One more interview by Retro Maniac, this time of Tony Warriner. As always the interview is bilingual, first in spanish then in english. Tony Warriner did write some good Amstrad CPC games before cofounding Revolution Software.
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 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.
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 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 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 :
Inufuto is a japanese author of many video games, each times programmed for several platforms including the Amstrad CPC. His last game is a mix of Pengo and Load Runner : Osotos. You will find here the Youtube channel of Inufuto.
Bertrand Brocard was interviewed by Arcade-de-Monts, a young canadian specialized in this type of interview of video games pionneers on his Youtube channel which you should consult.
Bertrand Brocard did create Cobra Soft with Gilles Bertin in 1983.
Minesweeeper by Under4Mhz is a reflexion game for Amstrad CPC released in January 2024. It's a remake of the classic game for windows.
Fitzroy Feels the Heat by Awergh is an action and reflexion Amstrad CPC game for the CPCRetroDev 2023 contest. It has been updated to v1.5 in April 2024.
You can download Fitzroy Feels the Heat on its Itch.io page.
Manuel3D is the author of 3 Amstrad CPC programs, two utilities : New font for Amstrad CPC and Draw a star, and also a game : the hangman.
On his Youtube channel, his latest video is one about a case for an Amstrad CPC 464, but I dont know if he is the author of the 3D model.
Tenebrae by Haplo has been ported to msdos with a 80286 and more. It's an excellent reflexion/puzzle game. You are moving in a roguelike environment with an important twist : you can only do it a lighted zone... It also exists for other computers including Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore.
Tribus by Epic Adventures is a new adventure/RPG game written with the DAAD adventure engine. Even if it's a text adventure at start, emphasis is done on the RPG part so less text to read than in an usual adventure game. This game has an open world to discover, several NPC to talk to and missions to do, a lot of enemies with weakness which you must discover, a combat system with statistics and weapons, an adult story. It is recommended to read the documentation which explains the working of the RPG to face the dangers of your mission. The game is free, but if you want to support their authors, you can buy for 2 dollars the thank you pack which includes several elements.
Stefan Vogt has released the Ghosts of Blackwood Manor for Amstrad CPC and PCW the 2nd December 2023. A new release 14 is out, it corrects a bug for all versions, so it is advised to update to this new version.
Star Cadre : Combat Class by Cyningstan Retro (on Twitter) is a game for msdos with CGA card. If you liked Rebelstar 1 and 2 on Amstrad CPC which is a part of the inspiration, then you will like Star Cadre. More informations on the developpment of Star Cadre : Combat Class on the web site.
No dosbox, PCEM or PC XT ? It's not a problem, you can play to Star Cadre : Combat Class by Cyningstan Retro in your internet navigator.
There are also other games on Cyningstan Retro web sites, including two C libraries used for the programming of these games : CGALIB and .
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