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






Gloire à Piou, an Amstrad CPC demo by Overlanders released at the Revision 2019

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Gloire à Piou by Overlanders has been released at the Revision 2019 for the oldskool contest where it got the 11th place. The demo was programmed entirerly on an Amstrad CPC first with DAMS then with Dorgams. The music is written by Jess with Starkos.

There are two versions of the demo :


Youtube video





Crownland WIP by Ivan Duchauffour, a conversion from an Atari 8bit platform game

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Crownland was released on Atari 8 bit by the group LaResistance in 2007. It's a platform game which won 2nd place at ABBUC Software. The game is being converted on Amstrad CPC by Ivan Duchauffour. There are two videos available :


Youtube video




Creating an adventure game with Adventuron on PCs, tablets, mobile phones

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Adventuron (on Twitter) lets you create an adventure game on PC, tablet and mobile phone (and more later).

Excalibur: Sword of Kings is a game created with Adventuron. Original version was by Ian Smith and Shaun McClure, the Adventuron remake is by Chris Ainsley.


Youtube video



Twilight Inventory - A Collection of Forgotten 8-Bit Adventure Games by Gareth Pitchford

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Gareth Pitchford is the author of adventure games, a book about them (see first link) which can be bought printed, as a kindle book or downloaded as a PDF. His site also gives informations about creating adventure games.



PawMac for windows, an utility about creating adventure games by Jason McHale

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Following my article about a bit of history about creation of adventure games, PawMac by Jason McHale is a windows utility to create maps of adventure games using The Quill or PAW (to be used with Trizbort) and to convert a game created with The Quill to use it with PAW.



Post Scriptum, an Amstrad CPC demo needing additionnal RAM, with art by Hwikaa

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Post Scriptum is an Amstrad CPC demo done by an unknow person from nowhere, with art created by Hwikaa.

It needs additionnal RAM with a X-Mem or using an emulator like Sugarbox which knows to emulate the X-Mem RAM/ROM expansion.



Imperium Solo firmware v1.0.3 by Duke, an adaptator to connect an USB joystick or mouse

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The firmware v1.0.3 of the Imperium Solo by Duke is available. It's an adaptator to use USB joysticks (PS4, Xbox One...) on a standard joystick port of an Amstrad CPC (and later ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga and Atari ST).

The split cable which the CPC and the adaptator is included for the price of 15 euros, add shipping and paypal cost too.