Two useful Facebook groups if you have an Amstrad or Sinclair PC
-If you have an Amstrad or Sinclair PC, the two following Facebook groups could interest you :
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If you have an Amstrad or Sinclair PC, the two following Facebook groups could interest you :
Carlc27843 has written for PICO-8 an Amstrad CPC AY-3-8910 sound chip emulator using undocumented 5512Hz 8-bit mono PCM channel, to compose or convert Amstrad CPC music by Dave Rogers :
TriangulArt by Impact is a really nice Amstrad CPC demo made only with triangles which you can see on Youtube.
The source code of the demo is now available on :
Open Tower Defense is the last work of Roudoudou, a strategy game of the tower defense type, whose sources on Github are available.
The game was written by :
It was tested yesterday by JB Le Daron on Twitch.
For playing you must use the following keys :
If you have a GOTEK/HXC/FlashFloppy, you should update your firmware if you want use the .DSK version of the game, otherwise use the .HFE to avoid firmware bugs.
Hibernated is an adventure game by Stefan Vogt which was released in 2018. He also wrote a addon to this game : Eight Feet Under.
He has now released an upgraded version of the first game : Hibernated 1 (Director's cut). The initial version was using the DAAD engine, the director's cut version is using Puny (infocom's engine) which is text only.
You can pre-order a physical box of Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut) at PolyPlay.
After The Queen's footstep, Davide Bucci has finished writing a new adventure game : Silk Dust for many platforms including the Amstrad CPC.
Here is the introduction of the game : Today is April 19, 1907. You, Emilia Vittorini, arrived yesterday in Varenna, on the shore of the beautiful Lake Como. You are hosted at the magnificent Villa Briccorosso; Princess Lucilla Briccorosso is preparing the Silk Road Race, a 10,000km rally raid between Cairo in Egypt and Peking in China, to be done by car. You represent ITA, founded by your father, the company that built the car the Princess just bought to use during the rally. The car is supposed to be delivered today. Your role will be to assist the delivery and make sure everything is perfectly functional.
Xyphoe has organized Friday the 21th May "The Sugars" - The Amstream Amstrad Video Game Awards Show 2020-2021.
After Hibernated, Stefan Vogt wrote Eight feet under which reveals some unknown events of the first game.
And now, it's an upgraded version of Hibernated (director's cut) to which you can play on Amstrad CPC and many more 8 and 16 bit platforms.
Moritz the Striker is a new Amstrad CPC platform game by the Team Moritz : Shining, Sebastian Braunert, Lobo (graphics), Richard Hollins, Pedro Pimenta (music), Kees Van Oss and Kukulcan.
Xyphoe is organizing Friday the 21th May at 19:00 (BST or 22:00 for the frogs) "The Sugars" - The Amstream Amstrad Video Game Awards Show 2020-2021.