One year ago, I resigned from Push'n'Pop website, mainly because I felt incompatible with high elitism and arrogance found there. As a result, I actually went my own way and created this website.

The funny thing is that I quickly enjoyed publishing my personal work here and found a good way to express myself. I'm usually not fan of auto-congratulations, but I'm happy to see all that has been accomplished through 2011 : HxC Floppy Emulator Manager got updated several times, I had so much fun when creating QuickCMD (a project I had for years in mind), Phactory got consolidated (and internally resulted a new product : SDCC2Pasmo). Also, I wrote some technical articles (more a personal way to write things down for me than actually write tutorials for everyone :-) and had great pleasure by interviewing CPC legends.

Thank you everyone. A real thank you. You know, motivation is not an infinite resource. Sometimes I felt like "who cares, after all ?". And then I watch this site statistics. I see visitors still coming here on a daily basis, even when I did not give any news for some time. This always makes me kind of happy, since it actually shows to me that my work is, at least, respected and appreciated.

So, what's next ? I just started a new (secret !) project that should keep me busy for a large part of 2012... my private life also got changed lately (job, family) and I have even less times for my hobby now. Due to that, there are big chances that this site will be partially maintained from now.

Okkkk.. so that was kind of private confessions, which is OK I guess since this is a personal website.

I wish to everyone a good, productive year and thanks to all the people keeping the CPC interesting and alive !

This is a new version of Phactory, a powerful development environment targeting Amstrad CPC (Windows-only).
The most noticeable changes: revamped user interface, overall speed improvements thanks to new plugin system, a new source code editor featuring Z80 assembly syntax highlighting, and finally some minor bug fixings.
Unfortunately, this program is still not ready for prime time, since there is still no documentation, no examples / project templates, and no support for it for the moment. One day, maybe..
Still, if you are curious enough, go get it here (Phactory is also listed in Productions section).

This might not be the best code I ever done, but at least, it does the job pretty well : SDCC2Pasmo takes as input a .asm file generated while compiling C code with SDCC, and outputs an other .asm file that is compatible with Pasmo, Maxam or WinAPE assembler syntax.
Command-line usage: SDCC2Pasmo sdcc_output.asm pasmo_compatible.asm.
C++ sources for Windows are now available through Productions section of this website, so feel free to recompile it for your favorite development environment if you need to.

There are contexts where simple sinus curves might not be enough to achieve demo-effects. One great alternative is to use "cloud"-based data, allowing creation of bi-dimensional data tables where values smoothly evolve over the variation you decide to apply to. One of the most common application for such data are plasma, like the one presented in Pheelone demo.

I just wrote an article describing the workflow I use to get such data ready to use for Amstrad CPC developments. You can read the article here (also available in Articles section). Feel free to contact me for improvements, I will be glad to complete it.