News about Amstrad CPC, PCW, Notepad NC100 NC150 NC200, PDA600 and also Amstrad PC






Marmelade (is a masquerade), a french graphical adventure game for Amstrad CPC

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Seen on Roudoudou's Youtube channel, Marmelade written by Stephane MERLO-UYTTENDAELE and Frederic SOL (édited by MBC Informatique) is graphical adventure game for Amstrad CPC released in 1987.

But it's in fact an non official french remake of an Apple 2 adventure game Masquerade written in 1983 by Dale JOHNSON (code) and Rick INCROCCI (graphics). A very difficult game with an official contest with a winning price of 1000 dollars, which was finally won.

This Amstrad CPC version of Masquerade was corrected in 2020 by The Crackers Velus, otherwise you can't finish the game. You can download this corrected version of Marmelade on CPC-Power. The longplay video of the finished game below is by Roudoudou.


Youtube video





Time Bomb GX by ShaCPC, a remake of the 1985 game by Chris TURNER

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Time Bomb is an Amstrad CPC reflexion game written in 1985 by Chris TURNER. Today ShaCPC is presenting his Amstrad CPC(+)/GX4000 remake : Time Bomb GX as a .CPR cartridge file. You will need a M4 addon to load the .CPR with a plain Amstrad CPC.


Youtube video




El Caldero Mágico GX by ShaCPC, a remake of the 1986 game by Angel GARCIA DELGADO

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El Caldero Mágico is an Amstrad CPC platform game written in 1986 by Angel GARCIA DELGADO (AGD). Today ShaCPC is presenting his Amstrad CPC(+)/GX4000 remake : El Caldero Mágico GX as a .CPR cartridge file. You will need a M4 addon to load the .CPR with a plain Amstrad CPC.



The Great Pakete Point & Click Adventure for Amstrad CPC Creation Contest (new v1.1.4)

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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 v1.1.4 on its Github page (compiler and documentation).



1984 v0.4.9, an Amstrad CPC emulator by salvogendut (and more)

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The Amstrad CPC emulator 1984 by Salvogendut is available as version 0.4.9.

But it's not the only program he worked on for Amstrad CPC :

  • N4CEWENTERM, an ANSI Telnet Client for Amstrad CPC
  • symcmd-settime : uan utility to set time with http under SymbOS
  • conv2SGX : an utility to convert pictures to the SGX format used by SymbOS


Joyce v2.5.5 by John Elliott, an Amstrad PCW emulator

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The Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.5.5 by John Elliott is available for unix, windows and MacOS.

In this new version (26th March 2026), Dot-matrix and daisywheel printer can now output to PDF files. GSX drivers added for direct output to PNG and PDF files, and accelerated output to the PCW mono display. Fixed an issue with bidirectional matrix printer output going out of alignment.



Panic! GX by ShaCPC, a remake of the 1986 game by Roland A. WADDILOVE

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Panic! is a platform game in 1986 by Roland A. WADDILOVE. Today ShaCPC is presenting his Amstrad CPC+/GX4000 remake : Panic! GX.


Youtube video