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The shadows of Sergoth is available, a dungeon crawler for Amstrad CPC

One of the most waited games The Shadows of Sergoth is available as today in no less than 3 languages : french, spanish and english. It's a dungeon crawler game for Amstrad CPC 6128.

One of the programmers, Chris94, did 2 videos of the making off (french with english subtitles) :

• 1ère partie du making off de The Shadows of Sergoth
• 2ème partie du making off de The Shadows of Sergoth

Source : CPCWiki

Galactic Tomb by ESP Soft for Amstrad CPC is available

Announced in April 2016 by ESP Soft, Galactic Tomb is now available, with music by McKlain.

Source : CPCWiki

A platform Amstrad CPC game by Tomas Penalver : Try to run away, after El Concurso

I saw on Amstrad.ES that Tomas Penalver wrote El Concurso (adventure game). This time still in 2017, he also wrote a platform game : Try to run away.

Source : Twitter

Arcade Game Designer v0.6 for Amstrad CPC by Jonathan Cauldwell

Arcade Game Designer v0.6 is a windows x64 utility by Jonathan Cauldwell to write games for Timex/Next, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation. It also exist directly on these platforms.

There is a forum about AGD.

Source : CPCWiki

The Great Escape and Elf available on Steam for PC by Piko Interactive

Piko Interactive just released on Steam nine games including the Great Escape (Ocean Software in 1986) and Elf which was released two years ago on Amstrad CPC. Actual prices will be valid only for the first week.

Source : Twitter

Operation Alexandra, a new Amstrad CPC game announced by 4Mhz

4mhz has announced a new Amstrad CPC game : Operation Alexandra (see also IndiedRetroNews). It's a platform game with nice graphics. The music of Operation Alexandra by McKlain is on Soundcloud.

Source : Twitter

Malasombra, a new Amstrad CPC game announced by 4Mhz

4mhz has announced a new Amstrad CPC game : Malasombra (see also IndiedRetroNews). It's a platform game with graphics by LordFredPixel and music by McKlain on Soundcloud (menu music).

Source : Twitter

Lady Phoenix, a new Amstrad CPC game announced by 4Mhz

4mhz has announced a new Amstrad CPC game : Lady Phoenix (see also IndiedRetroNews). It's a shoot them up game with nice graphics by Sad1942 and music by McKlain on Soundcloud.

Source : Twitter

Making off of the Amstrad CPC game Baba's Palace by Rafael Castillo and McKlain

An interesting reading of Baba's Palace by Rafael Castillo and McKlain that I invite you to read.

Source : Twitter

Metr81 is back with an HD video of Prince of Persia on Amstrad CPC

Metr81 is back on youtube after one year away, this time with an complete HD video of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner who found back the sources of the game in 2012.

Source : Youtube

Top 11 of the Amstrad CPC games of 2017 by Novabug on Youtube

Novabug presents his personal top 11 of the Amstrad CPC games of 2017.

The top 11 of 2016is here also.

Source : CPCWiki

Athanor 2, an Amstrad CPC adventure game by Eric Safar available now !

Athanor 2 - the legend of the birdmen by Eric Safar is now available for 30 € (plus 2 for postage). First boxes were sold to the happy ones present at the AC 2018.

Source : Twitter

WIP of a new game written by Zeppo69 with AGD v1.4 : Mike the guitar

Zeppo69 is working on a new game using AGD 1.4 first on Spectrum and porting it on Amstrad CPC : Mike the Guitar. But he is looking for help to finish this Amstrad CPC version, he doesnt know how to manage the music. Reply him on CPCWiki if you can help.

Source : CPCWiki

Barbarian 1987 the PC remake now on ... Atari Jaguar and Sega Dreamcast

In 2012 a PC remake (written in basic : QB64) of a classic Barbarian 1987 by F.L.

It was ported later on the Sega Genesis and PC Engine, and today also on the Atari Jaguar and the Sega Dreamcast.

Source : CPCWiki

CPChessNet v1.7b by Joseman and the wifi M4 Board

A new version of CPChessNet (v1.7b) by Joseman is available to play chess on internet with your Amstrad CPC and the wifi card M4 Board (by Duke).

Source : Amstrad.ES

Playing chess online with your Amstrad CPC and CPChessNet by Joseman and the wifi M4 Board

The wifi M4 Board has a new use : playing chess online thanks to Joseman who programmed CPChessNet.

Source : CPCWiki

Athanor 2 by Eric Safar available at the end of March (AC 2018)

Athanor 2 - the legend of the birdmen by Eric Safar will be available for the first time at the AC 2018 the 30th March and 1st April near Meaux in France.

Source : CPCWiki

Twitch about the Sapiens game in 30 minutes by Le Daron with Didier Guillion and Gilles Soulet

In 30 minutes on Twitch with Le Daron about the Sapiens game with one of its progammer : Didier Guillion and the author of the music : Gilles Soulet. Dont miss it !

Source : Twitch

Ninth part of videos by Keith56 about Z80 gamedev for Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX

The ninth video by Keith56, author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 et 2) which is about Z80 programmation on Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX is this time the 6th part about Z80 assembler (coding an ASM sprite routine and using it).

Source : Twitter

Arcade Game Designer v0.4 for Amstrad CPC by Jonathan Cauldwell

Arcade Game Designer v0.4 is an utility by Jonathan Cauldwell to make games on Timex/Next, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation.

There is a forum on AGD.

Source : CPCWiki

Sixth part of videos by Keith56 about Z80 gamedev for Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX

The fith video by Keith56, author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 et 2) which is about Z80 programmation on Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX is this time the third part about Z80 assembler (case statement).

Source : CPCWiki

Infogrames and ERE Informatique games on Steam including Bubble Ghost

Several MS-DOS Infogrames and Ere Informatique games are available on steam, including Bubble Ghost.

Source : MO5

Six videos of a game project in basic for Amstrad CPC by Patrice Brochard (french inside)

Patrice Brochard is working on a labyrinth game in basic for Amstrad CPC, and presents his work in several videos, 6 at the moment (french).

Source : Facebook

Basic 10 liners contest 2018 is open, all 8bit computers admitted

Basic 10 liners contest 2018 is open, for all 8bit computers.

Source : Facebook

The Origin of Football Manager and the game on the windows store by Kevin TOMS

Kevin TOMS is the original author of the game Football Manager edited by Addictive Games in 1982 on Amstrad CPC. This game made me work my english to understand all the texts inside.

After an Indiegogo project closed without reaching its goal, he continue to work on his book The origin of Football Manager.

Also, you can download on the web site of Kevin TOMS the game jeu Football Manager for mobile (iOS, Android), Kindle Fire, Windows and MacOS.

There is an interview with Kevin TOMS made by 60minuteswith.

Source : Facebook

Fifth part of videos by Keith56 about Z80 gamedev for Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX

The fith video by Keith56, author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 et 2) which is about Z80 programmation on Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX is this time the second part about Z80 assembler (LDIR, Labels, Definitions, Conditions,Loops).

Source : CPCWiki

NQ!-Music disc for Amstrad CPC by Shining and HAL6128 (musics by n1k-o)

After releasing Pentomino last year, Shining got many feedback of people who liked the music. And as a big ay-chiptune fan and also a big fan of n1k-o, who is the composer of the Pentomino-music, he decided to do a music-disc, featuring only songs from him : : NQ!-Music disc

After getting the permission from n1k-o, the music-disc finally plays 26 songs, choosen by him. Because of the very crooked different frequency of the ay in the sinclair (where all the tunes come from), they sound not always the same on our Amstrad and many of them, he had to fine-tune. Some, which he wanted to use, were nearly impossible to convert, so the choosen-ones are not the 26 best, in his opinion, but the 26 best he could get up and running on CPC.

Since he joined forces with HAL6128 again, the great gfx was completely made by him. As only playing the songs is a little bit boring, and he wanted to play around a little bit with the crtc and the plus, he implemented the CRTC-register 3 equalizer (he thinks this will not work on TFT but on original monitors. Also the picture in Winape shakes a little bit, in JavaCPC it's ok.).

The pictures use 32k-Overscan and because he wanted to be compatible with 64kB, he had to reload some stuff, to arrange everything in the memory. But when you use the cartridge version or something like the M4, this doesn't matter at all.

As mentioned above, he wanted to play around with plus-sprites, so the demo detects if it is running on a plus and then enables (randomised) one of 4 different note-movements. 3 of them use 14 multiplexed plus sprites at the same time, so that you can see 28 notes on screen.

Source : CPCWiki

The Pawn remastered version on PC, MAC, mobile and also on ZX Spectrum Next

Indie Retro News has found 2 new versions of the Pawn, an Amstrad CPC graphical adventure game by Magnetic Scrolls, one for PC (windows, linux), MAC and Mobile by Strandgames and another for ZX Spectrum Next by Stefan123.

Source : Twitter

The shadows of Sergoth, a dungeon crawler for Amstrad CPC, interview and making off

An interview of the development team for The shadows of Sergoth is available in spanish and english (end of the page). It's a dungeon crawler WIP for Amstrad CPC 6128.

One of the programmers, Chris94, did 2 videos of the making off (french with english subtitles) :

• 1ère partie du making off de The Shadows of Sergoth
• 2ème partie du making off de The Shadows of Sergoth

Source : CPCWiki

Music of the next game of Retrobytes Productions : The World War 2 Simulator

The World War Simulator part one on ZX Spectrum was written in 2012 by The Retrobytes Productions. Mid January 2018, the programmation of the World War 2 Simulator for Amstrad CPC has begun. And now the music of the game is released on Soundcloud, written by Jose A. MARTIN (Riskwood)

Source : Twitter

Fourth part of videos by Keith56 about Z80 gamedev for Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX

The fourth video by Keith56, author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 et 2) which is about Z80 programmation on Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX is this time about learning Binary & Hexadecimal with calculator, spreadsheet and Z80 assembler examples.

Source : Twitter

Rampage the video game, its history and ... a film in 2018 with Dwayne Johnson

Rampage is an arcade game by Activision, adapted on Amstrad CPC by Marcus RAINBOW, Mak and Nick JONES. You can see all the ported platforms including the Amstrad CPC in this video of the history of Rampage by Novabug. And well, there will be a Rampage film in 2018 (2nd May in France) with Dwayne Johnson, no joke !

Source : Twitter

Rick Dangerous 2 on Sega Megadrive/Genesis by Alekmaul available just today

After a Nintendo DS version in 2011, Alekmaul just finished writing a Sega Megadrive version of Rick Dangerous II.

Source : Twitter

A Bounder remake on Android and Iphone in 2018 by Swivel Creations Ltd

Bounder by Gremlin Graphics in 1986 is a classic. If you want to know its history, you can look at a video on Youtube of Bounder or read its history on Nowgamer.

This year, Swivel Creations Ltd will release a remake of Bounder on Iphone and Android with 3 graphic modes (C64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC).

Source : Twitter

Final version of Top Top by Rantan, an Amstrad CPC game (plateform and puzzle) for 2 players

The final version of a spanish Amstrad CPC game coming from Spain (thanks for a little bit of sun) : Top Top par Rantan, it's a platform and puzzle game with the particularity to be played by 2 players ! it uses the CPCTelera development framework (C language). Top Top was presented at the CPCRetroDev 2015.

I will try it as soon as I can find someone to play with.

The description of the game by its two authors (AlexySGH and Davitsu) : Eira and Elric, a pair of slightly absent-minded magicians, have accidentally unleashed a powerful curse that have divided them, locking them in the dephts of the Tower of Wizardry. Now, they must use their wit and cooperate from afar to escape from the tower. Explore the different levels, avoid traps and solve puzzles to meet your partner at the top.

Source : Twitter

Pentomino by Shining, an Amstrad CPC reflexion game, is available as a collector edition box

Pentomino by Markus Macherey (Shining) is available since the start of 2017, and now as a collector edition box at PolyPlay.

Attention there are 4 differents products : with 3,5 disk (link above), with 3 disk, with tape, with juste the tape.

Source : CPCWiki

Three spanish graphical adventure games released on Amstrad at the end of 2017

Like CPCRetroDev, they was a contest for creating adventure games organized by Bytemaniacos at the end of 2017, and three games were released for Amstrad CPC (download link below) and two for ZX Spectrum :

• Eucaliptous by Manuel Sagra
• El Parque de la Ilusion by Antonio Corpas and Carmen Arroyal
• El Concurso by Tomas Penalver

Source : Amstrad.ES

Third part of videos by Keith56 about Z80 gamedev for Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX

The third video by Keith56, author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 et 2) which is about Z80 programmation on Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX is this time about Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum screen layout and memory mapping and MSX Slots.

Source : Twitter

A fan book (french) about the Makaimura games (Ghosts'n Goblins) at Côté Gamers

A fan book of 300 pages for the price of 25 € is available at Côté Gamers about the Makaimura games : Ghosts'n Goblins (1985), Ghouls'n Ghosts (1988) and Super Ghouls'n Ghosts (1991) and all the ports. The book details all the monsters, invtory of each game, les differents derived products and the clones of the Capcom licence. There are others versions of the book with goodies (see the source link below).

Source : MO5

A port of Jack the Nipper on Atari XE and XL by Mariusz Wojcieszek

Jack the Nipper (1986) is well know in U.K. as it's inspired by a comic : Sweeny Toddler. You play a small kid which must do foolishness without being punished. It was ported on several 8bit computers except Atari. SO Mariusz Wojcieszek who has also ported Gunfright (1985) and Skool Daze (1984) has ported this game just at the end of 2017. The port was done based on the original game on ZX Spectrum and not on the C64 version. But the sound part comes from the Amstrad CPC version. The game in version 1.1 is available on AtariAge.

Source : MO5

WIP of Athanor 2 by Eric Safar, a music tune by Hervé Monchatre

After the revelation of the game box of Athanor 2, here is a music tune by Hervé Monchatre.

Between McKlain and him, we can talk about ubiquity in the Amstrad CPC productions.

Source : Twitter

Interview of Bo Jangeborg, creator of Fairlight 1 and 2 by Gear of Games

Bo Jangeborg is the creator of two well know games I think : Fairlight 1 (a prelude) and Fairlight 2 (a trail of darkness). He was interviewed by Gear of Games.

Richard Jordan had an advanced project of a remake of Fairlight in 2015, but it seems that Bo asked it to be stopped from what I understand from a commentary of the remake video.

Source : CPC Rulez

8BP v032 preview, a RSX library to create Amstrad CPC games in Basic

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda shows us a preview of 8BP v32 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max) with a video of a 3D car racing game. You can download 8bp on github.

Source : Twitter

Emmanuel Viau, creator of ERE Informatique, honorary member of MO5, some history and video

Emmanuel Viau the creator of ERE Informatique became a honorary member of the MO5 association.

You can read a bit of history about him (french only) and look a video interview of Emmanuel Viau on Youtube for about 2 hours (MO5 link here). The video was done in octobre 2017 by retrogamer.ca

Source : Twitter

Second part of a video by Keith56 about Z80 gamedev for Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX

Keith56, the author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 and 2) has released another video after the first video showing his setup for cross-developpment : second part of this video detailing some of the challenges and solutions he has found while developing in assembly for multiple Z80 systems during development of his Chibi Akumas game.

Source : Twitter

Third to sixth part of the solution of Orion Prime by JB le Daron

Here is the third video of the solution of Orion Prime by Arkos and les Sucres en Morceaux, made by JB Le Daron on Youtube. Then you will be able to see the parts 4, 5 and 6.

Source : Youtube

Every Amstrad GX4000 Game Reviewed (Nearly) by Chinnyvision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube who is testing nearly all Amstrad GX4000 games.

Source : Youtube

WIP of Athanor 2 by Eric Safar, big box and cover

After the first Athanor (graphical adventure game), Eric Safar is working on Athanor 2 since 2015. The box of the game has been done this summer 2017 (illustration by Angel Bautista), now it's the production of the manual and the material clues.

Source : Twitter

WIP of Reidrac : Kitsune's curse and the Dawn of Kernel

Reidrac is already working since a moment on Kitsune's curse, but now he has another project, a shooter this time inspired by games like Cybernoid, Starquake, Jet Paco, and few other ideas.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Robbie Strikes Back by Salvador Cantero is available, conversion of the ZX Spectrum game Pssst

Pssst is a ZX Spectrum game by Ultimate Play the Game in June 1983. You play Robbie the robot which must protect plants from insects, each one needing a specific weapon. It was written by Chris Stamper (programmation) and Tim Stamper (graphics).

Announced a few months ago, the Amstrad CPC version by Salvador Cantero is now available on his web site.

Source : Twitter

Multiplatform Z80 development with free and open source tools by Keith56

Keith56, the author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 and 2) has released a video on youtube to show the setup he has created for developing the multi-platform version of the 8 bit shooter Chibi Akumas with free and open source tools.

Source : CPCWiki

Duck Out by CNGSoft, an Amstrad CPC conversion of a ZX Spectrum game by Dro Soft

Duck Out by CNGSoft is an Amstrad CPC conversion of a ZX Spectrum game created by Dro Soft.

You play a duck who starts in the kitchen of a restaurant, armed with a frying pan, and you must bash various opponents as you make your way out of the kitchen, into the city, and then to the park where you can be reunited with your girlfriend.

CNGSoft has made several improvements, including faster scrolling, modifications to the controls to make the game easier to play, and addition of sound effects and music (provided by Daniel Canales).

Source : CPCWiki

Basket Cases by @cngsoft, a Basket game for Amstrad CPC, 3rd place at CPCRetroDev 2017

Basket Cases by CNGSoft is an Amstrad CPC basket game released for theCPCRetroDev 2017, where it got the 3rd place.

I havent got the time today to play it, it has nice graphics. On my TODO list.

Source : CPCWiki

Baba's Palace for Amstrad CPC by Rafael Castillo and McKlain

The Amstrad CPC reflexion game by Rafael Castillo and McKlain : Baba's Palace is available for download. It won the first place at the CPCRetroDev 2017.

I started to play it, really a nice game, but I really had to gather my neurons to pass some stages, my poor brain is overheating.

