From time to time, an article not about Amstrad computers, well till 1986 when Amstrad bought the computer part of Sinclair Research.
OSNews mentions an interesting article about the making of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, its colour clash and graphics engines like Nirvana+ which allow nice games without this colour clash like Gandalf released in 2018 (see the video below).
Jose Javier Garcia Aranda will release in a few days a new version of 8BP v34 (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.
In June 2019, 8bit music will be played (1 hour and 40 mintes) by an orchestra at the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra.
Knight Lore was released in 1984 for Amstrad CPC and other computers. There was a MSX2 remake of Knight Lore released in 2009. But in 2018 it's the turn of the C64 to see a remake of Knight Lore.
After the orchestral version of Barbarian (at 3 minutes and 42 seconds) and Cauldron, here is one of Deflektor (original music by Ben Daglish.
Released in 2016, 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), he will release the source of the game on the 26th October 2018.
Ben Daglish is a musician and composer for 8bit games (Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, C64 and well the 16bit Amiga).
The youtube video with Ben Daglish took place at the London "Underground" pub on the 15th of October 2016 where he performed with Fastloaders two music tracks, The Wastelands loader and The Wastelands theme (Last Ninja game on C64).
I just changed a problem which existed since a moment for all accesses from a domain different than genesis8bit.fr (genesis8bit.com for example). It's now correct for all domains, your internet navigator wont complain about a bad certificat.
The last version of RASM is v0.102 (15th October 2018). This multi platform assembler (linux, windows, but not only like MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC.
The online documentation is available.
Makecart by Kevin Thacker is an utility to add ROM(s) to an Amstrad CPC+ cartridge image.
Seen on BYTECellar, the WIFI232 created by Paul Rickards (see his page on the WIFI232) is an electronic card (with an ESP8266 micro-controller) which you connect on any computer with RS232 (DB9 or DB25 with an adaptator) so you can get like a good old modem used with AT Hayes commands to connect to an internet BBS, for an Amstrad Notepad NC100 for example. See this video for using TCP/IP encapsulated with pppd.
You can buy a WIFI232 at Simulant (U.K.), this address was in a comment at BYTECellar.
The last version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CPCEmuPower by Megachur is the v181012. The aim of this emulator is to emulate the most exactly an Amstrad CPC, like with ACE.
The solution of the french adventure game Hawaii by Transoft in 1987 is available on CPCRulez.
Jarlac by Jose A. Martin is an incoming Amstrad CPC game written for the CPCRetroDev competition, you can :
The last version of UZ80, a Z80 assembler by CNGSOFT is available (20181025-1445).
The 8bit productions of Design Design by Simon Brattel are available on his site, mostly ZX Spectrum programs, a little bit for Amstrad CPC (including Tank Busters, a clone of the Atari VCS 2600 Battlezone game) and an Amstrad PCW game.
Seen on OursoN Retrogames Youtube channel, here is a speedrun of Cauldron 2 in 11 minutes and 38 seconds.
And after that, maybe listen to a remake of Cauldron 2 music by Ömer Aydin (Noisywan).
Total Eclipse (Incentive, 1988) uses the 3D Freescape engine. This game has just been ported on Atari XL/XE.
This conversion was coded by Mariusz Wojcieszek, graphics by Adam Wachowski, music and sound effects by Michał 'stRing' Radecki and additional graphics by Jose Pereira. The game was ported from the C64 and features much better speed due to heavy optimizations and faster CPU clock, so it is much more enjoyable on an Atari 8bit. As for the requirements, Total Eclipse requires atleast 64KB of ram to run, supporting both PAL and NTSC, and also (for the first time) NTSC-50 and PAL-60. Game will also run properly on Atari with Rapidus accelerator.
Released initially in 2016, Chibi Akuma (episode 1 : Invasion) v1.666 is available since 4 days, it's an Amstrad CPC(+) 6128 game, shoot them up whose character in an unhappy vampire woman.
This new version brings raster colors, 2 player support, better backgrounds and general game-engine improvements. The source code is also available.
The game is programmed by Keith56 (Twitter) who made a lot of youtube video explaining programmation on several Z80 computers.
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