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Xalk by Anthony HENRIQUES in 1991, 2017 and 2019

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Xalk is a match 3type game written by Anthony HENRIQUES in 1991 and published in the issue 33 of the Amstrad 100% newspaper in January 1991, following the release of the game Klax.

In 2017 Anthony HENRIQUES rewrote parts of the game : diagonal matches and combos, bug crushing. The speed at the start of the game is more or less random and the game can be paused with the Space key.

In 2019 Tom et Jerry, Kukulcan for the programmation and Ixien for the music also did enhance the game once more.

To see Xalk in the video, go to 7 minutes and 34 seconds.

This information comes from CPC Rulez which points on Homebrew.AT where you will be able to also download a cover for the game. All downloads are coming from CPC-Power.


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Eight feet under by Stefan Vogt available, following Hibernated (adventure game)

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After Hibernated, Stefan Vogt wrote Eight feet under which reveals some unknown events of the first game. It was first available for buyers of Hibernated, and is now available for all on C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and also a new MSX version.

And of course, Hibernated 2 is WIP.





Cheman, the next Amstrad CPC game by the Mojon Twins

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Cheman is the next Amstrad CPC game by the Mojon Twins. It's a mix of platform and adventure.

It will be available as a tape physical edition at the RetroZaragoza 2019 which will take place the 28th October at the Delicias Civic Center in the Zaragoza town.






Remake of the game Head over Heels on Steam

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Head over Heels is a classic game released in 1987 by Ocean Software and written by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond. A remake was written in 2003 by Tomaz Kac (without IP rights) and freely available on Retrospec.

This remake is also on Steam by Piko Interactive which bought the IP rights. Below a longplay of this remake on Youtube.


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Interview with Mevlut DINC, programmer of Enduro Racer on Amstrad CPC

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An interview with Mevlut DINC on retrogamesmaster who is the programmer of Enduro Racer on Amstrad CPC (made in 2016). See a longplay video on youtube by Xyphoe.


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Demo of Amstrad CPC+ sprites by Arnaud for CPCTelera, and about WinCpctelera

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Arnaud Bouche is the author of Bitume inspired of Asphalt and Deeper Warrens inspired of the classic gauntlet with some RPG elements.

He is also the author of the WinCpctelera utility which lets you program quickly under windows a program using the CPCTelera framework which will compile also on Amstrad CPC with this CPCTelera library.

And it's with CPCTelera that he programmed a demo of Amstrad CPC+ sprites.



Richard Aplin's games longplay by Xyphoe with an interview

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A night with Xyphoe playing all the games by Richard Aplin (Fly Spy, Shinobi, Double Dragon I and II 128k versions, Final Fight) including a longplay of Fly Spy), with an interview withj Richard Aplin himself.


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Euclides XXI by ESP Soft, following of Arquimedes XXI (2011)

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After a first release in spanish, ESP Soft just released the english version of Euclides XXI, the following of the adventure game Arquimedes XXI (released in 2011).


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