AYC
Generic Standard file in CPC music. Really is a de-compressed and re-compressed YM file.
The "plain" YM format can not be played on CPC, because it uses LHA packing which is not unpackable in realtime. You need the AYC toolkit or YMcruncher to convert them to AYC, then you should be able to play them with various tools.
You can extract (rip) CPC music (or from another 8-16bit system) with your emulator to YM file and convert to AYC file to use it on CPC. The author of this great idea is Madram from Overlanders.
AYC players (inside CPC system)
- AYCplayer by OVL (MadRam & Beb = Overlanders) [Thanks to F-Key to preserve it] New font screen, a trick to pass the slow and weighty 16k screen...
- Media:Aycplay.zip (zipped .DSK file)
- Dual Module Player by Hermol
- TsP The Soundtrackker Player by TomEtJerry
YM to AYC utils
- CPC amsdos --> YM2AY (Kit ayc) by MadRam
- PCwin --> YMcruncher by F-key
ToDo
- There is only one PC command line util YMTOOL [ST-Sound Download] [1] to edit info inside YM files. It is needed a "windowed" version more easy and quick to use.
- SymAmp don't read AYC files, sig! Any coder?
