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2021 a CPC Odyssey by cpcitor & The Other Days [web]

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)

image:2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__2021_a_cpc_odyssey__visual_summary.png[Composite visual summary]
image:2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__2021_a_cpc_odyssey__screenshot_00_joke_z80_booting_amiga_rom.png[First screen]
image:2021_shadow-party__cpcitor__2021_a_cpc_odyssey__screenshot_01_3D_starfield_scrolltext.png[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 thatΓÇÖs 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:

--------------------------------------------------
├╣tape
--------------------------------------------------

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:

--------------------------------------------------
├╣tape
--------------------------------------------------

Then in all case:

--------------------------------------------------
run"
--------------------------------------------------


Source code
~~~~~~~~~~~

I'm considering releasing the source code with an Open Source licence.

If you don't find it easily on the net, please e-mail me at
stephane_cpcitor@gourichon.org .

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