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






Program some Locomotive Basic with Visual Studio Code and test directly with Basic Unchained

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Visual Studio Code is a programming IDE for many languages and now also thanks to an extension by Cebe74 the Locomotive Basic with syntaxic coloring, renumbering and running thanks to CPCBasic Unchained by Marco Vieth directly inside VSC.

CPCBasic Unchained is an interpreter of Basic Locomotive written in javascript, so you can add it on a web site if you wish.

There is another possibility to write Locomotive Basic programs : using CPC Basic 3 by Dinoneno which I wrote about earlier. There is a forum about CPC Basic 3.





dMagnetic v0.27, a Magnetic Scrolls emulator by Dettus for various BSD and Linux distributions

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Magnetic Scrolls is an english editor known for his adventure games :

  • The Pawn (1985)
  • The Guild of Thieves 1987)
  • Jinxter 1987)
  • Fish! (1988)
  • Myth (1989)
  • Wonderland (1990)

Today you can emulate the Magnetic Scrolls games thanks to dMagnetic v0.27 by Dettus which you must compile for several versions of Unix (BSD, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo) with ANSI drawing in a terminal.

The emulator is using the original files of the games for Amstrad CPC, C64, msdos, windows (1991 compilation), .MAG et .GFX files on the magnetic scrolls memorial.




A Remake of Ghost'n Goblins for Amstrad CPC 6128+ by Golem13, Winner and Ixien (April 2020)

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I am late but a preview of Ghost'n Goblins for Amstrad CPC 6128+ by Frédéric Poesy, Thomas Ferté and Julien Riet is available since April 2020 after 4 years of development. This preview is an Amstrad CPC+ cartridge image, not an image disk. To access the game parameters, please press space or button 1 during cartridge boot.

BDCIron has done a video of this preview.


Youtube video



Throne Legacy by Arnaud Bouche for the CPCRetroDev 2020

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Arnaud Bouche is the author of Bitume (CPCRetroDev 2017) and Deeper Warrens (CPCRetroDev 2018). For the CPCRetroDev 2020 he has written Throne Legacy inspired by l'Aigle d'Or (golden eagle) from which you can see some gameplay on Youtube.

The game was written with CPCPower and Titan for intro (and story), Ced for making and greatly improving graphics and SLT for tireless testing.

The game is using CPCTelera and Arkos Tracker.


Youtube video