Eto has just relased his first game ever for the Amstrad CPC : the Enchanted Stones of Cameronne (download link, also on CPCWiki).

It's a board game called "Cameronne" and based on the great game Ishido for the Gameboy which he played for hours.

Cameronne is written in Locomotive BASIC except for the music, which is using the Arkos Tracker BASIC binary provided by Targhan. Despite being a Basic game, he put quite some effort into optimizing the slow parts. It's of course not efficient as an Assembler game, but he thinks he could hide the annoying slow parts, so it doesn't hurt the gameplay too much.

Special thanks to Mr. Lou for providing the excellent music tracks. And thanks to Targhan for providing an easy way to include music into Basic programs.

It's also possible to play it at that website in the browser. But I recommend to play it on real hardware or a good emulator.

On the website there is also a ZIP file which contains the printing arts for the inlet, disk label and also a small manual with a background short story and the instructions. So it's possible to create a physical release if you want.

Youtube video of the Enchanted Stones of Cameronne game by Xenomorph below.

A new version of ConvImgCpc by Ludovic Deplanque is out (27th February 2021).

It's a windows utility to convert PC images to Amstrad CPC.

Arnaud Bouche has updated his game inspired by l'Aigle d'Or : Throne Legacy v1.1. This new version brings the following modifications :

• New intro by CPC-POWER and TITAN
• Game translation En/Fr/Es/It/De
• Restoration of original Woman painting, being replaced by Prince of persia for cpcretrodev gesture
• Remove lighter usage limit
• Speed up player movement
• Now life is lost by movement and not by time (prevent quick lost life in dark room because game run too fast)
• Game map slightly changed, Shop is nearer and room of the cup is attached to the castle
• Golden key cannot open doors anymore
• Some text modification for better understanding
• Old torches can be taken from wall (but caution there are nearly burnout)
• Change stair down image because stair was not visible enough
• Handle Fire3 for Suicide (as Esc key)
• Many graphicals glitches fixed

The 2021 edition of the Basic 10 liners has started the 1st February.

Check the twitter of BASIC10Liners for any news and any entrance.

A new version of the Amstrad CPC emulator for Odroid Go by Millim : CapriceESP32 is available (v0.8.4).

There are no informations about the changes in this version.

Turbo Rascal SE (TRSE) v0.12 is out. It's a complete suite (IDE, compiler, programming language, image sprite level resource editor) intended for developing games/demos for 8 / 16-bit line of computers, with a focus on the MOS 6502, the Motorola 68000, the (GB)Z80 and the X86. TRSE currently supports application development for the C64, C128, VIC-20, PLUS4, NES, Gameboy, PET, ZX Spectrum, TIKI 100, Amstrad CPC 464, Atari 2600, 8086AT, Amiga 500 and the Atari ST 520 (complete list here). With the benefits of a modern IDE (error messages, code completion, syntax highlighting etc) and a bunch of fast built-in tools, it has never been easier to program for your favorite obsolete system !

Join TRSE on Facebook !

Among the many changes of this 0.12 version (download link also), there is the source code of the Amstrad CPC demo Mørketid which I really did like.

A new version of ConvImgCpc by Ludovic Deplanque is out (11th February 2021).

It's a windows utility to convert PC images to Amstrad CPC.

Keith56 is known for his Amstrad CPC games and now he is an author for a programming book on Z80, 6502, 68000, 8086 and ARM assembly.

You can buy the book on Amazon :

• US amazon link
• UK amazon link

Robert Kehrer has written a soundtrakker player in javascript (on github). Sound isnt perfect at the moment due to no AY-3-8910 soundchip emulation, but it's a good start !

The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.6.

Bob Winner is an action game written in 1986 by Bernard AURE, Bruno MASSON (graphism) and Michel WINOGRADOFF (music). It was edited by Loriciels.

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is showing a speedun in 8 minutes and 54 seconds on Sorcery.

A new articles is available on 64 NOPS, a blog about programmation on Amstrad CPC by Hicks (Vanity) and Toms (Pulpo Corrosivo). The subject of the article is : Perfectly accurate Z80 flags and CPC timing.

In 2019, Zisquier began to learn Z80 assembly and started to write an RPG game for the Amstrad CPC plus that you can now download on Amstrad.EU.

The football game CPC Soccer by Voxeltower is available for tape, disk, CPC+ cartridge and now Dandanator.

A new version of the Amstrad CPC emulator for Odroid Go by Millim : CapriceESP32 is available (v0.7.9).

It features mute sound and support for cheating (read documentation for using it). To access both features use the Menu Key + B, then Menu Key + Down arrow.

You must put the directory /cpc at the base of the Odroid SD card (especially /cpc/dsk), the .FW will be in /odroid/firmware as usual.

I recommand to read the documentation of CapriceESP32. You must use the Menu key + B to access the .DSK directory then Menu + right arrow to go to the file list, select file with A, press Menu + B once again to launch the selected file. To use the virtual keyboard, press Menu + A and once again to remove it. There is no sound mute at the moment. If you want to reset the emulator, just choose another disk and file to execute.

The new version features :

• Key mapping file support, identical to the C64/Schumi structure (see documentation)
• Volume control for the internal speaker. By pressing VOL button together with one key ( left, right, up, or down) will increase/decrease by 1 or 10
• Bluetooth Audio support. Now you can stream the emulator sound in Stereo to Speaker or Headphone, wirelessly
• Added a simple 8bit style OSD aka 1986
• Improved SD card access by adding SPI Mutex access control