Recent posts

#1

B

Emulators / Re: Silicone overlays for emul...

Last post by Brocky - Today at 05:43

@Brocky

I verified every key in each emulator, captice32 and ZesaruX so far, if it's out of place that's down to the emulator, I just placed it as it shows up when I type in that specific emulator using the standard 104 key us keyboard layout in Raspberry pi OS.

Some keys are not available on the pi keyboard, pause for example and in the case of the pi400 no scroll lock either. If any emulator uses them I will have to find a way to map it to another key if possible and add a how to on the packaging and online or we may just have to do without the key or keys all together.

Not ideal, I hope if they catch on, hope emulator creators will try to map keys more uniformly making one or two key positions per region for each system is far easier for everyone, regardless of the emulator used for the emulated system, I.E. they all map to the same positional (try to map the keys as close as possible to the real hardware) and symbolic location (map to a standard keyboard layout for whatever region your in).

Having all emulators map keys to the same location might be asking too much though, so for now I'll just have to make the most popular ones that are cross platform.

At least it gives the option to use a usb keyboard that is identical to the pi 400 layout and not limit them to just the pi 400. If I can find a nice generic pc 104 keyboard and also one with mechanical keys, I will certainly do my best to make those too. Maybe even limited edition UV printed versions if there is enough demand or even put up a Kickstarter campaign and give backers the choice of any one or two UV printed version(s) of their choosing, anything is possible just look at 8-bit do's retro styled keyboards they look cool too and I remember an Atari 400 styled keyboard from about 10 years ago.

ahh i thought you wanted the overlays to show the original systems keyboard layout.. theres a few CPC emus that let you change it...
for example Shift + 2 will give "  on real CPC and in alot of emus..and @ is moved to the other side of the keyboard... # (hash) doesnt exist on CPC either..replaced with the £ key..theres a few others too..

but if these are more meant for making it look like old retro...thats still pretty cool too!

#2

G

Applications (CPC and CPC-related) / Re: Pixsaur - Online tool

Last post by gurneyh - Yesterday at 20:35

A .dsk export is coming soon.
In the meantime, you can use the exported data, as shown here

https://z80code.sikorama.fr/edit/wr4ZK47AzvC8AsnZ9

#3

M

Applications (CPC and CPC-related) / Re: Pixsaur - Online tool

Last post by Mark_wllms - Yesterday at 20:28

How would one load these images on a real CPC?

[Persistent monitor screen]

#4

Applications (CPC and CPC-related) / Re: Orgams: Call For Contribut...

Last post by m_dr_m - Yesterday at 19:41

Persistent monitor screen

Done! Available since GG Beta K.

#5

G

Applications (CPC and CPC-related) / Re: Pixsaur - Online tool

Last post by gurneyh - Yesterday at 16:29

overscan support would need to be added

very soon 

#6

Applications (CPC and CPC-related) / Re: Pixsaur - Online tool

Last post by McArti0 - Yesterday at 16:22

overscan support would need to be added

#7

G

Applications (CPC and CPC-related) / Pixsaur - Online tool

Last post by gurneyh - Yesterday at 15:58

Hey

Introducing Pixsaur, an online tool for converting images to Amstrad CPC format. Color reduction, dithering, selection, etc.
➡️ https://pixsaur.netlify.app/

The tool is still in its infancy, and will gain many more features.
Enjoy
https://z80code.sikorama.fr/edit/TKLGavPzWuSmz9wRR


More examples:
https://z80code.sikorama.fr/

#8

News & Events / Re: Benediction Coding Party #...

Last post by norecess464 - Yesterday at 11:53

Registered!

#9

Technical support - Hardware related / Re: Amstrad GT65-2 Green Scree...

Last post by tibbs1972 - Yesterday at 06:49

Goods news this morning, after presenting the facts, I've been offered a refund and an apology, all's well that ends well. 

#10

T

Games / Re: The Dark Knight [ wip ]

Last post by trocoloco - Yesterday at 01:03

and another cdt nobody asked for either  . Loading version with rasters, compressed files in "just" 2:20 minutes of loading time