The Sword of Ianna is coming to the Amstrad CPC

[viddi]

Cpr would be also okay.

Everything else is a bit too exotic imo.

[XeNoMoRPH]

Any chance of a cpr version? 

technically I do not understand much, but as I have been told it is not possible 

[Nich]

Feels very authentic to me. Maybe cos I'm used to emulators so don't really care about physical media.  Certainly feels like a CPC game.  I like games that run fine on my 464 but I understand the huge limitations caused by loading from cassette into a 64k machine if this game required that cart method, i'm ok with that. I just still finding the whole rom thing a lil confusing andhave to use RVM which is a fine emulator but yeah

I'm not all that keen on using Retro Virtual Machine either, mainly because it uses a lot of resources and my PC is 6 years old and doesn't have a state-of-the-art turbocharged graphics card.

[DanyPPC]

technically I do not understand much, but as I have been told it is not possible 

That's a pity, but I understand your reasons.

[Ace]

I'm not all that keen on using Retro Virtual Machine either, mainly because it uses a lot of resources and my PC is 6 years old and doesn't have a state-of-the-art turbocharged graphics card.

Why though... My 11 years old mobile CPU (an ancient Core2 Duo T9900) manages to cope with RVM at about 20% CPU load, at all times.

[reidrac]

Why though... My 11 years old mobile CPU (an ancient Core2 Duo T9900) manages to cope with RVM at about 20% CPU load, at all times.

Here works fine too. You can even disable the shaders in the command line with -ns

[roudoudou]

is there any technical documentation for this dandanator?
can't find relevant information about it except it's kind of romboard

[reidrac]

is there any technical documentation for this dandanator?
can't find relevant information about it except it's kind of romboard

http://www.dandare.es/Proyectos_Dandare/CPC_Dandanator!_Mini.html

[roudoudou]

http://www.dandare.es/Proyectos_Dandare/CPC_Dandanator!_Mini.html

maybe i miss something (google translator) but i do not see any detail about rom management (if this is really a rom management!)

[Nich]

Here works fine too. You can even disable the shaders in the command line with -ns

That has made a huge difference! Thank you so much!

Apparently ZEsarUX also supports the Dandanator, but I tried to install it on my Linux PC and it doesn't want to cooperate with my Linux installation. I can now play the game properly on RVM without any slowdown!

[TotO]

maybe i miss something (google translator) but i do not see any detail about rom management (if this is really a rom management!)

I think that you have missed nothing. It is a ROM board with multi-games through a menu and an op-code feature to return to it.

[reidrac]

maybe i miss something (google translator) but i do not see any detail about rom management (if this is really a rom management!)

I couldn't find info either, but that info hast to exist somewhere if they are using that cart for this game (unlike other games released before that were basically using the tool described on that page to generate the ROM).

EDIT: well, this is "something".

The ZX Spectrum version uses this to interact with the Dandanator:

https://github.com/fjpena/sword-of-ianna-zx/blob/master/src/dandanator/eeprom_writer_offset.asm

Looks like a disk interface. But I guess if anyone wants to use this should ask for the docs to the author instead of reverse-engineering the thing.

[roudoudou]

I couldn't find info either

i found a post of Dandare which explain the extras! Maybe Duke will publish a new firmware?

- board can map up to two simultaneous slots of 16k anywhere in the memory (16k aligned)
- It does not use IO ports, but OPCode traps and bushacking for communication
- It does not interfere nor changes the rom settings (rom configuration and upper rom mapping). Instead it "overlays" when requested.
- USB is bitbanged and uses a serial USB chip, ch340g, to do the hard USB communication part.
- Actions may be delayed until an optrap. This means you can send a command, do whatever you want and the mapping will only happen when an specific opcode is issued

[kawickboy]

Any news ?

[reidrac]

Any news ?

What do you mean?

It was released: http://theswordofianna.retroworks.es/en/575-2/

Is that what you are asking for?

[GUNHED]

Ah, it's for the Dandanator. 

[GOB]

No physical cardtridge version ?

[roudoudou]

No physical cardtridge version ?

it's not regular cartridge but dandanator specific

[GOB]

But there is no dandanator with cardtridge expension port

[XeNoMoRPH]

But there is no dandanator with cardtridge expension port

the cartridge version of zx spectrum that was released a long time ago looked like this:

[kawickboy]

No release like Repoker de Aces ?

[Skunkfish]

Perhaps it's planned for the DES (Dandanator Entertainment System)

[XeNoMoRPH]

No release like Repoker de Aces ?

Yes, is the same:

here are a few words from one of the authors of Ianna, in another forum:

Spirax: At the moment with this of the Covid the physical edition has been delayed, so it is only available as a download.

[kawickboy]

Their online shop is still down due to Covid.
I've bought the msx2 cart and i'm impatient to launch the cpc one.


To GOB and other CPC+ coders: making a CPR from the cart file is too hard ?

[andycadley]

As far as I am aware the Dandanator works in a totally different way to the Plus cartridges so trying to rework it for that is unlikely to be trivial.