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






Abyssal for Amstrad CPC by Cabbage_corp for the CPCRetroDev 2022 contest

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Abyssal by Cabbage_corp is a horizontal shooter, enter your bathyscaph and enter into the pacific ocean to battle its creatures. The game is already available for download as tape, disk and snapshot.


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Be Witched or be Dead for Amstrad CPC by Hinamam for the CPCRetroDev 2022 contest

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Be Witched or be Dead by Hinamam is a two player game inside platforms where you must use spells to weaken your opponent and the beat him. But magic is sometimes capricious and all what you want could not happen like you wish. The game is already available for download as tape, disk and snapshot.


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The Wormhole for Amstrad CPC by Zilog Games for the CPCRetroDev 2022 contest

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Zilog Games is working on their Amstrad CPC game The Wormhole for the CPCRetroDev 2022 contest.

It's a platform game. Don't hesitate to go check their Twitter account or their blog on Itch.IO, notably for their nice introduction of the game.



ST-NICCC 2000 DOS Port by Scali and FreddyV

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The STNICCC2000 demo by Oxygene is a classic on Atari ST, which was ported on many other machines. In 2022 it now works on any PC with msdos, even on a 8088/8086, but a 80286 is preferred for a reasonable speed.

You can see the demo running on an Amstrad PC 3086 (video by FreddyV, see below) or the official video of the Revision 2022.


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The 20 Best Amstrad Games Released After The Amstrad demise by Old Style Gaming

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Here is a video by Old Style Gaming in coopération with Xyphoe on the 20 best Amstrad CPC games released after the CPC demise.


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ùCPM issue 2, a french Amstrad CPC paper zine by Titi

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You can download the second issue of the Amstrad CPC ùCPM fanzine.

It was created with an Amstrad CPC 6128 with colour screen and gotek drive, with the Micro Design+ software. Illustrations were done with the VIDI digitalizer.




Future Knight DX, a remake by John32b for windows

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Seen on AUA, Future Knight DX by John32B is of course a remake of Future Knight, a platform game released in 1986 by Gremlin Graphics Software.

This version is an adaptation from the Amstrad CPC game, and is different than his first remake which design level was done from scratch.


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CPCEC GTK by NoRecess, a linux Amstrad CPC(+) emulator

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CPCEC GTK by NoRecess is an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator under linux, a fork of CPCEC by CNGSoft. Its features are turned especially for people who develop Amstrad CPC software under linux.



Another ISA board for the Amstrad PPC by Enide, video by Retro Erik

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There is already an ISA interface for Amstrad PPC done by Retro Theory. Retro Erik let us discover in a video another ISA interface for Amstrad PPC by Enide. You can buy this card in his Tindie shop (assembled or not), the stock is 0 at the moment so join the waitlist to let Enide you want one. More informations on Enide's web site.

As explained in the video, Enide's interface doesn't have a power input like the one by Retro Theory, but the PPC has enough power for a possible hard disk (on a few PPC sold only) and two 3,5 disks drives, so it should be able to provide power to up to 3 ISA boards without a problem. Retro Erik recommends to check the video by Gouldfish on Games where the card has been installed inside the Amstrad PPC. But if one day you replace the internal screen by a new LCD screen, you should check if there is enough power with the ISA interface used.

I was lucky to be able to buy the card by Retro Theory on System.CFG's forum.


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