New version by Roudoudou of his ACE-DL Amstrad CPC emulator (Xmas version). See the video below with the english subtitles for the new features of this version.

The latest adventure game by Stefan Vogt has been released the 2nd December 2023 : the Ghosts of Blackwood Manor for Amstrad CPC and PCW. It is also available on : C64, C128, Spectrum, Amiga, AtariST, Ms-DOS, BBC, Electron, Apple2, TRS80, Plus4, Mega65 and SpecNext.

PunyInform v5.2 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson is a library written in Inform 6 to create adventure game (pure text, no graphic support contrary to DAAD) using the Z-machine virtual machine which will run on 8bit computers (or more recent computers too). PunyInform has a parser, knowing of common verbs and a framework to write adventure games.

PunyInform is based on the Inform 6 library written by Graham Nelson. Its goal is to make easily adventure games in Inform 6, with a manual describing the differences between the official library and PunyInform..

Games using PunyInform can be compiled in z3, z5 and z8 format (z3 being the best format for 8bit computers, other formats have more features). Compared to the Inform 6 library, it means that there is no support for the Glulx virtual machine but z3 format is important as Inform 6 doesnt support it.

To compile games written with PunyInform, you should use the Inform 6 compiler maintained by David Kinder. Binaries are available on if-archive. PunyInform needs Inform v6.35 (or more).

They are tutorials to write adventure game with PunyInform (end of the page) and all the documentation including a 8 page cheat sheet (quick reference)..

To try your game after compilation, you can use WinFrotz by David Kinder, to create map easily you can use Trizbort.

And finally, to create an Amstrad CPC and PCW disk image, you will have to use the Puddle BuildTools.

mTCP NetDrive is a new utility by Michael B. Brutman which lets you connect under ms-dos a network drive which is in fact an image disk hosted on a windows or linux server (disk drive or hard disk image) for only 6 Kb of RAM (adds the RAM for the packet driver though). A mariage in heaven with the PicoMem card by FreddyV.

The meeting Benediction Coding Party #3 organized by Eliot took place from Friday the 27th to Sunday the 30th October 2023 at the Salle polyvalente, 44 rue de la Poterie, Gavray sur Sienne (50450).

All productions made for the meeting are now available in a compilation with a menu that you can download there and soon certainly on Pouet too (link will be added then).

New 17th December 2023 version by Roudoudou of his ACE-DL Amstrad CPC emulator.

After downloading the emulator, you can also get a SymbOS disk image or OPL3 music to be used with the Willy OPL3 plugin.

See the video below with the english subtitles for the new features of this version.

Christmas demo 2023 is an Amstrad CPC demo by Kukulcan (code) and Titan (graphics), also available on Pouet.

musik200 xmas 2023 xmas edition by BSC is a music disk using his sound engine presented in his demo Musik100 by BSC about which you will find more details on CPCWiki.

You can see and listen to this demo on Youtube (video by Xenomorph).

You can check his Soundcloud page.

Seen on CPCWiki, Xmas2023 by Impact is their latest production, an Amstrad CPC+ demo that you can download download here.

The demo has been written by :

• Demoniak (code)
• Kris (graphics)

Shadow Maze CR is an enhanced version of Shadow Maze by Rayon Studio which was initially presented for the CPCRetroDev 2023 contest. It's a game that I personnally appreciate, you can see it in this video by Saberman.

This new version features :

• News and more Mazes ( 6 in total )
• Graphics diversity
• New enemies to avoid in the maze ! ( Giant Spider & bottomless Pit )
• More challenging and more skills needed
• Unique Time counter for all mazes
• Light stones time credits
• Some smooth glitches corrections
• Intro Screens for the game story
• Final screen for the End game

PunyInform v5.3 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson is a library written in Inform 6 to create adventure game (pure text, no graphic support contrary to DAAD) using the Z-machine virtual machine which will run on 8bit computers (or more recent computers too). PunyInform has a parser, knowing of common verbs and a framework to write adventure games.

