Border 0 organizes his fifteenth score contest on the Amstrad CPC game Druid & Droid (action game by Arnolde in 2022) till the 31th march 2025. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.
To make so beautiful Amstrad CPC loading screens like Eric Cubizolle (Titan), it's easy, you just need to use the same painting program : Multipaint by Tero Heikkinen AKA Dr. Terrorz, and maybe a bit of talent and mostly a lot of work.
Titan is describing Multipaint as a mmix of OCP Art Studio and Deluxe Paint for windows which offers the possibility of using the resolutions and palettes of a whole bunch of old computers including the Amstrad CPC (mode 0 and 1, overscan possible in mode 0).
Arkos Tracker v3 by Targhan is available on the new web site, the new site isn't complete but it holds already several tutorials. The last version available is v3.2.4 (14th February 2025). It's a beta version but totally usuable for windows, mac and linux (intel and ARM).
This new version brings many improvements and one big unique feature called Effect Context.
One more interview by Retro Maniac, this time of Rolf Lakämper. As always the interview is bilingual, first in spanish then in english. Rolf Lakämper wrote six games on Amstrad CPC games including Mission Elevator.
Border 0 organizes his fourteenth score contest on the Amstrad CPC game Gold Maze (reflexion game by Retro Vynz) till the 31th January 2025. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.
A new article by No Recess about this year 2024 is a recommended reading.
To make so beautiful Amstrad CPC loading screens like Eric Cubizolle (Titan), it's easy, you just need to use the same painting program : Multipaint by Tero Heikkinen AKA Dr. Terrorz, and maybe a bit of talent and mostly a lot of work.
Titan is describing Multipaint as a mmix of OCP Art Studio and Deluxe Paint for windows which offers the possibility of using the resolutions and palettes of a whole bunch of old computers including the Amstrad CPC (mode 0 and 1, overscan possible in mode 0).
I wish you a merry christmas and what better way to wish it than to present the last demo by Roudoudou (code), Pulsophonic (music) and TITAN (graphics with MultiPaint).
Arkos Tracker v3 by Targhan is available on the new web site, the new site isn't complete but it holds already several tutorials. The last version available is v3.2.2 (1st December 2024). It's a beta version but totally usuable for windows, mac and linux (intel and ARM).
This new version brings a few bug fixes and many improvements in the user interface, especially in the Instrument Editor.
Arkos Tracker v3 by Targhan is available on the new web site, the new site isn't complete but it holds already several tutorials. The last version available is v3.2.1 (21th October 2024). It's a beta version but totally usuable as stated by the Targhan, for windows, mac and linux (intel and ARM).
Dizark isn't anymore embedded in Arkos Tracker and has now its own web site. Disark is a Z80 disassembler, but it is more than that as it can be used to convert sources from an assembler to another.
Below you will find the content of the announcement of Arkos Tracker 3 on CPCWiki :
Arkos Traker 3! It is a 100% redesigned, recoded version of Arkos Tracker. Don't worry though :
A few features :
The information is a bit old as it's from March 2024, but Lord Alan Michael did buy back the rights for the Amstrad brand and launched a marketing company under the name Amstrad Digital.
Amstrad.EU is going to be 25 years old soon, it seems it's the year to hit this threshold as this site got its anniversary in may. So Amstrad.EU just got a lifting at the start of October. The content of the old site is at its old address which you will find here. The content will be migrated from the old site to the new with time, so be patient.
Long life to Amstrad.EU and all other Amstrad computers related web sites, but lets not be sectarian towards those about other old computers as we didn't start all with an Amstrad CPC (I did start in fact with a ZX 81, not mine though).
Border 0 organizes his thirteenth score contest on the Amstrad CPC game 77 Attempts (platform game by Alvaro JOVER, Jordi AMOROS and Cristian GARCIA for the CPCRetroDev 2018) till the 30th November 2024. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.
You didnt visit Amstrad's web site since a few moment ? Then you should come back quickly as it is now a museum for all products made by Alan Michael Sugar's company. If you have a memory that you wish to share, then don't hesitate to click on the Contact Us link of the site as Alan Michael Sugar states on Twitter.
One more interview by Retro Maniac, this time of Tony Warriner. As always the interview is bilingual, first in spanish then in english. Tony Warriner did write some good Amstrad CPC games before cofounding Revolution Software.
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