BEARS! by SOHDE, a cartridge game for Amstrad GX4000, 464+ and 6218+

The information was in the issue 176 of Retro Gamer magazine, a new cartridge game for Amstrad GX4000, 464+ and 6128+ is available by SOHDE : BEARS!.

It's a maze/adventure/RPG game where you are a plucky young bear living in the forest surrounding Grizzly Manor. Something is afoot, Lady Grumpleton, resident of Grizzly Manor, hasn't been seen for days. It's up to you to set out from your cave and investigate !

Source : CPCWiki

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Amstrad CPC by OursoN Retrogames on Youtube

Already presented, OursoN Retrogame this time did a medley of Amstrad CPC games from films featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger :

• Predator
• Total Recall
• Double détente
• Terminator 2
• the Running man

His latest video (5 days ago) is about Saboteur 2, Defender of the crown, 3D grand prix, Macadam bumper, Shackled and Venom stikes back.

Source : Youtube

Ignition, a new table for Pinball Dreams by Batman Group for Amstrad CPC

Another new table for Pinball Dreams by Batman Group : Ignition, created by Toni Gálvez/MAC.

Source : Twitter

Novabug vs Zeusdaz round 38 on Impossaball

Exiting a long hibernation, I discover that Novabug and Zeusdaz, two Youtubbers who are speaking about Amstrad CPC games (but not only), are fighting on 8bit games for the one with the best score since a moment : it's their 38th fight, on Impossaball this time.

And I was thinking one day to propose to an Amstrad Youtubber a fight on on 2 players game, well the idea isnt very new, nice try Genesis8bit !

Source : Youtube

Interview of Jean-Paul Mari (Microids) in french

An interview of Jean-Paul Mari who worked at Microids where he participated to the following games : Sliders, Eagle's Rider, Rodeo, Grand Prix 500 2 and also to Shufflepuck Cafe (Broderbund).

He is working at the moment with Eidos Montreal.

Source : Amstrad.EU

A Remake of Ghost'n Goblins for Amstrad CPC 6128+ by Golem13, Winner and Ixien

SInce one year, a remake of Ghost'n Goblins for Amstrad CPC 6128+ is in the work by :

• Program: Frédéric Poesy (Golem13)
• Graphics: Thomas Ferté (Winner)
• Sound/Fx: Julien Riet (Ixien)

With the help and support of the following peoples :

• Gérald Vincent (gerald) for the C4CPC card
• Richard Wilson (Executioner) for WinAPE, the Amstrad Plus emulator
• Edouard Bergé (roudoudou) for RASM, the ultimate Z80 assembler !
• Julien Nevo (Targhan) for Arkos Tracker
• Richard Gatineau (TotO)
• Amaury Durand (BDCIron)
• All the amstrad.eu members!!!

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Second part of the solution of Orion Prime by JB le Daron

Here is the second video of the solution of Orion Prime by Arkos and les Sucres en Morceaux, made by JB Le Daron on Youtube.

And listening to the beginning of the video, it seems that a new star is born, greetings to the happy parents.

He is also mentionning that Profanation 2 tested by Amaury is really good (tomorrow maybe).

Source : Youtube

BDCIron is testing Baba's Palace, Profanation 2, BasketCases, Bitume, Gryzor

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

The genesis of Zombi (with his author) the first game by Ubi Soft, a video by Edward

Edward (JeuxVideo.com) features the genesis of the first Ubi Soft game : Zombi (1986), with its author : Yannick CADIN, an interesting video (french). Graphics are by Patrick Daher, scenario by Alexandre BONAN, music by Philippe MARCHISET and the spanish cover by Alfonso AZPIRI.

There are 2 versions depending of 64 Kb or 128 Kb of memory, the differences are scrolling between screens, scrolling for icons and 2 faces for better graphics.

Source : JeuxVideo.com

Top 11 of the worst Amstrad CPC games by Novabug on Youtube

Novabug presents his personal top 11 of the worst Amstrad CPC games.

For balancing the universe, you could also see his Top 11 of the best Amstrad CPC games.

Source : Youtube

First part of the solution of Orion Prime by JB le Daron

Orion Prime by Arkos and les Sucres en Morceaux, THE Amstrad CPC adventure game (english, spanish, french and german) in a solution video by JB Le Daron on Youtube (first part).

Source : Youtube

Operation Warcade : Operation Wolf in Virtual Reality on Steam

Operation Warcade is a virtual reality remake of Operation Wolf, compatible with the Occulus Rift and Vive VR gear on Steam. It will be also soon be compatible with all the recent mixed reality gear by Asus, Dell, Acer, HP and Samsung), which are just VR, not like Microsoft Hololens. It's a good looking version of Operation Wolf.

The video is done by Nostalgia Nerd.

Source : Youtube

Chibi Akumas (Episode 2 : Confrontation!) by Keith56 available for Amstrad CPC

Chibi Akumas (Episode 2 : Confrontation!) by Keith56 is available. Dont forget to use a 256 Kb RAM expansion, real or emulated, for best results.

Source : Twitter

Updated version of Zynaps (Hewson) by CPC Wiki (2011)

Not really a fresh news (2011), but while reading the thread about the english version of the abbaye of crime, that there is an updated version of Zynaps due to CPC Wiki user with the following updates :

• Loader & overscan code : SyX
• Overscan splash screen : TotO
• Splash screen music : Neil Grieve (C64) converted by SuTeKH/Epyteor
• Splash screen music play-routine : Targhan
• Cheat-Mode & Raster-Logo patch : CPC-Wiki & SaroneTC

Source : CPC Wiki

Synchronized music of 1943 (Amstrad CPC and Amiga) by John Gage

A new video by John Gage : synchronized music of the arcade game 1943 (Capcom) converted on Amstrad CPC by Probe Software (AY in stereo) and Amiga.

The original music is written on both computers by Jason C. Brooke with the same octave and tempo.

Source : John Gage's Youtube canal

The Abbey of crime, an Amstrad CPC spanish game, now translated in english !

It's done, The Abbey of crime, the spanish Amstrad CPC game based on the book The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco has been translated in english by :

• Khaz
• Nicholas Campbell
• ||C-E||
• robocfg

Beware, it's a Work in Progress translation, but a good part has been done already.

Source : CPC Wiki

The shadows of Sergoth, a dungeon crawler for Amstrad CPC

The shadows of Sergoth is a new dungeon crawler in development for the Amstrad CPC 6128. The level shown in this youtube video of The Shadows of Sergoth are not the definite ones, and there is still a lot of things to add, like sounds, monsters, puzzles,...

The game is developped by :

• Chris94 : specification, game programming, graphic design, level design and translation
• Kukulcan : game story, game scripting, game intro programming and level design
• Ced : game story, game scripting and graphic design
• Rayxamber : sounds and musics
• TJ/GPA : sounds and musics
• Maxit : translation
• MiguelSky : translation

The happy testers are : Fredouille, Galamoth, Maxit, Snake Plissken and Tanuki.

Thanks to all of them !

Source : CPCWiki

Impossible Amstrad CPC games ? Done by Xyphoe on Youtube

A live stream in two parts by Xyphoe featuring Amstrad CPC games impossible to play (or very hard) :

• Airwolf, Commando, Prohibition, 3D Stunt Rider
• Red Heat, Action Force, Guardian Angel, Cybernoid II, Popeye 2, Trailblazer

Source : Youtube

Y'a pas qu'Amstrad dans la vie S03E01 : Exolon, Khomenor is back (french live)

September and all kids are back to school, for Khomenor it's also a coming back with season 3 which opens with the Exolon Amstrad CPC game by Raffaele Cecco and edited by Hewson in 1987 (french speaking inside).

Source : Youtube

La Java du Privé, from Apple 2 by Froggy Software to Amstrad CPC by Tom et Jerry

Third part after Le mur de berlin, la Java du Privé is a graphical adventure game by Tom et Jerry on Amstrad CPC, inspired by the game of the same name on Apple 2 by Froggy Software (yes, some frenchies) with their agreeement (Jean-Louis Le Breton et Tristan Cazeneuve)

This time, you are a private, not the best, who must save his life by resolving what should be simple (but never is), just get back a mail at the post office...

Source : Tom and jerry homepage

8BP v031, a RSX library to create Amstrad CPC games in Basic

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has written a new version of 8BP v31 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.

This new version bring a new feature, the command PRINTAT to print small characters in mode 0 quickly.

Source : Twitter

SymbOS v3 by Prodatron is out

SymbOS v3 by Prodatron, the Amstrad CPC multitasking operating system can be downloaded now. It also exists for Amstrad PCW, MSX and now for Elan enterprise, with support of network which appeared in the beta of june 2016.

There is now an updated documentation in english of Symbos 3.

Release 3.0 [30.08.2017]

Network enabled

- Network daemon: The new Network Daemon application enables SymbOS for full TCP/IP based network and internet access includung multiple connections for multiple applications at the same time. Both TCP and UDP protocols within the transportation layer are supported as well as services like DHCP and DNS. The Network Daemon runs as a background service and can be used by any application via its network API.
- Supported network hardware: SymbOS supports the DenYoNet (MSX), the GR8NET (MSX) and the M4Board (CPC) hardware expansions for internet access via ethernet or wifi.
- Local host: A special local host version of the Network Daemon makes it possible to run all network apps even on machines without additional network hardware.
- Tools and games: Standard tools like WGET, NSLOOKUP and NETSTAT have been developed as well as more complex applications like syMIRC and TELNET and even network games (see "new applications on the Symbos website").

Enterprise port

- 4th supported Z80 platform: SymbOS has been fully ported to the Enterprise 64/128 machines as well. After the Amstrad CPC, the MSX and the PCW Joyce it's the fourth supported Z80 platform now.
- FDC and SD card support: SymbOS EP contains a driver for the standard EXDOS WD1772 based floppy disc controller as well as for the "SD adapter premium" by Szergej Butov.
- Standard screen resolutions: SymbOS currently supports CPC-like screen resolutions of 320x200 (4 colours) and 640x200 (2 colours).
- Taskbar with own colours: Due to the capabilities of the Nick video chip the task bar can have its own separated 4 colours.
- EnterMice and BoxSoft mouse support: Beside via keyboard and joystick it is also possible to control the mouse pointer with the BoxSoft interface as well as with the new EnterMice hardware, which allows to connect a proportional PS/2 mouse to the Enterprise.
- 1MB support: SymbOS EP supports up to 1024KB of RAM. As a special feature of the EP version it also handles fragmented memory banks within the 4MB address space.
- Adapted sound apps: SymAmp (by Geco) and Speech (by Gflorez) have been ported to the Enterprise "Dave" music chip; it's not AY compatible but it is able to emulate it in a good way.

MSX 1 support

- MSX1 with V9990: SymbOS MSX is now running on MSX1 machines with an attached Graphics9000 or Powergraph graphic card (V9990), too. Of course enough RAM (128KB) and a mass storage device is required as usual.

Extended Desktop

- Desktop replacement: The extension module, which could already be optionally loaded since SymbOS 1.1 on machines with memory expansions, now includes the "Extended Desktop" which now behaves more or less like the desktop of Windows 98.
- Advanced icon handling: The Extended Desktop supports any amount of 4 and 16 colour desktop icons. Icons can be added (right click an empty area), renamed ("slow" double click an icon) and changed (right click the icon) directly inside the desktop via intuitive dialogues. Icons can be lined up, auto arranged, copied, pasted and deleted directly.
- Nested startmenu entries: There is no real limit for startmenu entries anymore, too. Nested submenus are possible as well as any name and path lengths. Beside inside the "program" menu you can also add new entries and submenus on top of the start menu. The new startmenu editor application is part of the control panel.
- Autostart menu: Beside the existing autostart option (control panel -> system -> autostart) you can also add as many entries as needed to the "Autostart" folder of the startmenu. All these entries will be automatically executed after booting.
- Desktop widgets: Widgets are little applications, which are integrated directly inside the desktop without having own forms. They are working like typical widgets known from existing desktop GUIs and smartphones (clock, weather, CPU meter etc.). They can be freely placed inside the desktop area and usually resized as well.

Operating system (general)

- Help browser: The new help browser allows displaying and browsing through HLP files, which will be included now in many applications. Documents may contain nested chapters, links and different font types. The search function returns a complete result list.
- Micro kernel: Process priorities can be changed during runtime; new slot/subslot switching function available for MSX hardware drivers.
- Browse dialogue: File extensions will be added automatically when typing in filenames without a dot at the end. E.g. if you save a new textfile in Notepad and you don't specify an extension, ".TXT" will be added.
- Keyboard presets: The control panel allows loading and saving of whole keyboard definitions (region and/or machine specific) in special "*.KYB" files.

Desktop Manager

- Colour schemes: For a uniform look of the GUI the user can define a colour scheme, so that all apps appear in the same coloured way.
- Full 16 colour support completed: All remaining GUI elements and form controls have been extended with 16 colour support, either directly of by using the user defined colour scheme.
- Systray icons: The systray area of the taskbar can now been used by applications for adding and removing their own clickable systray-icons.
- Context menus: This new feature introduces context menus, which can appear at any place within an application (e.g. on right-click).
- 16 colour icons: Apps may contain an additional 16 colour version of their icons, which will be used for the desktop links of the "Extended Desktop".

Additional supported hardware

- GR8NET SD card reader: With the network and SD card driver the important parts of one of the most powerful MSX hardware of the last time are supported in SymbOS.
- M4Board SD card reader: The M4 makes it possible: First time, that you can access FAT32 32GB SD cards on the CPC in SymbOS directly in "highspeed mode".
- HxC direct SD card access: SymbOS CPC supports the direct mode of the HxC floppy emulator as well. Using the internal FDC765 as a mass storage interface is slow, but you are still able to access very big files from a FAT32 32GB SD card - for the first time on a CPC.
- Albireo USB mouse: The Albireo interface makes it possible to connect real proportional USB mouses to the CPC - and yes, again for the first time! SymbOS supports up to 3 buttons and the wheel. Gaming mouses may not work due to their enhanced USB protocol.
- Rookie drive USB mouse: Nearly the same interface is available for the MSX: Beside other USB hardware the Rookie drive allows to connect real proportional mouses to the MSX in the same way.
- MultiPlay Amiga mouse: You can connect original Amiga mouses to the CPC with the MultiPlay interface and use them for SymbOS.
- Dobbertin Smart Watch: Beside the SYMBiFACE II RTC SymbOS now also supports the Dobbertin Smart Watch (real time clock) and its new clone. Together with the already mentioned new hardware it's now possible to replace the whole SYMBiFACE II hardware expansion - ops yes, for the first time - after 10 years
- SE-ONE radio: Now you can listen to any available FM radio station with SymbOS MSX, using the SE-ONE and the new Radio application.

SymShell 2.0

- TAB autocomplete: just type the first few letters of a filename or directory and SymShell will find the full name after pressing TAB multiple times; this is working for any nested subdirectory as well.
- advanced COPY command: supports filemasks and complex path statements, uses up to 64K copy buffer and is able to copy multiple files into one destination file.
- multiple file handling: for REN, MOVE and TYPE
- new DATE/TIME commands: for reading and setting the actual time and date.
- new ATTRIB command:: for editing all attributes of existing files.
- file attribution flags: New options for all multiple file commands (COPY, REN, MOVE, TYPE, ATTRIB)
- extended HELP command: SymShell includes a new help system based on a central "MAN" file. Type HELP for any details.
- Path function: SymShell apps can use a special path function for merging user-typed pathes with the actual one.
- System path: If not present in the actual folder the system will search for COM files in the system path as well and execute them there if found.

New applications

- UnZip: ZIP/GZ archive uncompressor; the first Unzip implementation for Amstrad CPC, PCW and Enterprise in history thanks to the Gunzip MSX project
- SymTel: Telnet client with ANSI, VT100 and VT52 terminal support
- syMIRC: IRC client with multiple channel support (by EdoZ, using Quigs)
- Wget: HTTP file download utility
- Symple Messenger: proprietary internet messenger (by Trebmint & EdoZ, using Quigs)
- Columns: Puzzle game (by EdoZ, using Quigs)
- Battleship: this classical battle ship implementation is the first SymbOS network game ever (by EdoZ, using Quigs)
- Snake: classic snake implementation; the first realtime multiplayer network game for SymbOS (by EdoZ, using Quigs)
- Picture-Slider: classical puzzle game (by Trebmint, using Quigs); the first Quigs game which has ever been started many years ago
- FM Radio: search for available FM radio stations and listen to them in SymbOS MSX (by EdoZ, using Quigs)
- Performance monitor: system performance measurement (by EdoZ, using Quigs)
- SymBUS: remote control utility (by EdoZ, using Quigs)
- DiMon: simple sector dump utility
- Ahead: batch utility for adding and removing AMSDOS binary fileheaders in multiple files
- Network tools: NsLookup, Netstat
- Desktop widgets: Clock, CPU Meter
- Little demos: Bubble and Flying SymbOS demo animations (by EdoZ, using Quigs)

Miscellaneous

- New professional SymbOS manual: The new SymbOS manual is designed and written by EdoZ and is available as a full-featured english PDF document. With a lot of pictures and screenshots this documentation makes it really easy to get started with SymbOS and its applications on any supported Z80 platform.
- Upgraded website: The website has been extended with a new application area. Beeing database generated it's now always up-to-date and more detailed. A new area about the supported platforms and supported hardware expansions have been added to the website as well.
- Files renamed: For an improved readability filenames of existing apps as well as of system files have been renamed, the old "app*.exe" and "cmd*.com" schematic isn't used anymore.
- Bug fixing: Bugs have been removed as usual, including some very very old ones (e.g. releasing clusters in the AMSDOS filesystem driver).

Source : CPCWiki

Synchronized music of Robocop (Amstrad CPC and C64) by John Gage

A new video by John Gage : synchronized music of Robocop (Ocean Software in 1989) on Amstrad CPC (AY in stereo) and C64 (SID in mono).

The original music is written on both computers by Jonathan Dunn with the same octave and tempo.

Source : John Gage's Youtube canal

How to make a game with the Graphic Adventure Creator (Part 1) by Zoë Kirk-Robinson

A first video of several to let you create adventure games with the Graphic Adventure Creator which also exists on ZX Spectrum, by Zoë Kirk-Robinson.

