Archives for the month May 2026 of Genesis8 Amstrad Page





Horny Bytes Lovers, an Amstrad CPC demo by Benediction

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Horny Bytes Lovers by BenedictionC is an Amstrad CPC demo. It is written by Eliot and Krusty (code), RetroVynZ and Voxy (graphics), Warlod (music). You can download Horny Bytes Lovers locally.


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Xevious 128k by Nemo Kantio out the 9th May 2026

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Xevious is a classic shoot them up by Namco which was released on Amstrad CPC by Probe Software is being remade by par Nemo Kantio and its release will be right tomorrow saturday 9th May 2026 on CPC-Power. Between the original version by Probe and this remake, there is no doubt that this new version is much better.


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A speedrun of Little Puff in Dragonland by Kukulcan on Amstrad CPC

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Little Puff in Dragonland for Amstrad CPC is a great classic by Christian URQUHART, Glenn BENSON, Paul JOHNSON, Dave KELLY in 1989 and edited by Codemasters Software.

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is doing a speedrun on Little Puff in Dragonland in about 8 minutes and 4 seconds.


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Programming Amstrad CPC games with Retrodev by TLOTB (Metal Slug mini as an example)

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Retrodev by Astharoth (demo groupe TLOTB) is a software toolchain for windows to develop Amstrad CPC gaes, but later also for ZX Spectrum, C64 and MSX. I invite your to check the Github page to see all the features.

As an example of using Retrodev, you can check and play a mini game made with it : Metal Slug Mini whose sources are on Github.


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The Great Pakete Point & Click Adventure for Amstrad CPC Creation Contest (new version 1.1)

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The adventure game enging (point & click) Paket is made by Jordi Sureda (graphics) and Santi Ontañón (code). It was first used for a demo : the Escape the ROM game then the episodes 1 to 3 of the game The Key.

A Great Pakete Point & Click Adventure for Amstrad CPC Creation Contest is open (with some rewards for the winner) till the 31th December 2026. The winner will be announced at the end of January 2027. You can download Paket v1.1 on its Github page (compiler and documentation).



Amstrad CPC CRTC Compendium v1.9 by Longshot (May 2026) and his blog

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Longshot has released version 1.9 of the Amstrad CPC CRTC Compendium (15th May 2026) which is a documentation about the CRTC 6845 (and some others circuits). Note that the CRTC is a generic component used in several computers including the IBM PC.

It is possible to check if an emulator is good with the SHAKER tests by Longshot. SHAKER is a program designed to run on CPC machines produced by AMSTRAD in the 80s-90s. The objective of this program is to carry out extensive tests on the video circuits of this machine. These video circuits are the GATE ARRAY and the CRTC 6845. AMSTRAD produced several series of GATE ARRAY and used CRTC models produced by different manufacturers (HITACHI, MOTOROLA, UMC, AMSTRAD). This has been causing compatibility problems on operations that exceed the functional specifications of these circuits. The identified CRTCs are numbered from 0 to 4.

And last, if you like reading, don't hesitate to go check Longshot's blog.



DAAD Ready version B (windows) by Uto to create adventure games

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DAAD Ready version B (05/15/2026) has been released for Windows. DAAD Ready allows you to create a graphical adventure game with DAAD Adventure Writer and create a binary for several 8bit and 16bit platforms including the Amstrad CPC.

For more information on DAAD Ready, follow this link. If you want to create a purely text adventure game, you can use the PunyInform library written by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson.




Cadence par Abalore, a new multi platform Amstrad CPC emulator

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Abalore just released his latest project, no more no less than a newémulateur multi platform Amtrad CPC emulator, but only compiled for Linux at the moment. It do not support CPC+ but can read .CPR cartridge and run Alcon 2020 for example.



A WIP remake available of Fugitif by Frederic MANTEGAZZA, (1991 Amstrad CPC game)

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Frédéric MANTEGAZZA and Laurent DIEUDONNE (his cousin) are the authors of an Amstrad CPC game edited by Lankhor : Fugitif. Drawing are by Jean-Paul RENAULT (read the description on CPC-POWER about the drawing, it's interesting), music by Laurent MOLLARD and box cover by Stéphane POLLARD.

box cover by Stéphane POLLARD of the  Amstrad CPC game : Fugitif

It was made in mode 1 using rasters to show more than 4 colors. Frédéric has lost the original source code, so he disassembled the program and commented it (download available).

For more details, read the AMSnews article on the game.

A solution of Fugitif is available if you are blocked somewhere. And you can also check the video by Amstrad Maniaque below.

Frédéric was working sinec 2023 on a new release of Fugitif, to address the main issue of the original game: at the time, he was unable to do anything else during the raster display. The new release will use demomakers tricks to display a hud below the image. This hud will non longer be icons-based, but rather a console, whith a syntax interpreter, as in many adventure games in this era (and something he originaly wanted to do). A version of this WIP remake is available.


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The Great Pakete Point & Click Adventure for Amstrad CPC Creation Contest (new v1.1.1)

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The adventure game enging (point & click) Paket is made by Jordi Sureda (graphics) and Santi Ontañón (code). It was first used for a demo : the Escape the ROM game then the episodes 1 to 3 of the game The Key.

A Great Pakete Point & Click Adventure for Amstrad CPC Creation Contest is open (with some rewards for the winner) till the 31th December 2026. The winner will be announced at the end of January 2027.

You can download Paket v1.1.1 on its Github page (compiler and documentation).





New firmware v4.1.1 for the PicoGUS by Ian Scott for your ISA PC XT/AT

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Ian Scott has released a new firmware v4.1.1 for his ISA card PicoGUS which supports the sound card Gravis Ultra Sound and much more including recently the Sound Blaster 16. This version also corrects an old bug : playmidi.exe now works in GUS mode.




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