A new video by Génération Micros about animation and graphics on Amstrad CPC.

Games that Weren't is a website dedicated to games, finished or not, that were never commercially released (Games that Weren't on Twitter).

This time, Games that Weren't managed to get their hands on Hill 19 (an Ikari Warriors/Commando game with a strategy twist) thanks to its Amstrad CPC developer : Lance Abson. The floppy disks he sent contain the source code for the game and some versions of the game, which was originally intended to be distributed by Gremlin Graphics. You can download everything from their website.

After a modification of Turrican, Jean-Marie is working on an Amstrad CPC remake of a 1991 classic for Amiga and PC : Moonstone.

For the moment there is no collision detection nor enemies AI, but you can move through the 4 levels.

The Moonstone Tavern is a dedicated site for the original Moonstone game if you want to know more about it.

Reginald and the She Vampires v1.1 par David Moore (reboot/sequel of the original game The Astonishing Adventures of Mr Weems And The She Vampires) is available with in-game SFX and monsters now have hp, taking more than one bullet to kill.

Code source of Reginald and the She Vampires is available on Github.

He is also writing a remake of the great classic Wizardry 1 (originally on Apple 2).

Transversion v1.1 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. This version fixes the drawing artefacts sometimes left behind when an enemy projectile disappears off the edge of the grid.

He is also writing a remake of the great classic Wizardry 1 (originally on Apple 2).

After Transversion in 2024, Dave Moore is working on his Amstrad CPC game Reginald and the She Vampires which is a reboot/sequel of the original game The Astonishing Adventures of Mr Weems And The She Vampires released in 1987 by the editor Piranha. Dave has released the beta 3 of Reginald and the Sex Vampires.

He is also writing a remake of the great classic Wizardry 1 (originally on Apple 2).

The Saboteur 2 mod by theALFEST is available as v1.25 on Itch.IO. It features a small performance improvement.

Exolon the continuing adventures by Space-Time Games is a PC remake of the classic Exolon written by Raffaele CECCO in 1987 and edited by Hewson. Don't hesitate to go check the Itch.IO page of Space-Time Games as it isn't the only retro remake he made.

Vag a traduit Traffic an Amstrad CPC game, a mix of a traffic simulator, arcade and puzzle, in several languages : English, French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish. he also did correct some problems.

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 v1.17 still by Marco Spedaletti available on Itch.IO for Windows.

Marco wrote in 2024 a Sokoban game : Soko64+, of course in ugBASIC.

He just wrote PUSHORI64+, a new game inspired by Pushori which was a popular puzzle and skill video game originally developed by Toni Pa (or Tony Pa) in the Flash era. It's based on a rather simple concept, but it requires planning and logic to master. The game involves "clearing" a playing area of blocks that have the same symbol.

Christ PERVER has updated his latest game Oh Mummy Resurrected for Amstrad CPC+ and GX-4000. The new features are :

• New ankh artifact to discover
• New torch weapon created
• Two player mode and new mummy type

Microsoft makes Zork Open Source. Zork originally was developed on mainframe between 1977 and 1979 by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Dave Lebling and Bruce Daniels (rather the enigmas), all students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The first version was developed on a DEC PDP-10 mainframe. Because the program was too large for the microcomputers of the time, they were forced to split it into three parts and develop a virtual machine (Z-Machine) using the Zork Implementation Language (ZIL). They then went on to create the well-known video game company Infocom in 1979.

Inufuto is a japanese who write many games, each time for many platforms including Amstrad CPC. He wrote initally Impetus in 2022 for CPC old, this year he is releasing a new version of Impetus+ for Amstrad CPC+ with hardware sprites. You cab check the Youtube channel of Inufuto. Impetus+ is a classic shoot them up game, whose sources you will find on Github.

Manuel3D is the author of 3 Amstrad CPC programs, two utilities : New font for Amstrad CPC and Draw a star, and also a game : the hangman.

On his Youtube channel, he was showing a case for an Amstrad CPC 464.

Today he is showing how to make a joystick for Amstrad CPC with the needed components and 3D printing (thanks to Amstrad Power for the tweet.

Et pour voir le résultat, allez voir cette vidéo du joystick fabriqué sur une partie d'Arkanoid.

Harrier Attack Reloaded for Amstrad CPC+ by Christ PERVER was released at the start of 2025. He made a video to explain the creation of Harrier Attack Reloaded.