Athanor is a new Amstrad CPC (and Oric !) graphical adventure game in french (english incoming) by Eric Safar.

It has vectoriels graphics with an extended package (see below). Beware, the included sealed envelope must not be opened before the program tell you so (hint inside).

You can buy Athanor for 20 € (postage included for france though) with 3 or 3,5 inch disk. A .DSK will be available for free later.

English and german translations are done but must be corrected. A C64 version is being done.

An interview of Eric SAFAR is available on Ordiretro.

Two generations (David 40 years old and Ornella 11 years old) are testing several Amstrad CPC games on Youtube :

• Ikari Warriors
• Jet Set Willy
• gore games

A work in progress of Flappy Bird on Amstrad CPC+ ? Yes, it's called FlappyRulez, written by Hermol (webmaster of CPCRulez).

There is an update on CPC Game Reviews talking about the last Crackers Velus program, a reflexion game (taquin like) called Kamyzol.

The goal of the game is to move the red piece toward the exit by moving all others pieces with a twist, they can be moved only horizontally or vertically.

• CholoCPC
  • International Karate Plus in 1988 by System3
• Xyphoe
  • Trantor - the last stormtrooper in 1987 by Probe
  • Gryzor in 1987 by Ocean on Amstrad CPC (Konami actually). It's a speedrun : 5 mn 27 seconds.
  • Fruity Frank in 1984 by Kuma Computers.
  • Fantasy world dizzy in 1989 by Codemasters.
• Metr81
  • Cybernoid in 1988 by Hewson

Today with the LCD screens, the Amstrad CPC emulators don't display the same result than with a real Amstrad CPC and a Cathodic Ray Tub (CRT) television.

So Alex76gr has created a collection of 75 loading screens pictures of Amstrad CPC games with a scanline effect (1536x1080 resolution).

However adding scanlines isnt enough to looks like a CRT television set.

Winape and Caprice32 are 2 Amstrad CPC emulators which can provide a CRT rendering.

Two years ago Syx et TotO released an emulation of the original arcade ROM of Pac Man.

Today it's a new version of Pac-Man for Amstrad CPC with a speed bump, to let you play this classic game with more pleasure.

You will need 128 Kb and to import the original arcade roms inside the .DSK with an utility.

This Pac-Man emulator for Amstrad CPC is based on the work by Simon Owen for Sam Coupe and ZX Spectrum.

Life of Pixel is an original windows platform game as it lets you play in worlds of retro computers : ZX81, ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC of course and many more.

An interesting article about the making of Match Day by John Ritman on ZX Spectrum (football game).

You have still 3 days to be able to buy Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams on Humble Bundle (weekly). Nine dollars will be enough to get it, and money goes to charities.

Nice music by the way.

A new Bolloware game : Sven.

Here is a HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game La Guerra de Gamber by ESP Soft released on the 30th January 2014 for the 30th anniversary of the Amstrad CPC.

It's a robocop/green beret like game with a horizontal scrolling with 3 levels, and a bonus level like the Prohibition game between each level.

You can download La Guerra de Gamber on Amstrad.ESP.

The principal musical theme was written by McKlain and can be heard on SoundCloud.

Light Forge is a vertically scrolling shoot them up for Amstrad CPC, C64 and ZX Spectrum, edited by FTL (Faster Than Light) in 1986. A very good game, one of the few I was able to finish on Amstrad CPC in the good old times. Music is written by Ron Hubbard, sadly it is missing from the Amstrad CPC version. So to listen it you will have to go for the C64 version of Light Force on Youtube.

ScummVM now supports the english version of the game le Manoir de Mortvielle (created by Lankhor) : Mortville Manor.

Just after a few days that Death Sword was available, and you can already find tests of this new Amstrad CPC game on Youtube :

• test for the frogs of Death Sword on youtube
• test in english of Death Sword on youtube (see below)