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#11

Games / Re: SABOTEUR 3

Last post by Gryzor - Yesterday at 17:19

It sounds interesting. You can let him contact with me at abalore@hotmail.com

... Him and a million spam bots crawling the web😁

[; Routine to read 1024 bytes from SPI]

#12

Amstrad CPC hardware / Re: New project: WiFi card for...

Last post by GUNHED - Yesterday at 17:15

Please don't burn me for this blasphemous questions...

The M4 expansion has also WiFi. And the SF3 has WiFi too. ...

Could your software be used with the SF3 or M4 expansions too?

What are the technical differences to the project described in this thread.

Sorry for asking, I'm a CPC guy not a WiFi guy 

Any of those devices would work with Amsteam with a custom ROM, sadly I don't have any of them to develop the software.

The technical difference is this project is a SPI interface that supports not only wifi, but any SPI compatible device. And probably the fastest available: 1 IN / OUT = 1 byte.

Thanks a lot for explaining. Good to know that there is a SPI feature! 

How does the fast IN/OUT work?

It depends on the level of unrolling, example:

; Routine to read 1024 bytes from SPI
ld a,32
_read_loop
ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b
ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b
ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b
ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b:ini:inc b
dec a
jp nz,_read_loop

that achieves around 200 KBytes/sec (1.6 Mbps). Same for writting (with outi instead of ini)

Thanks, that's the way I do it with FutureOS too (reading from HD20 f.e.). Thanks for you answer. 

#13

Games / Re: SABOTEUR 3

Last post by abalore - Yesterday at 16:54

It sounds interesting. You can let him contact with me at abalore@hotmail.com

#14

CPCWiki Discussion / Re: French roms

Last post by eto - Yesterday at 16:45

It was for professional users and they probably were happy to pay a premium - and they got stickers ;-) 

And don't forget - if you bought a "Electro Freddy" cassette in the grey/silver/boring "Schneider Computer Division" package, you already paid 30DM.

Well just the 3in Disk cost about DM20 at the time!

I got my 6128 in mid 1986 and a Maxell disk cost 14DM. Panasonic cost 20DM. I remember pretty well as I could barely afford 2 Maxell disks :-D

#15

CPCWiki Discussion / Re: French roms

Last post by Gryzor - Yesterday at 16:20

I just remembered that I got this program: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Deutast , but I didn't thought much about it.

Knowing that german CPCs have a QWERTY keyboard, makes sense now!

DM40? Wtf...

Well just the 3in Disk cost about DM20 at the time!

Bryce.

Wait, that much? I seem to recall that their price here was the equivalent of GBP1 mid-late 80s? 

#16

CPCWiki Discussion / Re: French roms

Last post by Bryce - Yesterday at 15:59

I just remembered that I got this program: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Deutast , but I didn't thought much about it.

Knowing that german CPCs have a QWERTY keyboard, makes sense now!

DM40? Wtf...

Well just the 3in Disk cost about DM20 at the time!

Bryce.

#17

Games / Re: SABOTEUR 3

Last post by roudoudou - Yesterday at 13:30

it's Saboteur SIO right? If it's that, the graphics cannot be used in mode 1 like the other episodes (CPC does not have a character mode with character attributes)

You may convert to mode 0 or downgrade colors that are already very confusing sometimes

#18

Games / Re: SABOTEUR 3

Last post by Misel982001 - Yesterday at 13:15

Thank you. I have fully recovered. It was a nightmare. I agree with you, nevertheless he might have some ideas, maybe to port it to the ZX or the mobile phones. Still, he asked me to find people to assist him.

#19

Games / Re: SABOTEUR 3

Last post by Gryzor - Yesterday at 13:04

Oh man hope you're better now, and welcome back! 

This sounds very intriguing, but I'm not sure why project would provide any meaningful amount of money...

#20

Games / SABOTEUR 3

Last post by Misel982001 - Yesterday at 13:02

Dear All
I am very happy to be with you again after a long hiatus. I've been seriously ill, almost gone in summer of 2023. Now, on to the topic. I had a conversation yesterday with legendary Clive Townsend. He said he wants to create SABOTEUR  3 for the CPC but because of obligations and the need to make a living he cannot be fully committed to the project. He said he can supply code, maps, graphics etc but he definitely will need help. The purpose of this project is to publish it and make some money to help him in his every day life. We had discussed this topic once again sometime ago but now is the time to realise it. Is there anyone or any group who wishes to come in contact with Clive and create Saboteur 3 for the CPC? Volunteers make a step forward !