cpcsdk - tools for Amstrad CPC development.

Linux:

(Our CI is a work in progress. Help is welcome to build everything)

What is it?

This is a collection of various tools for cross development for Amstrad CPC machines. The goal is to provide a fast and automated "modify,build,run" development cycle in line with the UNIX way of doing things.

Some graphical tools are also provided, with a focus on debugging, analyzing, reverse engineering and experimentations.

How to build

cpctools

To build cpctools you need a version of libdsk. Get the latest version from https://www.seasip.info/Unix/LibDsk/ , compile and install it. Note that you need the "experimental" 1.5.x version, because the 1.4.x release is very old and impossible to build on modern Linux systems.

Then the build is done with cmake:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../cpctools
make
sudo make install

What's in there

• AMSDOScope: hexdumps the first 128 bytes of a file and highlight the relevant fields of the AMSDOS header.
• DiskSwissKnife: discology-like DSK sector explorer in Qt (unfinished)
• font_catcher: extract a font from a PNG file and convert it to a format suitable for use in a writer/scroller
• pydsk: tool to put data in sectors of a DSK file (no filesystem support)
• reloaded: Amstrad CPC emulator, fork of Caprice 32
• snamp: SNApshot Music Player
• starkos: a relocator for starkos songs
• cpctools: Ramlaid cpctools
  • AFT2: cpcbooster file transfer system
  • cpcfs: manage dsk files, and real disks. Supports USB floppy drives with some Parados formats
  • cpcvideo: experiment with the CRTC, view scr files, prototype effects with Lua scripts
  • damsconverter: converts DAMS source files to ASCII.
  • datalinker: smart memory organizer to put your data in memory using as few space as possible, but still matching alignment constraints
  • zmac: a z80 assembler
  • cpcFSExt: an explorer.exe extension to manage DSK files like zip archives (right click > extract, etc)
  • cpcDSKManager: low-level DSK management tool (read and write sectors, generate custom formats)
  • createsnapshot: edit .sna files from the command line
  • datadbgenerator: convert a binary file to .db statements, if your assembler is lacking INCBIN support
  • cpcDSK: read or write DSK files to floppies
  • Various reusable libraries to manage all of this in other tools
• resources: z80 sourcecode for various uses
  • CPC_BOOSTER: firmware for the CPCBooster (AVR assembly code)
  • CPCSD: SD card interface for CPC, using the printer port.
  • mode5_viewer: viewer for "mode 5" pictures (mode 1 with rasters)
  • sample_project: sample of a makefile to use with all these tools.

Remember to check the wiki for more information about the tools. Most of them also have a separate README inside their source folders.