News about Amstrad CPC, PCW, Notepad NC100 NC150 NC200, PDA600 and also Amstrad PC






PC-CPC v0.1at beta (Amstrad CPC emulator) on CPCWiki

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CPCWiki is back after a few hardware problems, you can download on it the lastest beta version of the PC-CPC emulator by Ludovic Deplanque (Demoniak).




Gamebase CPC v21 and Matéo are out (litteraly)

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GameBase CPC V21 is out since 14th July 2011. As is my new nephew Matéo born the same day at 2:51pm, the poor kid doesnt know yet who is his uncle (a raving mad Amstrad CPC geek).





the Amstrad CPC emulator Winape v2.0 alpha 18 is out !

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WinApe v2.0 alpha 18 is out since 2 days. This new version of this Amstrad CPC(+) emulator brings major sound and emulation improvements, full-sized AVI writing, debugger enhancements and a lot of other small fixes.



Arquimedes XXI on Amstrad CPC 25 years later

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In 1986 Dinamic Software published its second try text adventure game : Arquimedes XXI. It was also the the second comercial text adventure made in Spain after Yenght and, indeed, it was the first job of Jorge Blecua (Egroj) in this field, previous to other games as Don Quijote or Abracadabra. It was made in BASIC and Assembler as the comercial parsers didn't appeared yet. Arquimedes XXI is a Dinamic classic game only available for Spectrum and MSX, until now ! With the efforts of DevilMarkus, MiguelSky (for the adaptation on Amstrad CPC), PulkoMandy (french translation, main music conversion), voXfReaX (english translation), today you can enjoy this classic text adventure on your Amstrad CPC. It is available in French, English and Spanish as was Orion Prime before.

Arquimedes XXI loading screen  Arquimedes XXI hall of fame  first game screenshot of Arquimedes XXI



Contests results of the Amstrad CPC meeting ReSeT #0

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Here are the results of the 4 contests of the ReSeT #0 meeting (and soon they will be available for download) :

  • demo : Krusty with the demo Les experts à Coutances
  • 4 Ko intro : Krusty with Still the best
  • graphics : Rahow with LittleDGirl (on CPC+)
  • music : McKlain with Take Off

See below for the photo of Krusty the winner (on the left), and Beb (on the right) who made a graph for the demo Les experts à Coutances.

Krusty to the left, Beb to the right



Surgery of an Amstrad CPC modified with 2 CRTC

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If you arent afraid of some blood, here are 3 photos of the inside of a modded Amstad CPC with 2 CRTC. Which make me wonder what would be a heavily modded Amstrad CPC that everybody would love to own. If you have some ideas, write it in the thread I opened on CPCWiki.

inside of a modded Amstrad CPC keyboard

inside of a modded Amstrad CPC

2 CRTC inside of a modded Amstrad CPC



Number doesnt matter

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Size doesnt matter by SuperSly (Les sucres en morceaux) let me think about an Amstrad CPC demo or music made on more than an Amstrad CPC. Alas, I am no genius, some people have already done that on ZX Spectrum with a music Hung up by Ay Riders made on 2 Spectrum for example. It's a nice music by the way. If you know about other demos or musics made on more than 1 8bit or 16bit computer, let me know please.