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






Mind in Motion, an Amstrad CPC demo by Ham (Software failure)

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Mind in Motion, an Amstrad CPC 15 Ko dentro written in 3 days and released at Forever 14 by Software Failure in 2013. Code, graphics and music by Ham/SFL, Arkos Tracker Music player by Targhan and Grim/Arkos. It needs a 64 Ko CPC.

Mind in Motion, an Amstrad CPC demo by Software Failure



Arcade Game Designer by Jonathan Cauldwell on Zx Spectrum and Amstrad CPC

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Arcade Game Designer (documentation of AGD) is a tool by Jonathan Cauldwell to make games on ZX Spectrum and lately on Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation. The games created wont scroll the entire screen : they are static. There is also a PC tool : TommyGun.AGD to make the games, working only with the ZX Spectrum AGD version only at the moment.

Check the youtube video of an AGD game : Donkey Kong Reloaded.

menu of Arcade Game Designer




Invasion of the Zombie Monsters on Amstrad CPC by Relevo Videogames

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Invasion of the Zombie Monsters by Relevo Videogames is a spanish game release in 2010 on ZX Spectrum and now in 2013 on Amstrad CPC and MSX.




Samdisk v3.5 by Simon Owen, disks tranfers

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SAMdisk v3.5 by Simon Owen is out.

The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.

Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.

Version 3.5 (2013-01-07)
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- Fixed interleave and skew values for Pro-Dos .cpm images
- Alignment tweaks to some output formatting
- Restored code signing to help download validation


Happy Christmas 2012 for everybody

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Have a great holiday and let's hope Santa Claus will bring you a lot of things.



Space Harrier 3D by Sega available on Nintendo 3DS (download)

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Space Harrier is a well known game by Sega published on Amstrad CPC by Elite in 1986.

In 2004, Space harrier was available on PS2, today Space Harrier 3D is available on your Nintendo 3DS as a download for the eShop.

You can check the longplay video by Xyphoe on Youtube in 2 parts : first part and last part.

Space Harrier, un jeu Amstrad CPC game par Sega





Teodoro No Sabe Volar, an Amstrad CPC conversion of a ZX Spectrum game by Dimension Z

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Dimension Z (a MSX group) is working on an Amstrad CPC conversion of the Spectrum game Teodoro No Sabe Volar (Theodore doesnt know how to fly), which was released by the Spanish group RetroWorks in 2010.

You can test the ZX Spectrum version of Teodoro no Sabe Volar online.

The Amstrad CPC is almost finished, its author Pepe Vila is looking for a few more free bytes to pack all he want in the program.

Youtube video of Teodoro No Sabe Volar on MSX

Youtube video of Teodoro No Sabe Volar on ZX Spectrum





A Karateka remake available on Xbox360 and soon on PS3 too

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Karateka is the first game by Jordan Mechner (also author of Prince of Persia whose sources have been found a few months ago) on Apple 2, but also on Amstrad CPC.

Karateka was released one week ago on Xbox360 and soon on PS3.

This new version features whole new style of graphism.

You can see on Youtube the game wholly played by Ataru'75 in 2 parts :