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







Kilobyte Magazine issue 1 of 2020 is available

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The first issue of 2020 of the Kilobyte Magazine is available for download.It's about 8bit computers, without Amstrad CPC specific content, but still interesting.



A physical edition of Space Moves (2015) by Retrobytes Productions

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Space moves is an Amstrad CPC game written by Toni RAMIREZ and John McKlain for the music, edited by Retrobytes Productions for the 2015 contest. There is now a physical edition sold by Matra for 21,45 euros.


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Daymo of the Tentacle, an Amstrad CPC demo by Pulpo Corrosivo for the Revision 2020

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After Octopus Pocus in 2019, Pulpo Corrosivo has released Daymo of the Tentacle for the Amstrad CPC, which got the 3rd place at the oldskool intro contest at the Revision 2020. The code was written by Toms, music by Targhan and graphics by Barjack (link on Pouet).


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WIP Atic Atac for Amstrad CPC by John Ward

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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.


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Kenshiro demo for the Amstrad GX4000 or CPC Plus by Cyrille GOURET

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Kenshiro is a demo for the Amstrad GX4000 console or the Amstrad CPC+ computer by Cyrille GOURET about the manga Ken the survivor. There is a screen by Eric Cubizolle (2019) and two unknown songs (more later maybe for their name). The Kenshiro demo is available on Youtube.


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A bug with the REM command on Amstrad CPC 464 (basic 1.0)

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The bug was found by Velus on CPCRulez. In a basic program, type the following ligne : 10 rem |era,"toto.txt" (on a french 464 the | is replace by ù). Next RUN the program or edit the ligne (EDIT 10) and validate with return. Last look at the progam with the LIST command, the character after the | (or ù) has been removed.




Mod Master XT beta 19 for your PC XT, listen to musical modules files

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A new version of Mod Master XT beta 19 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA). This last version adds the support for adlib sound music files, and for a next version the support of the OPLxLPT (OPL2 and 3).