iMPdos Public Edition v1.17 by AST/iMPACT is available, a ROM for using the X-Mass extension card made by Toto. It must be installed as ROM 1 to 6, before the ROM 7 ! When the ROM is installed, iMPdos detects the X-Mass and format it. Dont forget to use the |hlp command for documentation.
Source : CPCWiki
The Amstrad CPC demo phX by Condense has been released a few days ago and now its source code is available.
Source : CPCRulez
Isometrikum by Vanity got the first place at the oldschool demo competition of the Revision 2018 demo party.
Source : Pouet
Onescreen Colonies by Vanity was released at the Revision 2018 demo party.
Source : Pouet
Seascape CPC by Devilmarkus was released at the Revision 2018 demo party.
Source : Pouet
1Kusai by Shinra is an Amstrad CPC 1Kb intro released at the Forever 2018.
The source code of 1Kusai is available.
So, the idea was to fit Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa in 1K.
I worked from an SVG file and removed a lot of details until it would fit the allocated space (packed with zx7). Eventually it ended up too small after some late minute changes to the code which improved the compression. Oh well.
The SVG was converted to bezier curves using NanoSVG, then a custom Lua script to convert the usual bezier curves definitions into a form more suitable for computation. Normally a Bezier curve is defined by X and Y equations which look like this :
x = A(1-t)³+3B(1-t)²t+3C(1-t)t²+Dt³
We can rewrite this as : Z + t(Y + t(X + Wt))
With:
Z = A
Y = 3B
X = 3C - 6B
W = D - 3C + 3B - A
So in this form we need only 3 multiplications.
The computations are done using CPC firmware which provides neat floating point math support. I compute 256 points along each curve (this could be adjusted to less points for faster drawing, at the cost of slightly less smooth curves) and draw lines between them. Then the system FILL routine is used to fill the closed shapes.
The sound of waves and thunder you can hear is just the Y or X coordinate (I don't remember, whichever sounded best) sent to the AY noise register (again using the CPC firmware, because this is the most space efficient way). I tried to write some music using the free bytes left but did not manage to do anything very convincing. Next time I'll try to spend more effort on the sound side.
Source : Pouet
The latest Amstrad CPC demo by Condense : PhX has been released at the Revision 2018 meeting (Allemagne).
Code is by NoRecess, art by CED, audio by Factor6, trackloader by Arnoldemu. It was programmed over a period of 5 years.
Source : Twitter
Released in December 2017, X17 by AST/iMPACT is a new demo as a cartridge for Amstrad CPC+ or GX4000, available on Youtube.
Source : Twitter
You have memory problems with the age ? It's quite normal, you arent anymore that young if you have known the Amstrad CPC in the start of your life.
So it's time to revive all these lost memories by going on Memory Full by Toms, Beb and Hicks, where you will be able to read all what is related to the Amstrad CPC demoscene, quite a subject.
Thanks to Hicks for the original idea who started a web site to be used for writing a book about demoscene, helped by Toms for the web programmation and feeding the database and Beb to enrich the visual aspect of the site..
Source : CPCWiki
BDCIron is streaming Baba's Palace, Profanation 2, BasketCases, Bitume and Gryzor. Of course the first two games issued from CPCRetroDev 2017 should be the more interesting to see.
Greetings to him and the happy mother for their first born !
Source : Youtube
In this video Roudoudou explains how the effets of his demo CRTC³ were done (sound in french but there are subtitles in english if you are not a frog).
Source : Youtube
Two Amstrad CPC plus demos did appear at the Alchimie 2017, showed in several videos :
With the CRTC3 demo by Roudoudou (but also by Futurs, X-men, Karbonik prod, Résistance and Morzienda), I discovered that he was also streaming Amstrad CPC content. I let you look for it by yourself.
Source : Youtube
Eerie Forest ("Shadow of the Beast" one-screen intro) by Logon System is their last demo released this week-end at the Alchimy 2017 demo meeting.
Download Eerie Forest on Pouet.
