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* To test emulators VSYNC (screen-tearing and frame skipping): [https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/emulators/sugarbox-a-cpc-emulator-for-windows/msg245065/#msg245065 Source] | * To test emulators VSYNC (screen-tearing and frame skipping): [https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/emulators/sugarbox-a-cpc-emulator-for-windows/msg245065/#msg245065 Source] | ||
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| + | == Graphics == | ||
| + | *🔥[https://shaker.logonsystem.eu/ Shakerland] Ultra accurate CRTC documentation and its associated CPC testing tool | ||
| + | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7562 5KB 2 (tweakable demo)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=12906 HSYNC test] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=database&lemot=crtc%20programmierung CRTC Programmierung] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=database&lemot=cote%gamers Côté Gamers] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=13656 Screen Effect] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9154 Blitter] [[File:CheshireCat - Scroll hard en Basic.dsk]] [https://youtu.be/6fB36wbGQdY] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=16025 Out-Screen II] [https://www.planetemu.net/rom/amstrad-cpc-applications-dsk/crtc-editor-v5-1-1994-brain-of-chaos CRTC editor] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=10221 Control del CRT] CRTC testing tools | ||
| + | *[http://logon.system.free.fr/down/shaker_addon.dsk Vertical and Horizontal 1-pixel mode1 hardware scroll for all CRTCs] [[File:Lister-of-smeg vertscroll4.dsk]] [https://cpcrulez.fr/coding_src-demo-smooth_crtc_register_3_scrolling_test.htm Smooth CRTC Register 3 scrolling test] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1949 Skate Wars] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1211 Jinks] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=68 Out of this World] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=159 Killer Cobra] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=10465 Edge Grinder] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=10072 Relentless] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=17739 Corsair Trainer] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1982 Warhawk] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=99 Mission Genocide] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1028 Axys] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=15809 Red Sunset] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=974 Ghosts'n Goblins] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=671 Danger Street] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1698 Profanation] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1290 Legend of Kage] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2119 Super Cauldron] Smooth CRTC R3/R5 hardware scrolling | ||
| + | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7514 BSC 91] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8772 Voyage 1993] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7751 OVL '96] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7662 Byte 98] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8625 Divine] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7910 Paradise] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8621 Power System] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8875 Prodatron] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7744 Longshot] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7668 Amazing] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7714 KKB First] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8509 Hage's First] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7762 New Age] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8464 Flore Dentro] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8259 Chany Dream End] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7591 S&Koh] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8064 Overflow Previews] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7755 Mystery] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7404 Little One] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8301 Freedelire] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8516 Spy Hunter Scroller] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7648 Big'O Full'O Dem'O] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7499 Sea You Soon] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7504 Plasma] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8519 Wobbler] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7459 Mad Rast] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7543 Odyssey] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8650 Synergy] Early CRTC demos | ||
| + | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7560 Ze Meeting 2003] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7737 Camembert 4] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7728 DemoIzArt] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7765 Not Dead] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7736 Croco Chanel] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7828 Tire Au Flan] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7464 Arôme Tomate] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8753 Twistimus] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7729 DTC] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8552 Synergy 2] CRTC demos from 2000s | ||
| + | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=15200 OSC #0] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=15101 OSC #1] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9970 Still Rising] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9175 Still the Bests] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=15298 Still Scrolling] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9097 River Scroll] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=15209 Scroll Factory] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2799 Battro] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9181 Bloc Us] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9248 Wake Up] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=14230 Wunderbar] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=14992 Cookie] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9589 Yet Another Plasma] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=15100 Isometrikum] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=14225 Logon's Run] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=16068 Octopus Pocus] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9502 Sugarlumps] CRTC demos from 2010s | ||
| + | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=18658 OSC #2] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19119 OSC #3] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19313 Stand Up] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19024 The One] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=18676 Swingin'] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=18846 Return of the Droid] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19214 Mike's Scrollers] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=18790 Foursome] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19004 Checkmate] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=18760 Debris] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19453 Ghost Nop] Latest CRTC demos | ||
| + | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=12683 Points Barres (Mode 3)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=11091 New Mode] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=12905 "Mode 5" Viewer] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19220 Raster Slideshow] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=16075 Brutal Deluxe] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=12528 Rhino-Raster] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=16466 Split-Rasters Test CRTC1] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=491 Crazy Ball] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2280 Trailblazer] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=931 Fugitif] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=3963 Sudoku Master] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=18626 Flush Wishes You a Happy New Year] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=18680 Pixel Free] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=11825 Overscan Megatext] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=14763 Gozeur Intro 2] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=13136 Interlace viewer] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9564 Interlaced 800x600] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7396 Interlace] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7701 Climax] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9160 Kvety] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19347 Flipraster] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=13139 Perfect Pix Paint] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=12030 Bat-Moule] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=17706 Tetris] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=13359 Imperial Mahjong] Special graphics modes [http://cpc.sylvestre.org/articles/articles_imperial_mahjong.html Mode EGX] [[Mode R]] [https://code.google.com/archive/p/grafx2/issues/342 Mode 5] Technical explanations | ||
| + | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1682 Prehistorik II (screen calibration)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=16027 Mire] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8257 Chany Dream 5] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8307 4 Sins] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=11820 TV Noise] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7826 Climax-G] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8395 Nice Picture Show] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7937 Fatal Beauties] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9090 JavaCPC Overscan] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=database&r1=1&lemot=pixel%nation Pixel Nation] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7897 Twinblast] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8081 MCS 6] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7593 Schadel] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7451 Scandinavian Flag] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7858 Kill JLCS] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=15705 Deleting Disc] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9085 Plasma Pas Cher] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=13528 Wavy] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=14778 Vagues sur l'écran] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=18654 Bildschirmverzerrer] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2224 Thunder Blade (292 lines)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=454 Bonanza Bros (295 lines)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2318 Turrican (296 lines)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=102 Wonder Boy (296 lines)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1960 Sliders (330 lines)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1763 Rastan (336 lines)] To test the VDU | ||
| + | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1546 Octoplex (crtc1)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=781 Dynamic Duo (crtc1)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=818 Druid II (crtc1)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=15672 Legend of Steel (crtc1)] [https://blog.logonsystem.eu/compendium/ 007 The Living Daylights (crtc1)] [https://forum.system-cfg.com/viewtopic.php?p=234421#p234421 FMR (crtc1)] Some known bugs on real CRTCs | ||
| + | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8615 Welcom-X 2 (crtc0)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7479 Madness (crtc1)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7561 5KB 1 (crtc1)] [https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=9102 Scrolling Hard Vertical (crtc2)] Some programs that only run correctly on one type of CRTC | ||
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Revision as of 05:51, 10 December 2024
Quick evaluation
- From Scratch demo with reference images (CRTC 1): Media:From Scratch logo.png Media:From Scratch tetris.png Media:From Scratch ovl.png
- DSC4 v2 demo with reference images (CRTC 1): Media:DSC4 reference1.png Media:DSC4 reference2.png Technical explanation
- Other World 3 demo with reference image (CRTC 0/1): Media:Other World 3.png
- BSC7 Interlace demo with reference image (CRTC 0/2/3/4): Media:BSC7 reference.png
Z80 CPU
- 🔥Raxoft tests (CPC port of z80test) Redcode Z80 tests list with expected results Z80 XCF Flavor ZEX Z80 CPU instruction set exercisers
- Arkanoid Boulder Dash The Great Escape Using Z80 Interrupt Mode 2
- Trailblazer (using HALT) L'anneau de Zengara (using Z80 register R) Light Corridor (Z80 useless instruction prefixes) Dogsbody (accessing non-standard I/O ports) Pinball Dreams (Z80 NMOS only)
- Weird Z80 behaviour I/O port allocation RAM/ROM mapping Technical documentation
Diagnostics
- Amstest Amstrad Diagnostics [1] STS SysInfo Test CRTC type [2] Identifying CRTC visually Basic Program Status Window Version du Firmware Basic
- SymbOS RAM Expansion Test MemTest RAM Test CRTC4 Test RAM de McLeod Ideafix RAM Check Testprogram For All ERAM Test RAM Basic Xenon 2 Take On Me Trololo Experiments Still The One Post Scriptum Onescreen Colonies #2 256K A tribute to the sisters Chany 512K cracks Anti-Multiface Expanded RAM software list RAM exercisers
- FutureOS CP/M Plus Phortem Pac-Man Emulator Behaviour of RAM mode &C3 More on the issue RAM expansion hardware bug on CPC464/664
- 🔥Kevin Thacker's "Acid tests" suite Older version Forum thread Tests results in ACE Collection of tests which are used to verify emulators operation against real CPC, Plus and expansions
- 🔥Richard Wilson's Plus Test suite [3] CPC and CPC+ Emulator test suite (including Instruction and Interrupt timing tests)
Amstrad Plus
- Arnold 5 Diagnostic Cartridge Software Demonstrator 4096 Colors Preview 4096K tester File:Roudoudou CPR tests.zip [4] No Exit (uninitialised stack pointer) Tennis Cup 2 (analogue joystick) Plus testing tools
- Delirium Tremens Delirium Tremens running on real hardware Bulles Funerapolis X-mas 2008 USS Cygnus 192 To test hardware sprites
- 6128 Plus DMA Fairy Soundtracker DMA To test DMA sound
- CRTC3 To test RAM expansion compatibility with ASIC Source
- Arnoldemu T&J Sylvestre Longshot [5] Offset [6] Plus Vectored Interrupt Bug Plus hardware bugs documented
- L'Aigle d'Or le Retour Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy Kick Boxing Gold D.Day Striker in the Crypts of Trogan Prehistorik II CPC Demos with Plus features To test Amstrad Plus enhancement of CPC software
- Plus Games Demos for Plus only Search filters to verify the entire Plus software library
Colorimetry
- CPC DiAG Raster Toutes les couleurs du CPC Couleurs Les split-rasters Mir'Color Test Interlace Color Infinite Colours Mode 1 Tramage et Choix des Couleurs FED Colour calibration
- Minor difference in colorimetry between CPC and Plus On CPC (not Plus!), green half-intensity is significantly higher than red and blue half-intensities
- Major difference in colorimetry between the real Amstrad displays and emulators display. CPC DiAG shows clearly why, by demonstrating the weak response of Amstrad monitors to the Red component:
Border 8 on real CPC
Border 8 on real Plus
Border 8 on emulators
Palette on real CPC
Palette on real Plus
Palette on emulators
Still The One on real CPC
Still The One on emulators
CPC DiAG on real Plus
CPC DiAG on emulators
Scanlines on GT65
Slot mask on CTM
CRT mask types
- CPC DiAG also shows that the primary colours themselves are a bit different. Blue is more vivid and Green is less fluorescent on Amstrad displays.
