Hi folks

[Scarlettkitten]

Hi


I decided to venture into this forum to see what the cpc is all about, I'm big into demos and music so I may write a few tunes on the cpc, I'll see how it goes. So far I've a 6128 and green screen monitor and I have a 6128plus on the way. I'm looking forward to seeing what these machines can do in the plastic rather than on emulators.


Soph

[CraigsBar]

Hi


I decided to venture into this forum to see what the cpc is all about, I'm big into demos and music so I may write a few tunes on the cpc, I'll see how it goes. So far I've a 6128 and green screen monitor and I have a 6128plus on the way. I'm looking forward to seeing what these machines can do in the plastic rather than on emulators.


Soph

welcome. The more musicians the better I really enjoy CPC music, and now we have the play city and it's 6 channels of fun the potential is superb.

If you like demos then give batman forever and breaking baud a look on your CPC 6128 and the releases by semilanceata on the plus.

Craig

[TFM]

Hi and welcome!!! 

Demos:
- look for Vanity, Odiesoft, Prodatron, MadRAM, Rhino's productions and much more ...

Games:
- R-Type 128K
- Rick Dangerous (Plus)
- Orion Prime
- Black Land
- CPC Adventure

- and much much more 

[Carnivius]

Welcome! 

(feel like I been saying that a lot here recently.  Good to see new members signing up )

[TFM]

1178 members for a ... I mean _THE_ CPC forum is not bad at all.     


And look now the number of female members jumped up by 25% 

[Scarlettkitten]

Thanks for the warm welcome peeps    I think I'm going to try amstrad trackers first and maybe a pixel painter if I can snag a mouse.

[arnoldemu]

Welcome!

There are some good tools on the CPC itself - Starkos.
And one which you can compose on PC build data for CPC - Arkostracker.

There is a tracker which can produce synth sounds made by BSC - forget it's name - does "sid" like sounds. Definitely worth trying out.

So plenty of sound tools to use

In terms of pixel drawing, OCP Art Studio is powerful and you can use an AMX (or compatible) mouse.
Or you can do the work on GIMP and transfer it to CPC using some tools.

Bryce made a mouse interface that can use PC mice on a CPC.

[arnoldemu]

If you need help to put it all together to make a demo feel free to ask and check out the programming section.

[Scarlettkitten]

Will do thanks 


What's the best paint package mouse option for a 6128plus? There's so many options 

[TFM]

Also G-Paint is a great tool if you like to use a proportional mouse. 

[CraigsBar]

If you mean using the plus palette, then there is a patched version of ocp advanced art studio or I think there was a gpaint that used the extra colours too.

[Scarlettkitten]

Not too fussed about the plus palette tbh. would an amx mouse work on the plus machines? I think I read somewhere that the atari st mouse adapter doesn't.

[CraigsBar]

Not too fussed about the plus palette tbh. would an amx mouse work on the plus machines?

Yes, Perfectly.


If the palette does not bother you too much, then I would go with OCP Advanced art Studio.


I have a spare manual it you want a paper copy, or I think it's available on line.. If not I'll scan it and make it available.


Regards


Craig.


ps. I love the Pink Flower BTW

[Scarlettkitten]

Thanks 


righto AMX mouse off to find me goes.

[TFM]

Not too fussed about the plus palette tbh. would an amx mouse work on the plus machines? I think I read somewhere that the atari st mouse adapter doesn't.

Right, the ST mouse doesn't work with the Plus. The AMX mouse it ok too. Works with OCP Art studio. 

[CraigsBar]

Right, the ST mouse doesn't work with the Plus. The AMX mouse it ok too. Works with OCP Art studio. 

ST Mouse?


If you mean Symbiface then true it does not, but the Bryce adaptor does, and works fine with OCP.


Craig

[Scarlettkitten]

Cool I'll have a look for one of those, cheers Craig.

[CraigsBar]

Cool I'll have a look for one of those, cheers Craig.

@talrek made a batch of @bryce mouse adaptors last year. Hopefully he might be tempted to solder some more after he is finished with the mf2+

[TFM]

ST Mouse?


If you mean Symbiface then true it does not, but the Bryce adaptor does, and works fine with OCP.


Craig

No I mean the mouse of the Atari ST, which is proportional. It's also supported by G-Paint (and FutureOS). You only need an adapter, which basically provides power to the mouse. That's all. It should be in the CPCWiki.


Atari-ST mouse adapter - CPCWiki


Maybe someone could make it running with the Plus too???

[AMSDOS]

I made a 20x25 Block Text Editor if that's of any help   


But it needs some updates which I hope will be done today (Saturday). I started working on the INKs, but I should be working on Saving & Loading the Pics into it before all that. Because it's Low-res graphics those files will be small and what I was hoping to do was convert it back to Graphic Pixels (obviously up to 20x25). I'm also going to alter the program so each PEN represents each number on the keyboard which saves pressing "C" all the time to change the colour and guess what the colour is. 

[Gryzor]

A bit late to the party, but welcome, @Scarlettkitten ! Hope you enjoy your stay here and I really hope we get to hear something from you soon