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2016 Favourite demoscene productions by 4Sceners and Bitfellas

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4Sceners and Bitfellas published their favourite demoscene productions for the year 2016 :

  • 3rd place for the best music disk : CPC vs Virgill by TRSI
  • 2nd place for the best game : Pinball Dreams preview by Batman Group
  • 7th place for the best game : Outlaws




Roland Radio, an Amstrad CPC radio internet now with an Android application

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Roland Radio is an internet radio, and its program should interest you : only Amstrad CPC music.

There is now an Android application for Roland Radio.



Golden Axe music with a mix of SID (C64) and AY (Amstrad CPC) by Vincent GR

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Some music in a world of brutes, Golden Axe mixed with the SID of the Commodore 64 and the AY of the Amstrad CPC by Vincent GR.

Both tracks had different tempo and pitch so Vincent had to transpose C64 a bit higher to match the tempo with the CPC.

Golden Axe played with the SID (C64) and the AY (Amstrad CPC) by Vincent GR


Youtube video





WYZTracker v2 by Augusto Ruiz, WYZPlayer and cpcwyzlib

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WYZTracker is a tool developed by Augusto Ruiz (interface in english and spanish), from Retroworks, that can be used to compose music for WYZPlayer.

WYZPlayer is a Z80 player for the AY-3-8910 sound chip (a 3-voice PSG : Programmable Sound Generator designed by General Instrument) used by (and for) the Amstrad CPC, MSX and Spectrum. It can be used for games and demos due to its minimal use of CPU and RAM, the player takes little code and all musics are compressed.

Finally, you can use cpcwyzlib by Raul Simarro, an Amstrad CPC library to play wyztracker tunes with SDCC. He also wrote the cpcrslib used with z88dk.



Hewson Consultants, a book and some 8bit music

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Hewson Consultants, created in 1980 by Andrew Hewson, did publish several good games on Amstrad CPC like Uridium, Paradroid, Nebulus, Firelord, Stormlord and Cybernoid, but not only.

Available on their site web, a book (epub or not) as pre-order, and 11 incredible tracks from 10 classic Hewson games, remade by legendary artists (reduction of 40% with the code retrogamer on Bandcamp).



Roland Radio, an Amstrad CPC radio internet

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Roland Radio is an internet radio, and its program should interest you : only Amstrad CPC music. You can follow them on Twitter and facebook (cpcradio).



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