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








Lords of Midnight on Iphone coming

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In October 2009 I was writing about a possible Iphone port of Lords of Midnight (originally written by Mike Singleton) by Chris Wild. This time it's for real ! There will be some tweaks to A.I., new updated graphics of cource, first version will be just solo, but updates will bring multi-user play.

While waiting for this precious gem, you can either play the original Lords of Midnight game with an emulator, or with one of the various following ports :



NoRecess web site

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NoRecess {the website} is a nice recent web site by NoRecess (since January 2011). He is the author of the Phat, Phat 2,Pheelone and Phreaksdemos. But he also wrote PhrozenC, a K&R C compiler for Amstrad CPC and the HxC Software Emulator Manager for Amstrad CPC. He is writing Phactory, a PC utility which is a completedevelopment editor targeting the Amstrad CPC platform. It features : code editor, bitmap converter, big file maker, dsk file manager, packer, hex editor... SDCC C compiler is alsofully integrated, and inlined assembly code is compatible with Maxam syntax.

There is an interesting article about state of the Amstrad CPC community in 2011 (with informations from Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Denmark, Spain, South Australia and France), and last article is an interview of Axelay,author of Star Sabre, Dead On Time and Sub Hunter, and many more interesting things to read.






Sub Hunter, a new arcade game for Amstrad CPC by Axelay

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Sub Hunter for C64 by Richard Bayliss and Frank Gasking, first available as disk and tapes for Amstrad CPC at Psytronik is now available as a free download.

The amstrad CPC version has been converted by Paul Kooistra (Axelay), author of the CPC shoot 'em ups Star Sabre and Dead on Time.

Sub Hunter is an arcade game featuring 25 levels of sub-aquatic action, multi-layered parallax scrolling, intro sequence, superb detailed graphics, varied missions including shoot 'em up levels, rescue missions and boss encounters.

Music by Tom and Jerry (he has the gift of ubiquity).

Sub Hunter loading screenshot

Sub Hunter CAT loading screenshot

Sub Hunter menu screenshot

Sub Hunter game screenshot



Happy new year 2011

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I wish you a happy new year 2011, and a lot of Amstrad CPC meetings



Merry Christmas 2010

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Merry Christmas 2010