In this section you can obtain utilities that enable you to create your own AY files. Many hundreds of hours have been dedicated to creating the AY collection at this site. If you have Z80 coding knowledge and enjoy what we have provided here then please consider contributing. The current active contributors are unable to dedicate as much time to the project as was once the case. More contributors are needed if the collection is to continue to grow.

AYMakeR is a utility used to compile extracted Z80 code into AY files.

Click here to download AYMakeR - (last updated 2nd September 2001)

AYSplitR is a utility used for splitting AY files into blocks of Z80 code and ini script.

Click here to download AYSplitR - (last updated 2nd September 2001)

Alternatively, you can use an assembler to make AY files manually. Full documentation and the original AY file format specifications can be found in the AYMakeR zip file. For extracting Z80 data from Spectrum code, the X128 emulator provides excellent options to dump user-defined blocks of code.

CPCSNIP is a utility used for extracting Z80 code from CPC snapshot files.

Click here to download CPCSNIP - (last updated 8th March 2003)

You can also download a number of useful AY related utilities from Laurent de Soras site:

· ay2wav - convert AY files to WAV
· z80span - inspect a map of the memory used by the code of a CPC program for the Z80 CPU
· ay2sna - convert AY files to CPC snapshots that can be loaded into CPC emulators