Source : Twitter

Robbie Strikes Back by Salvador Cantero, a conversion of the ZX Spectrum game Pssst

Pssst is a ZX Spectrum game by Ultimate Play the Game in June 1983. You play Robbie the robot which must protect plants from insects, each one needing a specific weapon. It was written by Chris Stamper (programmation) and Tim Stamper (graphics).

Today, it's an Amstrad CPC version by Salvador Cantero which will be soon released as the programmation is almost done.

Source : Facebook

Porting Amstrad CPC games on Nintendo 3DS ?

You are a good programmer (or not), you got an Amstrad CPC and a portable Nintendo 3DS console ?

Then you really need SmileBASIC by SmileBoom (japanese studio) to program Amstrad CPC games on the Nintendo 3DS for the price of 9,50 €.

Source : Twitter

Tempest 4000, a new version of this classic game (Dave Theurer) by Jeff Minter

David Theurer is maybe less known, but he is the game designer of the original Tempest in 1981, released on Amstrad CPC in 1986, converted by par David K. PRIDMORE and edited by Electric Dreams.

More known, Jeff Minter is the author of the classics Defender and Centipede for the 8bit, but also of Tempest 2000 (1994) and Defender 2000 (1995) for the Atari Jaguard console. He also released TxK, a remake of Tempest 2000 on Sony Vita in 2013. Well this year, he will release Tempest 4000 on PC and consoles.

Source : Twitter

Creation of an arcade stick for Amstrad CPC with used materials by Inclouds

A video by Inclouds who is making an arcade stick for Amstrad CPC with used materials.

Source : Twitter

A first video of the latest 4Mhz Amstrad CPC game, Profanation 2 : Escape from Abu Simbel

As already announced by 4Mhz : Profanation 2 : Escape from Abu Simbel on Indie Retro News, the first video of the upcoming game is available on Youtube.

Source : Twitter

The last V8, longplay, C64 remix on Amstrad CPC and C64 live remix

The Last V8 was released by Mastertronic in 1985 on Amstrad CPC (also on C64, Atari 8-bit), with programmation by David DARLING, design by Richard Darling, graphics by Jim Wilson and music by Rob Hubbard. Escape a nuclear bomb by running your car as fast as you can to a bunker which will protect you. It's a very hard racing game, with some dead end while you have limited time... Personnally I found it too hard and avoided it after a few games. The C128 version countains 3 levels instead of two.

A video of longplay has been done by Amstrad Maniaque on Youtube, there is also a (C64 remix for the Amstrad CPC released by Epyteor. And finally a C64 music live remix by [LukHash].

Source : Youtube

Poly Play shipping cost for less now (Amstrad CPC software)

Poly.play est un distributeur de jeux retro, où vous pouvez trouver notamment des jeux et du matériel pour Amstrad et Commodore, mais pas seulement, pour consoles également.

Il y a désormais une option de port sans suivi et sans assurance moins chère. Vous pouvez donc commander des jeux Amstrad comme ceux de Reidrac ou le jeu Doomsday Lost Echoes (aventure graphique).

Source : CPCWiki's forum

A collection of Amstrad CPC games on Instagram by the_retro_game_collector

Seen on Twitter this Amstrad CPC software collection, also on Instagram by the_retro_game_collector.

Source : Twitter

Drawings about Amstrad CPC games (Knight Lore, Batman, Manic Miner)

This tweet is very nice for all the answers wich countains drawings about Amstrad CPC games as Knight Lore, Batman and Manic Miner.

Source : Twitter

My OursoN Retrogames is so soft, and he is doing videos of Amstrad CPC games on Youtube

Another person doing video of Amstrad CPC games on Youtube, in french, he is called OursoN Retrogames (ourson means bear cub). He just did his eighth video about six games : Skateball, Ikari Warriors, Marauder, Gilligan's gold, Grand Prix 500cc and Renegade. Come caress his fur on Youtube.

Source : Amstrad.EU on Facebook

An Amstrad CPC game engine by Rhino (Batman Group) and a demo of a game by GinBlog82

Super Mario Bros is the common point of the game engine that Rhino (Batman Group) is working on and about which Xyphoe did a video. In this case, Super Mario Bros world is only a proof of the game engine, not meaning an incoming game.

But GinBlog82 is really programming a Super Mario Bros game with hardware scrolling.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Project Goat, the next Amstrad CPC game by Defecto Digital Studios

Not much informations for the moment, but Project Goat should be the next game by Defecto Digital Studios, you can only see a gif on Twitter.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

A spanish traduction of the french adventure game Alphakhor (Loriciels, 1989) by MiguelSky

Alphakhor is an Amstrad CPC adventure game by Guy POLI (programmation and music) and Jean-michel NOLLEVAUX (scénario et graphics), edited in 1989 by Loriciels. An epidemic is killing all humans, the only hope is to find a cure in the past as the same virus swiped humans but was defeated successfully.

You can see all the screenshots of the game on :

• Les sucres en morceaux
• Border0

And now, the game has been translated in spanish by MiguelSKy (see the source link below).

Source : CPCWiki's Forum

Capcom bundle with Strider on Humble Bundle once again

Humble Bundle offers once again a Capcom bundle with Strider.

Source : Humble Bundle

Pre order Switchblade on Atari Jaguar

You can preorder Switchblade on Atari Jaguard by Piko Interactive. Already on CPC and CPC+, this port is based on the Amiga version. Rights have been bought from Gremlin and the cover has been done by Simon Phipps, the original author (and of Rick Dangerous).

Source : MO5

Lode Runner Legacy available on Steam

Lode runner Legacy is available now on Steam.

Lode runner Legacy by Tozai Games is a voxel 3D version. You can create your own levels, modify the character, ennemies, objects. There is a solo adventure axed on reflexion without ennemies. You can also play to the 150 originals levels with Apple 2 graphics (with a small 3D), or even played to new levels created by other players.

Source : MO5

News about the Amstrad CPC game Chibi Akumas (Episode 2 : Confrontation!

The following words comes Keith56, the author of the Amstrad CPC game Chibi Akumas (Episode 2 : Confrontation! :

I've reached a bit of a milestone today, so I thought I'd do a bit of a announcement!

All the levels are now complete - this means all the shared 'core' game code is pretty much done (with 79 bytes of free memory!), all the level graphics are finished, all the boss battles are programmed!

This means I'm now able to pretty confidently tell you what IS in the game, not what I HOPE will be in there!

In 'celebration' of this milestone, I have set up the official website for the new game!

Right now there's just some 'teaser' content on there to give google something to link to - and so people who haven't played EP1 know the staggering stupidity that they're in for! but please take a look, and maybe you'll get a laugh out of it!

the game will be DEFINATELY be released in 2017 - and I expect it to be relased in a couple of months - I had aimed for a July release, and I've not been slacking, but I don't want to rush and release something that is not as good as it could have been - I have been working like crazy on this game, and want to see it released as the best thing I can do.

Finally I know people will want screenshots and videos and the like - and I will release all that kind of stuff over the coming weeks/months, but please wait a little longer - and I will explain why...

I still have *months* of hard work to do on this game, I have worked hours a day, at least 9 days out of 10, the whole year on this game (EP2 is based on the code from EP1 - when EP1 was finished, I just kept on coding without stopping)

The tough thing about coding a game of this scale is not

coming up with an idea, it's not drawing the graphic or even writing the code - the tough bit is keeping working at it, and keeping motivation when it get boring, or when there are problems, or when it seems no one gives a sh*t... and right now I need to keep it all the 'magic' secret so there's no chance my motivation will run out before the last stretch and the finish line is in sight

From here on I will work on the game music (Unique on all 5 levels), the Intro/Cutscenes and other incidental graphics (Bigger and Far more than EP1) - and test the thing like crazy (Much more to test now the game supports 1 or 2 players ), so I'm not done yet, but I'm hoping all the seemingly 'impossible' stuff is now done!

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Double Dragon Trilogy on PC free with a game bought on GOG.com (not for long)

If you are fast enough, by buying a game on GOG.com, you will get Double Dragon Trilogy on PC for free.

Source : GOG.com

Bruce lee's youtube video by Zeusdaz multi platform, Bruce Lee 2 and Ultimate Bruce Lee on PC

Bruce Lee is a great classic on Amstrad CPC by Datasoft in 1984, one game that I finished years ago. Zeusdaz did a Youtube video on Bruce Lee 1 (ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, C64, Atari 8-bit), but also about Buce Lee 2 by Bruno R. Marcos in 2013 for windows and linux (Bruce lee 2 in Zeusdaz video), and also Ultimate Bruce Lee, a very nice remake for PC.

You can see a speed run of Ultimate Bruce Lee on Youtube.

El Capitan Trueno on Amstrad CPC and PC

El Capitan Trueno, an arcade game in two parts by Dinamic Software in 1989, comes from a comic by Victor Mora in 1965.

The Amstrad CPC game is a good one, and for a spanish game, its difficulty isnt too hard this time.

There is also a PC version of El Capitan Trueno (Abandonware). It has CGA graphics in 4 colors, I prefer the Amstrad CPC version personnally.

The tweet comes from one of the original authors of the Amstrad CPC game : Raúl Ortega Palacios.

Source : Twitter

Never released Amstrad CPC games till yet by Clockwise Software

Seen on CPCWiki's forum de CPCWIki and Indie Retro News, four Amstrad CPC games were never released but preserved by Clockwise Software. His authors have given permissiom for them to be available :

• Acolyte
• Frogger, which has nice graphics
• Ninja Grannies
• Unpredictaball

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Mix Game Over and Turrican and you get Galactic Tomb by ESP Soft for Amstrad CPC

Announced in April 2016 by ESP Soft, Galactic Tomb is a mix of Game Over and Turrican pour Amstrad CPC with a music by McKlain.

There are two Youtube videos available :

• Galactic Tomb
• Tomb Galactic: Robota

Artaburu is working on the level 3 of the game.

The cover of the game has been done by Lorena Azpiri.

Hidden hint only for the eyes of ESP Soft, I am quite willing to test the game ! End of hidden hint.

Source : Amstrad.ES forum

Double Dragon on Amstrad CPC, did you play the Mastertronic or the Melbourne version ?

In case you didnt know like me, there were two version of the first Double Dragon written by par :

• Virgin Mastertronic considered as a good game, see on Youtube by Axelino
• Melbourne House, considered as not as good, see on Youtube by Jgonza

Source : Amstrad.EU on Facebook

4Mhz is announcing its next Amstrad CPC game, Profanation 2 : Escape from Abu Simbel

Abu Simbel Profanation edited in 1986 by Dinamic Software is a hard platform game. It was also released on ZX Spectrum and MSX. It was converted on C64 at the start of 2017.

And now its sequel has been announced by 4Mhz : Profanation 2 : Escape from Abu Simbel on Indie Retro News and Twitter.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Terrorballs by Steven Monks, an Amstrad CPC game never released before

Seen on MO5, an Amstrad CPC game never released, it's a conversion of a ZX Spectrum (due to the screen size) : Terrorballs by Steven Monks (written in 1987). He is also the author of another game edited by Bug-Byte : Dogsbody (reflexion game) in 1985.

Source : MO5

Habi Soft, his PCW-IO interface, CP/M Box emulator and now Abbey of crime enhanced version inc

Habi Soft worked on an interface for a Amstrad PCW motherboard to add a PS2 keyboard and video (PAL/NSTC), joystick and mouse. He is also the author of an Amstrad PCW emulator : CP/M Box.

And now he is working on an enhanced abbey of the crime version for Amstrad PCW.

Source : Zona de Prueba's forum

Ingame music for El Linaje Real (ESP Soft) by McKlain on Soundcloud

You can listen to the ingame music by McKlain of El Linaje Real by ESP Soft on Soundcloud.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Demo of a windows and linux remake of SRAM 2 by ArjOn

A demo of a windows and linux remake of SRAM 2 by ArjOn is available (graphical adventure game by ERE Informatique).

The gameplay video is done by Edward.

Tapes for CPCRetroDev 2016 productions are available for buying

Announced by Retro Maniac, tapes for the CPCRetroDev 2016 programs available for buying.

Source : Twitter

El Linaje Real v1.0.1, an Amstrad CPC platform game by ESP Soft

An update of El Linaje Real by ESP Soft is available, which fixes a few problems.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Nemesis the Warlock, remixes of the original music by Rob Hubbard, and video gameplay

Another game with Rob Hubbard music : Nemesis the Warlock with a gameplay video by Amstrad Maniaque.

They are 2 nice remixes of this music :

• Nemesis the Warlock (Amstrad CPC) : Music remixed by Marcel Donne
• Nemesis the Warlock - Amstrad CPC by CPC moments

Source : Youtube

El Linaje Real, an Amstrad CPC platform game by ESP Soft is available

El Linaje Real by ESP Soft is available !

It's a platform game with 5 levels. You will test your sword skill in this game, by foot, by horse, by boat. There is more than one way to finish the game.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

El Linaje Real by ESP Soft, many informations on Retro Maniac

Many informations are available on El Linaje Real by ESP Soft on Retro Maniac, in spanish.

Source : Twitter

Solution of the RPG game Fer and Flamme written by Hervé Lange and his interview on Amstrad.EU

Karamoon wrote a solution for the Amstrad CPC role playing game Fer and Flamme created by Hervé Lange on Gros Pixels.

The CRPG addict tried to finish Fer et Flamme (english this time).

You can find an interview of the author Hervé Lange on Amstrad.EU (french) made in March 2011 by NoRecess.

Source : Facebook

A column about adventure games (Eight Bit Adventurer) in the next issues o f Eight Bit Magazine

Eight Bit Magazine will print this Eight Bit Adventurer column by Stuart Williams about the adventure games on 8bit compouters. Stuart is already writing in Eight Bit Magazine about Apple computers, and an article the apple adventurer will be in the incoming issue 3. For more informations, go read Retro Computing News.

Issue 3 of Eight Bit Magazine can be pre-ordered.

Source : Facebook

Some sweet music tonight ? Three remix of Thanatos for the price of one (piano and guitar) !

Thanatos remixed by DJ ThumpHeadAche is a superb adaptation of the Thanatos music, you should really listen to it.

Already mentionned in 2011, a beautiful play of Thanatos on piano by Alpiso is quite a hit too (Alpiso Youtube's channel has more Amstrad CPC tunes).

Warming some old 2011 news is still useful, the next link wasnt good in 2011 (corrected now), so what about listening to a Thanatos guitar arrangement played by Pacopersia this time ?

For the longplay video by cholo go to :

• part 1 of Thanatos
• part 2 of Thanatos
• part 3 of Thanatos

Less Youtube videos announced so you dont get an indigestion

When I was only announcing Youtube videos of some youtubbers (Xyphoe, CholoCPC, ChinnyVision...), it was nice enough. But lately with more Youtubbers, I cant announce them all in the news, otherwise you would get rapidly a Youtube indigestion. So I will show the last 10 I added (see above), but still will announce some of them, because I like the game or any other reason (good I hope).

You dont want to vote for either Macron or Le Pen ? Then vote for JB le Daron !

For french people, it's right this week-end, we are going to vote either for Macron or for Le Pen. So Votez pour moi by Coktel Vision (1985) is in a youtube video by JB le Daron. It's a management game where you are one candidate for the french presidential election. What will you do to get elected by the good french people ?

Source : Youtube

The music of Cauldron as an orchestral version, a remix, and a remake of the game

After the orchestral version of Barbarian, here is an orchestral version of Cauldron.

Will you get some more remix of its music : Cauldron (Amstrad CPC) : Music remixed by DJ Mitch (Hexenkuche Walpurgisnacht HardTance Mix) ?

Dont forget the remake of Cauldron for windows by Devilmarkus. But the download link doesnt work anymore.

8BP v030, a RSX library to create Amstrad CPC games in Basic, and a new 8bp game

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has written a new version of 8BP v30 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables is the last game programmed with 8BP and showed at the RetroMadrid 2017 meeting.

Source : Twitter

Peur sur Amityville (Ubi Soft), a Youtube video by Edward with the author Serge Payeur

Edward (JeuxVideo.com) is showing a new french Amstrad CPC game : Peur Sur Amytiville (Ubi Soft) with the original author Serge Payeur. He has programmed the game when he was 15 years old ! It's a graphical adventure game in french of course.

Source : Amstrad.EU's Facebook

A postal stamp about the Amstrad CPC game The abbey of crime (Topo Soft) in Spain !

A postal stamp inspired by the Amstrad CPC game La Abadia del crimen is or will be available in Spain.

Source : Amstrad.EU's Facebook

Video of Hire Hare (CNGSoft) by Amstrad Maniaque on Youtube, an Amstrad CPC 3D isometric game

Amstrad Maniaque is a french Youtubber since 2013.

His last video is about Hire Hare by CNGSoft, which won 2nd place at CPC RetroDev 2016.

Download Hire Hare by CNGsoft, which is a 3D isometric game like Crafton and Xunk.

Source : Youtube

After Touch Soccer, a remake for PC, IOS and Android of Kick Off 2

After Touch Soccer is a remake of Kick OFF 2 with graphics by the original author David Screech. You can download it for PC, and also on phones (IOS and Android).

Source : Indie Retro News

Travel to the center of the earth by Topo Soft and also by Chip, Youtube videos

Travel to the center of the earth, based on the book by Jules Verne has seen two games made on Amstrad CPC :

• Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra by Topo Soft, a video by Retro Danuart, an action game released in 1989 with 3 independants levels
• Voyage au Centre de la Terre by Chip, video by Amstrad Maniaque, an action game released in 1988

In 2012, an extended version of Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra by César Nicolas Gonzalez (CNGSOFT) was released with 2 additional levels.

Source : Youtube

Remix of the Target Renegade music by SuTeKH (Epyteor) from the C64 game

SuTeKH (Epyteor) wrote a remix of the Target Renegade music from the C64 game, available on John Gage's Youtube channel.

Source : Youtube

Xyphoe wrote an article in the english newspaper Retro Gamer issue 167

Xyphoe wrote an article in Retro Gamer issue 167 about Amstrad CPC best games and hidden gems. It's available since the 20th April 2017.

