There is a new version of Tower Toppler since I wrote about this remake of Nebulus, with one more mission of several towers (tower toppler v1.1.3).

A tribute of the sisters (click on download) is a work in progress of a great giana sisters clone for FutureOS (an alternate operating system for Amstrad CPC). It's written by TFM, sound by Kangaroo Musique and graphism by Tolkin.

You can test a tribute to the sisters on CPC-Live.

CPC-Live let you play Amstrad CPC games online without needing to install an emulator on your computer with JavaCPC.

GameBase is an Open Source "Emulator Frontend", released under the GNU General Public Licence. It is a program that attempts to make running games on various emulators very easy, so that you don't have to remember lots of command line parameters and config settings. GameBase is the Official Frontend for the GB64 Collection of C64 games. It manages games, music, docs, screenshots and more

There is of course a GameBase CPC maintained by Loïc Daneels. He is adding .YM music, screenshots, scans of package and documentation.

I found Retro Still Alive on GameBase CPC, you will find 47 reviews of Amstrad games there (french only though).

After some announces in 2006 and 2007, this time it's for real, the PS3 information site thesixthaxis has confirmed that David Braben officially announced Elite IV for PC, PS3 and Xbox360, but sadly not for CPC. No date is given though.

Ultimate Bruce Lee is a nice looking PC remake of Bruce Lee.

You can see a speed run of Ultimate Bruce Lee on Youtube.

For the 25th anniversary of Boulder dash 1, First Star Software has released Boulder Dash vol. 1, a remake on Iphone and Itouch with updated graphics or the old school graphics.

The game costs 3,99€ for the 80 original levels plus 4 bonus levels, check Boulder Dash vol. 1 on Youtube.

Super Bruce Lee by Tony Rocket is another remake of Bruce Lee.

You can see Super Bruce Lee on Youtube.

Color Lines is a G.P.A. reflexion game yet to be released. But you can download its toolkit to add your own graphic skin to the future release.

There is a nice remake of Knight Lore for MSX2 created by Manuel Pazos (Guillian) and Daniel Celemín (LordFred). This remake features :

• Different palettes for day and night
• In game map that shows the player location, visited rooms and objects location
• Improved music (adding some reverb)
• Torch animation (can be disabled by pressing ESC while booting the game)
• Bug fixing of the original game
• Intro scroll showing the 'Mist tunes'
• On turbo R, the R800 is enabled to prevent slowdowns

Go on the RetroWorks website to get this remake and more :

• The game ROM (48K)
• A full game map using screenshots of this new version
• A user manual in PDF format
• Packing designs (cartridge label and box)

You can see a video of this Knight Lore remake on Youtube.

An update to a 2004 news, The Mercenary site is about the Mercenary games by Novagen Software and its remake MDDClone. This remake exists in several languages, last version is from January 2007. Only Mercenary 1 exists for the Amstrad CPC, the next versions were for Atari ST and Amiga.

I just added a new feature for the Amstrad CPC games database, you can now see video game footage from Youtube on each game page, see for yourself just below (javascript needed) :

Batman the movie

Or just browse the database for more game memories.

CPCGamesCD is a live CD by MiguelSky with emulators and the NVG Amstrad game collection. It has been updated :

• Includes frontend, new CPC Loader 2.4 by Troels K.
• Includes NVG games update 11.04.2009
• Includes Snap-Pack by MiguelSky (3576 images)
• Added new version 6.2 of JavaCPC emulator
• Includes Linux version of CPCLoader 2.4 and emus update
• Includes Maps folder of NVG and support for that
• Includes Links to T.A.C.G.R.

Arkos and Les Sucres En Morceaux are working since several years on an adventure game called Orion Prime. Its developpment is coming to an end, so to let you wait a little bit more, you will be able to find a teaser on the game web page.