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






Tower Toppler v1.1.3 for windows, a Nebulus remake

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There is a new version of Tower Toppler since I wrote about this remake of Nebulus, with one more mission of several towers (tower toppler v1.1.3).




a tribute to the sisters, a remake of Great Giana Sisters

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A tribute of the sisters (click on download) is a work in progress of a great giana sisters clone for FutureOS (an alternate operating system for Amstrad CPC). It's written by TFM, sound by Kangaroo Musique and graphism by Tolkin.

You can test a tribute to the sisters on CPC-Live.





Retro Still Alive

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I found Retro Still Alive on GameBase CPC, you will find 47 reviews of Amstrad games there (french only though).



Gamebase CPC

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GameBase is an Open Source "Emulator Frontend", released under the GNU General Public Licence. It is a program that attempts to make running games on various emulators very easy, so that you don't have to remember lots of command line parameters and config settings. GameBase is the Official Frontend for the GB64 Collection of C64 games. It manages games, music, docs, screenshots and more

There is of course a GameBase CPC maintained by Loïc Daneels. He is adding .YM music, screenshots, scans of package and documentation.



Institut national de l'Audiovisuel

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The web site of Institut national de l'Audiovisuel (its goal is to keep archives of french television and radio) got a lifting. They also now have 200.000 televsion ads from 1968 to today. I invite you to go see ads about Amstrad products.




Elite IV soon on (C)PC, PS3 and Xbox360 !

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After some announces in 2006 and 2007, this time it's for real, the PS3 information site thesixthaxis has confirmed that David Braben officially announced Elite IV for PC, PS3 and Xbox360, but sadly not for CPC. No date is given though.

screenshot of Elite by Ian Bell and David Braben