décembre décembre 2009 archives of Genesis8 Amstrad Page

Happy new year 2010

I wish you all a happy new year 2010, good health, and long life to our Amstrad CPC.

Music remake of Boulder Dash by Noisywan

A new music remake by Ömer Aydin (Noisywan) of Boulder Dash on Youtube.

Happy christmas 2009

I wish you all a happy christmas 2009 with nice gifts. There were less news these past weeks, because I am working behind the stage on new features, which I hope will be ready soon.

Rick Dangerous is back on Amstrad CPC+ with more features and updated graphics

Rick Dangerous 128+ is a new version enhanced by Fano, Macdeath and BDC Iron of Rick Dangerous (available 20 years ago in 1989). Some of the new features of this version is the use of the 4096 colors of the CPC+, new levels coming from the 16bit versions, DMA music, the use of the 2nd shoot button of the CPC+ joystick to jump...

Below a screenshot of the original version and of the 128+ version :

Source : CPC rulez's forum

Gamebase CPC v12

GameBase CPC v12 is available.

Play video of Rick Dangerous if you are stucked on the 128+ version

If you are stucked on Rick Dangerous 128+, see below for 3 videos of someone playing the original version on Youtube :

You can see a video of the first part of Rick Dangerous, second part of Rick Dangerous and last part of Rick Dangerous on Youtube.

XMAS 2009 intro by CMP/Impact

XMAS 2009 is an intro by CMP (code), DevilMarkus (graphism) et Hermol (music conversion).

New look for Phenix Informatique

Phenix Informatique got a lifting (french site only), go see it if you didnt check it lately.

Stranded, a ZX spectrum arcade puzzle game by Bob Smith

Stranded is an arcade puzzle game for ZX Spectrum by Bob Smith. It has been ported to Amstrad CPC by Kevin Thacker. It could be first bought at Chronosoft with a real package (tape), but it can now be donwloaded.

Build your own AMX Compatible Mouse Adapter

You can now build for about 8 € your own AMX Compatible Mouse Adapter which let you use any PS2 or USB mouse using a USB to PS/2 adapter plug (no bluetooth USB mouses though), and use any AMX compatible Amstrad CPC software like advanced OCP art studio, FutureOS or SymbOS.

Source : CPC Wiki's forum

3D-Maze by Nigel Sharp in basic, ported to CCZ80 by Ervin Pajor

3D-Maze is a labyrinth program in Amstrad CPC basic by Nigel Sharp (Amstrad Computer User, October 1985). Ervin Pajor ported it to the windows Z80 compiler CCZ80 (by Emilio Guerrero).

Source : CPC Wiki's forum

a batch of 25 Symbiface II is available

This weekend Dr.Zed brought Prodatron a batch of the SYMBiFACE II card (25 pieces) including cables with edge connectors. So you can order it again! At the moment Prodatron can't ship centronics connector cables, but he hopes to have them at the end of december from Dr.Zed. You can mail him at jmika [a t] prodatron [d o t] net.

Source : SymbOS mailing list

CPCemu v1.7 for win32/linux by Marco Vieth

CPCemu for dos by Marco Vieth was the first Amstrad CPC emulator I used. It exists also for win32 and linux, and the last version now supports other keyboard than the qwerty one.

Source : CPC Rulez's forum

Dragon's Lair on Iphone in the future

Dragon's Lair will be available in the future on Iphone, no date released though.

Source : Jeuxvideo.com