Source : Youtube

Pentomino by Shining is available for dowload

Pentomino by Markus Macherey (Shining) is available as announced as a download.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

30 Go of Amstrad CPC books, newspaper, fanzines, manuals, games covers, maps, etc...

One person created a collection of 30 Gb of Amstrad CPC files as a torrent file.

You will find PDF files of

• newspapers
• fanzines
• books
• ads
• user manual
• technic manuals
• cover tapes of games
• games manuals
• cover of tapes
• maps and levels of games

Source : Amstrad CPC sur le web

Lode Runner on Apple 2 and also Amstrad CPC and now Lode Runner Legacy on Steam

Lode runner Legacy is waiting for your vote on Steam Greenlight.

You maybe know Infernal Runner, but the original Lode Runner was also on Amstrad CPC after the Apple II whic was the first platform (by Douglas E. Smith : 1960-2014).

Lode runner Legacy by Tozai Games is a voxel 3D version. You can create your own levels, modify the character, ennemies, objects. There is a solo adventure axed on reflexion without ennemies. You can also play to the 150 originals levels with Apple 2 graphics (with a small 3D), or even played to new levels created by other players.

Source : MO5

Defender of the Crown preview by Alekmaul on SNES

Alekmaul (the author of the Amstrad CPC emulator AmeDS for Nintendo DS and also of the port of Rick Dangerous for the same console) is working on a SNES version of Defender of the Crown.

Three other WIP are available on Alekmaul's Youtube channel.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Two longplay video of El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc (4Mhz) done by Jgonza and Metr81

Jgonza is the first one to make a longplay video of El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc by 4Mhz .

And a few minutes after, it's the turn of Metr81 for a longplay video of El Tesoro de Cuauhtemoc.

Source : Twitter

Barbarian, its original Amstrad CPC music and an orchestral version by Endrody Gabor

Everybody knows the game and the music of Barbarian, but you should listen to the orchestral version by Endrody Gabor. It's the same video, first original music, then at 3m43 the orchestral version.

Source : Amstrad.EU group on Facebook

Sigi - A Fart for Melusina and Battle Princess Madelyn, well it looks like Ghouls 'n Ghosts

Sigi - A Fart for Melusina is a platform game, a cross of Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country. It's already available on Itunes, Google Play, Amazon and Windows 10 for 1,99 €.

Battle Princess Madelyn by Causal Bit Games is more a remake of Ghouls 'n Ghosts than Sigi, nice looking too. It will available at the end of this year normally for PC (Steam) and cosoles (Nintendo Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch).

Source : MO5

After Defence, Shining is writing a new Amstrad CPC game : Pentomino

Markus Macherey (Shining) first wrote a strategy game (tower defense) for Amstrad CPC : Defence.

Today, he is working on Pentomino, a reflexion game of course.

In this 64 Kb Amstrad CPC game, there are no less than 464 levels of puzzles with several songs to listen to. After seing the video, you will really have to use your brain in turbo mode to solve them all... It will be available for Easter.

Source : AMSTRAD CPC CLASSIC GAMING AND DEMOS

Playing a bugged game of Ghostbusters on the Amstrad CPC 464 by John Gage

The Amstrad CPC 464 tape version of Ghostbusters has an ugly bug at the end of the game. And they are other bugs earlier : flickering, lack of on-screen activity, slowdown. But it is possible to avoid the bug if you choose the PK energy detector as the first object when you equip your car. Take another object, and you will get the bug.

Source : AMSTRAD CPC CLASSIC GAMING AND DEMOS

El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc by 4Mhz is available

El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc by 4Mhz is available since today as a download as disk, tape and mass storage. Run Forest run !

Source : 4Mhz

Galaxy Force on Amstrad CPC, gameplay by Xyphoe on Youtube

Xyphoe is playing Galaxy Force, a Sega arcade game in 1988, converted on Amstrad CPC in 1989. You knows After Burner, then warp it in the future with aliens and you get Galaxy Force, a shoot them up which is a good port of the arcade game. Xyhpoe tests first the arcade game then starting 7 minutes 6 seconds the Amstrad CPC version.

The colors of the Amstrad CPC loading screen are really those just below...

Source : Youtube

Thunder Blade on Amstrad CPC, gameplay by Xyphoe on Youtube

Back to commercial games Xyphoe is showing Thunder Blade, an arcade game by Sega in 1987, converted on Amstrad CPC in 1988. It's a game with 2 phases, either a vertical shoot them up game or with thir person view, piloting a helicopter. Xyhpoe first tests the arcade original game, then the Amstrad CPC version at 5 minutes 30 seconds.

Source : Youtube

El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc by 4Mhz, menu music by McKlain

Often in games, the music is either written by Tom et Jerry or McKlain.

For the music of El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc by 4Mhz, it's the turn of McKlain (listen to the music on Soundcloud).

Some parts of the music makes me think of elite's music.

Source : CPCRulez

Remake of Sapiens by Didier and Olivier Guillion and music remixed

For old timers, very very old in case of Sapiens, I want to remind you that the original authors of the game Didier and Olivier Guillion have written a windows VGA remake of Sapiens. The game is a shareware for only 10 €.

The original music was written by Gilles Soulet, here are 2 remix of the music on Youtube :

• Sapiens - Atari ST, midi music for monotimbral synths (Yamaha MU1000 with DX)
• Sapiens Main Theme Remix

The Amstrad CPC original music of Sapiens is of course also available on youtube.

W.I.P. Baba's Palace for Amstrad CPC by Rafael Castillo

Another WIP game, Rafael Castillo started one month ago to write Baba's Palace announced on Twitter. Graphics are realy nice.

Source : Amstrad CPC Classic Gaming and Demos on Facebook

The Legend of Anubis by Core Studio, an Amstrad CPC game (CPCRetroDev 2016)

I didnt write yet about all Amstrad games released for the CPCRetroDev 2016 contest.

The Legend of Anubis by Core Studio is one of these games (arcade). It was written by Adrian Gonzalez Herrera, Mateo Bernal Montoya and Jose Roberto Martinez Gras.

You enter an old pyramide facing many dangers and traps with one goal in mind, to get an ancient relic : the mask of Anubis, the god with a chacal head, governing the land of death.

Source : Twitter

Omeyad by Ubi Soft in 1989, an Amtrad CPC adventure game played by JB le Daron on Youtube

The last Youtube video by JB le Daron is about an Amstrad CPC adventure game with graphics by Ubi Soft : Omeyad released in 1989.

The description given by JB le Daron and the test of the game on CPC Game Reviews should make you playing the game (well if you understand french of course). The story takes place in medieval Arabia in the city of Omeyad. You will have to meet several of people of the town who will give you missions to complete. Of course you will have to use objets to do that. The town and its people are reacting to what you do, which is rare in games!

Source : Youtube

Barbarian 1987 the PC remake now on ... PC Engine

In 2012 a PC remake (written in basic : QB64) of a classic Barbarian 1987 by F.L.

Two years later, it was out for the Sega Genesis, and now for the PC Engine using the HUC C compilator !

Source : CPCRulez's Forum

Test of the Amstrad CPC game Thrust (Firebird in 1986) by ChinnyVision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Thrust is available. This arcade game was out on Amstrad CPC by Firebird in 1986.

He also tests it on BBC, C64, Atari XL/XE, C16 and Spectrum.

Source : Youtube

Outlaws on Amstrad CPC, longplay video HD by Metr81

Metr81 is testing Outlaws by RetroBytes Productions. It's a shooting game like Operation Wolf or Cabal out in 2016 for the CPCRetroDev competition where it won the first place at the PRO category.

Source : Youtube

W.I.P. Red Planet 2 for Amstrad CPC by Salvador Cantero using CPCTelera

Using CPCTelera Salvador Cantero is working on Red Planet 2 for Amstrad CPC. Red Planet 1 was for another platform.

Source : Twitter

Top 11 of Amstrad CPC games in 2016 by Novabug on Youtube

Novabug presents his personal top 11 of Amstrad CPC games created in 2016 in a video on Youtube, over more than 75 games created this year.

So, his personal top is the following :

• Outlaws
• Dragon Attack
• Out of this world
• Defense
• Coolbox
• Imperial Mahjong
• Jewel Warehouse
• Hair Boy
• Nibiru (using 8BP)
• Magica
• Chibi Akumas (Episode 1 : Invasion!)

Personnaly the best game for 2016 is Magica, but they are other very good games too for sure.

You can also see his Top 11 of Amstrad CPC games in 2015.

Source : Youtube

The 30 best arcade conversions on Amstrad CPC by Edward on Youtube

Edward is a french youtubber whose speciality is the history of video games. His last video is about the 30 best arcade conversions on Amstrad CPC.

Well, as some games are not that good, the best 30 arcade conversions are not the 30 best games...

The 30 arcade conversions are from the bottom to the best : Final Fight, Altered Beast, Street Fighter, Outrun, le Retour du Jedi, Gemini Wing, Ghots'n'Goblins, S.T.U.N. Runner, Cabal, Gunsmoke, R-Type (no mention of the Easter Egg R-Type), Super Hang-On, Paper Boy, Double Dragon, Ghouls'n Ghosts, Chase H.Q., Bubble Bobble (without talking of BB4CPC), Xybots, Gauntlet, Operation Wolf, Commando, Arkanoid, Kung Fu Master, Prohibition (Empire City on arcade), Space Harrier, After Burner, Smash T.V., Shinobi, Ikari Warriors and Renegade.

Source : CPCRulez

Georg Odenthal (Odiesoft) is working on an indie game

He is back with us and he is working on an indie game : Odiesoft.

You will be able to get news of Georg Odenthal on :

• Father3GngIndie on Twitter
• IndieOrBust on Facebook

Source : Twitter

Power Drift on Amstrad CPC part 2, longplay by Xyphoe

After the part 1 of Power Drift on Amstrad CPC by Xyphoe, here is the part 2 of Power Drift.

Power Drift is a car race game by Sega, edited on Amstrad CPC by Activision in 1989.

Source : Youtube

Chibi Akumas (Episode 1 : Invasion!) on Amstrad CPC, gameplay by Xyphoe

After commercial games, this time Xyphoe walks around Chibi Akumas (Episode 1 : Invasion!), a homebrew game.

Chibi Akumas (Episode 1 : Invasion!) is a shoot them up by Keith Sear (Keith56) released in 2016. and episode 2 is a work in progress.

Source : Youtube

Two new tables for Pinball Dreams by Batman Group for Amstrad CPC

After the release of Pinball Dreams preview, here is something to make you thirsty for more : two new tables.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc by 4Mhz, a trailer and soon in your home !

In his last tweet, 4Mhz posted about the trailer of El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc which is on McKlain Youtube channel.

Amstrad CPC code written by 4Mhz, sound and FX by McKlain and graphism by SAD1942.

Source : Twitter

Prince of the Yolkfolk 2011 and Dizzy X - Journey to Russia by VK007, 2 remakes using DizzyAGE

VK007 has written lately 2 Dizzy games with the DizzyAGE engine for windows :

• Dizzy X - Journey to Russia (december 2016), which is a remake of a non official dizzy written on ZX Spectrum by Sergei Gorshkov in 1994. The downkload link is broken though
• a HD remake of Dizzy Prince of the Yolkfolk (February 2017), already a remake of a game released on mobile in 2011 (see the video above)

Source : MO5

Video of the Amstrad CPC game La Aventure Original (Aventuras AD) by Retro Danuart

A video of the game Amstrad CPC La Aventura original (Aventuras AD in 1988) on Youtube by Retro Danuart.

It's a spanish text adventure game, an adaptation of the firt text adventure game on a computer in 1975 : Colossal Cave Adventure by William Crowther. The original game was ridden with enigmas and was considered as a difficult game. Dont get lost in a maze !

Source :

Three Oh Mummy remakes on Intellivision (Nanochess), Pico-8 (hoku7oy), windows (Crozza)

After the windows remake of Oh Mummy by Adolfito, here are 2 other :

• one for the Mattel video game console Intellivision by Nanochess
• PIC-Oh Mummy! for the Pico-8 by Adria Estrades : playable in a web browser
• Oh Mummy by Crozza for windows (2016)

Source : MO5

The VideoKid : a windows remake of the Amstrad CPC game Paperboy on Steam

Pixel Trip Studios already released on Steam a remake of Paper Boy : The VideoKid. The game is available for 3,49 €.

Source : Twitter

Test of the Amstrad CPC game Helter Skelter (Audiogenic) by ChinnyVision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Helter Skelterr is available. This arcade and puzzle game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1990 by Audiogenic.

He also tests it on PC, ST, Amiga, BBC, C64 and Spectrum.

Source : Twitter

El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc, a platform game by 4Mhz, not just pictures this time

4Mhz posted a video of El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc on Twitter (the lost treasure of Cuauhtemoc), their latest work in progress Amstrad CPC game (platform).

You will see the starting screen with credits and music, and then the first seconds of the game, it's nice !

Source : Twitter

The abbey of crime, a free remake on Steam of the Amstrad CPC game Abadia del Crimen

Thanks to the video of Jean-Christophe K / Ma Vie de Geek, I stumbled on The Abbey of crime on Steam which is a free remake of the game Abadia del Crimen.

Source : Youtube

A youtube video by Edward of the Amstrad CPC game Billy la banlieue (Loriciels)

A french for talking about a french game : Billy la banlieue (Loriciels 1986) by Edward. The presentation of the game starts at 1m45.

Source : Youtube

Tapes for CPCRetroDev 2016 productions were received, soon written

ByteRealms just wrote that they received the tapes to write the CPCRetroDev 2016 productions. Now we have to wait for them to be written and sold.

Source : Twitter

Oh Mummy by Adolfito, a windows remake of the Amstrad CPC game released with the 464

Oh Mummy is a classic game, one of the twelve freely available with an Amstrad CPC 464, so released in 1984 by Gem Software.

After FitoWestBank Adolfito is releasing another windows remake, this time of Oh Mummy.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Music of the game Great Gurianos mixed (Amstrad CPC and C64) by Vincent GR

I didnt know this game, but the Amstrad CPC and C64 mixed music of Great Gurianos by Vincent GR is nice.

There is a longplay of Great Gurianos by Amstrad Maniaque on Youtube.

The game was one of the first written by David Perry. It's a port of an arcade game by Taito : Gladiators. It was out in 1987 by Elite Systems.

Source : Youtube

BDCIron is testing Great Gurianos, Addams Family et Big'O'Full demo, and more in another video

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 :

• Buggy Boy
• Carlos Sainz
• Chevy Chase
• Continental Circus
• Miami Cobra GT
• Power Drift
• Super Monaco GP
• Turbo Cup
• Twin Turbo V8
• Wacky Races
• Potsworth & Co
• lets Go !
• the demo Points Barres

Source : Youtube

Video of the Amstrad CPC game Captain Sevilla (Dinamic Software) by Retro Danuart

A video of the Amstrad CPC game Captain Sevilla (Dinamic Software in 1988) sur Youtube par Retro Danuart.

A remake of the Amstrad CPC game Sorcery + for windows (XP to 10) by Antibug

Antibug did compile again his Sorcery+ remake for windows XP to 10. It has the original graphics.

You will find on his page the complete solution in JPG or PDF format.

Picrocs, Virusdog and Vector Vaults by JB le Daron on Youtube

The last video of JB le Daron is about Gryzor and Barbarian, so I wont't show it as it was already the subject the last few days of a video by Khomenor and Daron himself for the first one I showed of him.

But in the one before the last the Daron shows 3 games : Picrocs (BDCIron), Virusdog (Kukulcan) at 12:10 and Vector Vaults (Alberto) at 35:10 released for the CPCRetroDev 2016.

Source : Youtube

FitoWestBank by Adolfito, a windows remake of the Amstrad CPC game West Bank (January 2016)

West Bank is a spanish arcade Amstrad CPC game released in 1986 by Dinamic Software. An english version was released by Gremlins Graphics in 1987. Three doors in front if you, will you be fast enough to shoot the desesperados without harming innocents ?

I just found on Sourceforge a windows remake : FitoWestBank by Adolfito. I missed the announcement on CPCWiki (see source below).

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Pictures of the new project by 4Mhz : El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc, a platform game

4Mhz posted 4 pictures of El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc on Twitter (the lost treasure of Cuauhtemoc), their latest work in progress Amstrad CPC game (platform).

Source : Twitter

Test of the cartridge Amstrad CPC+ or GX4000 game Navy Seals (Ocean, 1990) by ChinnyVision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Navy Seals is available. This arcade game was out on Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000 in 1990 by Ocean.

He also tests it on Spectrum, C64, Atari ST and Amiga.

Y'a pas que l'Amstrad dans la vie S2E10 : Gryzor / Contra

Another Youtube channel : Khomenor, like ChinnyVision he tests games, but not only the Amstrad CPC version. For Contrat / Gryzor, it was written only on 8bit computers/consoles, no 16bit.

Source : Youtube

RetroGaming Play 2017 at Meaux (77, France) on 18th and 19th FébruarY

The RetroGaming Play 2017 will take place in France at Meaux (77) this week-end the 18th and 19th February 2017.

This event is all about video game culture, it will feature expositions, Freeplay, animations, arcade games, quizz contests, selling booth, conferences...

Will be present : Bertrand Brocard, AHL, Florent Gorges, Douglas Alves ou bien Abrial Da Costa (more guests normally expected) and also Youtubers : Keydee, AtOmium et Psychodélik.

RGP's Facebook page

Source : CPCRulez's forum

a music remake of the Amstrad CPC game Saboteur II by Geovarius on Soundcloud

A remake of the music of Saboteur II by Geovarius on Soundcloud is available. Sometimes when you look for the words 'Amstrad CPC' on a search engine, you find things.

A music remake of the Amstrad CPC game Airwolf II (Elite) by Geovarius on Soundcloud

A remake of the music of Airwolf II (Elite in 1987) by Geovarius on Soundcloud is available.

A music remake of the Amstrad CPC game Deflektor (Vortex) by Geovarius on Soundcloud

A remake of the music of Deflektor (Vortex in 1987) by Geovarius on Soundcloud is available.

