CPC software at the Internet Archive

[ComSoft6128]

Many thanks to Ewen McNeill for sending me the link below:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_cpc

The Software Library includes playable game content!

[robcfg]

Actually it happened on the Amstrad Discord channel run by @Devlin :


https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/news-events/internet-archive-software-library-amstrad-cpc/msg180779/#msg180779


It's basically MAME compiles to Javascript and WebAssembly (which MAME does on its own), and a launcher, which in this case is Emularity.


I've done it with a couple of different machines, so if we'd like to have it on the CPCWiki I can surely help.

[ComSoft6128]

Thanks @robcfg for the info,


Thanks also to @Devlin


and @scruss


And also everyone involved in this worthwhile project at the Internet Archive

[xesrjb]

Many thanks to Ewen McNeill for sending me the link below:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_cpc

The Software Library includes playable game content!

I will try..


xesrjb

[Gryzor]

It's really nice, I had a great time browsing through the collections and rediscovering some forgotten gems

[Zoe Robinson]

I've just been using it to play Dizzy on my Xbox One but yeah, it's a great resource.

[Carnivius]

I've just been using it to play Dizzy on my Xbox One but yeah, it's a great resource.

i tried it on my ps4 just now and it just seems to get stuck at 'launching emulator'     oh wait no, now it just went black.  Still no game.  I've googled that javascript is a bit broken on ps4 since a recent system software update so maybe that why? I dunno. I just wanted to play cpc games on my ps4 there and got all hyped up.  oh well

[Zoe Robinson]

I can't speak for the PS4 (I don't have one yet and only have an Xbox One because a friend sold theirs to me for cheap!) but on the XBox One I know that it takes a few minutes to get the game started but when it's finally up and running, it all works just fine (I even plugged in a USB keyboard so I could game without having to use the rubbery keyboard attachment on my controller!).

[Devlin]

Oh! I never noticed this thread! Thank you all It was a lot of fun working with Jason Scott to make this happen.