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CpcAlive
CpcAlive is a programmation environment Amstrad CPC compatible.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      



Last review:
20/12/2007:    - improvement Bios and Dos interruptions call trough Z80.
                     - correction reading pixel with screen mode 0 and 2 trough Bios interruptions.

                     - more
complementary instructions for the emulated Z80 processor.
02/09/2007:    - correction command line interpretation



CpcAlive
Specificities


* X86 programmation environment (16Mo)
* Bios and Dos interruptions access trough Z80 instructions
* outputs screens in BMP and FLI animation format
* pallets 262144 colors
* emulation keyboard starting from a text file
* management keyboard automaticly integrated to the PC keyboard system.
* the Cpc softwares can beings used like filters and beings integrated in a .BAT file.  (exit the emulator with BASIC instruction)
* possibility
to treat from the Cpc BASIC interpreter any file present on the hard drive or another support.
* include a Z80 debugger.
* compatiblity:
- Dos,Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP
                      - processors 386 and more.

Use:

* Graphic animation files creation
* Files treatment


This software is not planned for the
commercial plays softwares but to use standard softwares developped on Cpc or specifics softwares for the emulator. Joysticks and overscan are not emulated.

CpcAlive Documentation
 (include in archive)
Windows setup:
CpcAliveV1.08M (494K)
ZIP archive: CpcAliveV1.08M.zip (479K)
Floppy boot CpcAlive: CpcAliveV1.08M_FLOPPYBOOT_B_US
CD boot CpcAlive: CpcAliveV1.08M_CDBOOT_B_US
(Use CpcAliveV1.08M_FLOPPYBOOT_B_FR and CpcAliveV1.08M_CDBOOT_B_FR for french keyboards)


Utilities

* Screensaver Producer (axialis) : create Screensavers from FLI animations.
* To transform FLI animations to GIF animations: Jasc Animation Shop (Jasc software) (11Mo)
* A good GIF animations utility (with files concatenation): Gif Movie Gear
* A86.zip (250K) is a X86 assembler wich generate CpcAlive compatible files.
* Tasm31d.zip (187K) is a Z80 assembler which generates intel hex files.


Documentations

* Cpc basic reference
* Cpc firmware: firmware.zip  (788K)
* Z80 processor opcodes and operation
* helppc21.zip (255K) is an hypertext document about Bios and Dos interruptions, and more...



Others

* Screen saver graphic city





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