Category: Amstrad CPC
We have been hosting a forum for many years, but with so many good forums around the internet, we assume we never were able to gain regular members, helping to increase the interest. For many months, we’ve been using the Facebook groups more actively, and the results are really amazing, with interesting discussions, news, photos and whatever comes to your…
We that lived the times where we would fistfight our friends in defence of our favourite computer brand/model, know how fierce and endless these ruses can last. How about settle it in a friendly trump card game? If you wonder how, I can tell you that it is going to be possible really soon. There is an already-funded campaign running…
Lachlan Keown released a new version of his Retro Game Asset Studio (RGAS). With RGAS you can design various asset types (sprites, sound / music, levels) for different retro computers (Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum). It is a cross-development tool, which runs on the .NET runtime under Windows and with Mono it can be used under Linux, too. It is…
If you are around 40 years old or younger you’ve probably never used a punch card to code. I, when started college in 1988 also didn’t have a chance to do it, by one semester (I know, 1988 and still using punch cards is kind of weird, but my College didn’t have a big budget!). Now you can experience it (and…
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…