A music remake of the Amstrad CPC game Marauder (Hewson) by Geovarius on Soundcloud

A remake of the music of Marauder (Hewson in 1988) by Geovarius on Soundcloud is available.

Geovarius on Dailymotion playing his remake of the music of Saboteur 2

After having listened to the musical remakes of Geovarius on Soundcloud, it's time to see him playing Saboteur 2 on his keytar (keyboard guitar) starting at 8 minutes and 5 seconds.

Source : Dailymotion

A speedrun of Barbarian by JB le Daron

JB Le Daron is a french Youtube channel I just jumped on. In this fist episode, he is talking about speedrun : finish a game as fast as possible, often seen on other 8bit computers and consoles, but rarely (or never) on Amstrad CPC to my knowing. And it's Barbarian by Palace Software in 1987 which you will see done quickly.

After having seen the video, there should be on CPC-Power that you should know some SNR files which are played games (speedrun or not) which you can read with the emulator WinAPE.

Will you be able to beat the game Barbarian in less than 6 minutes and 12 seconds, the record made by Kukulcan (CPC-Power) ? The speedrun starts at 6 minutes in the video.

Source : Youtube

Power Drift on Amstrad CPC, longplay by Xyphoe

Xyphoe is back with a new longplay of Power Drift on Amstrad CPC (part 1 of 2).

Power Drift is a car race game by Sega, edited on Amstrad CPC by Activision in 1989.

El Linaje Real, an Amstrad CPC platform game by ESP Soft in April 2017

El Linaje Real is the next and first Amstrad CPC game for the 2017 year by ESP Soft.

It's a platform game with 5 levels which should be availabe for April 2017. The game is finished already and being tested. You will test your sword skill in this game, by foot, by horse, by boat. And there wont be only one way to end the game.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

C4CPC and nocart, vitamin for your Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000 console

Shame on me, I didnt have yet written about the C4CPC which is for the Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000 cartridge port what the HxC drive emulator was for the disk drive. It is created by Gerald.

BEWARE, using the C4CPC with a GX4000 console and its original alimentation will give you a nice clipboard, for the explanation, it's here.

And of course, with 3D printing, some people went for it to make a C4CPC cartridge with a better look :

• Box/Case per C4CPC (Amstrad GX-4000)
• Retro Special - C4CPC: 3D Printed Case Assembly
• Printing an Amstrad Plus C4CPC cartridge case

Nocart v1.4 for windows will let you convert Amstrad CPC programs in a .CPR file (cartridge image) usable on the C4CPC. Beware, some programs wont work : the keyboard will not work, it means the game must be patched for CPC+ firmware.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Test of the Amstrad CPC game Advanced Pinball Simulator (Codemasters) by ChinnyVision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Advanced Pinball Simulator is available. This pinball game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1988 by Codemasters.

He also tests it on Spectrum, C64 and Atari XL/XE.

Civilizations playable demo ... on Commodore C64

Fabian Hertel wrote a playable demo of the game Civilizations 2 on Commodore 64.

I let you discover the youtube video youtube presenting this Civilizations for C64.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Video of the Amstrad CPC game Zona 0 (Topo Soft) by Retro Danuart

A video of the Amstrad CPC Zona 0 (Topo Soft in 1991) on Youtube by Retro Danuart.

It's a non official clone of the moto game of the original Tron film.

Test of the Amstrad CPC game Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 (Imagine) by ChinnyVision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 is available. This arcade fighting game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1986 by Imagine.

He also tests it on MSX, BBC, C64 and Sinclair Spectrum.

Honestly the game was ugly and not good, whereas the first version was really nice like the arcade game.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Due to the brexit, an englishman is selling 125 Amstrad CPC tapes for 900 pounds

You are young (at least your mind is) ? You are rich (you need 900 pounds or 1041 euros) ? Then buy yourself no less than 125 Amstrad CPC tapes on ebay !

Be fast, this wonderful deal ends on the 26th January 2017 at 9:22am GMT.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Test of Five a side soccer by ChinnyVision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Five a side soccer is available. This budget soccer game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1986 by Mastertronic.

He also tests it on C64.

BDCIron testing Amstrad CPC games on Youtube

Thanks to the Amstrad CPC music disk CPC vs Virgill (TRSI, 2016), I found the Youtube channel of BDCIron where he is testing Amstrad CPC games. Last test was done on the 11th January :

• Skweek
• Wizball
• Mega Phenix
• Impossaball
• 3D Fight
• Burnin Rubber

2016 Favourite demoscene productions by 4Sceners and Bitfellas

4Sceners and Bitfellas published their favourite demoscene productions for the year 2016 :

• 3rd place for the best music disk : CPC vs Virgill by TRSI
• 2nd place for the best game : Pinball Dreams preview by Batman Group
• 7th place for the best game : Outlaws

Source : Octoate

Double Dragon 4 on PC (Steam) and Sony PS4 the 30th January

A teaser for Double Dragon 4 is available on Youtube. The game will be out the 30th January on PC (Steam) and Sony PS4 console.

Source : LesNumeriques

Test of Klax by ChinnyVision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Klax is available. This reflexion game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1990 by Domark.

He also tests it on Amiga, ST, Sega Master System, ZX Spectrum, MSX and C64.

On an Amstrad CPC+, the only differences are a new title screen, some sound effects and a rather nice fade effect between screens.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Commented video of Magica by his author Reidrac about game design and development

Reidrac (Juan Martinez) did a youtube video of his game Magica with commentaries about game design, development, etc....

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Chibi Akuma, an Amstrad CPC shooter, now available

Chibi Akuma (episode 1 : Invasion) is an Amstrad CPC 6128(+) shooter game whose character is an unhappy vampire woman. The game is now available.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Chibi Akuma, an Amstrad CPC shooter available the 31th december

Chibi Akuma (episode 1 : Invasion) is an Amstrad CPC 6128(+) shooter game whose character is an unhappy vampire woman. The game will be available the 31th december. It has been tested by CPC Game Reviews.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

The story of Dinamic Software

Pixel Thing is talking about the spanish publishing house Dinamic Software on Youtube in english.

Source : Twitter

Outlaws by Retrobytes Productions, first place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

Retrobytes Productions won the first place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game Outlaws, an arcade game with a cowboy in the wild wild west. It looks like Cabal or Operation Wolf. It's a nice game with good graphics.

Outlaws is their first Amstrad CPC game, but I invite you to check their previous games on ZX Spectrum on their homepage.

Outlaws is the collective work of :

• code : Toni Ramírez
• graphics : Alxinho
• music and FX : José A. Martín
• tests : Toni, Alxinho, José
• traduction: Toni Ramírez

Source :

VirusDog par CPC-Power, third place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

CPC-Power won the third place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game VirusDog. It's a reflexion game where you must save the life of your dog by pairing the same virus near each of them.

VirusDog is the collective work of :

• code and idea : Kukulcan
• graphics : Kukulcan, CED
• music : Tom and Jerry (GPA)
• cover and manual : Ixien
• tests : AST, Galamoth, Lone, Maxit, C. PETIT, Fredouille

Source : CPCRetroDev 2016

Dragon Attack by Bitplane Technomantes, fourth place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

Bitplane Technomantes won the fourth place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game Dragon Attack. It's an arcade game (think galaxian). Your fighter can only be destroyed if its middle is touched, but the dragons are shooting everywhere on the screen ! And of course it's no less the future of the Earth which is on your shoulders...

Dragon attack is the collective work of :

• code : Axelay (Paul Kooistra)
• graphisme : Rex (Harris Kladis)
• musique : Tom and Jerry (GPA)

Source : CPCRetroDev 2016

CPCGamesCD updated by MiguelSky (December 2016)

CPCGamesCD (created by MiguelSky) is an ISO image including several emulators (Amstrad CPC and PCW), and a frontend to launch the included games, which comes from the NVG FTP.

Source : Amstrad.ES

The new project by 4Mhz : El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc, a platform game

El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc (the lost tresor of Cuauhtemoc) is the last project of 4Mhz, it's a platform game with really nice graphics. It was initially announced in 2015 without mention of the author.

Source : Amstrad.ES

Test of Motorbike Madness by ChinnyVision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Motorbike Madness is available. The game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1988 by Mastertronic (ZX Spectrum version on the same tape). It's a 3D isometic moto game.

He also tests it on Amiga, ST, Sega Master System, Spectrum and C64.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Chibi Akuma WIP, an Amstrad CPC shooter

Chibi Akuma (episode 1 : Invasion) is an Amstrad CPC 6128(+) shooter game whose character is an unhappy vampire woman. The game is written by Keith56 (Twitter). Check CPCWiki for pictures.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Saboteur's remake by Cliff Townsend on PC, MAC and android

Cliff Townsend, the original author of Saboteur has written several months ago a remake of this game which impressed a lot of people at that time. It's one of the game I finished on my Amstrad CPC.

The free version (PC, MAC and Android) has limitations (time, no saving of scores and progression). The full version costs only 3,99 €.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Street Fighter II CPC still being developped

Street Fight II CPC is still being developped by Augusto Ruiz (programmation), DaDMaN (graphics) and McKlain (sound). Here is a new video of Street Fight II CPC below, after the two of 2013 :

• SFII CPC - Work in progress - 20130613 sur Youtube
• Street Fighter II CPC - The Real Edition sur Youtube

Dont expect a final version in 2016, but a beta is possible. The target is an Amstrad CPC 6128 with 128 Kb, sorry no CPC 464.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Test of Super Monaco GP by ChinnyVision

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Super Monaco GP is available since 11th November. The game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1991 by Sega.

He also tests it on Amiga, ST, Sega Master System, Spectrum and C64.

Phoenix arcade emulator by Norbert Kehrer

Norbert Kehrer wrote an emulator/conversion, of the classic arcade game Phoenix from 1980 for the Amstrad CPC. The original arcade machine was made by the American company Amstar and had a 8085 CPU. So, the Amstrad CPC can directly run the original game program on its 8085-compatible Z80 CPU. In order to emulate the arcade machine's video and sound hardware on the Amstrad home computer, he wrote specific Z80 routines for that. These are still a little bit buggy now, and the sound is still bad.

He made two versions of the game. One with sixteen colors but lower resolution (file "phoenix"), and a second one with the original resolution but with only four colors (file "phoenixh").

You can download a disk image with both versions of the game from Norbert Kehrer's homepage.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Interview of Juan Gimenez, who draw some Amstrad CPC game covers

An interview in spanish of Juan Gimenez on 'Un pasado mejor' who draw several Amstrad CPC covers in Spain.

Source : CPCRulez

Tower Toppler v1.1.6 for windows (2012), a Nebulus remake

There is a new version of Tower Toppler since I wrote about this remake of Nebulus, with one more mission of several towers (tower toppler v1.1.6).

Zombie Terror Reloaded by Bitzarro Games in french (adventure game)

Zombie Terror Reloaded is a graphical text adventure game by Bitzarro Games for Amstrad CPC now available in french (in spanish in April 2016 and in english at the start of the month). It's an enhanced version of Zombie Terror first on C64 by Kabuto Factory.

You wake up on an island, feeling that you really have to flee from there. Alas, your yatch engine doesnt start. So it's time to explore the island, and trust me : there is a lot of Zombies there ! And what they want isnt love : it isnt time for St Valentin but for Halloween...

Code is by Jesus Mayoral (mode2), graphics and soundtrack by Manuel Gomez (Baron Ashler) and english translation by Dimitris Fragkos (Voxfreax).

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Tomb Explorer, a PC remake of Oh Mummy by John Dimi (after one of Future Knight)

The remake of Future Knight by John Dimi has been updated.

Tomb Explorer, a remake inspired of Oh Mummy (Gem Software and Amsoft in 1984) is now available. There are 125 levels in adventure mode and an infinity in arcade mode.

Source : John Dimi's Twitter

WIP v4 of the Outrun remake for PC by Barbarian 1987

F.L. (Barbarian 1987) just added the other cars in his Outrun remake. See the Youtube video of this new version of the remake of Outrun.

The new features are :

• route D finished
• new fonts
• new screens of end play
• and last, map of the animed race with the small car done

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Sir Ababol 2 - the Ice Palace, the new Amstrad CPC game by The Mojons Twins

Sir Ababol 2 - the Ice Palace is the last game of the Mojons Twins, download the game and its sources on the same link.

It's of course the following of Sir Ababol available in 2010, see the youtube video by Metr81 of Sir Ababol.

Source : Indie Retro News

Hire Hare by CNGsoft available, 2nd place the the CPC RetroDev 2016 PRO section

Hire Hare by CNGsoft is an isometric 3D game like Crafton and Xunk. It won the 2nd place at the the PRO section of the CPC RetroDev 2016.

It is available for download but there are still some bugs du to the time limit of the CPC RetroDev 2016. Check for a new version later.

Source : Indie Retro News

Remake of Space Hawks (Durell) by KanedaFr for Sega Master System

Space Hawks for Amstrad CPC by Durell is a clone of Galaxia out in 1984 under the label Amsoft.

KanedaFr administrator of the site SpritesMind choosed to write a remake of Space Hawks on Sega Master System.

Below a longplay of the Amstrad CPC Space Hawks by XyPhoe on Youtube.

Source : MO5.com

Tomb Explorer, a PC remake of Oh Mummy by John Dimi (after one of Future Knight)

After a remake of Future Knight by John Dimi, he is finishing programming Tomb Explorer, a remake inspired of Oh Mummy (Gem Software and Amsoft in 1984). There are 125 levels in adventure mode and an infinity in arcade mode.

Source :

Tower of Despair, a text adventure game by ESP Soft (MiguelSky) in September 2016

Tower of Despair par Games Workshop was out initially on ZX Spectrum and C64. This text adventure game is available since September 2016 due to MiguelSky (ESP Soft) with its original manual which must not be overlooked.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

New game by Reidrac : Magica for Amstrad CPC (64 Kb)

The last game by Reidrac (Juan Martinez) is out : Magica (v1.01 with one less bug), with a loading screen by Vanja Utne, is out. I warn you, it's bad for WAF.

Use Fire to stun the badass, touch them before the stun stops so they transform into a potion. Kill them all to collect all potions to finish the level before time is out.I played a bit, went to level 5 only at the moment.

Source : Compte Twitter de RetroManiac

Zombie Terror Reloaded by Bitzarro Games in english and spanish

Zombie Terror Reloaded is a graphical text adventure game by Bitzarro Games for Amstrad CPC first released in spanish in April 2016 and then now in english. It's an enhanced version of Zombie Terror first on C64 by Kabuto Factory.

You wake up on an island, feeling that you really have to flee from there. Alas, your yatch engine doesnt start. So it's time to explore the island, and trust me : there is a lot of Zombies there ! And what they want isnt love : it isnt time for St Valentin but for Halloween...

Code is by Jesus Mayoral (mode2), graphics and soundtrack by Manuel Gomez (Baron Ashler) and english translation by Dimitris Fragkos (Voxfreax).

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Pinball Dreams preview by Batman Group is out for Amstrad CPC

One of the most waited games on Amstrad CPC is a conversion of a pinball game on Amiga : Pinball Dreams preview by Batman Group.

Opinions are unanimous : very nice port of this Amiga game on Amstrad CPC ! The keys used to play are :

• Control / shift left for left flipper
• Enter / backward slash for right flipper
• Cursor down to launch the ball
• Space to push the board

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Adios a la casta episode 2 by 4Mhz available in physical edition and DSK image

Adios a la casta episode 2 by 4mhz is available as a physical edition (9.99 €) or a .DSK image. It's a platform game for Amstrad CPC, following Adios a la casta episode 1.

Source : @CPCBEGIN on Twitter

Preview of Hire Hare by CNGsoft for the CPC RetroDev 2016

Hire Hare, an isometric game like Crafton and Xunk that CNGsoft did present for the CPC RetroDev 2016 after Frogalot in 2015 which won the 2nd place for the pro section.

Source : #CNGsoft on Twitter

Golden Axe music with a mix of SID (C64) and AY (Amstrad CPC) by Vincent GR

Some music in a world of brutes, Golden Axe mixed with the SID of the Commodore 64 and the AY of the Amstrad CPC by Vincent GR.

Both tracks had different tempo and pitch so Vincent had to transpose C64 a bit higher to match the tempo with the CPC.

Golden Axe played with the SID (C64) and the AY (Amstrad CPC) by Vincent GR

Source : Vincent GR's channel on Youtube

Teaser of the Amstrad CPC game Outlaws by Retrobytes Productions for the CPCRetroDev 2016

Retrobyes Productions just showed a teaser of their participation for the CPCRetroDev 2016 : Outlaws, an arcade game with a cowboy in the wild wild west. It looks like another arcade game on the CPC which existed before as a real arcade game : cabal, or operation wolf.

Source : Twitter

Vidéo of the R-type remake (Cargosoft) with the easter egg by Zeusdaz

Not enough time nor the reflexes needed to finish the R-Type remake by Cargosoft ? And you never saw the easter egg ? Just sit and relax while looking a the longplay done by Zeusdaz on Youtube.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Golden Tail, longplay video HD by Metr81 and preview of covert art

Golden Tail is a recent Amstrad CPC arcade game by Reidrac.

You can now see a longplay by Metr81 on Youtube of Golden Tail.

There will be soon a disk physical edition (tape later), a preview of the covert art of Golden Tail is available.

Doomsday Lost Echoes, a graphical adventure game soon for Amstrad CPC

Doomsday Lost Echoes is a graphical and texte adventure game in english for Amstrad CPC which will be available soon.

It uses an adventure game engine DAAD (3rd génération after The Quill, 1st generation, and The Paw, 2nd generation) : DISEÑADOR DE AVENTURAS DE AVENTURAS AD (Adventure Designer for Aventuras AD).

DAAD permits to compress the adventure text in englaish with a good compression ratio, but cant do it well with another language like spanish.

There is another 3rd génération engine: SWAN, System without a name by Fergus McNeill for his Mindfighter game.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Oh Mummy! remake on Sega Mega Drive by 1985 Alternativo

1985 Alternativo have written a remake of the Amstrad CPC game Oh Mummy! on the Sega Mega Drive console, with an Amstrad CPC game mode included. Download is available on their site.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Remake of Slap Fight (Alcon) by Abalore W.I.P.

