Onescreen Colonies 2 by Vanity is an Amstrad CPC demo by Hicks (code), Beb (GFX) and Madram (music).
The demo is in 2 parts, the second one is a scrolltext in french with some words which some people cited could not appreciate.
GGP has released the final trailer for Toki on Amstrad CPC, which will be released this automn 2022.
Seen on Facebook, the issue 13 of RetroMagazine World by Francesco Fiorentini is released in english and italian.
Reidrac (Juan Martinez) is actually working on two projects : a RPG (Ultima like) and Hyperdrive which is a shoot them up.
Titan has done a loading screen for Hypdrive.
You can check Reidrac's Twitter for more informations.
I invite you to read the blog of Reidrac.
Announced on Twitter by Juan Esteban, a new Amstrad CPC game should be released soon : CPC Jewels.
Carlc27843 has written for PICO-8 an Amstrad CPC AY-3-8910 sound chip emulator using undocumented 5512Hz 8-bit mono PCM channel, to compose or convert Amstrad CPC music by Dave Rogers.
And I just tumbled on his two other creations : a remake de Nebulus and a demo about the game Cauldron on Pico-8 of course. Hit the links so you will able to see a video of the game and the demo.
Seen on CPCWiki, you can see Barjack's web site with the graphics he did, including work in progress games :
This site is a good news, the bad one is that he should stop Amstrad CPC activities when Bubble Quest is done...
Keith56 has released a second book about assembly on 5 new CPU : ARM Thumb, 65816, 6809 PDP-11 and Risc-V CPUs. The first book was about many CPUs, including the Z80 of course.
If you buy the book on Amazon, he will give you a PDF version.
Airwolf is well known to be an unplayable game as it is so difficult and also bugged !
Cyril GOURET, TITAN and Alain le Guirec are working on Airwolf Reloaded which is for the moment a hacked version of the original game : no more time limite, no more collision test, no more gravity. There is also a new supberb loading screeen by TITTAN et a new music..
And they are working on an upgrade of the graphics by TITAN, I saw some beautiful screens on facebook (link lost though) and to make a game being finally playable.
By modifying ROMs, McArti0 was able to obtain news resolutions on Amstrad CPC : 256x256 and maybe 1024x512 in an emulator like sugarbox.
He also wrote another thread on CPCWiki : CPC joining to VGA monitor by 5 wire interface which gives 512x464 in mode 2, complete with schematic and pinout.
In fact, you can reconfigure the CRTC chip in an Amstrad CPC and OS to use all 65 Kb of the video RAM. Amstrad can show a maximum resolution of 1024x512 at 25Hz (or 1072x480).
A new version of the desktop JavaCPC is available. It's an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator written in Java by Markus Hohmann (DevilMarkus).
Tonigh Friday the 8th 2022 at 9:30pm (frog hour, so 10:30pm for the beef eaters), Roudoudou will stream about Amstrad CPC programming : ASIC (on CPC+), hard sprites and integrating music.
Rodrik Studio has done two really interesting videos. The first was about adding an external gotek to your Amstrad CPC without needing to remove the three inch disk drive. And the second one is the following of the first : adding the gotek inside a 3D printed box preserving the look of the Amstrad CPC.
Chris Wild has released a version 2.0.2 of Doomdark's Revenge for OSX and Windows.
The version 1.0 of Mod Master XT by FreddyV is available on Vogons.
This msdos utility lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...
Block-Out is a Tetris 3D game released in 1989 on PC. Thirty three years later Krappygamez has released a version for Amstrad CPC : Retrobloc after a version on ZX Spectrum.
Battle of Leningrad (2022) et Art War (2021) are two graphical adventure games by Sakis Kaffesakis and Manossg. Art War was released in December 2021, Battle of Leningrad will be released soon in english, french and spanish.
Open Space by Vanity is a 4 Kb Amstrad CPC demo by Hicks (code), Beb (graphics), Toms (code) and Madram (music). You can se the demo on Youtube.
Swingin' is an Amstrad CPC demo by Bug Powell (code) and AST (graphics), musical player by Madram and music by Dark Angel (Atari ST conversion).
It got the 11th spot in the demo contest at the Revision 2022. You can see the demo on youtube.
PunyInform v3.6 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.
ABBA is a new Amstrad CPC demo by Shining (code, graphics) and n1k-o (music). You can see the video on youtube.
Pixel Free is a 4kb Amstrad CPC demo by Snake_revival (Thomas Naslin) for the code and Glafouk for the music.
Génération Micros has made a video for his 30th cult game : le passager du temps on Amstrad CPC by Alain Bregeon and Patrick Beaujouan. He is talking about its history and the life of its authors.
Battle of Leningrad is a graphic adventure game by Sakis Kaffesakis and Manossg which is released to day in english and fren,ch, soon in spanish. A video of the solution in english is available.
The last version of RASM is v1.7 (11th April 2022).
Rasm is now available on Github (documentation included).
This multi platform assembler (linux, windows, but not only like MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC.
Tommorow friday the 22th 2022 at 10pm (frog hour, so 11pm for the beef eaters), Roudoudou will stream about Amstrad CPC programming : ASIC (on CPC+), hard sprites and integrating music.
Martine v0.35.0 is an utility written by the Impact group :
This version was released the 20th April 2022. It is available for Windows, MacOS, ARM64 and linux.
There is a french interview of Eric Safar on Youtube who is the author of two adventure games : Athanor 1 and 2.
I saw this new windows emulator on theSystem.CFG months ago but I forgot to write about it... Dmanu78 did document all the genesis of his emulator, a very interesting reading in french that I invite you to read.
The thread on CPCWiki is here.
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