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Gauntlet invade the darkness, a reboot of gauntlet by Arrowhead

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Gauntlet by Arrowhead is a reboot of the 1st gauntlet, available in 1985 on Amstrad CPC. Online gaming up to 4 players will be available, with the warrior, valkyrie, elf and wizard.

It will be available the 3rd september 2014.





Two Amstrad CPC+ clones of Flappy Bird : Flappy Rulez v2 (Hermol) and Flappy UFO (Optimus)

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Hermol has a new version out of Flappy Rulez for Amstrad CPC+.

Optimus (Dirty Minds) also released a clone of Flappy Bird : Flappy UFO. See the Yoututbe video below.





Athanor, a new Amstrad CPC (and Oric) graphical adventure game

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cover of Athanor, an Amstrad CPC graphical adventure game

Athanor is a new Amstrad CPC (and Oric !) graphical adventure game in french (english incoming) by Eric Safar.

It has vectoriels graphics with an extended package (see below). Beware, the included sealed envelope must not be opened before the program tell you so (hint inside).

package of the adventure game Athanor

You can buy Athanor for 20 € (postage included for france though) with 3 or 3,5 inch disk. A .DSK will be available for free later.

English and german translations are done but must be corrected. A C64 version is being done.

An interview of Eric SAFAR is available on Ordiretro.

écran du jeu d'aventure graphique Athanor  écran du jeu d'aventure graphique Athanor  écran du jeu d'aventure graphique Athanor



Welcome to Amsoft : the Amstrad CPC 464 Welcome Demonstration Cassette

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If you are the proud owner of an Amstrad CPC 464, you have already seend the Amstrad CPC 464 Welcome Demonstration Cassette. Otherwise, it's time to see the extraordinary features of a computer which is only 30 years old.

The programs of this tape have been programmed by Roland Perry, concepteur de l'Amstrad CPC et du GX4000.




Amstrad Générations is testing Ikari Warriors and Jet Set Willy

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Two generations (David 40 years old and Ornella 11 years old) are testing several Amstrad CPC games on Youtube :





Sundance, an Amstrad CPC demo by Slipstream released at the Sundown Party 2014

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Slipstream is first an Amiga demo group , but for the Sundown demo party 2014, they released an Amstrad CPC demo : Sundance.

Code and animations are written by Devilmarkus (author of JavaCPC), graphics by TCM and music by BEX.




CPC Game Reviews's update and a new Amstrad CPC reflexion game : Kamyzol

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There is an update on CPC Game Reviews talking about the last Crackers Velus program, a reflexion game (taquin like) called Kamyzol.

The goal of the game is to move the red piece toward the exit by moving all others pieces with a twist, they can be moved only horizontally or vertically.

loading screen of the Amstrad CPC reflexion game : Kamyzol menu screen of the Amstrad CPC reflexion game : Kamyzol game screenshot of the Amstrad CPC reflexion game : Kamyzol