If you are still programming on Amstrad CPC, you are maybe using WinAPE. But its assembler has limitations. For example, if you want to create a .DSK, a .SNA, compile something, compact something BEFORE or AFTER assembling, it's not possible in 1 pass and 1 key press. But it's now possible with some additional software (freeware).

For more informations go to Grimaware, and for the direct link in (english, check end of page for the update) about the Amstrad CPC cross-development kit, it's there.

Super Bruce Lee by Tony Rocket is another remake of Bruce Lee.

You can see Super Bruce Lee on Youtube.

For the 25th anniversary of Boulder dash 1, First Star Software has released Boulder Dash vol. 1, a remake on Iphone and Itouch with updated graphics or the old school graphics.

The game costs 3,99€ for the 80 original levels plus 4 bonus levels, check Boulder Dash vol. 1 on Youtube.

Ultimate Bruce Lee is a nice looking PC remake of Bruce Lee.

You can see a speed run of Ultimate Bruce Lee on Youtube.

Color Lines is a G.P.A. reflexion game yet to be released. But you can download its toolkit to add your own graphic skin to the future release.

Moving from a html table to CSS for the Amstrad games database, I also added links to Wikipedia, World of Spectrum and Dailymotion for even more videos of games. Try Bruce Lee for example :

Bruce Lee

Click here to browse the database.

Ultrasyd music pack 1 has been released by Ultrasyd, it's a music pack with four original STarKos tracks.

You will find pictures of the 2 meetings Amstrad Expo and Klassentreffen 2009 on CPCscene.

Killmax by OFE is the winning demo of the Amstrad expo 2009 meeting. The sense of humor of OFE is awful, that's why you will like the demo.

You can see a video of Killmax on Youtube (beware for a better sound run the .DSK in WinApe with a 44 Khz setting or on a real Amstrad CPC).

There is a nice remake of Knight Lore for MSX2 created by Manuel Pazos (Guillian) and Daniel Celemín (LordFred). This remake features :

• Different palettes for day and night
• In game map that shows the player location, visited rooms and objects location
• Improved music (adding some reverb)
• Torch animation (can be disabled by pressing ESC while booting the game)
• Bug fixing of the original game
• Intro scroll showing the 'Mist tunes'
• On turbo R, the R800 is enabled to prevent slowdowns

Go on the RetroWorks website to get this remake and more :

• The game ROM (48K)
• A full game map using screenshots of this new version
• A user manual in PDF format
• Packing designs (cartridge label and box)

You can see a video of this Knight Lore remake on Youtube.

I just added a new PCW link : PcW16ers - Reloaded - which is of course about the PcW16.

Last version of Joyce (v2.2.1) by John Elliott is still fresh (January 2009), it emulates an Amstrad PCW (including the PCW16) for Unix, Windows and MacOS X.

A new version of CPCDiskXP is available on CPC Mania. It's a .DSK file manager for windows XP, version 2.0 is from January 2009.

An update to a 2004 news, The Mercenary site is about the Mercenary games by Novagen Software and its remake MDDClone. This remake exists in several languages, last version is from January 2007. Only Mercenary 1 exists for the Amstrad CPC, the next versions were for Atari ST and Amiga.

STarKos 1.2 is out. It's a conventional soundchip tracker, in the sense that writing music is done the same way as existing trackers on CPCor Atari ST. The new features mainly comes from sound editing.

You can find a video of STarKos in action on Youtube.