Atic Atac is a classic on ZX Spectrum (Atic Atac on Wos). The game was written by Tim and Chris Stamper, it was published by Ultimate Play the Game (alson on the BBC micro) in 1983.
John Ward is working on a version of Atic Atac for Amstrad CPC (CPCWiki).
A first video of Atic Atac is available on John Ward's Youtube channel.
Orgams is an assembler in ROM for Amstrad CPC, created by Madram, Drill and Hicks. A new version is available.
The documentation in french and english is available on Dorgams' wiki.
Thanks to Xporter and RVMEngine available for the Amstrad CPC framework CPCTelera v1.5 (WIP), you can already test the possibility of exporting your Amstrad CPC game to an Android program.
New videos running with the M4 player by Roland Rzasa are available :
A new version of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v4.0.0 is available since the 30th January 2020 for windows, linux and MacOS.
Sigh has finished all the artworks for his game Takedown (inspired by the game Dive Kick) for Amstrad CPC in mode 1 with 128 Kb of RAM. He is needed help from programmers to finish his game. If you can help him, just click on the source link just below.
Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has released a new version of 8BP v39 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.
A new game comes with this new version : Blaster Pilot, an arcade game inspired in part by Time Pilot (Konami).
No Recess gave news about Sonic GX for Amstrad GX-4000 on CPCWiki the 29th November.
There is no new video but they are several screenshots. The release date is now estimated in 2022.
After the announce by No Recess about Sonic GX on Amstrad GX-4000 game, Novabug is showing the first level alone then a four screen comparison with the Mega Drive, Master System et Master Gear versions !
GGP will release a beta of their Toki port for Amstrad CPC tonight.
Oldschool is beautiful did post yesterday a video of the first level.
There is also a video by Xyphoe of the Toki beta.
GGP is working since 2018 on an Amstrad CPC version of the well know arcade game Toki.
Oldschool is beautiful did interview his two authors at the RGC 2019 meeting.
In this video you learn what GGP means : Gros Gland Production, which translates to Big Acorn (oaknut) Production, yes really.
Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has released a new version of 8BP v38 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.
One thing about this version is the game Happy Monty (11th at CPCRetroDev 2019), you should read this article about how the game is done (spanish).
The results of the CPCRetroDev 2019 competition are out, see below. Congratulations too all the teams for their efforts from the last to the first. Writing a game is certainly not the easiest thing to do between programmation, gameplay, graphics and sound. Thanks to you for all your work which helps the Amstrad CPC live still.
I will try to take time to test them all in the following days. My first try will be the 31th game : Cpcrogue as I like roguelike games.
A new version of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v3.9.0 is available since the 15th April 2019 for windows, linux and MacOS.
The last version of the C compilator for PC and MacOS z88dk v1.99c is out since January 2019, more details here.
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