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






Interview of Barry LEITCH (composer and graphist) who worked on Hero Quest by example

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An interview of Barry LEITCH who is a composer and graphist for several 8bit games like Hero Quest for example.

And as a plus, a remake of Hero Quest's music by SuTeKH/Epyteor.





A spanish adventure game by Pablo Martínez Merino : La Casa al otro lado de la tormenta

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Pablo Martínez Merino has written a new adventure game for Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum with the DAAD utility : La Casa al otro lado de la tormenta.

A house in the middle of one of the most dangerous areas of the ether, known as Phantom Zones, keeps the terrible secret of a family, and the origin of the known universe...



Oldskool demo compo at the Révision 2019 demo party

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Results of the oldskool demo compo at Révision 2019 are out. There are two Amstrad CPC demos, one at the 3rd place, see below :

  • The Seniors - Rivalry - C64 new SID (In the "Commodore audience", this wins!)
  • Hooy-Program - The Brexecutable Music Compo Is Over - ZX Spectrum (2nd place!)
  • Overlanders - Gloire a Piou! - CPC-6128 (3rd place!)
  • Pulpo Corrosivo - Octopus Pocus - CPC-6128
  • Fenarinarsa - Latecomer - Apple ][
  • ZOO - We are the Chimpions - C64 new SID
  • Moods Plateau - Twenty - KC 85/4
  • Chemtrailer Boys - Edison 2019 Invitation - C64 new SID
  • The Pets Mode - ROBOTTO - MSX1
  • Desire - 1E78 - Atari 7800
  • BinaryCounter - Hello - SNES
  • resource+singular - The 21st - C64 new SID
  • TRSI - TRSI 4 Nordlicht - Atari 2600
  • Molive - SNES-NICCC 2000 - SNES
  • Titan - MD-NICCC - Sega Megadrive

You can see all the démos/musics on Twitch.




Cherish your Amstrad CPC 464, offer it the protection that it deserves !

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Do you really love your Amstrad CPC 464 ? Then you must buy a protection when you are away from it, made by Gifeda420 as seen on this tweet.






Imperium Solo by Duke, an adaptator to connect an USB joystick or mouse on joystick port

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Duke has released his Imperium solo which is an adaptator to connect USB joysticks (PS4, Xbox One...) or mouses on a standard joystick port for Amstrad CPC. It will be available for other computers later thanks to an update done with the USB port (ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga et Atari ST).

He will soon start to ship the pre-orders, if you want one it is time to order one but you will have to wait for all pre-orders to be shipped first. I have ordered two adaptators myself.

Check Duke's site about Imperium Solo.

The split cable you see in the video to power the CPC and the adaptator is included with the adaptator for the price of 15 euros, add shipping and paypal cost too.