Slap Fight (A.L.C.O.N.) is a shoot them up already existing on Amstrad CPC since 1987. But like the R-Type remake, Abalore thinks he can do better. A first video of the scrolling is available on Youtube.

Abalore accepts every help possible to make this new remake.

Source : Amstrad.ES's forum

Magica, a WIP arcade game for Amstrad CPC by Juan Martinez (Reidrac)

After Space Pest Control (arcade), the Return of Traxtor (excellent réflexion game !), Golden Tail (arcacde), the next arcade game by Juan Martinez (Reidrac) is called Magica.

Like his others games, it uses CPCRSLIB (for SDCC) and the PSG Player by WIZ.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Picrocs, a beta of a picross for Amstrad CPC by BDC Iron

Picrocs by BDC Iron is an Amstrad CPC reflexion game, with a music by Tom et Jerry, it's a clone of Picross. It's a beta, so with a few bugs.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Vector Vaults, an arcade Amstrad CPC game with longview by Xyphoe

Vector Vaults by Alberto Rodriguez Martinez is an arcade Amstrad CPC game, inspired by a Vectrex console game.

You can order a personalized version physical or not on the page up there.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Pinball Dreams, a pinball game par Batman Group incoming

First this game coming from Amiga will need 128 Kb memory, also on a 464 and 664 with an expansion memory. The game should be 50 images per second, with 3 special graphic modes.

The game will be showed at the RetroSevilla 20126 from the 21th to 23th october 2016.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Imperial Mahjong by CargoSoft

CargoSoft is very proud to present you its new game: Imperial Mahjong.

Imperial Mahjong is a reflexion game based on the Chinese game called Mahjong Solitaire, in which the player must make all the tiles disappear by selecting pairs that match.

The game features several technical achievements, including the use of two outstanding new graphic modes:

• the EGX (Extended GraphX) that displays 16 colors in 320*200 instead of 4
• the EGX2 that displays 4 colors in 640*200 instead of 2

A full list of these achievements will be published, but once again we don't want to spoil the surprise! For the same reason, we will not show any screen shot for now, for you to discover the game by yourself.

Please run the game on a real CPC! The graphics were designed to run on the real hardware. It is much, much, much more beautiful on a real CPC old.

Source : CPCWIki's forum

Heroes Rescue, a new Amstrad CPC platform game on 13th August

Heroes Rescue is a new game which will be released in two days on 13th August. It is coded by Javy Fernandez (Defecto Digital Studios).

There will be 20 levels :

• 5 levels TMNT
• 5 levels Marvel
• 5 news levels the Simpsons
• 5 news levels Futurama

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Jewel Warehouse by EgoTrip, a platform/reflexion game for Amstrad CPC

Jewel Warehouse is a platform/reflexion game for Amstrad CPC written by EgoTrip. It use the development framework CPCTelera.

I havent finished it yet, but it is fun to play. Difficulty isnt too hard.

There is also a Nintendo DS version Jewel Warehouse.

Another video of Jewel Warehouse finished by GiorVarm.

Source : CPCWIKI's forum

Demo available of Adios a la casta 2 by 4mhz

After Adios a la casta, here is a demo version of the platform game Adios a la casta 2 by 4mhz, a spanish team. They also wrote Sardina forever.

Adios a la casta 1 and Sardina forever are available in a physical package on 4mhz's shop.

Source : CPCRULEZ's forum

Test of Lemmings by ChinnyVision

Last test of an Amstrad CPC game by ChinnyVision on Youtube is about Lemmings by Psygnosis.

He also tests Lemmings on Amiga, ST, PC (running on an Amstrad PC2086), SMS, Master System, Speccy and C64.

Source : CPCWIKI's forum

Capcom bundle (Strider and Bionic Commando) on Humble Bundle once again

Humble Bundle offers once again a Capcom bundle with Strider and Bionic Commando.

Source : Humble Bundle

Pang adventure on PC, console IoS and Android

Pang Adventure by Pastagames is availabel for a low sum on PC, console, IoS and Android.

Solo game and multi in local network only.

Source : JeuxVideo.Com

Way of the tiger and gamebooks

Until now for me, The way of the Tiger and Way of the Tiger II: Avenger were just 2 video games by Gremlin Graphics. But in fact, they comes from 6 gamebooks (la voie du tigre ou way of the tiger for more informations) written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson :

• Avenger! in 1985
• Assassin! in 1985
• Usurper! en 1985
• Overlord! in 1986
• Warbringer! in 1986
• Inferno! in 1987

A seventh book was written in 2014 by David Walters and also a prequel, available in paper at Megara Entertainment following a kickstarter project.

The prequel et the 7th book are available in english and french, the 6 original books in english only at the moment.

There may be digital books by Tin Man Games, but still not available (should have been 2014 and 2015).

If you liked gamebooks, you can download Lone Wolf one Iphone and Android.

Beta of a new Amstrad CPC game by 4MHz

Adios a la casta (beta v0.99.3b) is a new spanish platform Amstrad CPC game by 4MHz. A video by Metr81 is available on Youtube.

Source : 4MHz

Capcom bundle (Strider and Bionic Commando) on Humble Bundle

Humble Bundle offers a Capcom bundle with Strider and Bionic Commando.

Source : Humble Bundle

Hewson Consultants, a book and some 8bit music

Hewson Consultants, created in 1980 by Andrew Hewson, did publish several good games on Amstrad CPC like Uridium, Paradroid, Nebulus, Firelord, Stormlord and Cybernoid, but not only.

Available on their site web, a book (epub or not) as pre-order, and 11 incredible tracks from 10 classic Hewson games, remade by legendary artists (reduction of 40% with the code retrogamer on Bandcamp).

Source : Twitter

An upgraded remake of Future Knight par Johndimi

A remake of Future Knight by Johndimi is available (original game out in 1986).

This PC version pour PC has a map design which doesn't follow the original game but rather designed from scratch. Some game mechanics are improved, like the ability to move while jumping, having an inventory, faster gamespeed, etc.

The game features 7 levels. There are enemies to kill, items to find and use, keys to unlock doors, traps to avoid, shortcuts to take, new weapons, and bosses to exterminate.

Source : Indie Retronews

A new spanish adventure game : el misterio de la isla de Tokland by ESP Soft

ESP Soft just released a new spanish adventure game : el misterio de la isla de Tokland. It is written by 6128 and use the game engine el DAAD.

It is based on the book of the same name by Joan Manuel Gisbert. With one year of learning spanish (and a dictionnary), the game is playable even if I didnt go very far at the moment. Thanks for letting me working my spanish this summer :-)

Download and more informations on the syntaxical engine on ESP Soft.

Source : ESP Soft

Tintin on the moon and Switchblade on Amstrad CPC, longplay and gameplay by Xyphoe

If 25 CPC+ games in 25 minutes was a bit too short, here are two longplay and review by Xyphoe :

• Tintin on the Moon on Youtube by Xyphoe.
• Switchblade on Youtube by Xyphoe.

Andrew Oliver (Oliver twins) full interview by Xyphoe

At the Play Blackppool 2015, Xyphoe interviewed Andrew Oliver (Oliver Twins) during 1 hour and 22 minutes ! Dizzy and Amstrad CPC featured of course.

Hacked version of Paperboy with music by Fano (128 Ko), reviewed by Xyphoe

Since at least march 2012, a 128 Ko version of Paperboy with music added by Fano does exist (download on source link, see below).

This Paperboy version has been reviewed by Xyphoe on Youtube.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Amscraft by Lachlank, a preview of an Amstrad CPC minecraft

Lachlank (author of Retro Game Asset Studio) just showed a preview of Minecraft for Amstrad CPC : Amscraft on Youtube.

It is written mainly in C using SDCC and the framwework CPCTelera, but with assembler to draw blocks. He is looking for help (music for example).

Source : CPCWiki's forum

CPCRetroDev Game Creation Contest 2015

You can program an Amstrad CPC game and want to become riche at the same time ? Then submit your creation to the third edition of the CPCRetroDev Game Creation Contest, as each award will win some real money.

Beware, the target is an Amstrad CPC 464, so all entries will be included in a physical edition with an audio tape, not a 3 inch disk.

The deadline is the 23th october 2015.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

WIP of a screenshot of Athanor 2 by Eric Safar

After the first Athanor, Eric Safar is working on Athanor 2 this time with bitmaps graphics. You can already see a WIP screenshot of the game on CPCRulez (see source below).

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Luc and Hervé Guillaume (Black System) on Homebrew Amstrad Today

Luc and Hervé Guillaume are two brothers who programmed a lot of games for Amstrad CPC, published in french newspapers with the Black System label.

Go on Homebrew Amstrad Today which wrote about Black System.

You will be of course able to download the Black System programs.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Puzznic for Amstrad CPC+ by Arnoldemu and BDCIron

A new version of Puzznic is available for Amstrad CPC+ thanks to Arnoldemu and BDCIron.

This version runs on GX4000. Instead of pressing R for menu, press pause. Also, an update to the "boot" process, the new overscan title screen now fades in and out, and a CPC+ palette is used.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Elite dangerous available for 49,99 euros

Elite Dangerous is available right now for 49,99 euros.

Source : Les Numeriques

2048, the reflexion game for Amstrad CPC by les Crackers Velus

Les Crackers Velus just released the reflexion game 2048 for Amstrad CPC.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

The prisoner, a new text adventure game for the Amstrad CPC in spanish and english

The prisoner is a new text adventure game about the famous TV serie with Patrick McGoohan in the sixties.

First on C64 and C64 plus, an Amstrad CPC (conversion by Miguel Sky, ESP Soft) spanish version is available since October 2013 and an english version just came out.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

A batman remake for MSX2 in December 2014

MSX.org is announcing a Batman remake for MSX2 in december 2014.

Source : MSX.org

The Gauntlet reboot on PC is available for 19,99 euros

You can now cooperativevly play with the Gauntlet reboot for the low sum of 19,99 €.

Source : Steam

Barbarian 1987 the PC remake now on ... Sega Genesis

In 2012 a PC remake (written in basic : QB64) of a classic Barbarian 1987 by F.L.

Two years later, his author is still using basic (BasiEgaXorz) for the Sega Genesis !

Source : CPCRulez's Forum

Gauntlet invade the darkness, a reboot of gauntlet by Arrowhead

Gauntlet by Arrowhead is a reboot of the 1st gauntlet, available in 1985 on Amstrad CPC. Online gaming up to 4 players will be available, with the warrior, valkyrie, elf and wizard.

It will be available the 3rd september 2014.

WIP v2 of the Outrun remake for PC by Barbarian 1987

F.L. (Barbarian 1987) just added the other cars in his Outrun remake. See the Youtube video of this new version.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Two Amstrad CPC+ clones of Flappy Bird : Flappy Rulez v2 (Hermol) and Flappy UFO (Optimus)

Hermol has a new version out of Flappy Rulez for Amstrad CPC+.

Optimus (Dirty Minds) also released a clone of Flappy Bird : Flappy UFO. See the Yoututbe video below.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Athanor, a new Amstrad CPC (and Oric) graphical adventure game

Athanor is a new Amstrad CPC (and Oric !) graphical adventure game in french (english incoming) by Eric Safar.

It has vectoriels graphics with an extended package (see below). Beware, the included sealed envelope must not be opened before the program tell you so (hint inside).

You can buy Athanor for 20 € (postage included for france though) with 3 or 3,5 inch disk. A .DSK will be available for free later.

English and german translations are done but must be corrected. A C64 version is being done.

An interview of Eric SAFAR is available on Ordiretro.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Amstrad Générations is testing Ikari Warriors and Jet Set Willy

Two generations (David 40 years old and Ornella 11 years old) are testing several Amstrad CPC games on Youtube :

• Ikari Warriors
• Jet Set Willy
• gore games

Flappy Bird on CPC+ ? Yes, it's called FlappyRulez (WIP)

A work in progress of Flappy Bird on Amstrad CPC+ ? Yes, it's called FlappyRulez, written by Hermol (webmaster of CPCRulez).

Source : CPCRulez

CPC Game Reviews's update and a new Amstrad CPC reflexion game : Kamyzol

There is an update on CPC Game Reviews talking about the last Crackers Velus program, a reflexion game (taquin like) called Kamyzol.

The goal of the game is to move the red piece toward the exit by moving all others pieces with a twist, they can be moved only horizontally or vertically.

Source : CPC Game Reviews

Recent Amstrad CPC videos on Youtube by CholoCPC, Xyphoe and Metr81

• CholoCPC
  • International Karate Plus in 1988 by System3
• Xyphoe
  • Trantor - the last stormtrooper in 1987 by Probe
  • Gryzor in 1987 by Ocean on Amstrad CPC (Konami actually). It's a speedrun : 5 mn 27 seconds.
  • Fruity Frank in 1984 by Kuma Computers.
  • Fantasy world dizzy in 1989 by Codemasters.
• Metr81
  • Cybernoid in 1988 by Hewson

Everything looks better in scanlines

Today with the LCD screens, the Amstrad CPC emulators don't display the same result than with a real Amstrad CPC and a Cathodic Ray Tub (CRT) television.

So Alex76gr has created a collection of 75 loading screens pictures of Amstrad CPC games with a scanline effect (1536x1080 resolution).

However adding scanlines isnt enough to looks like a CRT television set.

Winape and Caprice32 are 2 Amstrad CPC emulators which can provide a CRT rendering.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Pac-Man v1.1 (emulator of the orignal arcade game) on Amstrad CPC by Syx and TotO

Two years ago Syx et TotO released an emulation of the original arcade ROM of Pac Man.

Today it's a new version of Pac-Man for Amstrad CPC with a speed bump, to let you play this classic game with more pleasure.

You will need 128 Kb and to import the original arcade roms inside the .DSK with an utility.

This Pac-Man emulator for Amstrad CPC is based on the work by Simon Owen for Sam Coupe and ZX Spectrum.

Source : CPCWIKI's forum

Life of Pixel, a windows platform game, but multi platform inside...

Life of Pixel is an original windows platform game as it lets you play in worlds of retro computers : ZX81, ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC of course and many more.

Source : CPCWIKI's forum

The making of Match Day by Jon Ritman ... on ZX Spectrum

An interesting article about the making of Match Day by John Ritman on ZX Spectrum (football game).

Source : Krakout's Twitter

Humble Bundle : Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams pour windows

You have still 3 days to be able to buy Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams on Humble Bundle (weekly). Nine dollars will be enough to get it, and money goes to charities.

Nice music by the way.

Sven, a 2D jump'n'run adventure game by Bollaware for PC

A new Bolloware game : Sven.

Source : CPC Rulez's forum

HD Gameplay by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game La Guerra de Gamber

Here is a HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game La Guerra de Gamber by ESP Soft released on the 30th January 2014 for the 30th anniversary of the Amstrad CPC.

It's a robocop/green beret like game with a horizontal scrolling with 3 levels, and a bonus level like the Prohibition game between each level.

You can download La Guerra de Gamber on Amstrad.ESP.

The principal musical theme was written by McKlain and can be heard on SoundCloud.

Source : Youtube

Light Force (shoot them up) Review for the Amstrad CPC by John Gage

Light Forge is a vertically scrolling shoot them up for Amstrad CPC, C64 and ZX Spectrum, edited by FTL (Faster Than Light) in 1986. A very good game, one of the few I was able to finish on Amstrad CPC in the good old times. Music is written by Ron Hubbard, sadly it is missing from the Amstrad CPC version. So to listen it you will have to go for the C64 version of Light Force on Youtube.

Source : Twitter

ScummVM now supports the DOS version of Mortville Manor by Lankhor

ScummVM now supports the english version of the game le Manoir de Mortvielle (created by Lankhor) : Mortville Manor.

Source : Twitter

Death Sword for Amstrad CPC(+) 128 Kb tested on Youtube

Just after a few days that Death Sword was available, and you can already find tests of this new Amstrad CPC game on Youtube :

• test for the frogs of Death Sword on youtube
• test in english of Death Sword on youtube (see below)

Vote on Push'n'Pop for the best 2013 Amstrad CPC productions

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

Kubmic, a new Amstrad CPC puzzle game by les Crackers Velus

Kubmic is a new Amstrad CPC puzzle game by les Crackers Velus.

You must match a pattern on the screen, but you can only move a whole verticale or horizontal line. The first puzzle is easy, it's up to you to check the next one (20 puzzle inside).

Source : Twitter

An alpha version of Elite Dangerous, a kickstarter project by David Braben

One year later, Elite dangerous exists in alpha version, you can also pay to be able to play beta versions when they will be available.

More informations on the Elite Dangerous officiel web site.

Source : MSX Ressource Center

An update (v1.1) of TOTEMS Columns CPC 2, an Amstrad CPC game by ESP Soft

An update of Totems by ESP Soft is out.

It's a columns like game for 1 or 2 players (coop or vs).

You can play Totems online with JavaCPC.

Source : ESP Soft

What is the link between Saboteur and the Revenge of the Ninja movie ?

Well it's all about the poster's film which really looks like the Saboteur loading screen, I will let you judge.

Source : Twitter

Death Sword for Amstrad CPC(+) 128 Ko (Barbarian updated)

As a Christmas gift, Death Sword is an update of the Barbarian game for Amstrad CPC(+) 128 Kb by Devilmarkus (code), ToTO (Backgrounds Update), MacDeath (additional graphics) and CNGSoft (compression).

Source : CPC Rulez's forum

A remake of Outrun for PC by Barbarian 1987 using basic (QB64)

After a remake of Barbarian and Crazy Cars, F.L. is currently writing a remake of Outrun (beta)

F.L. did program it with in basic (QB64), which is a windows compiler. You can get out your gwbasic or quick basic programs and still run them with QB64, or use the new features bringed by QB64 (like networking).

Source : CPC Rulez's forum

Billy Run Again by Jean Philippe Biscay (author of Billy la Banlieue and Billy 2)

Jean Philippe Biscay is the original developper of Billy La Banlieue (1986) and Billy 2 (1987), both of them published by Loriciels.

