Category: Amstrad CPC
[youtube 2xPAjOGHj2Y nolink] Modern storage devices is the dream of every retro-computer user, and users of Amstrad CPC are not out of the party, thanks to the C4CPC Flash Cartridge. Using a microSD card slot and USB port for loading games, the C4CPC slots into either a GX4000, CPC464 Plus, or 6128 Plus systems as if it was a standard…
Roland Radio is a new radio streaming 24/4 Amstrad CPC music. The companion website has also the shows schedule, track lists and a discussion forum. “Over 1900 tracks from games, demos, intros and outros are waiting to be listened.” You can stream the shows using any kind of stream player, for almost all formats are supported. Link: Roland Radio
[youtube 8biJKMm3NEk nolink] This is just a reminder for those who will be able to attend. The 10th edition of the Vintage Computer Festival will be next weekend, April 17-19 in Wall, New Jersey. The sessions for this Friday will include everything from chiptunes to retr0bright to emulating vintage computers on FPGAs, and Saturday and Sunday will feature an incredible…
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver known for their work as video game developers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of years following their first collaboration Super Robin Hood, most…
[youtube loq2-67MVKs nolink] Cosmic Prison Commando takes you back to 1984, in retro 2D shoot ’em up, designed to look like an old Amstrad CPC game. True to its ideals, Cosmic Prison Commando does indeed look just like one of those games, with blocky, garish colors. If you played games in the 80s, this will bring back memories. It’s a…
New versions of Spectaculator are now available on Google Play (v2.1) and the App Store (v6.1). The Android version has been updated to the same set officially licensed ZX Spectrum games as the iOS version. New games added Finders Keepers Spellbound Knight Tyme Stormbringer Android: Google Play (v2.1) iOS: App Store (v6.1)Windows: spectaculator80.msi Website: http://www.spectaculator.com
Miguel I. Garcia Lopez released the first version of his Unix-like shell for CP/M systems with Z80 CPU called SamaruX. Some features: Redirection of stdin and stdout with > and < Piping with | Environment with variables $TERM, $USER, etc. Command line history Profiling for environment customization Command aliasing Batch processing with flow control and arguments passing Complete on-line manual…
Seems the CPC Scene has woken up! We take a very brief look (not a lot of info currently) at an upcoming game release for the good old Amstrad computer. The game is called ‘The lost treasure of Cuauhtemoc’, now say that three times without getting tongue tied! ‘The lost treasure of Cuauhtemoc’ looks to be a platformer/adventure game in…
It’s in the works a new assembler called ORGAMS for the Amstrad CPC. ORGAMS is a ROM based assembler (use it with the great X-MEM by TotO) and is loosely based on DAMS/Turbo Assembler. You can discuss the features or ask for help in the dedicated thread in the Push’n’Pop forum. Parlez-vous français? If so, you can also check out…
Alan Cox has published in Google+ an article showing off the Amstrad PCW-16, which is, according to him, a superb example of bad marketing and design. “The machine was a complete and total flop. The IDE version never happened and Amstrad ended up offloading them for peanuts to anyone dumb enough to buy one.” To read the full article, follow…
