Category: Amstrad CPC
We covered the original release of Keith Sear’s hectic retro shooter for the Amstrad CPC back in December 2016, but our friends over at Planet Sinclair spotted that a conversion for the ZX Spectrum now appears to be in works. A new announcement on the game’s official website confirms this fact, promising to deliver an updated version of the game…
Amstrad CPC owners who are fans of platform shoot’em up games likes Turrican and Metroid, may have been looking at Steel Ranger for the C64 in envy over the past few months wondering when they would get to receive an equivalent quality title for their beloved machine. Well ESP Soft has provided Amstrad owners with a great response in the…
Since it’s launch at the beginning of April 2018, our homebrew gaming database has gone from strength to strength with almost 100 titles available online for our community and site visitors to download. However, the best is yet to come, and retro gaming fans will be pleased to know that our team has been busy sourcing yet more of the…
We have recently learnt News of a new game preview release by Retrobytes. It’s our understanding that “World War Simulator Part II” will be released coincide the Amstrad Eterno event in Barcelona, from Saturday April 21st until Sunday afternoon April 22nd. The game shares similarities to Pandora’s “Into the Eagles Nest” originally released way back in 1986. World War Simulator…
Baba’s Palace won the last edition of #CPCRetroDev and the victory was well deserved. If you play the game (you gonna play it!), it is fair to say that if it had been released in the 80’s, Rafa Castillo and John McKlain would be swimming in a pool of money because the game would’ve sold a lot! When playing the game,…
Amstrad CPC fans will soon have cause to celebrate since we learned that Juan J. Martinez (Reidrac) is hard at work on his latest project, The Dawn of Kernel, along with artistic contributions from Dylan Barry (loading and title screens). Set in the reaches of outer space on planet K3E-NL, disaster strikes when the outbreak of a computer virus manages…
AYGOR (The AY Great Original Resource) is a website by Marek Wolfgang Argent, which contains .ay files specifically with only proper author names, song titles and playing time. No tracker modules, no tape, snapshot and other work files. The music is from ZX, CPC and SAM Coupe. Marek plans to expand the .ay standard to other machines with Z80 as…
Way back in May 2015 we announced a new game port called Duck Out (2D side-scrolling beat’em up). Duck Out was first released for the MSX and ZX Spectrum in 1989 by Dro Soft. The player controls a cartoon duck with a frying pan, who escapes from a restaurant and heads to the local park to meet his date with…
CPCRetroDev 2017 submissions deadline was October 31st and a total of 29 entries made on time for the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. The jury is now working hard to analyze and judge all the awesome games and getting ready for the award ceremony that will be held on next Friday, November 10th, around ~19:00h (CEST time). The…
While flicking through Twitter this morning, I came across a short video by Batman Group posted by Jose Maria. The video below shows an interesting Mario demo with a clear example of horizontal scroll on the Amstrad CPC. We can see how the character moves smoothly along the small designed stage. Obviously, at present it is nothing more than a proof of…
