Category: Amstrad CPC
A new version of Sugarbox, a new Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows, was released. The main feature of the new version is the support of online libraries like CPC-Power and Amstrad.eu. Another interesting feature is the support for black frame insertion, which will provide a smooth scrolling on 100hz capable displays. Source: Octoate.de
#CPCRetroDev 2015 has ended with one of the greatest results in years for all the Amstrad community. A total of 35 games were presented, and most of them being really high quality. The winner is ‘Space Moves’, followed by Frogalot and Top Top. For the CPC retro gamers out there, this is a very long list of amazing games to…
#CPCRETRODEV 2015, the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC, has broken a new record of entries. This year’s edition has 35 games competing to get the 900€ prize. Next week nominated games will be known and the organizers will post a link for the awards ceremony live video streaming. Don’t miss it! There will be news and surprises live! …
On Oct 21st, 2015, Marty McFly arrives in our year, finally! The future pictured in the movie is not quite right, but it is an important date nonetheless. To celebrate this day, we have selected few retro games you should play, if you haven’t done already. Since we are talking specifically about the second movie, our choices are narrowed down…
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…