It features :
Source : Twitter
CRTC3 (CRTC x CRTC x CRTC) by Roudoudou, Futurs, X-men, Karbonik prod, Résistance and Morzienda is a new Amstrad CPC plus demo as a cartridge released at the demo meeting Alchimy 2017.
Source : CPCWiki's forum
After two games : Defence and Pentomino, Markus Macherey (Shining) goes for a demo, but with a little twist, in fact you are going to need an Amstrad CPC boosted with vitamins. Indeed, you need 1 Mb of RAM and a PlayCity for the sound (9 channels, but the tune written by Nq! is 6 channels) ! Yes, the new wave of programmers doesnt stop to the Amstrad CPC 464, and it's for the good. Lets play with Amstrad CPC with a lot of RAM, external storage and even connected to Internet.
Source : CPCWiki's forum
As it was previously stated, the Logon's run - 3D meets the aging bits demo making-of by Overflow is available on NoRecess.
Source : CPCRulez's forum
Krusty (Benediction) showed his Wunderbar 4k intro at the Revision 2017 meeting.
Source : Octoate
Logon's run - 3D meets the aging bits par Logon System is their last demo released this week-end lors during the Revision 2017 meeting.
And for the live video live at the Revision 2017 meeting, it's here with the reactions of the public (posted by Octoate).
Source : Twitter
BDCIron is testing Amstrad CPC games : Great Gurianos and Addams Family, and also a demo : Big'O'Full demo.
See the previous news for more details about Great Gurianos.
In his latest video (24th February) BDCIron is testing the following games :
Source : Youtube
A new interview is available on NoRecess : Epsilon (Power System, Arkos).
Source : CPCWiki's forum
Condense is working on its new demo since 2 years already, which will be available only for the revision 2018 !
Also, a making-of for the next demo by Overflow (Logon System) will be published on Condense web site. The demo will be available for Revision 2017.
Source : CPCWiki's forum
After the article about calibrating the Amstrad CPC monitor by Sylvestre (Sucres en morceaux), here is a new article about fading colors.
Source : CPCWiki's forum
After the 30 Years Amstrad Megademo, Benediction has released for Sundown 2016 : Barbar, a new intro for Amstrad CPC+.
No emulator, no real CPC+ ? Then check Barbar on Youtube.
The 30 Years Amstrad Megademo is available right there and on Pouet.
I was able to see it yesterday at the Reset Meeting. It is nice.
Parts are written by Benediction, Dirty Minds, Futurs, GPA, Pulpo, Shinra and Vanity.
Source : CPCWIKI's forum
After Batman Forever, Battro is a cracktro by Batman Group, with music by McKlain.
Source : CPCWiki's forum
Available on NoRecess : a new version of HxC Manager forr 464/664 and an interview of Thriller (Cadjo Clan) a demomaker.
Source : NoRecess
Superhop is the 4th Amstrad CPC intro written by gOblinish in 512 bytes, which gives you real time fractals.
Source : CPCRulez's forum
Boulder Dash by SuTeKH (Epyteor) is a new Amstrad CPC music disk. Other music disks by SuTeKH :
Source : CPCWiki's forum
Optimus introduced Amstrad CPC to gOblinish (Dmitry Krapivin).
So gOblinish released 3 intros in 1 month :
Source : CPCRulez's forum
If you are the proud owner of an Amstrad CPC 464, you have already seend the Amstrad CPC 464 Welcome Demonstration Cassette. Otherwise, it's time to see the extraordinary features of a computer which is only 30 years old.
The programs of this tape have been programmed by Roland Perry, concepteur de l'Amstrad CPC et du GX4000.
Slipstream is first an Amiga demo group , but for the Sundown demo party 2014, they released an Amstrad CPC demo : Sundance.
Code and animations are written by Devilmarkus (author of JavaCPC), graphics by TCM and music by BEX.
Source : CPCRulez's forum
Breaking Baud is an Amstad CPC demo made by the groups CRTC and 3LN, which was showed at the Revision demo party 2014.
Code is written by Doz, graphism by Rexbeng and music by McKlain.
This tape demo use a turbo loader to run while it loads (and also to speed up its loading).
