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Uwol 2 Quest for money, an Amstrad CPC platform game by the Mojons Twins

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Talking about the Mojons Twins, I went to their web site and found their latest Amstrad CPC game : Uwol 2 Quest for money.

As usual, you can also download the source of the game if you are curious.

loading screen of the Amstrad CPC game Uwol 2 quest for money




an iOS program : ZX Nostalgia Arcade edition volume 1 : The Mojons Twins

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Looking on Itunes in the apps store with the Amstrad keyword, I was surprised to see an iOS application written by Manuel F. Garcia CABELLO (ZX Nostalgia Arcade edition volume 1 : The Mojons Twins) which let you playing several game written by The Mojons Twins, who are prolific authors of ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC games.



Nightshift, an Amstrad CPC music compilation by Mr_Lou

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Nightshift is a compilation of 11 musics by Mr_Lou, artwork by BlueAngel, code by Kevin Thacker (aka arnoldemu) and catart by tastefulmrship.

loading screen of the Nightshift music compilation by Mr_Lou



Samdisk v3.3 by Simon Owen, disks tranfers on PC

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SAMdisk v3.3 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 3.3 (2012-06-14)
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- Added built-in support for zipped and gzipped files
- Added support for repairing 8K sectors with bad CRCs
- Added support for raw hard disk images
- Added identify device data reading, where available (non-USB)
- Added --hdf to force HDF version (10 or 11), with v1.1 now the default
- Added --no-identify to ignore source identify data
- Added --no-cfa to suppress CFA festures in generated identify data
- Enhanced identify to include  CHS/LBA28/LBA48 sector counts and CFA
- Enhanced verbose disk list to show serial+firmware and MBR partitions
- Changed disk list to show all devices by default, not just BDOS
- Fixed repairing to blank target tracks, with new density check
- Fixed HDD access beyond 4GB boundary, extended -s range to 2TB
- Fixed SAD image writing with custom sector sizes
- Fixed status messages being written to log and not erased correctly
- Improved FDC integrity checks during sector reads, for suspect hardware
- Improved total sector count to CHS mapping





HD Gameplay by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Jet Set Willy

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Here is a new HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Jet Set Willy edited by Software Projects in 1984.

If you prefer, you can see the video of Jet Set Willy with comments in spanish.

Jet Set Willy is the following of the classic Manic Miner, you have to find 65 items in a big house and be allowed to sleep with your wife.

loading screen of the Amstrad CPC game Jet Set Willy




A dream come true, an all in one video game console, with a GX4000 inside soon

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The Unity project by Bacteria is ambitious, to make an all in one video game console (see Hack a Day).

At the moment, you have the following video game consoles inside :

  • Sega SMS (done, not added into system yet)
  • Nintendo NES (done, not added into system yet)
  • Mattel Intellivision
  • Nintendo GameCube
  • Nintendo GBA
  • Amiga CD32
  • Philips CD-i
  • Playstation
  • Playstation 2

And he is working on adding others consoles, including our Amstrad GX4000 !




Barbarian 1987, a remake programmed in basic with QB64 by F.L.

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For the 25 years of Barbarian, F.L. delivered us Barbarian 1987 : the most faithful remake possible of this game which did cut a lot of heads years ago.

F.L. did program it with in basic (QB64), which is a windows compiler. You can get out your gwbasic or quick basic programs and still run them with QB64, or use the new features bringed by QB64 (like networking).

screen of the Barbarian amstrad cpc game