After Rick Dangerous 2 by Alekmaul on Sega Megadrive, now Deflektor was also released on Sega Megadrive the 2th June 2019 and updated the 10th June.

Aeon part 1 is a game created with AGD first on ZX Spectrum by Sunteam. It has been ported on Amstrad CPC by Vincent GR.

It isnt easy to play it with the keyboard, I couldnt pass the first screen with about 10 games. If you are better than me dont hesitate to reply on Twitter.

Michael Archer is the author of several known games on C64. He did release their source code on Github, an interesting move :

• Nemesis the Warlock (Martech)
• Slaine (Martech)
• Rampage (Activision)
• Altered Beast (Activision)
• Atomic Robokid (Activision)
• Alien3 (Acclaim Entertainment)

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 another video of this remake is available with the second of the game. Check the other videos on his Youtube channel.

Abalore accepts every help possible to make this new remake.

Classic Adventurer is a newspaper about adventure games which last issue number five is out as a free download or in printed format.

This issue has for example an article about Redhawk which was on ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and C64 by Melbourne House.

Batman Group has been interviewed by Homebrew Legends.

Night Knights par Reidrac pour MSX est disponible chez Polyplay qui ont également des courroies pour lecteur de disquette Amstrad et courroies pour lecteur de cassette 464.

After a Nintendo DS version in 2011, Alekmaul has updated his Sega Megadrive version of Rick Dangerous II initially released in 2018.

ERIDU : the space port by Jose Javier Garcia Aranda is a WIP Scramble clone created with the Basic library 8BP, after Frogger Eterno which is a clone of Frogger, released in a physical edition.

Batman Group has made the buzz with a teaser of a racing game : Vespertino. There will be a lite disk version but on a CPC 464 you will need more memory. The real version will be on a cartridge for all CPC (so it's not a CPC+ cartridge) to be able to hold all the assets of the game. It will be like the Repoker de Ases cartridge which holds 4Mhz games.

Personnally, I was much impressed by the 3D rotation of the car, a nice effect.

Xyphoe has made a video in reaction of this teaser.

The results of the Basic 10 liners contest 2019 are out, Amstrad CPC programs are :

• Shielding Color, 6th place category extrem 256
• Nano Hexagon par Logiker, 10th place category PUR-80
• CPCanabalt par Logiker, 5th place category PUR-120
• OVO, 3rd place category extrem 256
• Tanks Alot par Amsdos, 14th place category extrem 256
• Logipics par Logiker, 2nd place catégory PUR-80

You can download all Amstrad CPC programs of the Basic 10 liners contest 2019.

RetroGamerNation has released an Amstrad Gamers Choice Award 2018 on Youtube.

Crownland was released on Atari 8 bit by the group LaResistance in 2007. It's a platform game which won 2nd place at ABBUC Software. The game is being converted on Amstrad CPC by Ivan Duchauffour. There are two videos available :

• first preview
• second preview

There is now an english version of the spanish adventure game written by Pablo Martínez Merino.

The spanish version of La Casa al otro lado de la tormenta has been updated to v1.1.

Following my article about a bit of history about creation of adventure games, PawMac by Jason McHale is a windows utility to create maps of adventure games using The Quill or PAW (to be used with Trizbort) and to convert a game created with The Quill to use it with PAW.