Olivier Gout aka Overflow du groupe Logon System has been interviewed by No Recess.
He is the author of Amstrad CPC demos like S&KOH (1991), Backtro (2001) and Yet Another Plasma! (2012).
Source : CPC Wiki's forum
Phactory (a development environment targetting Amstrad CPC)and Phortem's (demo) code source are available on NoRecess web site.
Source : CPCWiki's forum
Vox populi, vox dei, so don't hesitate to go vote on Push'n'Pop about what you consider the best 2013 Amstrad CPC productions.
Source : Octoate
NoRecess did interview Elmar Krieger, the author of Amstrad CPC demos and programs (such as Prehistorik).
Source : NoRecess
A news not directly related to Amstrad CPC. It's about Quinine, a PC demo of 4Kb by Optimus6128, well known on the Amstrad CPC scene, for his demos and SymbOS.
Trick or treat ! Well today it's not about an Amstrad CPC demo, but about a ZX Spectrum demo called Outerloop by thesuper, release at the DiHalt 2013 meeting at the start of July. It seems a nice demo to me (sound included).
Source : Damon Sceen's google+
You will find an interview of NoRecess on OrdiRetro about his latest Phortem Amstrad CPC demo (french only, google translation of the interview here).
Source : CPCRulez's Forum
A nice birthday gift, a new Amstrad CPC(+) demo : Phortem by Condense (NoRecess).
You can see this demo in plain Amstrad CPC version (see below) or in CPC+ version on Youtube.
Source : CPCRulez's forum
Still Rising by Vanity got the second place at the oldschool demo competition of the Revision 2013 demo party.
Revision 2013 will take place in Saarbrücken (from 29/03 to 01/04).
A little group of CPC users will be there (Offset, Toms, Eliot, maybe Grim, Rouquemoute, Hicks and others).
The next Vanity demo will be presented saturday night, in the oldskool category : Batman ending.
Source : CPCWiki's forum
Mind in Motion, an Amstrad CPC 15 Ko dentro written in 3 days and released at Forever 14 by Software Failure in 2013. Code, graphics and music by Ham/SFL, Arkos Tracker Music player by Targhan and Grim/Arkos. It needs a 64 Ko CPC.
Source : CPCRulez
Yet another plasma is a new Amstrad CPC demo in 2012 by ... Logon System.
Source : CPCRulez's forum
Inspired by the Batman forever demo, here is an intro/demo by CRTC and 3LN : Sugarlumps, with a music by Mr_Lou.
Source : CPCRulez's forum
Glory Holes, an Amstrad CPC demo got the 1st place at the ReSeT#8 meeting (Coutances).
Main code by Krusty/Benediction, player byGrim/Semilanceata, music by Tom&Jerry/GPA. Graphics by Grim/Semilanceata, Beb/Vanity, Ced/Condense and Voxfreax/Benediction.
Asm sources are included inside the archive.
And the winners are :
All entries will be available later.
NoRecess is still working on a secret project since last december, about at 40% completion, which should be available for next xmas.
In the mean time, you can go on his web site to read an interview of Prodatron - SymbiosiS, the author of demoes and the Amstrad CPC multi-task GUI SymbOS.
Source : NoRecess
Last week-end at Revision demoparty, demosceners have pushed further the limits of what can be done in a single 64kb executable file. Using extensive procedural techniques and compression : see Gaia Machina on Youtube.
Waiting for the same thing to happen on Amstrad CPC !
Source : Slashdot.org
Wake up is the latest Amstrad CPC demo by Benediction and Sector One.
It was written by :
A new Amstrad CPC demo by the Dirty Minds group : Wolfenstrad, written by Optimus, graphics by Voxfreax and music by Sice.
You can download the Wolfenstrad demo here or on Pouet. You can watch it on Youtube.
This demo was shown at the FOReVER XIII demo competition. It uses a wolfenstein 3D like motor, already shown more than one year ago on Youtube.
It was prgrammed in C with SDCC but also in Z80 assembly.
The shortest Amstrad CPC demo by Arteffect is only 0 byte :
border 17
call &12
call &14
I let you see the result of this demo on Youtube.
