Category: Amstrad CPC
Juan J. Martinez is again releasing a great game for free. This time he presents us with Brick Rick, a single platform game inspired by classics like Bubble Bobble. The game has 50 stages where Rick has to clear in less than 60 seconds. You can stun the enemies, so they can’t hurt you and then kick them back to…
OpenFlops is a hardware-based floppy emulator, similar to the Gotek drives. Besides many improvements over the original, OpenFlops is available under a free licence and therefore can be built by everybody. Suitable for most retro computers that use either internal or external floppy disk drives as a direct replacement or additional drive so you can load games/software from a USB flash…
My only participation in game development contests happened a few years ago in the BASIC 10-liner, where I managed to a very low score – the game wasn’t that good, to be honest. Despite that, this is one of the topics that most interest me. The interest comes from reasons. One is my thinking to try again to participate in…
Bitmap Soft is pleased to announce the availability of CPC Soccer: International Edition for the Amstrad CPC, developed by Israel Roman from Voxel Tower. CPC Soccer is a football/soccer simulation game that sees you take control of one of 20 international teams as you put them through their paces in either a friendly exhibition match or a knockout tournament consisting of…
Rockstar ate my hamster is a cult classic, but why?
Back to the future is an all time classic movie franchise, but how were the games? Lets find out.
Back in the late 80`s there was a phenomenon about to launch in the UK, (No i`m not talking about shell suits) i`m talking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (In the UK the Ninja was replaced to Hero Because…you know….reasons). Konami released one of the greatest arcade games ever into the arcade in 1989, the 4 player simultaneous play…
Kitsune’s Curse is a flip-screen platformer for the Amstrad CPC with 64K of RAM or more. Our hero, the ninja spy Kitsune, released Osaka Castle from evil by putting together the pieces of the Golden Tail, a magic stone with great power. But not all ended well for everybody. When the true nature of our hero Kitsune was revealed, the…
One of the most expected and respected contests in the retro computing community is turning 10 years old and ready to roll! The Tenth Edition of the BASIC 10-Liner has started and already waiting for your submission. This edition’s rules are pretty much the same as last year’s. BASIC games can be written for all 8-bit computers, as long they…
Bitmap Soft is pleased to announce that the fun run’n’gun game Galactic Tomb for Amstrad is now available as a physical release on pre-order basis from their website. Originally released by ESP Soft as a free download in 2018, the Bitmap Soft cassette version differs in that it includes English translations. Galactic Tomb sees you take control of the most…