PunyInform is based on the Inform 6 library written by Graham Nelson. Its goal is to make easily adventure games in Inform 6, with a manual describing the differences between the official library and PunyInform..

Games using PunyInform can be compiled in z3, z5 and z8 format (z3 being the best format for 8bit computers, other formats have more features). Compared to the Inform 6 library, it means that there is no support for the Glulx virtual machine but z3 format is important as Inform 6 doesnt support it.

To compile games written with PunyInform, you should use the Inform 6 compiler maintained by David Kinder. Binaries are available on if-archive. PunyInform needs Inform v6.35 (or more).

They are tutorials to write adventure game with PunyInform (end of the page) and all the documentation including a 8 page cheat sheet (quick reference)..

To try your game after compilation, you can use WinFrotz by David Kinder, to create map easily you can use Trizbort.

And finally, to create an Amstrad CPC and PCW disk image, you will have to use the Puddle BuildTools which works under linux, windows 1x with WSL2 or MacOS with Intel processor and OrbStack.

Nibbler DX is an action Amstrad CPC game by Dave Moore, a remake of the Nibbler game, that you can see in the video by Saberman.

He is also writing a remake of the great classic Wizardry 1 (originally on Apple 2).

The Cult is an horror action game for Amstrad CPC (and ZX Spectrum) by Tartessos Games. It exists in spanish and english versions.

Discover the Cult in video by Saberman.

Gold Maze by VynZ-prog is a puzzle/adventure amstrad CPC game written in pure basic v1.1. He presents his game Gold Maze in a Youtube video.

On the left you can see the three treasures that you can recover with four marbles indicating when they will disappear. It's better to collect treasure as soon as possible. Below the three treasures is the player's box that you will have to position on the map in the first round. Then each turn you must rotate a box (or a row ?) and move your character.

Merry Christmas 2023, have a nice diner and night with the people you are caring for.

Reidrac (Juan Martinez) is actually working on the Heart of Salamanderland, a platform game for the Amstrad CPC, which you can follow the development on his Mastodon account or on CPCWiki. A short video is available on Mastodon.

HxC Floppy Drive Emulator v2.15.1.2 is available on Github.

It's an utility to manage .HFE disk images to be used by the SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator, a replacement for the 3 inch disks drives of the Amstrad CPC.

There is a support forum for HxC products and also a facebook group.

Booty the remake first released on ZX Spectrum in 2019 by Salvador Cantero is a remake of the original game still for ZX Spectrum in 1984 by Firebird Software and in 1986 on Amstrad CPC. This remake is now released on Amstrad CPC and is available on the github page or Itch.io page.

It is programmed with the collaboration of Beyker, Brundij and Atila Merino. Short video of the game Booty the remake by Xenomorph.

Still the one by Impact is their latest Amstrad CPC demo for a CRTC 1 and 512 Kb of RAM, available on Pouet. Also available here on Genesis8bit.

The demo was made by :

• AST (code, graphics)
• Hwikaa (graphics)
• Kris (graphicse)
• Tomchi (music)

An information that I missed in April 2023, the release by Impact ofEGX Martine's slideshow for Amstrad CPC+ available on Pouet and here on Genesis8bit.

You can see EGX Martine's slideshow on Youtube in a by Xenomorph.

Martine v0.39 is an utility written by the Impact group :

• converting JPG and PNG images to Overscan screen or window for Amstrad CPC (and Plus series)
• new tile map mode, which allow to analyze an image of a level game, and produce .imp and .til readable by tile tool from Impact

This version was released the 28th August 2023. It is available for Windows, MacOS, ARM64 and linux.

Little Winter Demo by Leosoft is an Amstrad CPC demo in 3D for the end of the year, nice. You can download it on CPCWiki or here on Genesis8bit.

You can see Little Winter Demo thanks to Xenomorph on Youtube (see below).

Mananuk (on Twitter) is working on a next episode of the Mandarin : the Mandarin 2 which you can see some screenshots on CPCWiki.