Source : Gryzor's Twitter
Nyan cat is an internet meme, referring to an animated gif of a cat with the body of a cherry Pop-Tart flying through space, leaving a rainbow trail behind the cat; or to a video of the animated ?.GIF?, set to a remix of the song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!",[1] or to any of several Nyan Cat based games.
It's now on Amstrad CPC, with the music adapted by John McKlain and the code by Demoniak (just for fun !).
Beware the Amstrad CPC Nyan Cat video on Youtube isnt the last version available (current version is 3).
If you cant read the french forum, here is the same thread on CPCWiki's forum.
Source : CPCRulez's forum
Just copy this one line of basic code by Demoniak and paste it in WinApe in the File Menu (or Ctrl + F11, or with any other Amstrad CPC emulator. Just for fun, like the Nyan Cat.
10 MODE 0:e=-1.3:FOR y%=0 TO 199:d=-2.4:FOR x%=0 TO 159:z=0:i=0:a%=0:WHILE a%<15 AND (z*z+i*i)<4:s=(z*z)-(i*i)+d:r=(2*i*z)+e:z=s:i=r:a%=a%+1:WEND:PLOT x%*4,y%*2,a%:d=d+0.0215:NEXT:e=e+0.013:NEXT
P.S. : in the general settings of WinApe, click on display every 1 frame and Turbo Mode, or you may have to wait a bit...
P.P.S : the second image is another basic source (more than 1 line) by Tronic-GPA.
Source : CPCRulez's forum
Download (click below on the source) Food for my plus volume 1 by Hermol with 2 nice CPC+ screenshots.
Source : CPCRulez's forum
A new Amstrad CPC demo has been showed at the Evoke 2011 demo party by Benediction and Brainstorm (Krusty, Voxfreak and Ultrasyd) : Bloc us.
Source : Phenix Informatique
Here are the results of the 4 contests of the ReSeT #0 meeting (and soon they will be available for download) :
See below for the photo of Krusty the winner (on the left), and Beb (on the right) who made a graph for the demo Les experts à Coutances.
Size doesnt matter by SuperSly, oh really o.O ?
Amstrad Expo is no more, but rejoice as ReSeT #0 is the new name of the Amstrad meeting organized by the tireless Eliot.
As usual you can expect a warm welcoming, good food, not much sleep (except if you are a sissy and use a bed), 4 competitions :
CPC Hardware will be given for free at the party-place: monitors, keyboards, floppy-drives, floppy-discs... All the parts from CPCParts.net will be available to repair and upgrade your CPC with the help of hardware specialists.
The ReSeT Party will take place from Friday 24th (10:00) to Sunday 26th of June 2011 (18:00) at Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs in Coutances. The price is 11 euros per day for the entrance, drinks and food. You can book a double room at the party place for 20 euros per night.
Please use the ReSeT #0 site to register if you intent to come, thanks in advance.
I advise you to download the Batman Forever demo from Pouet. Or you could could look at this Batman Forever demo on Retropower.eu.
Source : CPC Wiki's forum
CPC Scene moves to http://pushnpop.net/, update your bookmarks.
Bloids1k by Optimus (Dirty Minds) is a 1 Kb demo (1 effect, no sound) release for the Euskal Party 18 in July 2010.
Source : Pouet
You will be able to read the Break Point 2010 report by Hicks on CPCScene. It's a demo meeting in Germany where the Amstrad CPC was present :
You can download Soleil vert by Supersly (les sucres en morceaux), a graphic made for the Breakpoint 2010 meeting. By the way, Soleil vert is the french name of the science-fiction film Solyent Green with Charlton Heston in 1973. A very good film, I recommend seing it if you didnt yet.
This picture uses flipping to get 31 shades of green (CT65 monitor).
CPC-Power is the Amstrad program database made by (but not only) Kukulcan and Loïc Daneels. You will find there databases of games, archives (documents like the documentation of CPC), Gamebase CPC, ads, and lately they added an Amstrad CPC demos database. One future feature for this site is to add the demos to my own database, but I will have to find the time for this.
