3D-Maze is a labyrinth program in Amstrad CPC basic by Nigel Sharp (Amstrad Computer User, October 1985). Ervin Pajor ported it to the windows Z80 compiler CCZ80 (by Emilio Guerrero).

Stranded is an arcade puzzle game for ZX Spectrum by Bob Smith. It has been ported to Amstrad CPC by Kevin Thacker. It could be first bought at Chronosoft with a real package (tape), but it can now be donwloaded.

If you are stucked on Rick Dangerous 128+, see below for 3 videos by Axelino playing the original version on Youtube :

• first part of Rick Dangerous
• second part of Rick Dangerous
• third part of Rick Dangerous

GameBase CPC v12 is available.

Rick Dangerous 128+ is a new version enhanced by Fano, Macdeath and BDC Iron of Rick Dangerous (available 20 years ago in 1989). Some of the new features of this version is the use of the 4096 colors of the CPC+, new levels coming from the 16bit versions, DMA music, the use of the 2nd shoot button of the CPC+ joystick to jump...

Below a screenshot of the original version and of the 128+ version :

Dragon's Lair will be available in the future on Iphone, no date released though.

CPCGamesCD is a live CD by MiguelSky with emulators and the NVG Amstrad game collection. It has been updated :

• Includes frontend, new CPC Loader 2.5 by Troels K.
• Includes NVG games update 10/18/2009
• Includes Snap-Pack by MiguelSky (3589 images)
• Added new version 6.2 of JavaCPC emulator
• Includes Linux version of CPCLoader 2.5 and emus update
• Includes Maps folder of NVG and support for that
• Includes Links to T.A.C.G.R.

Orion Prime is now available for download (french only at the moment), have fun.

You can see a video of the start of Orion Prime on Youtube.

Chris Wild is talking with Mike Singleton about a LoM and DDR port to Iphone, that would be nice.

It has been ages since I last went on the web site of the 2 Guillion brothers, the authors of Sapiens. There is a newer (though not recent) version of their windows remake of this nice game, one of the few I finished on my Amstrad CPC. You should download this remake, for the music if only, but if you want to play it, dont forget the authors, it's a shareware for 10 € only.

LOMJAR is a java implementation of The Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge originally written by Mike Singleton. Other remakes can be downloaded :

• Icemark
• Midnight/MU (online multi-player)
• War of the solstice
• Midnight Flyer
• LoM and DDR for GameBoy Advance

After the Knight Lore MSX2 remake, there is also one of Alien 8 (still for MSX2) by Manuel Pazos (Guillian) and Daniel Celemín (LordFred).

They are both now working on a remake of la Abadia del crimen. You can go on Retroworks to see some pictures.

You can see a video of this Alien 8 remake for MSX2 on Youtube.

I am the happy owner of 2 Orion Prime (see below). Well 1 copy will be given there as soon as I find a proper contest.

As you can see the exterior of the box is really nice, and what you will find inside is as good as the exterior (very funny, but I wont say more). There is also an audio CD inside.

Orion prime did let me know that : 1) I have a dead CPC (thanks god, my MP-2F is still working), 2) I have a CPC with a bad video cable, 3) I have a CPC with keys which wont work anymore, 4) I have a working CPC, 5) I have a working CPC+ but with no 3,5" drive (which I already knew). Thanks Orion Prime :-) That said, I should have 1 or 2 more CPC somewhere else in my home, but I will do some archeology work later.

First experience with the game, graphics are nice (but we already knew that), the interface is simple and easy to use, the texts are loaded with a good sense of humor (any Heinlein lovers in Arkos and Les sucres en morceaux ?), and I know at least that I can open doors blocked with codes.

Dont forget that Orion Prime is out tomorrow 16th September 2009 (french only, but english, german and spanish will be available later). If you ordered Orion Prime, you will receive it soon. Otherwise you will only be able to download it as a .DSK file the 28th October 2009.

After Cauldron 2, it's the turn of Target Renegade,  you will find a music remake of Target Renegade on Youtube by Ömer Aydin (Noisywan).