He is programming with his son a new sequel : Billy Run Again for Android, IPhone, Web, Windows, Mac and Linux.

You can subscribe on his web site to know of any advancement.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Double Dragon available on Nintendo 3DS

Double Dragon is already available in the Nintendo 3DS Eshop (virtual console, black and white game).

Source : JeuxVideo

Double Dragon Trilogy soon on Iphone, Ipad and Android

DotEmu will release soon a conversion of the Double Dragon trilogy on Iphone, Ipad and Android.

Source : Journal du Geek

Game video of Barbarian (forest) by CholoCPC

Barbarian 1 is a big classic, who didnt shop some heads with his sword ? CholoCPC made 2 videos on youtube about the forest level then the palace :

• Barbarian (forest) on Youtube
• Barbarian (palace) on Youtube

Street Fighter II CPC, work in progress

Hmm, Street Fight II CPC is being developped by Augusto Ruiz (programmation), DaDMaN (graphics) and McKlain (sound). Here are 2 youtube videos :

• SFII CPC - Work in progress - 20130613 sur Youtube
• Street Fighter II CPC - The Real Edition sur Youtube

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Update of Invasion of the Zombie Monsters on Amstrad CPC by Relevo Videogames

Invasion of the Zombie Monsters by Relevo Videogames has been updated (improved performance, support for 2 button joysticks and smoother gameplay). It's a spanish game for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Maziacs Sinclair Zx Spectrum Emulator for Amstrad CPC

Maziacs is a ZX Spectrum game written by Don Priestley in 1983.

It was ported on Amstrad CPC by 40Crisis and sold by DK'Tronics.

The Z80 code is runned natively by the Amstrad CPC Z80, but all Spectrum system calls are managed by a partial emulation of the ZX Spectrum ROM.

As Don Priestley did authorize the download of his games and as Amstrad did authorize the use of the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC ROMs, the package Maziacs Sinclair Zx Spectrum Emulator for Amstrad CPC can be freely downloaded.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Amstrad Générations testing Roland on the Ropes (french)

Two generations are testing Roland on the ropes on Youtube (programmed by Indescomp and released by Amsoft in 1984) : David 40 years old (playing Amstrad CPC at 12 years old) and Ornella 11 years old.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Amstrad Générations testing Roland in Time (french)

Two generations are testing Roland in Time (Amsoft in 1984) on Youtube : David 40 years old (playing Amstrad CPC at 12 years old) and Ornella 11 years old.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

HD Gameplay by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Bruce Lee - Update of Bruce Lee 2

Here is a HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Bruce Lee released by U.S. Gold in 1984. A great classic written by Ron J. FORTIER.

Metr81 also did a commented version of this Bruce Lee video.

Also, there is a new version of Bruce Lee 2 by Bruno R. Marcos.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

CPCGamesCD updated by MiguelSky (July 2013)

CPCGamesCD (created by MiguelSky) is an ISO image including several emulators (Amstrad CPC and PCW), and a frontend to launch the included games, which comes from the NVG FTP.

Source : CPCGamesCD

New games on the unofficial 3D Construction Kit website

3D Construction Kit was written by Incentive Software and published by Domark in 1991 on Amstrad CPC. This utility let you create 3D graphical adventure games.

New games are available for all platforms on which 3D Construction Kit was ported, including the Amstrad CPC, on the unofficial 3D Construction Kit web site.

Source : CPC Rulez's Forum

Bubble Bobble for cpc (bb4cpc) v9 is available

Cesar Nicolas Gonzales did update BB4CPC (v9) on the 7th July 2013.

The new version features : new overscan intro screen, new in-game tutorial (128k only), fixed water streams (ten blocks rather than just eight) and drowned enemies (water carries them now), minor changes in title screen and sprites, minor scoring overflow bugfixes, minor size and speed optimizations.

Source : BB4CPC

Another Anuman Interactive remake : Prehistorik

One more remake for Anuman Interactive. This time they work on Prehistorik for PC, MAC, iOS et Android.

Source : JeuxVideo.com

WIP of a pseudo 3D racer on amstrad cpc with SDCC

Youtube account user Nemo Kantio is working on a pseudo 3D racer on Amstrad CPC using SDCC. Look at the youtube video of this future game.

Source : CPCRulez's Forum

Bruce Lee 2 on windows by Bruno R. Marcos is available

Bruce Lee 2 by Bruno R. Marcos for windows is available. It's a sequel of the classic Bruce lee. Graphics comes in 2 versions : CPC or C64.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

A windows remake of Target Renegade by Viridis Cosmos Games

Viridis Cosmos Games released in 2012 a windows remake of Target Renegade with joystick support (2 persons) and 8bit or updated graphics.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

A windows remake of Cauldron by Devilmarkus

You will find on CPC-Live a windows remake of Cauldron by Devilmarkus. There are 3 version (english, french and german : Hexenküche).

Source : CPCRulez's Forum

Bubble Bobble for cpc (bb4cpc) v8 is available

Cesar Nicolas Gonzales did update BB4CPC (v8) on the 27th March 2013.

Source : BB4CPC

Buce Lee 2 on windows by Bruno R. Marcos (work in progress)

Bruno R. Marcos wrote Arcade Game Studio for windows. This utility let you write arcade game. He is currently working on a free Bruce Lee 2 game.

You can check the state of this game on his twitter account.

Source : CPCRulez's Forum

The Amstrad CPC database GameBase CPC v27 is available

GameBase CPC v27 is available since the 10th May 2013.

Only available as a full version, please download only 1 file at a time.

Titan : escape the tower, another remake by Anuman interactive

Remakes come and go at Anuman Interactive (Barbarian, Nord et sud, Spy vs Spy, Fire and Forget), now it's the turn for a remake of Titan (by Titus in 1988).

This new game, a mix of reflexion and breakout, will be out on 6th June 2013 on PC, MAC, iOS and Android.

Source : Jeuxvideo.com

An iOS and Android remake of Karateka by John Mechner

John Mechner wrote for less than 1 euro a remake of karateka for iOS and Android.

More exactly, it's a port pixel for pixel of the original game and not a remake with better graphics, same difficulty too.

Source : PC Inpact

Fire and Forget the final assault, a multi platform remake by Anuman Interactive

After writing remakes of Barbarian, North and South, Spy vs Spy, Anuman Interactive is going to release on the 16th May a remake of a 1988 game : Fire and forget, on PC, MAC, Iphone, Ipad and Android.

Source : Jeuxvideo.com

Luftballon, an Amstrad CPC reflexion game (work in progress)

A new reflexion game work in progress but still playable (11 levels only at the moment, 50 in the end) : Luftballon.

Source : CPCRulez's Forum

Arcade Game Designer by Jonathan Cauldwell on Zx Spectrum and Amstrad CPC

Arcade Game Designer (documentation of AGD) is a tool by Jonathan Cauldwell to make games on ZX Spectrum and lately on Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation. The games created wont scroll the entire screen : they are static. There is also a PC tool : TommyGun.AGD to make the games, working only with the ZX Spectrum AGD version only at the moment.

Check the youtube video of an AGD game : Donkey Kong Reloaded.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Invasion of the Zombie Monsters on Amstrad CPC by Relevo Videogames

Invasion of the Zombie Monsters by Relevo Videogames is a spanish game release in 2010 on ZX Spectrum and now in 2013 on Amstrad CPC and MSX.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

The Oliver twins strikes back on Kickstarter with Dizzy returns on PC

The Oliver twins have a kickstarter page for Dizzy Returns (on PC only though).

Source : JeuxVideo.com

Space Harrier 3D by Sega available on Nintendo 3DS (download)

Space Harrier is a well known game by Sega published on Amstrad CPC by Elite in 1986.

In 2004, Space harrier was available on PS2, today Space Harrier 3D is available on your Nintendo 3DS as a download for the eShop.

You can check the longplay video by Xyphoe on Youtube in 2 parts : first part and last part.

Source : DSGEN

Teodoro No Sabe Volar, an Amstrad CPC conversion of a ZX Spectrum game by Dimension Z

Dimension Z (a MSX group) is working on an Amstrad CPC conversion of the Spectrum game Teodoro No Sabe Volar (Theodore doesnt know how to fly), which was released by the Spanish group RetroWorks in 2010.

You can test the ZX Spectrum version of Teodoro no Sabe Volar online.

The Amstrad CPC is almost finished, its author Pepe Vila is looking for a few more free bytes to pack all he want in the program.

Youtube video of Teodoro No Sabe Volar on MSX

Youtube video of Teodoro No Sabe Volar on ZX Spectrum

Source : CPCWiki's forum

A Karateka remake available on Xbox360 and soon on PS3 too

Karateka is the first game by Jordan Mechner (also author of Prince of Persia whose sources have been found a few months ago) on Apple 2, but also on Amstrad CPC.

Karateka was released one week ago on Xbox360 and soon on PS3.

This new version features whole new style of graphism.

You can see on Youtube the game wholly played by Ataru'75 in 2 parts :

• first part of Karateka played by Ataru'75
• second part of Karateka played by Ataru'75

Source : MSX Resource Center

Elite Dangerous, a kickstarter project by David Braben

Check Slashdot for more informations.

Source : Slashdot

Totems, an Amstrad CPC game by ESP Soft, a columns like game for 1 or 2 players

Totems is the latest production by ESP Soft, a columns like game for 1 or 2 players (coop or vs). Their first version of a columns like game in 2004 was only intended for 1 player.

Source : Amstrad ESP

Le mur de Berlin va sauter, from Apple 2 by Froggy Software to Amstrad CPC by Tom et Jerry

Le mur de berlin is a graphical adventure game by Tom et Jerry on Amstrad CPC, inspired by the game of the same name on Apple 2 by Froggy Software.

Will you be able to prevent the explosion of the Berlin Wall ? It's time to know if you are good as the best spy in the world (no not James Bond) known as Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (aka OSS117).

Source : Tom and jerry homepage

Crazy Cars CPC, a remake programmed in basic with QB64 by F.L. (Barbarian 1987)

After creating a Barbarian remake for its 25th anniversary, F.L. just programmed in only 1 month and 1000 lines code Crazy Cars CPC : a faithful remake though with some differences : shorter levers for example. The game is open source so you can make it better if you want.

F.L. did program it with in basic (QB64), which is a windows compiler. You can get out your gwbasic or quick basic programs and still run them with QB64, or use the new features bringed by QB64 (like networking).

Interview of Toto - Easter Egg (R-Type) by NoRecess

NoRecess has done a new interview : Toto - Easter Egg, one of the authors of the upgraded version of R-Type .

Source : No Recess

SymbOS, Subversion, TortoiseSVN, and the meaning of life (well game of life)

As seen on the SymbOS mailing list :

So I set up a project at SourceForge.net now :
SymbOS on SourceForge

Additional information have to be added, this is just a first start.

You can checkout the application and driver source codes here :
https://symbos.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/symbos

You don't need an account for read access. If you want to have write access please contact me directly.

If you try this and have any issues please tell me.

CU,
Prodatron

Ok, so you want to get the sources ? Then start to download TortoiseSVN and install it.

Then create a new directory, right click on it, choose SVN Checkout... and copy and paste https://symbos.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/symbos in URL of repository.

Et voila ! You have the SymbOS sources on your computer to toy with it.

To update the sources to the last version, right click on the directory and choose SVN Update (english documentation of subversion available, other languages too).

About the Conway game of life, I recommand to read What is the Game of Life ? by Paul Callahan and More than a game : the Game of Life by Adrian McMenamin.

Source : SymbOS mailing list

Prodatron is working again on SymbOS, a new program available soon

As seen on the SymbOS mailing list :

Already posted this on MRC, but here again...

Seems that I am back now on the Z80 after a break of nearly 5 years - terrible long time...

In May I started to work on a Amstrad CPC project again. One week ago I developed a little SymbOS application to become familiar with all this stuff. Luckily it seems, that I didn't forget too much... It's nothing special, just another "Conway's Game Of Life" implementation, and it should only demonstrate two things:

• the final version uses "multithreading" to show the multitasking behaviour of SymbOS: The field generator process will run at a low priority, so that other apps and the controls of the app itself won't be slowed down in any way
• I am coding for SymbOS again

Here is a video, I guess I will release this little app in a few days.

Before I can work 100% on SymbOS again I have to finish this other CPC specific project first, but that has to be done until autumn. I need to finish a few things for SymbOS 2.1, finalizing the multiline textbox control, fix some stuff with the new version of the MSX device driver system etc. I really want to make a 2.1 release soon, hopefully end of this year, so that it's possible to concentrate on larger things after that again.

Many greetings and CU soon,
Prodatron

Source : SymbOS mailing list

Super Edge Grinder by Axelay, Rex(Beng) and Tom&Jerry, an updated Amstrad CPC game

Super Edge Grinder is an updated version of Edge Grinder by Axelay.

It comes with news graphics by Rex (Beng) and updated music by Tom & Jerry. There is also a boss.

HD Gameplay by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Head over Heels

Here is a HD video by Metr81 (February 2011) of the Amstrad CPC game Head over Heels edited by Ocean Software in 1987. A great classic written by Jon Ritman.

Imaginario Colectivo, an Amstrad CPC adventure/platform game by ESP Soft

Imaginario Colectivo is the last Amstrad CPC game by ESP Soft (adventure/platform).

History, programmation and graphics by GG, sound by McKlain, edition by Litos.

From the same authors : Hora Bruja.

Source : Amstrad ESP

Captain Blood Legacy, the following of the Captain blood game by Exxos

A following to Captain Blood by Exxos (later renamed to Cryo) should be a good thing : Captain Blood Legacy.

But when we know that they sacrificed the Amstrad CPC used to program the original game, should we howl to the moon, hoping that this sacrifice wont be useless ? Will this following game be enough to fill the emptyness created by this awful destruction ? I do hope so...

Source : Captain Blood Legacy blog

An Oh Mummy remake on Iphone and ... Sega Megadrive

Oh Mummy is an Amstrad CPC classic, programmed by Gem Software and published by Amsoft in 1984. The music comes from a child music : The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid.

There is a Oh Mummy remake for Mummy pour Iphone by Lentrica Software for 0,99 €.

An Oh Mummy remake for Sega Megadrive by 1985 Alternativo (Spain) can be ordered in advance, the game being available in October 2012.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Orion Prime in german : Ich spreche deutch auch

Orion Prime, the Amstrad CPC adventure game, has been translated in english, spanish and french, but now also in german.

Boulder Dash - the collection on Android market

Boulder Dash - the collection is available on Android Market, 5 games in on (buy them grouped or each individually) with new graphics or old school.

Source : Boulder Dash - the collection

Sardina Forever by GenSoft ( 2012), a remake of Sabrina (1989)

Sardina Forever by Gen Soft (showed at the RetroMadrid 2012) is available on Amstrad ESP.

It's a remake of the Sabrina game by Iber Soft in 1989. It's the original programmer Javier Garcia who wrote the remake.

The remake include a new loading screen by David (6128) and music by McKlain.

Controls are Q, A, O, P to move Sardina and 1, 2, 3 to beat people.

Source : Amstrad ESP

Les tuniques bleues : nord vs sud is now available on Iphone/Ipad

As announced in march, the remake of the Amstrad CPC game is now available on Iphone and Ipad under the name Tuniques bleues : nord vs sud.

There are 2 versions, the first one at 1,99 € and the other one at 2,99 €, I couldnt see at first glance their differences.

European Soccer Challenge on Amstrad CPC, review and longplay by Xyphoe

European Soccer Challenge is an Amstrad CPC soccer game created by Fun Factory and published by Edos in 1989.

an iOS program : ZX Nostalgia Arcade edition volume 1 : The Mojons Twins

Looking on Itunes in the apps store with the Amstrad keyword, I was surprised to see an iOS application written by Manuel F. Garcia CABELLO (ZX Nostalgia Arcade edition volume 1 : The Mojons Twins) which let you playing several game written by The Mojons Twins, who are prolific authors of ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC games.

Source : Itunes

Uwol 2 Quest for money, an Amstrad CPC platform game by the Mojons Twins

Talking about the Mojons Twins, I went to their web site and found their latest Amstrad CPC game : Uwol 2 Quest for money.

As usual, you can also download the source of the game if you are curious.

Source : The Mojons Twins

Spirits DS by Nightfox, a Nintendo DS remake of Spirits by Topo Soft in 1987

A work in progress of Spirits DS for Nintendo DS is available on Nightfox and co (spanish link Nightfox and co).

Spirits (see Spirits on Youtube, ZX Spectrum version) is an action/adventure game by Topo Soft in 1987. You must fight an evil sorcerer in his castle and help a poor young woman.

Source : Nightfox and Co

HD Gameplay by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Jet Set Willy

Here is a new HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Jet Set Willy edited by Software Projects in 1984.

If you prefer, you can see the video of Jet Set Willy with comments in spanish.

Jet Set Willy is the following of the classic Manic Miner, you have to find 65 items in a big house and be allowed to sleep with your wife.

A dream come true, an all in one video game console, with a GX4000 inside soon

The Unity project by Bacteria is ambitious, to make an all in one video game console (see Hack a Day).

At the moment, you have the following video game consoles inside :

• Sega SMS (done, not added into system yet)
• Nintendo NES (done, not added into system yet)
• Mattel Intellivision
• Nintendo GameCube
• Nintendo GBA
• Amiga CD32
• Philips CD-i
• Playstation
• Playstation 2

And he is working on adding others consoles, including our Amstrad GX4000 !

Source : Korben

Barbarian 1987, a remake programmed in basic with QB64 by F.L.

For the 25 years of Barbarian, F.L. delivered us Barbarian 1987 : the most faithful remake possible of this game which did cut a lot of heads years ago.

F.L. did program it with in basic (QB64), which is a windows compiler. You can get out your gwbasic or quick basic programs and still run them with QB64, or use the new features bringed by QB64 (like networking).

New wizball loading screen by ste86 and a remake on Retrospec

Ste86 has created a new loading screen for the wizball Amstrad CPC game (to the left below, original screen to the right below).

