Category: Amstrad CPC
[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…
With the Jakadapter you can connect two Atari-style joysticks to USB. This new version has the following changes: Both ports have now 8 configurable pins, for better support for other joysticks and paddles. The firmware is upgradeable via a boot-loader for future firmware updates. Website: http://kair.us/projects/jakadapter/index.html
We have yet to cover much Amstrad news and this is certainly going to change for the future along with possibly some other public domain and Indie release news and info. So on that note what better way to start it off with some awesome news about the latest Bomberman clone for the Amstrad platform.Megablasters: Escape from Castle in the…