XMAS 2009 is an intro by CMP (code), DevilMarkus (graphism) et Hermol (music conversion).
I am sad to say that NoRecess hasnt been always faithful to the Amstrad CPC, he has also made a demo in 2007 for the Sony PSP : Recession maxidemo.
X-mas 2008 is an Amstrad CPC+ demo released in December 2008 by Impact.
Phat is a demo by Norecess released in July 2008 for Amstrad CPC+, coded in C with the Z88dk C compiler.
Though you can see a video of Phat on Youtube, it will be better to use a real Amstrad CPC or an emulator.
Phat 2 is a demo by Norecess released in September 2008 for Amstrad CPC+, coded this time in Z80 assembler.
Boules et bits is a demo by Vanity (Hicks and Beb) released in September 2006 for Amstrad CPC, sound by Tom & Jerry. It's a nice demo featuring 42 bouncing balls.
It's an answer to Maurice aime les bobs by Megachur and Super Sylvestre which featured 26 balls in June 2006
Maurice aime les bobs was itself an answer to Garcimor aime les balls by Ramlaid (Arkos - Mortel) which featured 20 balls in September 2004.
CPC Meuuuhting 2008 is an Amstrad CPC+ demo made for the meeting which took place at Coutances (France) during the 11-13th April 2008 :
ASM Intro 1 is an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Roudoudou/Flower Corp. released in May 2008, the final version of a demo he made earlier of a mask with a phong effect.
Larsen is an Amstrad CPC+ demo by OFE released in December 2007.
Synergy is a french Amstrad CPC+ demo by AsT / Impact (code), AsT and Iron (graphics), Scavenger (music).
Though you can see a video of Synergy on Youtube, it will be better to use a real Amstrad CPC or an emulator.
Synergy is a french Amstrad CPC demo by CMP / Impact. Type RUN"synergy2.koh for a cheat part
The video of Synergy 2 on Youtube has audio/video synchronization problems FYI.
Allergy is a french Amstrad CPC+ demo by Semilanceata.
You can see a video of Allergy on Youtube, but it's better to use a real Amstrad CPC or an emulator.
From Scratch is a french Amstrad CPC demo by the Vanity demo group (Hicks and Beb) with sound by Tom & Jerry, a 6 mn multipart demo needing a CRTC 1 to run due to hardware tricks, also disable "Plus PPI emulation" if used with the WinAPE emulator (Go Settings then General).
Though you can see a video of From Scratch on Youtube, it will be better to use a real Amstrad CPC or an emulator.
Sappy is a french Amstrad CPC+ demo by the Semilanceata group, released in January 2007.
You can see a video of Sappy on Google Video.
Arome Tomate is a new Amstrad CPC demo by Overlanders : Candy (code), Beb (logo), Barjack (font) et Tom & Jerry (music).
Source : Push'N'Pop
Hate Beats is a demo released in October 2007 for Amstrad CPC+ by Ukonx, code by Power, code divers by Deemphasis, original graphics by Unison/Ozane, modified graphics by Grim (Semilanceata) and music by Deemphasis.
Ukonx is a french demo group, created in 1992, programming first on Amiga then on PC.
You can see a video of Hate Beats on Youtube.
Pheelone is a new Amstrad CPC demo by Norecess (code), Ced (graphisme) and Targhan (sound). This demo needs 128 Kb memory, and has been programmed with Small Device C Compiler v2.9.0.
You can see a video of Pheelone on Youtube.
Source : Push'N'Pop
Killmax by OFE is the winning demo of the Amstrad expo 2009 meeting. The sense of humor of OFE is awful, that's why you will like the demo.
You can see a video of Killmax on Youtube (beware for a better sound run the .DSK in WinApe with a 44 Khz setting or on a real Amstrad CPC).
Source : Push'N'Pop
ZeroTeam is a ZX Spectrum demo group. Though they just released an Amstrad CPC demo : cpctro.
Source : Push'N'Pop
Sappy is a french Amstrad CPC+ demo by the Semilanceata group released in January 2007.
You can see a video of Sappy on Youtube.