Génération Micros has done an interview of the two brothers Didiers and Olivier GUILLION who wrote some reference games such as 5th Axis and Sapiens on Amstrad CPC and other 8bit computers.
The Benediction Coding Party #4 meeting organized by Eliot will take place from the Thurday 31th October to Sunday 3rd November 2024 in a new place : salle des Fêtes, Le Bourg, 50450 Sourdeval-les-Bois.
An invitro of the Benediction Coding Party #4 is available on Pouët. It was written by AST and Roudoudou (code) and Duffy (music).
Tiny Dash by Abalore is an Amstrad CPC game using the Play2CPC (for something like FM sound) in overscreen, multiplayer with 2 joysticks, a remake of Boulder Dash like the name suggest. The game is finished but levels must be created and may some more music will be added.
Mananuk (on Twitter) is working on a new Amstrad CPC game : the Dark Knight, with action and platform parts (short video in the link).
Galastrad is a shoot them up for Amstrad CPC in tape, disk and cartridge format, written by :
It has been programmed in two days during the AC2024 Show (13th and 14th April 2024).
The Key is a point and click Amstrad CPC graphical adventure game using the Paket engine discovered in 2019 in this video of the demo game Escape the ROM created by Jordi Sureda (graphics) and Santi Ontañón (code). The game was available in spanish and english, it is now also available in french and italian since the 8th June. But you will have to solve a short enigma to be able to download the program.
PunyInform v5.5 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson is a library written in Inform 6 to create adventure game (pure text, no graphic support contrary to DAAD) using the Z-machine virtual machine which will run on 8bit computers (or more recent computers too). PunyInform has a parser, knowing of common verbs and a framework to write adventure games.
PunyInform is based on the Inform 6 library written by Graham Nelson. Its goal is to make easily adventure games in Inform 6, with a manual describing the differences between the official library and PunyInform..
Games using PunyInform can be compiled in z3, z5 and z8 format (z3 being the best format for 8bit computers, other formats have more features). Compared to the Inform 6 library, it means that there is no support for the Glulx virtual machine but z3 format is important as Inform 6 doesnt support it.
To compile games written with PunyInform, you should use the Inform 6 compiler maintained by David Kinder. Binaries are available on if-archive. PunyInform needs Inform v6.35 (or more).
They are tutorials to write adventure game with PunyInform (end of the page) and all the documentation including a 8 page cheat sheet (quick reference)..
To try your game after compilation, you can use WinFrotz by David Kinder, to create map easily you can use Trizbort.
And finally, to create an Amstrad CPC and PCW disk image, you will have to use the Puddle BuildTools which works under linux, windows 1x with WSL2 or MacOS with Intel processor and OrbStack.
ZEsarUX X is a multi platform emulator, Amstrad CPC and PCW (and many others). You can compile the unix sources directly or get a binary for :
Transversion is an Amstrad CPC by Dave Moore using the CPCTelera library. It's a port of the 1983 Solar-Fox/Gridrunner game originally for the ZX Spectrum.
He is also writing a remake of the great classic Wizardry 1 (originally on Apple 2).
ugBASIC by Marco Spedaletti is a compiled basic which works on many computers including the Amstrad CPC(+). In fact this compiler write the code so a program works whatever the features of the targeted computer, a feature which doesnt exist in hardware will be managed by software. For ugBASIC's github it's here, an official Facebook group of ugBASIC and even an ugBASIC forum.
There is also an IDE for ugBASIC v1.16.2 still by Marco Spedaletti available on Itch.IO for Windows.
After BEARS!, a new cartridge game for Amstrad GX4000, 464+ and 6128+ by SOH Digital Entertainments was released in February 2023 : SOH Tactics GX.
It's a strategy/puzzle game with RPG elements. Don't forget to read the instructions. There is a version 1.1 for real hardware (GX4000 and CPC+) and v1.2 only for WinAPE v2.0b2.
In January 2024, there were still physical editions of BEARS! and SOH Tactics GX. Contact the author on his web site if there is still some and you want one.
The Youtube video of the complete game SOH Tactics GX was made by Amstrad Maniaque.
The Cult is an action game for Amstrad CPC (ZX Spectrum and Windows too) by Tartessos Games. It exists in spanish and english versions.
Discover Urok in video by Xenomorph.
Saboteur is an infiltration/action game on Amstrad CPC by Cliff TOWNSEND, edited by Durell Software in 1986.
On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is showing a speedrun in 11 minutes 33 seconds on Saboteur.
Caprice Forever v2024-06 by Frédéric Coste is a modified version of the Caprice emulator (by Ulrich Doewich) for Windows (32/64 bit) and also a 2022-06 for Windows XP.
RetroVirtualMachine v2.1.15 by Juan Carlos González Amestoy is available since the 14th June. It's an Amstrad CPC emulator (and more computers) for MacOS, Windows and Linux.
He is continuing his preservation work, you will find on ACME by Frédéric BELLEC the french newspaper Amstrad Magazine in HD from issue 1 to 45 (which became after issue 45 the newspaper Micro-Mag) and ten special issues.
One more interview by Retro Maniac, this time about Axelay. As always the interview is bilingual, first in spanish then just after in english, so hit this Page Down key as much as needed.
Goldorak by Zisquier, Pulsophonic and Titan is available. It's a shoot them up for Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000.
Dedion30 is showing his Sinclair PC200 configuration, the first one to the left in qwerty (not on), the PC200 in the middle is his latest buy in Azerty which is using his ISA riser showed in the System.CFG link.
Nice configuration including a MIDI tower at the start of the video avec Roland expanders MT-32 and SC-88 pro, and a Yamaha expander at the top. The riser is a prototype and isn't yet available.
Trasgo by Ivan AVILA is a platform Amstrad CPC, it's available since 4 hours today.
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