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Super League Soccer - for the Amstrad PCW

SharpeyStuSharpeyStu
edited May 2005 in Games
Hi, I made a game called Super League Soccer for the Amstrad PCW series. It ran on Mallard Basic under CP/M. I released it in 1992 through DG Software in Bradford who went bankrupt.
I do not have a copy of the game but one buyer has contacted me and asked me if I can convert the game to PC.
I am happy to do this but could somebody volunteer to convert the game code from it's current format into ASCII text files so that I can re-compile in Visual Basic and add a few more bells and whistles to the game.
I will ask someone to send me a copy of the disk and would be pleased to forward to anyone who can convert for me.
I do not have a PCW anymore so I can not access the old code !!
Any thoughts.

[ This Message was edited by: sharpeystu on 2005-05-17 14:53 ]
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  • LeeTLeeT
    edited May 2005
    You could also try here:

    http://cpczone.emuunlim.com/boards/index.php?act=idx
  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited May 2005
    On 2005-05-17 14:00, SharpeyStu wrote:
    ...
    Any thoughts gentlemen.

    Ooooh! ... you better run and hide and hope the womenfolk of WoS don't come after you for that remark ;)

    Skarpo
    :)
  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited May 2005
    ...or Philip to turn in and point at the FAQ!
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited May 2005
    On 2005-05-17 14:00, SharpeyStu wrote:
    Hi, I made a game called Super League Soccer for the Amstrad PCW series. It ran on Mallard Basic under CP/M. I released it in 1992 through DG Software in Bradford who went bankrupt.
    I do not have a copy of the game but one buyer has contacted me and asked me if I can convert the game to PC.
    I am happy to do this but could somebody volunteer to convert the game code from it's current format into ASCII text files so that I can re-compile in Visual Basic and add a few more bells and whistles to the game.
    I will ask someone to send me a copy of the disk and would be pleased to forward to anyone who can convert for me.
    I do not have a PCW anymore so I can not access the old code !!
    Any thoughts.

    [ This Message was edited by: sharpeystu on 2005-05-17 14:53 ]

    Is it just me ? Asking for the code of an Amstrad game at a Speccy forum ? Bit like me asking at a C64 forum if anyone has the code for an old Speccy game i wrote ?!?!

    Post your request at that Amstrad forum and they should be able to help you in some way (At least its the same computer).
  • SharpeyStuSharpeyStu
    edited May 2005
    I just looked up the FAQ - no PC emulator reference for an Amstrad PCW.
    Does anyone know where one exists ?
    Thanks again
  • SharpeyStuSharpeyStu
    edited May 2005
    Well the common denominator here is the Z80 chipset and the fact that Amstrad produce both machines - the PCW and Speccy run by through similar technology, your scenario is nothing like mine - the C64 from Commodore the Spectrum from Amstrad - Hey I am here for help for those of you who might be in the know. I only found this site today, so if I got this wrong and there is no-one here who can help - I offer unreserved apologies, but if there is someone out there who can help - hey fantastic. I would be really grateful for any positive input.

    [ This Message was edited by: sharpeystu on 2005-05-17 16:28 ]
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited May 2005
    Well it is called World of Spectrum, that might have given it away ;)

    You'll be asking for Blur songs next at an Oasis forum or Megadrive games at a SNES site ;)

    Seriously though that Amstrad site is the one to try as its the main site for the Amstrad series of computers.

    WOS wont obviously list emulators for any other machines apart from a Spectrum. You wont see links for a C64 or Amstrad one there !

    I just typed in "+emulator +amstrad" in a search engine and a lot popped up.
  • ivarfivarf
    edited May 2005
    I wonder... If the Amstrad PCW and Spectrum +3 is so different. Why do the +3 SPECTRUM DISK PRESERVATION project use an Amstrad CPC tool (Ulrich Doewich's CPDRead v3.24) to transfer the disks? My guess is that is because they are similar. ;)
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/sdp/

    You might get help transfering the software if contacting the people listed at the above page or perhaps you could ask Nick at CPCzone.

    Start an Ebay-watch, maybe you will find your game there?

