Category: Amstrad CPC
Francisco Gallego has released the version 1.3 of CPCtelera, a game engine for the Amstrad CPC, allowing the programmers to develop for the Amstrad in modern machines using C. Here is the list of changes and new features for this release: API change on cpct_getXBits functions. Changed order of parameters to further optimize operations. Optimized functions: bitarray functions, cpct_count2VSYNC, cpct_px2byteM0,…
BITBITJam is a RetroGame event where people around the world create a game for old hardware in a weekend. This year’s BITBITJam was held from Fri 24 of July to Sun 26 of July, there were some fantastic entries and you can now download all the retro homebrew goodness over at http://bitbitjam.com/#entries. The winner for Best Confronted Kingdoms Game is Les Quizarables…
Back in late August we announced about Let’s o’s development releases, and we now have some great News for you all. The first major release is now available to download! As we could see during the previews, the graphics are very colourful and the gameplay fast and addictive. There are a total of 12 levels, and each one pay an homage…
From Octoate.de: SuTeKH/Epyteor wants to produce a Christmas album containing a lot of different christmas tunes and so he is searching for musicians who will contribute a music for this CPC music disc, which will be released later this year. There are no special requirements, so you are free to choose your music style. Here are the “rules” for the…
Habi from CPCWiki Forums has ported Pac-Mania over to the Amstrad PCW. Pac-Mania is an arcade video game in the Pac-Man series, released by Namco in 1987 (and distributed by Atari Games in the United States and Europe). It runs on Namco System 1 hardware and was the last arcade title in the Pac-Man series until 1996. Pac-Mania is a…
Let’s Go! is a new upcoming work in process platformer by Morri for the Amstrad CPC. Created using CPC BASIC 3, Morri mentions that this is a clone of the mobile game Relic Rush, and features graphics in mode 0, which are double pixelled vertically so that each pixel appears to be square, Giving the game a nice colourful, chunky…
adolfito from CPCWiki forum is currently creating a PC Clone of Harrier Attack by Amsoft/Durell Software. It’s very early days for this remake but it’s looking really nice and true to the original from 1984. Below are the current updates, No download is available as yet, but we will keep you updated as the project progresses. – Sprites from original…
#CPCRETRODEV, the game creation contest for the Amstrad 464 has defined all the jury for the contest. Today they announced that the Lucera-Project, developers of the game Fairy Tales is the last jury to join the panel. They will, helped by Retro Maniac, El Mundo del Spectrum, Fase Bonus and Devilish Games, define who will take the 900€ in prizes…
After 2 months of work, lots of improvements and new functions, CPCtelera 1.2 release is finally out! This release comes with some very useful new features. In particular, Easytilemaps managing module will be particularly useful in combination with authoring tools (RGAS, Img2CPC) and tileset conversion utility cpct_img2tileset. However, the release includes much more than this. Check the release notes on…
To celebrate 31th anniversary of the Amstrad CPC, Chris “NovaBug” Weatherley has made a 1-hour long video presenting 464 games running on Amstrad CPC. Some great, Some bad, some ugly, but all on the Amstrad. All games featured here are playable on the CPC464, but some may require the additional 64k memory pak and FD1 floppy disk drive. No GX4000…
