News about Amstrad CPC, PCW, Notepad NC100 NC150 NC200, PDA600 and also Amstrad PC






BDCIron is testing Baba's Palace, Profanation 2, BasketCases, Bitume, Gryzor

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BDCIron is streaming Baba's Palace, Profanation 2, BasketCases, Bitume and Gryzor. Of course the first two games issued from CPCRetroDev 2017 should be the more interesting to see.

Greetings to him and the happy mother for their first born !


Youtube video



Second part of the solution of Orion Prime by JB le Daron

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Here is the second video of the solution of Orion Prime by Arkos and les Sucres en Morceaux, made by JB Le Daron on Youtube.

And listening to the beginning of the video, it seems that a new star is born, greetings to the happy parents.

He is also mentionning that Profanation 2 tested by Amaury is really good (tomorrow maybe).


Youtube video





The genesis of Zombi (with his author) the first game by Ubi Soft, a video by Edward

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Edward (JeuxVideo.com) features the genesis of the first Ubi Soft game : Zombi (1986), with its author : Yannick CADIN, an interesting video (french). Graphics are by Patrick Daher, scenario by Alexandre BONAN, music by Philippe MARCHISET and the spanish cover by Alfonso AZPIRI.

There are 2 versions depending of 64 Kb or 128 Kb of memory, the differences are scrolling between screens, scrolling for icons and 2 faces for better graphics.



Amstrad CPC streamers on Youtube ? One more with Roudoudou

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With the CRTC3 demo by Roudoudou (but also by Futurs, X-men, Karbonik prod, Résistance and Morzienda), I discovered that he was also streaming Amstrad CPC content. I let you look for it by yourself.


Youtube video





CapriceRPI2 v1.3c by KaosOverride, an Amstrad CPC emulator for Raspberry PI

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The last version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CapriceRPI (v 1.3c) by KaosOverride for Raspberry PI is available with some minor updates and more command line customizations.

This emulator based on the sources of Caprice32 by Ulrich Doewich, can also be compiled on something else than a PI with the following command : make -f makefile.notpi.

Prior to compilation, you must install the following dependances (including SDL v1.2 from memory) :

  • libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
  • libfreetype6-dev
  • libsdl-image1.2-dev