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






The Basic v1.1 ROM of the Amstrad CPC 6128 unassembled by Bread80

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After the unassembling of the Amstrad CPC 6128 firmware, Bread80 has done the same for the Basic v1.1 ROM also for the CPC 6128. He is writing about it on Il en parle sur its web site and Twitter.

Why using a commercial compiler of the Amstrad CPC basic when you can update its speed directly ?



Siemb Chronicles: Arkos the Traitor for Amstrad CPC by ESP Soft was released in September 2021

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ESP Soft has released the sequel of Game Over for Amstrad CPC Siemb Chronicles: Arkos the Traitor the 13th September 2021. It has 2 levels : the fall of Arkos and Escape from Hypsis, it's a mix of platform, run and gun and shoot them up.

The game exists thanks to ESP Soft by the following people :

  • Artaburu (code)
  • Triste1942 (graphics)
  • McKlain (sound)
  • Litos (history, script)
  • Jesús Martínez del Vas (cover)
  • MiguelSky (ideas)
  • JGonza, Chemamstrad et BlackMores (tests)

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DAAD Ready v0.5 by Uto to easily compile DAAD games as tape or disk for targeted computers

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Si vous souhaitez créer un jeu d'aventure texte et/ou graphique alors DAAD est ce qu'il vous faut (PunyInform aussi mais sans graphiques, en pur texte).

DAAD permettant de cibler beaucoup d'ordinateurs, Uto a créé DAAD Ready qui vous permets de créer facilement des images cassettes ou disquette prêtes à l'emploi sur les ordinateurs supportés par DAAD.

Bien que DAAD ne supporte officiellement que l'anglais et l'espagnol, DAAD ready ajoute un support limité du portugais, allemand et français. Cela va permettre notamment d'avoir une version française de Tristam Island.

Vous pouvez télécharger DAAD Ready ici.


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SDCC v4.1.0 (C programming for Amstrad CPC) on PC and MacOS

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A new version of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v4.1.0 is available since the 8th March 2021 for windows, linux and MacOS.



NOMWARS, an Amstrad CPC game written with 8BP v041 (and more)

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Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has released a new version of NOMWARS (tape and disk) written with 8BP v41 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), his RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic and asm.

A physical edition of the game can be bought on Hobby Retro.

You can download 8bp on github.

You can also get SPEDIT v14, an utility to capture sprites from games or pictures made with an utility such as ConnvImgCPC, Martine...

And finally, he is working on a menu application for DES cartridges, to allow easy launching on games installed inside such a cartridge.


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3DManiaks, an Amstrad CPC demo by the group Impact

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3DManiaks by Impact is their latest production, an Amstrad CPC demo which is quite nice to see. You can download it on Pouet or on CPCWiki. You can also see 3DManiaks sur Youtube.

The demo has been written by :

  • Demoniak (code)
  • Kris (art)
  • CMP (design)
  • Mast/FtL (music)

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CHR$(143) by Nicolas JEAN, a tribute to Amstrad CPC 464 CHaRacter$ based games

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CHR$(143) on Steam by Nicolas JEAN for 3,29 € is a game for windows being a tribute for the Amstrad CPC 464 (user-defined) "CHaRacter$" based games.

Guiding a small group of "agents", you will gradually discover a Lost World, the seemingly simple graphics of which conceal its hidden complexity...

You will learn to move in it, to understand its physical properties, to accumulate sufficient stocks of materials, to build structures, machines and vehicles, to engineer various types of power plants to fullfill your growing needs for energy, and to search, sometimes even in the fog of war, for the enemy that your destiny requires you to defeat...

72 built-in levels + unlockable User Level Editor and (experimental) unlockable LAN Multiplayer Mode.

You can see on Nicolas JEAN's Youtube some videos including ones about level 5 et 6 (spoiler alert).


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RASM v1.6 by Roudoudou, a multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC

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The last version of RASM is v1.6 (29th October 2021).

Rasm is now available on Github (documentation included).

This multi platform assembler (linux, windows, but not only like MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC.



Josh, a reflexion and arcade game for Amstrad CPC by Retropoke

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Josh is a reflexion and arcade Amtrad CPC game by Philippe MOULIN (Retropoke) for the code, Kukulcan for the introduction and game ending, and Rayxamber for the music.

This following description comes directly from CPC Power : between reflexion and d'arcade, Josh will bring you in varied enigmas which aim is to get all fragments of diamonds in a box of the same color to go to the next level. On your road, you will find differents objects which will help you to accomplish your mission and differents ennemies who will want you to loose. Beware you have only one try and any mistake will plunge you in an infinite void.

Retropoke has written many other software for Amstrad CPC this last years, check on CPC-Power.


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