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Reginald and the Sex Vampires v1.1.1 by David Moore, an action Amstrad CPC game (and sources)

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Reginald and the She Vampires v1.1.1 par David Moore (reboot/sequel of the original game The Astonishing Adventures of Mr Weems And The She Vampires) is available. Changes in this version :

  • Increased Damage from Monsters
  • Instructions Screen now returnable early by a keypress
  • increased display duration of all intermediate screens (due to timing issues with some CRTCs sometimes these screens disappeared too quickly on a real CPC)
  • If enabled, Game hints are displayed for longer and no longer can be dismissed by a keypress

Code source of Reginald and the She Vampires is available on Github.

He is also writing a remake of the great classic Wizardry 1 (originally on Apple 2).



Start the year nicely with the newspaper 64 NOPS

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Start the year nicely with the newspaper 64 NOPS whose three first issues are available as download. There are still four copies left of the issue 3 of 64 NOPS.

You can order the issue 4 in english of the newspaper 64 NOPS on Ulule. It's a project by Hicks/Vanity and Toms/Pulpo Corrosivo, the cover is made by Beb, 64 pages A4 and delivery will be in February 2026.



Happy new year 2026

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One more year, this year it will be the 26th year of the web site which started in 1999.

I wish you all a good 2026 year, my best wishes of happyness, health and success for you and all the people who are important for you (and for all the others too). Well, if we could have some more peace on earth it would be also a good thing.




rtzx v0.3.1 par Phil Stewart, un utilitaire de gestion de fichier cassettes (TZX et CDT)

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rtzx by Phil Stewart is an utility for windows and linux written in Rust language to manage tape files for ZX Spectrum (TZX) and Amstrad CPC (CDT). It can inspect, convert to wav, and play to audio. This version features :

  • Bug: Fixed parsing of StandardSpeedDataBlock
  • Bug: Fix StandardSpeedDataBlock start pulse high logic to ensure an edge is present between pilot and sync pulses
  • Bug: Fix display format exception when PulseSequence contains no pulses