2021, a CPC Odyssey

Intro submitted at Shadow Party 2021 in category "Old School Intro", ranked #6.

The prod in a few words.

This intro is for Amstrad CPC, all models.

It features:

  • a 3D starfield

  • in overscan (384x256 instead of the normal 320x200)

  • plus a scrolltext

  • all animated at solid 50Hz

Direct credits (see more credits below):

  • project, coding by cpcitor

  • music by The Other Days

  • font by delta force

Files to accompany the prod

This text file

2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__a_cpc_odyssey.txt

Visuals of the prod

(Screenshots running in an emulator)

Composite visual summary First screen Second screen

Files to run the prod

2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__a_cpc_odyssey.dsk

Disk image. Open in a CPC emulator, type this:

run"cpcitor

You can also transfer the image to a real floppy disk, but that’s beyond this text.

2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__a_cpc_odyssey.cdt

Tape image. Open in a CPC emulator, type this:

If the emulated CPC has a disk (disc) drive, first type:

|tape

or for a French CPC:

ùtape

Then in all case:

run"

2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__a_cpc_odyssey.flac

Audio file. Play this through a special jack-to-CPC-din cable plugged to a real CPC.

If the CPC has a disk (disc) drive, first type:

|tape

or for a French CPC:

ùtape

Then in all case:

run"

Credits

  • Shadow Party organizers

  • A.M.Sugar for Amstrad CPC series,

  • L.Torvalds for Linux, git,

  • many people for GNU, Debian, Ubuntu,

  • S.Dutta, P.K.Krause for SDCC,

  • K.Thacker for many things CPC,

  • J.Pelletier for hex2bin,

  • Users and admins at CPCWiki and forum,

  • cpc-dev-tool-chain users,

  • F.Gallego(lronaldo) for understanding the power of cpc-dev-tool-chain and forking it into CPCTelera,

  • C.Pitrat, Sebhz for Caprice32,

  • J.Nevo(Thargan) for ArkosTracker2,

  • C.N.Gonzalez(CNGSoft) for CPCEC,

  • Roudoudou for Rasm,

  • Norecess for an early report on SDCC on CPC and his cpcec-plus tracing Z80 code with symbols,

  • Borilla for borilla.co.uk/z80.html,

  • Z80Heaven,

  • Intro font credits: by delta force, used in syntax terror demo on ST in 1990, ripped by alpha from tsk of anarchy. https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/STEEL_ST.png