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







Double Dragon 4 on PC (Steam) and Sony PS4 the 30th January

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A teaser for Double Dragon 4 is available on Youtube. The game will be out the 30th January on PC (Steam) and Sony PS4 console.



2016 Favourite demoscene productions by 4Sceners and Bitfellas

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4Sceners and Bitfellas published their favourite demoscene productions for the year 2016 :

  • 3rd place for the best music disk : CPC vs Virgill by TRSI
  • 2nd place for the best game : Pinball Dreams preview by Batman Group
  • 7th place for the best game : Outlaws



BDCIron testing Amstrad CPC games on Youtube

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Thanks to the Amstrad CPC music disk CPC vs Virgill (TRSI, 2016), I found the Youtube channel of BDCIron where he is testing Amstrad CPC games. Last test was done on the 11th January :

  • Skweek
  • Wizball
  • Mega Phenix
  • Impossaball
  • 3D Fight
  • Burnin Rubber


Amstrad CPC X-Mass, ACMEDOS and YANCC (by SOS)

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Everybody knows the hardware interfance X-Mass by ToTO for Amstrad CPC, a MX4 mass storage expansion with 128 Mb of flash for storing files on your beloved computer.

AcmeDOS is an Amstrad CPC ROM which lets you use the Microsoft FAT file system with the X-Mass.

YANCC (Yet Another Norton Command Clone) is a text interface to manage your files on the X-Mass and the AcmeDOS ROM with an interface not unknown to olders : ms-dos and norton (or linux and midnight commander).





Test of Klax by ChinnyVision

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A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Klax is available. This reflexion game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1990 by Domark.

He also tests it on Amiga, ST, Sega Master System, ZX Spectrum, MSX and C64.

On an Amstrad CPC+, the only differences are a new title screen, some sound effects and a rather nice fade effect between screens.