- Colours are less saturated and black is not as profound on CRT monitors than they are on modern displays.
- On CRT displays, bright pixels will spill on their neighbours while dark pixels will get eaten by their neighbours (ie. bright pixels are bigger than dark pixels on CRT displays), affecting dithered colours. This effect is absent on LCD displays.
- The usual scanline effect of CRT monitors is barely noticeable on the Amstrad CTM colour monitor. But it is very pronounced on Amstrad monochrome monitors.
- The slot mask is the texture that is visible in the CTM colour monitor. CRT masks do not exist on monochrome monitors.
- To test emulators VSYNC (screen-tearing and frame skipping): Source
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Graphics
- 🔥Shakerland Ultra accurate CRTC documentation and its associated CPC testing tool
- 5KB 2 (tweakable demo) HSYNC test CRTC Programmierung Côté Gamers Screen Effect Blitter File:CheshireCat - Scroll hard en Basic.dsk [7] Out-Screen II CRTC editor Control del CRT CRTC testing tools
- Vertical and Horizontal 1-pixel mode1 hardware scroll for all CRTCs File:Lister-of-smeg vertscroll4.dsk Smooth CRTC Register 3 scrolling test Skate Wars Jinks Out of this World Killer Cobra Edge Grinder Relentless Corsair Trainer Warhawk Mission Genocide Axys Red Sunset Ghosts'n Goblins Danger Street Profanation Legend of Kage Super Cauldron Smooth CRTC R3/R5 hardware scrolling
- BSC 91 Voyage 1993 OVL '96 Byte 98 Divine Paradise Power System Prodatron Longshot Amazing KKB First Hage's First New Age Flore Dentro Chany Dream End S&Koh Overflow Previews Mystery Little One Freedelire Spy Hunter Scroller Big'O Full'O Dem'O Sea You Soon Plasma Wobbler Mad Rast Odyssey Synergy Early CRTC demos
- Ze Meeting 2003 Camembert 4 DemoIzArt Not Dead Croco Chanel Tire Au Flan Arôme Tomate Twistimus DTC Synergy 2 CRTC demos from 2000s
- OSC #0 OSC #1 Still Rising Still the Bests Still Scrolling River Scroll Scroll Factory Battro Bloc Us Wake Up Wunderbar Cookie Yet Another Plasma Isometrikum Logon's Run Octopus Pocus Sugarlumps CRTC demos from 2010s
- OSC #2 OSC #3 Stand Up The One Swingin' Return of the Droid Mike's Scrollers Foursome Checkmate Debris Ghost Nop Latest CRTC demos
- Points Barres (Mode 3) New Mode "Mode 5" Viewer Raster Slideshow Brutal Deluxe Rhino-Raster Split-Rasters Test CRTC1 Crazy Ball Trailblazer Fugitif Sudoku Master Flush Wishes You a Happy New Year Pixel Free Overscan Megatext Gozeur Intro 2 Interlace viewer Interlaced 800x600 Interlace Climax Kvety Flipraster Perfect Pix Paint Bat-Moule Tetris Imperial Mahjong Special graphics modes Mode EGX Mode R Mode 5 Technical explanations
- Prehistorik II (screen calibration) Mire Chany Dream 5 4 Sins TV Noise Climax-G Nice Picture Show Fatal Beauties JavaCPC Overscan Pixel Nation Twinblast MCS 6 Schadel Scandinavian Flag Kill JLCS Deleting Disc Plasma Pas Cher Wavy Vagues sur l'écran Bildschirmverzerrer Thunder Blade (292 lines) Bonanza Bros (295 lines) Turrican (296 lines) Wonder Boy (296 lines) Sliders (330 lines) Rastan (336 lines) To test the VDU
- Octoplex (crtc1) Dynamic Duo (crtc1) Druid II (crtc1) Legend of Steel (crtc1) 007 The Living Daylights (crtc1) FMR (crtc1) Some known bugs on real CRTCs
- Welcom-X 2 (crtc0) Madness (crtc1) 5KB 1 (crtc1) Scrolling Hard Vertical (crtc2) Some programs that only run correctly on one type of CRTC