    To psj3809:
    If you found several PCw-emulators, why not post it here? I checked emuunlim and found http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/Joyce/index.html

    Please be more helpful, this isn't news ;)

    [ This Message was edited by: ivarf on 2005-05-17 22:16 ]
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited May 2005
    I have to agree, theres absolutely nothing wrong with asking here about the game, many Spectrum owners also owned Amstrads and they were very similar. You could try http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/tech/cpc/
    dunno if it will help, if not it's an interesting site anyway...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited May 2005
    On 2005-05-17 22:11, ivarf wrote:
    To psj3809:
    If you found several PCw-emulators, why not post it here? I checked emuunlim and found http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/Joyce/index.html<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ivarf on 2005-05-17 22:16 ]

    Please be more helpful ? When it comes to Amstrad emulators i'm not too fussed about helping people. I mentioned already about how to find them on the internet.

    I typed in +amstrad +emulator +download and one of the first links i found was...

    http://www.emuunlim.com/downloads.php?System=Amstrad+CPC

    Theres 6 emulators here for the PC and some others below. Theyre not hard to find !
  • ivarfivarf
    edited May 2005
    On 2005-05-18 08:28, psj3809 wrote:
    http://www.emuunlim.com/downloads.php?System=Amstrad+CPC

    Theres 6 emulators here for the PC and some others below. Theyre not hard to find !

    PCW and CPC are totally different computers. PCW isn't much more relevant to CPCZone than to WOS. The common factor is that they all were made by Amstrad and that they have the same or similar disk-hardware.

    BTW, there doesn't exist 6 different emulators for the PCW. You searched for CPC-emulators.

    [ This Message was edited by: ivarf on 2005-05-18 09:59 ]
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited May 2005
    Oops well i messed up !

    I dont really know anything about the Amstrad range of computers so i dont know the difference between a PCW or CPC hardly. I think though the people at that Amstrad site will have a be more useful than anyone at a Speccy site as i'm sure many CPC owners might have had a PCW etc. Either way its a bit more sensible to search there than a Speccy only site.

    Yep cant find many PCW emulators just 'Joyce' which seems to be on quite a few sites
  • NotFoundNotFound
    edited May 2005
    PCW and CPC are totally different computers. PCW isn't much more relevant to CPCZone than to WOS. The common factor is that they all were made by Amstrad and that they have the same or similar disk-hardware.

    They have another common factor, and with the Spectrum +3 also: they can run similar flavours of the Amstrad version of CP/M Plus. Thus some programs can be executed in all of them.


    [ This Message was edited by: NotFound on 2005-05-18 11:26 ]
  • LeeTLeeT
    edited May 2005
    PCW and CPC are totally different computers. PCW isn't much more relevant to CPCZone than to WOS. The common factor is that they all were made by Amstrad and that they have the same or similar disk-hardware.

    Well there is likely to be someone that can help at CPCZone, as they do a lot of preservation work.


  • John ElliottJohn Elliott
    edited May 2005
    According to the original post, the game was written in Mallard BASIC so it should also run on the +3 and the CPC under CP/M (unless it tries to manipulate the PCW's hardware directly). There was also a Mallard BASIC for the PC. Am I right in thinking that WoS doesn't archive CP/M software that wasn't specific to the +3?

    If the program was not saved with the ',p' option then it would be fairly easy to extract; just LLIST it and capture the printer output, or save it with the ',a' option and extract the saved file from whatever emulator you're using. If it was, then you need to crack the protection; PCW Plus published a program to do this and I should have a copy of it lying around somewhere.
  • SharpeyStuSharpeyStu
    edited May 2005
    Thanks John. You sound like a man that knows this issue inside out.

    I think moving the files over to PC format and then re-compiling is the way I want to go.
    Forgive my ignorance on such matters but could you also help... I no longer have a PCW, I will ask for a friend to transfer by Re-saving each of the *.bas files as ,a (ascii) on a PCW 3.5 disc, how do I then get the PCW disc into standard PC compatible format as my PC 3.5" drive will not be able to read the disc... will it ?
  • na_th_anna_th_an
    edited May 2005
    I dunno about the data transfer, but once the files are transfered you can try this compiler:

    www.freebasic.net

    You'll be able to recompile the sources under Windows and Linux without changing almost anything (appart from the lo-level stuff).
  • John ElliottJohn Elliott
    edited May 2005
    You can find my considered thoughts on retrieving files from PCW/CPC/+3 discs at

    http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/oldflop.html
  • SharpeyStuSharpeyStu
    edited May 2005
    Thanks a million chaps.
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