July 2004 archives



Workshop : a CPC and CPCNG meeting


As announced 11 days ago, there will be a CPC,CPCNG and other 8bit computers meeting from the 19th to 22th August in Luneville (France), near the Nancy city (also near german border). You will find more informations about this meeting here.

Also to help me adding content to the site, the menu has been moved to the top of the screen so I will have more space horizontally.



Amstrad Action n°2 available


Issue 2 of Amstrad Action is now available on CPC Oxygen.



Play to Midnight/MU (beta)


If you know Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge, you may be interested in Midnight/MU, an online multiplayer version of Lords of Midnight. It's a beta though at the moment.



Playing Deflektor on PC


You had 3 days to play Deflektor in your browser, here is a link to play Deflektor on your PC. A new version with better graphics is announced.



CPC Loader : an emulator frontend


CPC Loader is a frontend for most of the Amstrad CPC emulators (v1.2 - 5 July 2004). It's a nice program, I urge you to visit its web site for more informations about its features (including support for screenshots) and to download it.



Use your brain : play Deflektor


In 1987 Costa Panayi wrote the Amstrad CPC game Deflektor (Vortex Software). This game is now playable as a java applet on L'applet Deflektor (french). There are five levels, and you can write your own levels to be added to this java version.



FutureOs available in french


Here we are, FutureOs is now available in french if you want to refresh your french learned at school. More on the Small-C compilator which can be used to write programs under FutureOs soon.



Help writing an adventure game on Amstrad CPC


Creation d'un jeu d'aventure pour AMSTRAD (french) is a site looking for more people to create an adventure game for Amstrad CPC. If you can make picture, sounds, program, write the scenario, you will be welcomed.



CPC on a C-ONE !


An Amstrad CPC 464 core has been developped on the C-ONE (an upgraded C64).



CPC and CPCNG meeting at the end of August


Christophe Guelff has announced that a CPC and CPCNG meeting will take place in Luneville, a city in north east of France and near Germany. It should be in the end of August. The CPCNG mainboard will be showed at this meeting.



FutureOs available in french next week


FutureOs should be available next week in french. This Amsdos replacement already exists in german and english. There will be also a new version of FIOLIB, a library to create more easily FutureOS programs in C with the Small-C compilator.



New ArnoldX version


A new version of ArnoldX is available (Arnold for Xbox).



Ze Meeting 2004 soon


Ze Meeting 2004 will take place as usual in Bassoues (France - gers) starting 6th August to 8th August 2004. You have to pay 10 € each day (for 3 meals and sleeping). You will find all informations about this meeting (in french) by following this link.

F-Key, a group member of Revival just let out a preview of his Amstrad CPC demo : Great Teacher AC 01.

Phoenix informatique (french) is organising a programming contest. You must write a small basic program of no more 2 lines ! Time limit to send your program is 9th July.

Another map made by Roudoudou of the Bruce Lee game :

map of the game Bruce Lee

You will find other maps on Nostalgia Video Games.