Category: Amstrad CPC
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…
CPCtelera is a C library for cross development for the Amstrad CPC 464, which also includes a set of tools including a tracker, image editor, Visual Studio code support and more. The version 1.4.2 has been released just in time to be used in the Amstrad CPC Game Development competition CPCRetroDev’17. Features included in this release: Updated SDCC compiler from version…
CPCRetroDev 2017 game development competition has been launched and is accepting games developed in any language for the Amstrad CPC 464. The winners will be getting 1,100€ in prizes, split into different categories: PRO, Universidad de Alicante students only and Special Mentions. The contest is organized by the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Alicante,…
Back in October 2016 we announced the release of the Amstrad CPC version of Pinball Dreams by Batman Group. Today we have some interesting News from “Rhino” over at cpcwiki forums, showing a new preview table update called “New Nightmare”. Just like “Steel Wheel” and “Beatbox”, this new preview is looking fantastic!, we can’t wait to give it a spin! It will…
The 2017 10Liners contest is over. With 64 entries, this year contest is a staggering success. There are games for Atari, Commodore, MSX, Apple II and Amstrad and the quality of them is really impressive, considering how restrictive is a BASIC program in only 10 lines! But creativity wins! Here is the first 3 on each category: PUR-80 – Maximum of…
Roland v0.70 has been released. Roland emulates home computers Amstrad/Schneider from the series CPC 464/664/6128 for Linux und Windows. Roland depends on SDL > 1.2 and SDL-Image. Download: Roland v0.70 Source: rolandemu.de, github.com
It all started back in 2015 when a new Amstrad CPC game was revealed here on VITNO. Although the game development was never abandoned, there was very few information throughout the last two years. This month, we finally have more updates about the game created by 4Mhz for AMSTRAD CPC, coded by JGNAVARRO, music and sound fx by MCKLAIN and graphics by SAD1942. The…
Peter Leigh has released a 2-video special about the Amstrad CPC. The 1-hour long video is available on Nostalgia Nerd YouTube channel and tells a detailed story of the origins of Amstrad and how the iconic Amstrad CPC came to be. If you are from one of the countries where Amstrad sold the CPC, it is a great opportunity to revive the…
One of my favorite past times if the browse computer magazines from the 80’s and early 90’s not only looking not only at the articles but also at the adverts just to see what was being offered at the time, and at the end, having a glimpse of the computer history. I was happy to see that Retrocomputaria, a Brazilian retro computer site,…