Wizball was written originally for C64 by Jon Hare and Chris Yates (who created Sensible Software) in 1987. The original music was written by Martin Galway. The Amstrad CPC version was released the same year by Ocean.

There is a remake of Wizball on Retrospec for windows and mac.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Prince of Persia (Apple 2) source code found and now on Github

Three weeks ago, the source code of the Apple 2 version o f Prince of Persia was been found once again by his author Jordan Mechner.

And today, you can get this source code of Prince of Persia on Github.

You will see on the photo boxes of cassette version of Prince of Persia and Karateka.

Source : Slashdot

Impossible Mission on Amstrad CPC, review and longplay by Axelino

Impossible Mission is an Amstrad CPC platform game published by Epyx in 1986.

It was initially created on C64, programmed by Dennis Caswell and published by Epyx in 1984.

This C64 version was known for the use of digitized speech, which is lacking in the Amstrad CPC version.

You can see a video of this test and longplay of Impossible Mission on Youtube by Axelino.

Skweek is coming back ... we dont know where

Skweek is back on Facebook, we just dont know yet on which platform it will be available.

Source : JeuxVideo.com

Emulating the arcade game Pac-Man on Amstrad CPC (Simon Owen, SyX and TotO)

Pac-Man for Amstrad CPC by SyX and TotO, it's a real Pac-Man arcade emulator for Amstrad CPC, but you will need 128 Kb and to import the original arcade roms inside the .DSK with an utility.

This Pac-Man emulator for Amstrad CPC is based on the work by Simon Owen for Sam Coupe and ZX Spectrum.

Lemmings on Amstrad CPC, review and longplay by Xyphoe

Lemmings is a classic, a puzzle/platform game developped by DMA design and published by Psygnosis in 1991 on PC et Commodore Amiga, then in 1992 on Amstrad CPC.

You can see a video of this test and longplay of Lemmings on Youtube by Xyphoe.

Playing on Amstrad CPC with a wii nunchuck ?

Well they do it already on a MSX, and the electronic plan is available.

Two MSX games were adapted to run using the Nunchuck controller. The games are Konami's Road Fighter and Ping Pong. The machine used is a Brazilian HOT BIT with a do-it-yourself Assembler cartridge. A Basic program loads the game and the nunchuck driver and then applies the patch. The driver can detect a Nunchuck in either joystick port and reverts to the standard port when no nunchuck answers.

Source : MSX Resource Center

Lords of Midnight on Iphone still in developpement

The Iphone/Ipad port of Lords of Midnight by Chris Wild is still on the way. You can see a video of the game running on Youtube.

While waiting for this precious gem, you can either play the original Lords of Midnight game with an emulator, or with one of the various following ports :

• Icemark
• Midnight/MU (online multi-player)
• War of the solstice
• Midnight Flyer
• LoM and DDR for GameBoy Advance

Source : Ice-blog

History of the Amstrad CPC Defender of the Crown, and a new version on the way

Defender of the Crown is a strategy game for one player written by Kellyn Beck. This is the first Cinemaware title, originally released for the Amiga in 1986. It was then released on Amstrad CPC in 1989, published by Ubi Soft.

When one of three authors and a second landed on a Amstrad CPC forum, it's a powerful fireworks of valuable informations and more which appears. And it happened on CPCRulez.fr. If you kept your child's soul, it's time that I start to tell you a lovely story: once upon a time, there once was a villain, a hero and a beautiful princess...

The Amstrad CPC version of Defender of the Crown was developed by three people in about 6 months :

• Brice Rive for the programming and the copy protection (he is also the author of an Amstrad CPC emulator for MAC: CPC ++)
• Laurent Boucher for graphics, using essentially OCP Advanced Art Studio
• Gregory Clement for the audio part

Brice Rive and Laurent Boucher knows each other since the computer school right after the baccalaureate, both are fans of programming and electronics (which will be useful later as you will see below). Brice then worked on three other games at Ubi Soft for their copy protection : Skateball, Omeyad and the absolute master. These two partners have also worked on an adventure game : E.X.I.T. released in 1988 still with Ubisoft, developed in nine months between the spring of 1987 and early 1988. During the start of this creation, a few hours of work per day, a lot of time to write the script. Soon they started to work full day, and the last few week, about 20 hours work a day. Their adventure of game creators have been possible partly because they got along well, and partly because it was always interesting to note that the other did not always agree. They have never been afraid to spend hours talking to understand each other fully. Thus they won every battle of Kb. There were no losers. As long as they did not understand each other fully, they discussed. Once the case was decided they returned joyfully to their separate work. Note gentlemen that this working method can probably apply equally to life as a couple !

Brice Rive was called up just before the release of Defender. He made the forcing to complete the project before taking on the uniform. Early in his classes, he squashed the remaining bugs from a phone booth: Laurent at the other end of the line was reading aloud the screen of the Pyradev compile, and Brice was dictating corrections! Imagine the cold sweats at Ubi Soft, Laurence is still shaking by windy day...

Let's talk about the copy protection method of Defender of the Crown, which made it impossible to copy on an Amstrad CPC. Brice has used a a trick of the disk controller, which could read formats that couldnt be written. In short, they worked on upgraded CPC. When the game was released, the company responsible for the duplication contacted the them : they could not copy the BAT ("bon à tirer"). Shortly after the release of E. X.I.T. (one year before Defender of the Crown), a new version of discology appeared up which could copy E.X.I.T. Three weeks of real life business, it isn't much for almost 9 months of work(the protection was not written by them). They were paid both in copyrights, you can imagine the result of sales (pirating is bad, subliminal message). No more royalties from this moment.

There were tools to copy data on disks in a special format. Each sector had a well-defined content : code, sprites, screens, music. No directory of course, only direct access to the disk. From memory, there was one sector per track. The floppy disk controller knows how to read but not write it. This is the trick. On their developpement Amstrad CPC, a switch and a resistor were soldered between a printer port and a part of the floppy drive. The printer port, under the orders of homemade BIOS was ordering the disk controller to stop writing a sector before erasing the following sector. Ubisoft have opened their eyes very wide when they saw for the first time the game on a single diskette (sector size 6, that's 240k for 40 tracks per side or 480 KB of uncompressed data). It was a compact format... At startup, Brice was turning off the OS to install his own, with just enough, to optimize RAM usage. They have spent nights and nights battling to save KB. Brice needed much RAM for his code, and Laurent for the images. They did eat much pizza and drink much beer to work... And the cherry on the cake, a handy utility last: upload and download of their work from CPC to another with a Minitel (model 1B had a reversible modem, 1200/75 or 75/1200, with an external jack to the internal modem). Long live the serial port ! Furthermore the application had a kind of integrated chat, because the phone couldnt be used while transferring via the Minitel. This original chat/transfer program was also found with Defender of the Crown sources. The needed cable between the printer port and the external jack of the minitel was just needing 3 connexions. It was the same cable who permits to download program from commercial servers to an Amstrad CPC. When programming E.X.I.T. such possibility didnt exist still, so backup disks were traveling on a bike (well what about pigeons instead ?).

We can thank Brice Rive for providing the complete source code of Defender of the Crown to the curious. This means we can hope for new versions with more european languages supported, improved graphics (oversan screens ?) especially on CPC + with its improved palette, bug fixes (at least the princess bug). The data (music, screens and sprites) are all in special format readable by the game and utilities written by Brice. Sprites are available as OCP files, the screens in a mosaic in GIF format.

As so often, the game used only 64 Kb of RAM to support the Amstrad CPC 464 and 664. If Brice Rive could have used 128 Kb, he would have improved the playability with less disk access, the animation of sprites during battles, fix a bug that greatly diminishes the appearance of the princesses (and what is a story without a princess I ask you ?). Note that there is no cheat in the game.

The Amstrad CPC version of Defender of the Crown was made without the use of material derived from another port, no sources, no graphics, just playing for hours with the Atari ST version, well with just a rather short article about the internal of the game, as the original developers were not available. Of the 64 Kb of RAM, 32 are used for code, 32 for video. All developed solely with the Amstrad CPC Pyradev compiler.

For graphics, a hacker was responsible for extracting them from the Atari ST version (Tsuno, well known at the time), and a conversion was made from this raw extraction, with an early result needing much work before achieving some satisfaction. Laurent Boucher still has nightmares at night about the Amstrad color palette (small exaggeration) to the point he is still able to recite 24 years later palette and the interleaving in memory ... The purple was essential for shapes, three different intensities from black to white. The degraded red-orange were too mixed for that. They found their natural place where the scene was lit by a fire. Fortunately, there was still no electric light in the middle ages. Laurent Boucher has used many homemade programs for cutting and editing sprites and viewing their animation. Defender of the Crown pictures werent compressed.

Note that there is a recent version of Iphone / Ipad Defender of the Crown .

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Shao Lin's Road, review and longplay by Xyphoe

Shao Lin's Road (kicker) is an adaptation of the Konami arcade game (1985), the spiritual son of Yie Ar Kung Fu. It was available on Amstrad CPC in 1987 by The Edge.

You can see the video of this test of Shao Lin's Road on Youtube by Xyphoe.

North and South commercial remake

North and South was available in 1988 on Amstrad CPC by Infogrames

A commercial remake of North and South should be out at the end of April on Iphone/Ipad, PC and MAC and later on Android.

Anuman Interactive is working on this remake which will be out under the name of Microïds.

You can see a video of the longplay of North and South on Youtube by Xyphoe.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Yie Ar Kung Fu, review and longplay by Xyphoe

Yie Ar Kung fu was edited by Imagine in 1985, based on an arcade game by Konami.

You can see the video of this test of Yie Ar Kung Fu on Youtube by Xyphoe.

Thunder Blade HD Gameplay by Metr81

Here is a new HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Thunder Blade edited by US Gold in 1988.

Video longplay of Teenage mutant hero turtles 2 by Xyphoe, included the hidden music

The music of the Amstrad CPC game Teenage mutant hero turtles 2 has been found on the original support.

You can download a .DSK image with the music on CPCWiki.

And now a youtube video of the game by Xyphoe, music included.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

R-Type by Easter Egg

Unless you are a hermit or someone very busy like me, I hope you are informed that the new version of R-Type by Easter Egg is available since the start of February.

Bubble Bobble for cpc (bb4cpc) v3 is available

César Nicolas Gonzales did update BB4CPC (v3) : correction of bugs and improvements.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Prohibition remake as Java-applet

Devilmarkus is working on a Prohibition remake in Java.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

New teaser video of R-type by Easter Egg

a new teaser video is available on the Easter egg's R-type remake site, also news musics and background pictures.

Bubble Bobble remake (BB4CPC) by César Nicolas Gonzales

In 1986 Taito released the arcade game Bubble Bobble featuring the twin Bubble Dragons Bub and Bob. It was converted in 1987 on Amstrad CPC by Software Creations and distributed by Firebird. Alas this Amstrad CPC version had no music, nice sprites (or not), sound effects (my ears are still bleeding).

That's why César Nicolas Gonzales (author of the CPCE Amstrad CPC emulator) started a faithful remake of the arcade version which could work on an Amstrad CPC 464 (only 64 Ko) : BB4CPC. So this remake uses the full 16 colors of the Amstrad palette, music, nice sound effects, enhanced sprites, all the original levels and final boss. It was released a few days ago just after christmas 2011. Tom et Jerry did some work on the music.

Citadelle v1.1 on Amstrad CPC and ... Exelvision EXL100

In 2005 Tom et Jerry did port a Loriciels adventure game written on Philips VG5000 and Oric Atmos : Citadelle.

In 2011 he purchased a rare french computer the Exelvision EXL100. So he ported once again this game on this "new" computer, and backported enhancements to the Amstrad version Citadelle v1.1 in October 2011.

Sorry but the game is in french only.

Source : Tom et Jerry

Moon Base III by Barrie M. Eaton, now on Android

In 1991, Barrie M. Eaton wrote an adventure game Moon Base III.

21 years later, his son couldnt find an adventure game on Android, so he ported this game, using Android features (speech synthesis for example). Moon Base III is available as a demo version (20% of the game), or in full version for 1,60 € on the Android market.

Source : CPC Wiki's forum

Countdown to R-Type remake

It's 18h06, you will have to wait still 2.332.400 seconds to be able to enjoy Easter Egg's new program : the R-Type remake for Amstrad CPC in colors !

This remake is done by Fano (code), TotO (graphics) et iXien(sound). You can read Fano's interview on Push'N'Pop.

So it's still 38.873 minutes, that's 647 hours or 27 days to wait... To help you in meantime, you can go on the R-Type remake's site to find screenshots, musics, the cover, the manual, and for course the preview video of the game on Youtube.

By the way, R-Type was cited on Boing Boing.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

The Amstrad CPC database GameBase CPC v23 is available

GameBase CPC v23 is available since the 19th December.

Airwolf 2 music remake by MrBedev and longplay video by CholoCPC

Here is a music remake of Airwolf 2 by MrBedev on Youtube.

For the longplay video by CholoCPC :

• longplay part 1 of Aiwolf 2
• longplay part 2 of Aiwolf 2
• longplay part 3 of Aiwolf 2
• longplay part 4 of Aiwolf 2

Source : CPCRulez's forum

3D Classics Xevious on Nintendo 3DS

Xevious, a classic shoot them up is available on the Nintendo 3DS Eshop. The reviewer of this Xevious youtube video states that the 3D allow to easily recognize flying targets from ground targets. A new hit ?

Punk Star HD Gameplay by Metr81

Here is a new HD video by Metr81 of the spanish Amstrad CPC game Punk Star written by Genesis Soft in 1988.

One of the few games with vocal synthesis (at loading screen stating the title of the game). A platform game, which doesnt seem so easy.

Punk Star also exists on MSX and ZX Spectrum.

The 8bit game Barbarian now on Iphone, Android, PC and MAC !

Anuman is working on a new version of Barbarian on Iphone, Android, PC and MAC, it wont be just a port of the 1987 game by Palace Software. It should be available on 12th December. Check the source of this news for screenshots of this news version.

Source : JeuxVideo.com

Playing Elite on Nintendo DS and Android phones

A little bit more than 2 years ago, I wrote that Elite IV was announced on PS3 and Xbox360. Today still nothing new to chew, see what people think about this vaporware on Frontier's forums (funny).

Happily, it's still possible to play Elite if you have an Android phone or a Nintendo DS (or even a GBA), thanks to DS-Elite. DS-Elite is an interpretation of Elite A, a version of Elite modified by Angus J. C. Duggan made available in the mid 1990s. Elite was originally written by David Braben and Ian Bell in 1984 for the BBC Microcomputer.

If you are interested in a new Elite game, take a look at Pioneer (alpha stage though).

Super Cauldron, review and longplay by Xyphoe

Super Cauldron is one of the last games sold on Amstrad CPC sortis in 1992 by Titus Software, with Prehistorik 2. It was coded by Elmar Krieger, with music by Christian Lier and Thorsten Mitschele (Kangaroo Musique) using Soundtrakker.

Simon Forrester reviewed Super Cauldron in the June 1993 issue of Amstrad Action (issue 93), giving the game an overall rating of 96% - one of the highest ratings that AA has ever given. This two-page review was noteworthy in that Simon wrote it in the form of a poem (quoted from CPCWiki).

You can see the video of Super cauldron on Youtube.

Rick Dangerous 2 on Nintendo DS by Alekmaul

Two days ago, Alekmaul released Rick Dangerous II for Nintendo DS.

He is also the author for Nintendo DS of AmeDS, an Amstrad CPC emulator, of Rick Dangerous 1 and Manic miner.

Source : PortableDev

Antiriad played on piano and longplay video

Not a remake but simply the music of the game Antiriad (the armor of) played on piano by Alpiso on Youtube.

For the longplay video by Cholo head to longplay part 1 of Antiriad and longplay part 2 of Antiriadon Youtube.

Thanatos played on piano and longplay video

Once again a beautiful play of piano by Alpiso about the Thanatos game on Youtube.

And if you dislike piano, what about listening to a guitar arrangement played by Pacopersia about the Thanatos game on Youtube ?

For the longplay video by cholo head to the longplay part 1 of Thanatos, the longplay part 2 of Thanatos and the longplay part 3 of Thanatos on Youtube.

Goody HD Gameplay by Metr81

Here is a new HD video by Metr81 of Goody written by Opera Soft in 1987.

Nebulus : theme remix, video longplay and remake

A remake of the Nebulus music is available on Youtube by Alpiso.

That was a hard game, I only went to the second tower (and there are 8 of them), so if you want to see all towers, here is a longplay of Nebulus by Wanderlain on Youtube.

You can also play remakes of Nebulus : Tower Toppler for windows, linux, BeOS and MacOS X, or Power Toppler for Iphone with 2 missions of 8 towers, it has been developped by Silver Software (the game cost 0,79 €).

Mercenary (Novagen Software) remake, now a SDL version

Even if there no recent update of the remake of Mercenary games by Novagen Software for windows, there is now a SDL version of MDDClone by Szymon Ender for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.

Bomb jack HD Gameplay by Metr81

Here is a new HD video by Metr81 of Bomb jack written by Elite in 1986.

A classic I remember well, I was able to play 3 or 4 times all levels before loosing all lives, Bomb Jack 2 was disappointing though.

Edge Grinder HD Gameplay by Metr81

Edge Grinder for Amstrad CPC is only a few days ago, and here is the first HD video of this game on Youtube by Metr81.

Edge Grinder by Axelay is out

The Amstrad CPC version of the multi-platform game Edge Grinder is out. This Amstrad CPC version was programmed by Axelay (Paul Kooistra), music by the ubiquitous Tom & Jerry and graphics by Trevor Smila Storey.

The video you will find below comes from the C64 version.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Gamebase CPC v22 is out

GameBase CPC V22 is out since 14th September 2011.

Ikari Warriors on PS3 and Xbox360

Ikari Warriors is out on PS3 and Xbox360.

Source : JeuxVideo.com

Shadow dancer, review and longplay by Xyphoe

Metr81 isnt the only one to post videos of Amstrad CPC gameplay on Youtube, there is also Cholo and Xyphoe.

The first video made by Xyphoe announced there is Shadow Dancer written by US Gold in 1991.