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The Origin of Football Manager Part 1 by Kevin TOMS (May 2024)

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Kevin TOMS is the original author of the game of football management : Football Manager, edited by Addictive Games in 1982 on Amstrad CPC.

Since the 27th May 2024 you can buy the first part of his book about the creation of Football Manager (the link isn't sponsored).





A new demo of the V9990 Powergraph video graphic card by HAL6128

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The V9990 Powergraph video card for MSX (cartridge) can be used on an Amstrad CPC with an AMSDAP card (MX4 ports and two MSX cartridge ports but only those using IO of the Z80, not those using memory functions, so you can use for example a V9990 and a sound cartridge).

Everybody knows the robot demo moving in a forest, well now thanks to HAL6128 you have something else to chew. You can download the DSK and see for yourself the result in this video by Poulette73 (see below).

HAL6128 bought a V9990 a moment ago but didn't use it, till recently to learn using it. He downloaded a non playable demo of a fighting game using the V9990 for MSX and adapted it for Amstrad CPC. It looks like a mode 1 screen but with 16 colors instead.




The Spectrum Works by Allister Brimble's (remake of Amstrad CPC games music)

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Allister Brimble is a british composer of music for video games, who worked for example for Team 17. He did release in 2015 The Spectrum Works which is a compilation of remake of Amstrad CPC games music.



Thirteenth Amstrad CPC score contest on 77 Attempts organized by Border 0

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Border 0 organizes his thirteenth score contest on the Amstrad CPC game 77 Attempts (platform game by Alvaro JOVER, Jordi AMOROS and Cristian GARCIA for the CPCRetroDev 2018) till the 30th November 2024. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.




Ghostship Delgado, an Amstrad CPC adventure game by Tony Kingsmill (Loftcat Software)

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Ghostship Delgado is an adventure game written with the Quill utility by Tony Kingsmill (Loftcat Software), in two parts. The game is free on Itch.io with detailed instructions and some optional additional content available for only 2 dollars.

Take on the role of George Pike, a happy go lucky chap renting a yacht on the holiday of his lifetime in the 1960s. George is accompanied by his partner, sleeping on the lower deck, and Ruffles, George's trusty dog.

While dozing off to sleep in the sunshine of the upper deck you awake to find yourself on the quarter deck of a mysterious, seemingly abandoned historic ship.

Only Ruffles the dog and the clothes you are wearing appear to be the same. You begin to survey your surroundings you immediately notice a stillness in the air, and no-one in sight.

Yet the ship appears to be far out to sea with no land in sight. You call out in hope that someone may hear you but to no avail.

Ruffles begins to sniff, circling with his nose to the deck. Has he smelt something ?

Can you discover why George arrived here? Can you find a way off the ship and back to your yacht and partner? And will Ruffles safely make it along with you ?




Babaliba, an Amstrad CPC game by ESP Soft

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Babaliba by ESP Soft is available, it's a remake of the original game Babaliba by Dinamic Software on ZX Spectrum in 1984.

The history of the game it the following, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Babalas wars, the self-proclaimed new sultan of Turkey, Hosmimumarack, has begun to hoard all the treasures of the Middle East in his palace. Among them is a pendant found in a den of thieves in Arabia that grants the sultan almost unlimited supernatural power. With each passing day its power increases, threatening Western countries. The sultan's daughter, the result of a relationship with a queen from northern Europe, is in charge of guarding her father's pendant. For Hosmimumarack both are his most precious jewels. The British government, aware of the sultan's power, has sent several agents to the site with the aim of recovering the mysterious pendant. None have managed to return alive. Hosmimumarack Palace is an almost impregnable bastion. No one can enter or leave as an invisible force acts around the premises. But an agent has discovered a way to get in, notifying his superiors by radio and being taken prisoner shortly after. His last transmission turns out to be a mystery for the British secret service: "Johny, friend... I found it... spell... BABALIBA...".

So now Johny Jones, Saimazoom's explorer hero, returns in a new adventure full of challenges. This time the United States government, collaborating with the British government, entrusts him with a suicide mission : travel to the Hosmimumarack palace, rescue his companion who is imprisoned in the dungeons of the palace, kidnap the princess, daughter of the sultan. and bearer of the pendant, and recover the treasures looted during the Babalas wars. The palace consists of several rooms and several floors connected by stairs. In order to advance it is necessary to find a green key and a red key, located somewhere in the gardens, which open the access doors to other rooms of the palace, full of dangerous enemies and guards armed with scimitars. Be very careful with the wells or Johny will suffer an agonizing death in the jaws of the sultan's ferocious crocodiles. To succeed in his mission, Johny has 20 bombs and a limited time. Once you have achieved your goal, you must return to the gardens and orderly gather the letters that form the BABALIBA spell, with which you will be able to leave the palace. If you do not collect the letters in the correct order your mission will fail.



Xecutor, an Amstrad PCW shoot them up game ported from ZX Spectrum by Enrique G. Gálvez

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Xecutor is at the start a shoot them up on ZX Spectrum by Cybadyne in 1987. Today Enrique G. Gálvez has ported Xecutor on Amstrad PCW (available on PCWWiki. You can play it solo or with a friend, it supports joystick with the hardware expansion DK'Sound (by DK'Tronics) and as usual colour support with the CP/M Box emulator by HabiSoft.



Monster Mayhem, a shooter Amstrad CPC game by Mananuk

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Mananuk (on Twitter) has released his latest Amstrad CPC game for Halloween : Monster Mayhem (shooter) : monsters are invading your city and it's up to you to wipe them without shooting your own nice neighbours. The game is available as a disk image or as a cartridge for GX4000/CPC+.



Saboteur 2 on steroids thanks to theALFEST on Amstrad CPC

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Saboteur 1 and 2 are excellent Amstrad CPC games written by Clive Townsend, edited by Durell Software, which I play when I was young (a long time ago). Excellent but sprite animation was a bit slow. But today this slowness is no more thanks to theALFEST as shown on CPCWIKI, you can see it in this vidéo on Youtube of Saboteur 2 with about a 300% speed boost of the animation (see below).



Just Get 9 patch 3, a reflexion game for Amstrad CPC by cpcitor and the other days

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Just Get 9 is a tile-based puzzle game for the Amstrad CPC. If you like 2048, tetris, coloris, color flood, you’ll like it. It is written by cpcitor (code) and The Other Days (music).

You can download Just get 9 on Itch.IO to get this latest version of this excellent game (patch 3), it brings :

  • More status display
  • More varied music
  • Lots of subtle improvements for even better experience
  • Improvements specific to playing on real CPCs



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