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ColinPitrat / caprice32

An emulator of the Amstrad CPC 8bit home computer range.
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Support KCR fileformat #192

Open ColinPitrat opened 3 years ago

ColinPitrat commented 3 years ago

From https://github.com/ColinPitrat/caprice32/issues/38#issuecomment-343164182

Would it be possible to add support for the .kcr format?

https://github.com/redbug26/crocods-core/wiki/kcr

From the info supplied:

Recently, I build a cabinet arcade and I want to play Amstrad games on it. The existing file format are not enough.

I want:

Quick start: I don’t need the splash screen I don’t want to type the RUN" things To play with a joystick. Some game need keyboard to select the Joystick (eg., on Boulderdash, you need to type the Enter key to begin to play) What I propose is the .kcr file format.

.kcr is a zipped archive that contains 4 files.

capture.gif: a screenshot from the game (used for a splash screen for instance) disk.dsk: the main disk snapshot.sna: the state from where the game will begins settings.ini: some key mapping.

And here you can download a couple of examples.

ColinPitrat commented 3 years ago

Because we already support loading from zip, this should be relatively easy: Read .kcr files like .zip file but look only for the .sna file in it (it contains all we need, the disk shouldn't be necessary - we could load it too still just in case).