AMSTEAM: WIP game streaming service for the Amstrad CPC

[poulette73]

Great!!
Nice work Eric (as usual!) 

[TITAN (Eric Cubizolle)]

Thank you poulette73 !

And here is my new Title-Screen for SAI COMBAT :

[abalore]

100 games reached and server online!

[dodogildo]

Will there be a filtering UI as there are now so many games to browse? 

[abalore]

Will there be a filtering UI as there are now so many games to browse?

Of course, the target is 500 games which are my favorite. With a search by name or developer.

[abalore]

Since people is starting to receive the first cards, I created a basic wiki page with the first steps:

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Amsteam

[GUNHED]

Nice project! 

[trocoloco]

 I've just made a short video testing the new Abalore's project on a 6128 and its working great! 
 

[eto]

Since people is starting to receive the first cards

perfect... it arrived today. I hope I find some time soon :-)  thanks a lot

[abalore]

I've just made a short video testing the new Abalore's project on a 6128 and its working great! 
 

Nice, just FYI, if you power the MX4 board with external adapter you don't need to enter user / pass everytime, because the connection keeps active

[dodogildo]

Awesome!
It would be nice to have a hardware button to reset and load the game browser without the need to retype the rsx command after a game session.

[abalore]

Awesome!
It would be nice to have a hardware button to reset and load the game browser without the need to retype the rsx command after a game session.

There are many examples of modified BASIC ROMs that automatically run a command upon booting. Maybe I will provide one for |AMSTEAM

The reset button is in the MX4 mother board already

[poulette73]

It would be nice to have a hardware button to reset and load the game browser without the need to retype the rsx command after a game session.

In my case, I won't be interested in this feature. 

I don't want AMSTEAM card doing a "bootloop" to game browser every time I reset my CPC (... as if I had a GX4000 ...)

I have other cards on my Mother X4. And I want to be able to take advantage of them when the CPC starts (otherwise they would never be available again).
I don't find it restrictive to type |AMSTEAM to launch the browser.

[trocoloco]

Yes, I found out right after recording it 

[eto]

An autostart would be fantastic. My kids would probably love that they can switch it on and have that nice selection screen. Or at an exhibition... 

[abalore]

I made a loading screen for Bounder based on the Spectrum screenm if someone wants it:

[GUNHED]

I've just made a short video testing the new Abalore's project on a 6128 and its working great! 
 

You should upgrade your M4 firmware 

[abalore]

As a complement for AMSTEAM, for people who doesn't have any ROM Box hardware (M4, XMEM, etc), I made a small ROM BOX card, with MX connector. It has 6 free usable slots, plus selectable boot replacement (Firmware + BASIC) and all this multiplied by 4 different selectable banks (total 32 ROMs). The banks and the boot option are selected by jumpers in the board.

The idea is to have quickly exchangeable configurations without having to rewrite everything or having to initialize all the bunch of ROMs every time, like: Games, SymbOS, Development, Word processing, and so on...

Lastly a jumper allows to map the 6 free ROMs to numbers 9-14 instead of 1-6 if you have a 6128 and want to connect two cards in parallel (a very pro usage )

[GUNHED]

As a complement for AMSTEAM, for people who doesn't have any ROM Box hardware (M4, XMEM, etc), I made a small ROM BOX card, with MX connector. It has 6 free usable slots, plus selectable boot replacement (Firmware + BASIC) and all this multiplied by 4 different selectable banks (total 32 ROMs). The banks and the boot option are selected by jumpers in the board.

The idea is to have quickly exchangeable configurations without having to rewrite everything or having to initialize all the bunch of ROMs every time, like: Games, SymbOS, Development, Word processing, and so on...

Lastly a jumper allows to map the 6 free ROMs to numbers 9-14 instead of 1-6 if you have a 6128 and want to connect two cards in parallel (a very pro usage )

Very interesting. Well, I assume that your new Flash-ROM is not compatible to any existing solution (due to the exchange features). Or is it nevertheless compatible to something?

Well, I would like to support your card with my software too. So can you give the information how to write ROMs into it please?

[abalore]

As a complement for AMSTEAM, for people who doesn't have any ROM Box hardware (M4, XMEM, etc), I made a small ROM BOX card, with MX connector. It has 6 free usable slots, plus selectable boot replacement (Firmware + BASIC) and all this multiplied by 4 different selectable banks (total 32 ROMs). The banks and the boot option are selected by jumpers in the board.

The idea is to have quickly exchangeable configurations without having to rewrite everything or having to initialize all the bunch of ROMs every time, like: Games, SymbOS, Development, Word processing, and so on...

Lastly a jumper allows to map the 6 free ROMs to numbers 9-14 instead of 1-6 if you have a 6128 and want to connect two cards in parallel (a very pro usage )

Very interesting. Well, I assume that your new Flash-ROM is not compatible to any existing solution (due to the exchange features). Or is it nevertheless compatible to something?

Well, I would like to support your card with my software too. So can you give the information how to write ROMs into it please?

Theoretically it is compatible with the X-MEM software with little adjust, just before and after writting, commands for unprotect and protect the flash must be issued via OUT (operation which is done by moving a switch in the X-MEM if I'm not wrong). Anyway, I can send you the source code. Right now I'm working in a |FLASH,"filename.rom",slot command which is installed by running a program from disk and has same parameters than the one used by the X-MEM, so from BASIC there is no difference. I'll send you a PM with the sources when they are finished and tested.