Capcom bundle (Strider and Bionic Commando) on Humble Bundle
-Humble Bundle offers a Capcom bundle with Strider and Bionic Commando.
Humble Bundle offers a Capcom bundle with Strider and Bionic Commando.
Hewson Consultants, created in 1980 by Andrew Hewson, did publish several good games on Amstrad CPC like Uridium, Paradroid, Nebulus, Firelord, Stormlord and Cybernoid, but not only.
Available on their site web, a book (epub or not) as pre-order, and 11 incredible tracks from 10 classic Hewson games, remade by legendary artists (reduction of 40% with the code retrogamer on Bandcamp).
A remake of Future Knight by Johndimi is available (original game out in 1986).
This PC version has a map design which doesn't follow the original game but rather designed from scratch. Some game mechanics are improved, like the ability to move while jumping, having an inventory, faster gamespeed, etc...
The game features 7 levels. There are enemies to kill, items to find and use, keys to unlock doors, traps to avoid, shortcuts to take, new weapons, and bosses to exterminate.
ESP Soft just released a new spanish adventure game : el misterio de la isla de Tokland. It is written by 6128 and use the game engine el DAAD.
It is based on the book of the same name by Joan Manuel Gisbert. With one year of learning spanish (and a dictionnary), the game is playable even if I didnt go very far at the moment. Thanks for letting me working my spanish this summer :-)
Download and more informations on the syntaxical engine on ESP Soft.
If 25 CPC+ games in 25 minutes was a bit too short, here are two longplay and review by Xyphoe :
At the Play Blackppool 2015, Xyphoe interviewed Andrew Oliver (Oliver Twins) during 1 hour and 22 minutes ! Dizzy and Amstrad CPC featured of course.
Since at least march 2012, a 128 Ko version of Paperboy with music added by Fano does exist (download on source link, see below).
This Paperboy version has been reviewed by Xyphoe on Youtube.
Lachlank (author of Retro Game Asset Studio) just showed a preview of Minecraft for Amstrad CPC : Amscraft on Youtube.
It is written mainly in C using SDCC and the framwework CPCTelera, but with assembler to draw blocks. He is looking for help (music for example).
You can program an Amstrad CPC game and want to become riche at the same time ? Then submit your creation to the third edition of the CPCRetroDev Game Creation Contest, as each award will win some real money.
Beware, the target is an Amstrad CPC 464, so all entries will be included in a physical edition with an audio tape, not a 3 inch disk.
The deadline is the 23th october 2015.
After the first Athanor, Eric Safar is working on Athanor 2 this time with bitmaps graphics. You can already see a WIP screenshot of the game on CPCRulez (see source below).
Luc and Hervé Guillaume are two brothers who programmed a lot of games for Amstrad CPC, published in french newspapers with the Black System label.
Go on Homebrew Amstrad Today which wrote about Black System.
You will be of course able to download the Black System programs.
A new version of Puzznic is available for Amstrad CPC+ thanks to Arnoldemu and BDCIron.
This version runs on GX4000. Instead of pressing R for menu, press pause. Also, an update to the "boot" process, the new overscan title screen now fades in and out, and a CPC+ palette is used.
Les Crackers Velus just released the reflexion game 2048 for Amstrad CPC.
The prisoner is a new text adventure game about the famous TV serie with Patrick McGoohan in the sixties.
First on C64 and C64 plus, an Amstrad CPC (conversion by Miguel Sky, ESP Soft) spanish version is available since October 2013 and an english version just came out.
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