An Amstrad CPC emulator written in C++ and C# for Windows.
The Amstrad CPC ("Colour Personal Computer") is a range of 8-bit computers produced by Amstrad and popular in the UK and Europe during the mid-to-late 1980s.
See the CPC Wiki for more information.
Colour Personal Virtual Computer.
CPvC has additional features on top of the standard ones offered by most emulators:
- A more "persistent" emulator model, where one or more virtual CPC instances can be created and persist even after the application is closed. These instances can be loaded again and resume from where they left off.
- Snapshots (or "bookmarks" as they're called in CPvC) are organized as part of a branching timeline, instead of as separate .SNA files.
Currently, only the 6128 model is emulated. Support for other models (464, 664, 464+, and 6128+) will be added in the future.
Before building, the Amstrad CPC roms must be manually copied to the roms folder. See ReadMe.md in the roms folder for more details.
Open the cpvc.sln solution file in Visual Studio (File -> Open -> Project/Solution...), select the solution configuration and platform (Build -> Configuration Manager...), then build the solution (Build -> Build Solution).
Note that CPvC is currently being developed in Visual Studio Community 2017 (version 15.5.6). Note that since CPvC is written in both C++ and C#, Visual Studio needs at least the following Workloads/Components installed:
- .NET desktop development
- Desktop development with C++
- Windows 10 SDK (10.0.16299.0)
- Universal Windows Platform development
The solution can also be built in the latest version of Visual Studio Community 2019 (16.3.7), though note that the Visual Studio 2017 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.16) need to be installed.
In Visual Studio 2017, set the Default Processor Architecture to match the currently selected platform (x64 or x86). This option is under Test -> Test Settings -> Default Processor Architecture. Build the solution, then run all tests (Test -> Run -> All Tests).
Once built, launch the application (set the cpvc project as the startup project for the solution) and create a new instance (File -> New...), or open an existing one (File -> Open...).
See the Features.md file for more details.
For more details about the code, see this file.