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The secret of Anubis by Titan, an Amstrad CPC game in english and french

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After HEXAPUCCHU The lost city of Patchucca, Titan has just released le secret d'Anubis, a new Amstrad CPC, like a gamebook (such as Lone wolf.

The cold had frozen Paris... and my business,when... a letter.

It was waiting for me on the desk, lying there like the ultimate reminder that miracles still exist. Thick paper, the scent of aged leather, a golden seal pressed into wax: for once, it wasn’t a bill ! The crest - I knew it. I had seen it once, often, then never again.

TARIQ El-Nasir, a patron, billionaire, compulsive collector of lost civilizations. A man so mysterious I had never met him in the flesh. He was content to send me, by mail, the addresses of my future excavation sites. Missions that, so far, had never truly led to glory...

Like that failed expedition to Sudan. I came back with two broken fingers, a heatstroke, and a newspaper article that didn’t even mention me. Since then, nothing. A silence as dry as a desert without an oasis.

And now, he was writing to me again. I didn’t open the letter right away. I traced its edges the way you study a treasure map scribbled in haste. This kind of mail never appears by chance. And it almost never brings good news. More often, riddles. Traps. And sometimes... death.

But in my case... I had nothing to lose.


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Fan Service, an Amstrad CPC demo by Vanity

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Fan Service is an Amstrad CPC demo by the Vanity group, code by Hicks, graphics by Beb and music by E-Dredon. You can download Fan Service on Pouet or directly on Genesis8bit.

In the scrolling, you will be able to read an announce about their next demo Onescreen Colonies 4.


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Joyce v2.5.4 by John Elliott, an Amstrad PCW emulator

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The Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.5.4 by John Elliott is available for unix, windows and MacOS. The only change in this version is to correct the default palette used by the built-in GSX driver, so it matches the GSX manual (and DDMODE0 / DDMODE1 on the CPC).

The version 2.5.3 in 2024 did add the emulation of a proprietary communication interface : the PCW Linkit which links two PCW (click on the link PCW hardware information) whereas the LocoLink did link a PCW to another computer with its parallel port (PC, PcW16 or a PCW 9512 with a third-party software). The Linux build also has another feature : you can now use JOYCE as a terminal to your system's command line, so you can use MAIL232 (or other PCW terminal program of your choice) in the same way that you would an xterm.