About 31 years later after trying for the first time at 10 years old, Jaymanu did finish the game Relief Action by Loriciels released in 1987. You should read the thread on CPCWiki for the informations, pokes and a SNR file to replay his game on WinAPE (put the emulation speed at 400% for less slowness).
There is an article about Relief Action by Sylvestre (french) on his site.
SAMdisk v3.8.11 by Simon Owen is out since the 18th May 2018.
The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.
Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.
There is also a Samdisk 4.0 beta version on github for windows, linux and MacOS.
What is the common point between the PC speaker and the Amstrad CPC : Fantasy World Dizzy.
In a interesting article on Habr, we learn how the simple PC speaker is allowed to make music despite its obvious limitations.
On Fusion Retro Books you will be able to download for free for a short time their book The Story of US Gold.
Dont hesitate to check their other books.
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 ?
After the windows remake FitoWestBank by Adolfito, it's now an Android remake by the same author which has been released in January 2019.
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PuzCPC has released hi clone of the arcade game Scramble (byKonami in 1981).
An Amstrad CPC 6128 dust cover ? Yes it exists and you can buy onebeing selled for 25 euros on le bon coin.
Renegade is a beat them up released in 1987 on Amstrad CPC, edited by Ocean Software. On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is showing a speedrun of 4 minutes on Renegade.
Nanako is a game character first seen on ZX Spectrum, and later in 2009 on Amstrad CPC en 2009 in two game by The Mojon Twins which we find once again 10 years later upgraded in a compilation called Nanako Chronicles (sold by BitmapSoft) :
Pinball Dreams by Batman Group is near completion, it is actually tested before the upcoming release.
Beware, an Amstrad CPC with 128 Kb memory is needed.
CPCEC (windows) is a new Amstrad CPC emulator by CNGSOFT released two days ago, which replaces CPCE (dos/windows).
This emulator was his final project for the Computer Engineering postdegree at the Distance-Learning National University (Universidad Nacional de Enseñanza a Distancia, UNED), a project directed by professor José Manuel Díaz Martínez and ultimately awarded a 100% and the right to a mention of honour.
Slap Fight (A.L.C.O.N.) is a shoot them up already existing on Amstrad CPC since 1987. Abalore started to work on a remake in 2016 and today a second video of this remake is available with the first level of the game.
Abalore accepts every help possible to make this new remake.
After NoRecess's birthday cake, it's the turn for Xyphoe to receive a nice cake made by Mrs Xyphoe for his anniversary.
Orpheus 8-Bit by Bitlines is a remake of the adventure game Orphée released in 1985 by Loriciels. It was one of the two games I bought with Sorcery+ with my Amstrad CPC 664 the same year, sweet dreams. The video is done by Tarodius.
I will let you read two interviews of Jane Whittaker which are interesting :
The programming of Flying Shark was done just with the mother board of the arcade game, no more, no less. Graftgold had to find an arcade box and a TV set and play, play, play to write the Amstrad CPC conversion.
You dont even think about it, mais there is something just up your 6128 disk drive :
It isnt very sexy, so why not giving your loving Amstrad CPC a cure of youth with something more complete and beautiful made by Frédéric Bellec of ACME web site ?
He also has another project of change :
The music of Pinball Dreams by Batman Group is available on soundcloud. It was written by SuTeKH/Epyteor and converted on Amstrad CPC by McKlain and RaFT/TRSI.
Arcade Game Designer v0.7.3 is a Windows (32/64) utility by Jonathan Cauldwell to write games for Timex/Next, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Acorn Electron, Dragon/Coco and Enterprise, without any knowing of programmation.
This new version adds : Windows 32 bit version, option to import AGD/AGDX games from TAP files, new options in the script generator, new tool to check for mistakes, 2 default fonts, numerous bug fixes, support for Acorn Electron, Dragon/Coco and Enterprise, updated documentation.
There is a forum about AGD.
Michael Wessel is using an Amstrad Notepad NC100 link with the serial port to a vocal synthetizer DECTalk DTC01 dating from 1984 in a youtube video.
In another video, the DECTalk is singing this time with a Tandy TRS 80.
A new video by RetroManCave about the Amstrad PC 1512 and Amstrad PC 1640 which started the compatible PC train in Europe.
ACE v1.18 by Philippe Rimauro is an Amstrad CPC emulator for MorphOS.
Caprice Forever v2019-03 by Frédéric Coste is a modified version of the Caprice emulator (by Ulrich Doewich) for windows.
From Rhayader Computers's tweet I went to its web site of his shop at Mid Wales Plus in the United Kingdom, which sells several things but what interests us is mugs, mouse mats and coaster with an Amstrad CPC theme, but also for other 8bit computers.
CPCEC (windows) is a new Amstrad CPC emulator by CNGSOFT released some days ago, which replaces CPCE (dos/windows).
It's the fourth release : Onscreen indicators (hide them with -O); fixed bugs in ZXSEC that slowed emulation down when the frameskip wasn't zero, and another bug in audio recording on WAV files.
There is a graphical menu since the third release.
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