Software Supporting PlayCity
Contents
Introduction
All the software that supports the PlayCity expansion board is listed in this page for giving it better visibility.
It's interesting to explain in a few sentences which features of the board the software is using and if you need to press any key or select a menu option to enable these special features. Of course, if the graphical side is improved, then don't be shy and add a few screenshots for catching the eye of future users of your software.
As of August 2023, the software developed for the PlayCity has only used the audio capacity of the expansion. That makes the software list of the PlayCity also compatible with the Play2CPC expansion, as that expansion is fully compatible with the audio part of the PlayCity.
Emulators
JavaCPC
JavaCPC emulates sound part.
Caprice Forever
Emulates PlayCity audio channels.
CPCEC
Preliminary PlayCity support, limited to the two extra PSG and the NMI trigger.
ACE
ACE emulates the PlayCity expansion card, providing dual YMZ294 PSG and Z84C30 CTC to the Amstrad CPC. Includes support for vectorized interrupts, non maskable interrupt and CRTC cursor signal support.
MAME
MAME emulates the 2xYMZs and the CTC lets you set YMZs clock, NMIs and Cursor Interrupts. In this moment only lacks of the support of daisy chain setup to acknowledge IRQs for using the normal timer/counter interrupts.
Enabling PlayCity
Playing Music
NMI Rasters
NMI CRTC Cursor
Operating Systems
Firmware
There is software using the native CPC OS supporting the PlayCity (see below)
FutureOS
Space Chicken for FutureOS supports the PlayCity, that's an enhanced version of CyberChicken. FutureOS itself provides support for playing music and NMI handling. The configuration bytes tell if an PlayCity is connected.
SymbOS
Software for SymbOS exists which supports PlayCity (see below)
Games
Cyber Chicken
Cyber Chicken is using the YMZ chips. {{#ev:youtube|0O7ejXpf1zM|300}}
Alcon 2020
Alcon 2020 optionally uses the YMZ chips.
Open Tower Defense
Open Tower Defense 3 channels music for regular CPC and 6 channels music for Playcity owners.
Demos
Bad Arnold
Bad Arnold needs a PlayCity card for the CPC, because it uses 6 channel sound.
Music Players
ReSeT #10
ReSeT #10 (File:Playcity examples.zip) is a music disk with a few PT3 Turbo Sound songs.
SymAmp
SymAmp for SymbOS (using the YMZ chips for playing 6 channel PT3 Turbosound modules){{#ev:youtube|B8-MoO1VJx4|300}}
