotO approuved"...

[TotO]

It's a first step on the CTC-AY use. No sticker for 10% of the board features.
I will test it on a real CPC when I will got the game. I'm sure that will work fine.

[TFM]

I hope so too. 


Yes, the CTC-AY is a multifunctional device. Wouldn't call the two MZ's only 10%, but of course also f.e. the NMI feature (especially in connection with the CRTC signals) will enable us to do things nobody can fully imagine yet. I'm really looking forward to do more for it.


Also hope that Markus continues emulator support for it. That helps developing a lot. 

[TotO]

You know that you don't use the 2 YMZ at their best. And it's normal for the time that you get to embed that.
The YMZ can be CTC controlled and play more complex sounds. So, 10% is probably realist.

About the display, yes NMI (and vectored int) as well as CURSOR can help a lot for the display part.
You will enjoy the real board, when you will be back "at home". I'm pretty sure. 

[MacDeath]

Also hope that Markus continues emulator support for it.

spoiler

I think Markus a slightly busy at the moment... 
but will very soon be available for other things I guess.

/spoiler

[Tolkin]

Hy TFM,
Congratulations for getting this Baby running.
See an Ad in the German Return Magazin.
All Thumbs up for that.
Only the best
Tolkin

[TFM]

@Tolkin: Thanks a lot 

@TotO: Right, I use the YMZ (CTC-AY) for sound effects and the AY (CPC) for the songs. It should be the other way around. This would save some CPU time and indeed enable more complex songs. I'm sure that somebody will create a tracker/player (or similar) soon which supports all of them (YMZ and AY). 

EDIT: Just sharing my thoughts... As the CTC-AY is an expansion card as complex as the SF2 of the CPC-Booster it provides a broad variety of functions. I doubt that a program really can use all it's functions at once. Games will probably use the sound features. Demos the NMI features (and sound of course) while apps will use the time functions for example. To my knowledge there is no program (and I'm not talking about OS!) which does use more than 30% of the CPC-Booster or SF2. The reason is IMHO that a program usually has one purpose (or two?  ), but never covers everything.

[robcfg]

Hey!


I finally had some time to play and it's awesome how many sprites you managed to draw there!


Music is also good.


And it gets quite hard from level 3 onwards, where the chickens start shooting at you 


Congrats on the good job!

[TFM]

The chicken will fire about half in X so you can estimate it a bit.


In Level 7 it's predicted where the Kamikaze chicken show up, if the player remembers it, then the level is not a problem. But in L8 it depends on accident, you need a bit luck here too.

[awergh]

Oh yeah I've been meaning to buy this on tape but was wondering what the shipping price to Australia would be?

[MacDeath]

are there other "first person shooters" from the "modern era of CPC" ?


You know, games like Operation wolf ?


Most productions are scroller shooters, platformers (Arcade games) or "mind games".
Perhaps a few adventure games as well.


some styles are perhaps not really well represented. Probably harder to produce.


So to have a FPS is a good thing anyway.
Still nice to have awesome scrolling shooters at last, or good old "jet set willy like" platformers anyway...


Any race game recently ?

[TFM]

Oh yeah I've been meaning to buy this on tape but was wondering what the shipping price to Australia would be?

Just ask Marco at the CC homepage, see my signature...

[TFM]

Or...


Cyber-Chicken für Schneider / Amstrad CPC, Release 2013! NEU, Limitiert | eBay

[MaV]

I received the Disk and Tape last week (#42 and #9). I just need to clean up the mess in my room to get a chance to play them. :/

[dcdrac]

this games addictive.....played it on my CPC6128 and 6128 plus

[dcdrac]

Losing entire evenings to this game, I look forward to the next production from this studio.

[TFM]

There shall be one - and this time for free    Test versions will go out to everybody who liked CC.    But of course it will take some time ... 

[pacomix]

Nice box & poster... But missing instructions a'la old style and a really old disc for the price + shipping costs...