!CPC - An Amstrad CPC emulator for Acorn RISC OS machines
Fed up with modern games? Nostalgic about the times when games didn't
have 3D-textured-fractal-CDROM-rendered graphics, but at least had real
gameplay? Find yourself wishing you could tinker with your trusty old
CPC again? Or would you simply like to impress your non-Acorn-owning
friends by adding yet one more operating system to the list?
Fret no more! !CPC is here. !CPC is an Amstrad CPC emulator for
Acorn RISC OS machines, a free demo version of which is available
here.
Instructions
Just open the !CPC_Demo archive below, dearchive the contents, read the
!Help file and the conditions and disclaimers therein, and then
double-click on the !CPC_Demo icon! Use Alt-F12 to exit.
If you experience any system hangs (i.e. the machine becomes
totally unresponsive and Alt-F12 does not help), then please
tell me. If
this does happen, Alt-Delete should perform an emergency exit back to
the desktop. If that doesn't work either, then please please
please tell me!
Neither of these situations should ever occur, so it's important that
I know whether someone has experienced them.
A !Help file inside !CPC_Demo contains more detailed instructions,
as well as details of the full version, !CPC.
Here it is!
OK, now you've read all that, here's the actual software for you to
play with (use the option `Load to local disk' or similar). Because
the new version was assembled very quickly to make the CD pressing
deadline, we have included a previous version just in case...
!CPC_Demo is now compressed in Spark 16-bit compression mode.
This should hopefully be more widely understood than the Zip
deflate mode hitherto used. (Note, however, that most of the
CPC-related files on the net are in Zip deflate format...)
Please tell me
if you experience difficulties dearchiving or running !CPC_Demo.
!CPC_Demo contains ROM images which are copyright Amstrad and/or
Locomotive software, and are distributed with their kind
permission.
Mark RISON, 1996-05-03, 14:00
rison@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk