Archives for the month April 2023 of Genesis8 Amstrad Page

Backlight installation on an Amstrad PPC by Amstrad Retro Geek

04/16/2023 15:10 - Genesis8

I invite you to check the Youtube videos of Amstrad Retro Geek, including the one showing the installation of a backlight on an Amstrad PPC. And the following video showing two different colors of backlight.

A lot of musical remix of Amstrad CPC games on Tollis Youtube channel

04/19/2023 21:31 - Genesis8

You should go to the Youtube channel of Tollis to discover his many musical remix of Amstrad CPC games that he did wrote.

An Amstrad CPC romboard using a raspberry Pico by Matronica

04/19/2023 21:08 - Genesis8

Matronica has announced on CPCWiki his Amstrad CPC romboard using a Raspberry Pico. The sources are available on Github.

Interview with Mike Lamb by Retro Maniac Magazine

04/19/2023 20:54 - Genesis8

An interesting interview withMike Lamb on RetroManiac Magazine is available in spanish and english.

Memory Full, history of the Amstrad CPC demo scene, tome 1, by Hicks

04/19/2023 20:29 - Genesis8

Announced on CPCWIKI, Hicks has written Memory Full, history of the Amstrad CPC demo scene that you will be able to order on Ulule. I just ordered one, will you be the 133th to order it ? With some more we could have 464 orders, maybe 664 or lets become mad 6128 (or plus...).

Amspirit v0.845b, an Amstrad CPC emulator by Dmanu78

04/19/2023 20:09 - Genesis8

A new version of Amspirit, an Amstrad CPC emulator by Dmanu78 is available on the System.CFG forum for windows. There is a 32 and 64bit version. Reading all the thread is a good idea if you didnt read it already as it's a complete genesis of this emulator.

The thread on CPCWiki is here.

RAM upgrade from 512 to 640Kb on a Sinclair PC200 by Amstrad Retro Geek

04/23/2023 15:14 - Genesis8

If you have a Sinclair PC200 (PC XT) still with its RAM default (512 Kb), I invite you to see the video by Amstrad Retro Geek which shows how to upgrade to 640 Kb.

Emotion Trouble, an Amstrad CPC demo by Madram

04/23/2023 14:16 - Genesis8

Madram has released a new Amstrad CPC demo : Emotion Trouble during the Revision 2023 demo party. All code and sound are written by Madram. Another nice demo.

Checkmate, an Amstrad CPC demo by Pulpo Corrosivo

04/23/2023 13:41 - Genesis8

Pulpo Corrosivo has released a new Amstrad CPC demo : Checkmate during the Revision 2023 demo party. The code and graphics are written by Toms and the music by Tom et Jerry. A nice demo.

Los Elfos de Maroland, a graphical adventure game by Dwalin for Amstrad CPC and PCW

04/29/2023 14:46 - Genesis8

Los Elfos de Maroland is the latest adventure game written by Dwalin, only in spanish at the moment. It's a conversion with DAAD of its game previously written with PAWS in 1993.

The gameplay video is done by Xenomorph

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A new disk drive replacement by Recalbox for Amstrad CPC, PCW and PPC

04/29/2023 13:27 - Genesis8

A new video by Oldschool is beautiful presents the new Recalbox hardware to boost old consoles and computers.

For our Amstrad computers, there is only an alternative remplacement for the disk drive of the CPC, PCW and PPC using the FlashFloppy firmware, so an alternative to a Gotek.