Xcpc is a portable Amstrad CPC464/CPC664/CPC6128 Emulator written in C designed to run on any POSIX system (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes).
Xcpc has been successfully tested on:
- Gentoo Linux
- Mandriva Linux
- Fedora Core Linux
- SUN Solaris
- HP Tru64
- SGI IRIX
- Mac OS X
As of 2011, the project appears to be stale (the last release was in early 2007), but it may still be useful for FreeBSD users because it is very easy to install from the ports collection with pkg_add -r xcpc. (Right now the only other CPC emulator in the ports collection is MESS.)
Probably the most important missing feature at this point is support for sound output, so this emulator does not work very well for games.
Implemented Features
Here is a non-exhaustive list of supported features :
- A simple X11 Intrinsic user interface.
- A complete Athena user interface.
- A complete Motif-2x user interface.
- A complete Gtk+-3.x user interface.
- Full X11 with XShm extension.
- Adaptative frame-rate.
- Full Floppy disk images support (.dsk).
- Full snapshot support (.sna).
- Drag and Drop support (.dsk, .sna).
- Keyboard emulation (qwerty, azerty).
- Joystick emulation with the numeric keypad when numlock is disabled.
- Joystick emulation by pressing the « Home » or « End » key (then use arrows + left-ctrl + left-alt).
- Joystick support under Linux (up to two hardware joysticks).
- CPU: Z80 with full documented instructions and most undocumented instructions.
- VGA: Video Gate Array 40007/40008/40010, complete support.
- VDC: CRTC 6845, almost complete full support.
- PPI: PPI 8255, almost complete full support.
- PSG: AY-3-8912, partial support (actually no sound is produced).
- FDC: FDC 765A, complete support.