Tag: Amstrad News

Philip Oliver has confirmed that he an his brother Andrew Oliver will be part of#CPCRetroDev 2016 jury. Philip and Andrew, known as The Oliver Twins, will evaluate presented games with respect to 4 main aspects: Fun&Engagement, Technical Quality, Graphics&Artistic Quality, and Music&Sound Effects. Their evaluation will be part of the general score that will decide on the best games in…

A new version of WinApe, the Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows containing bug fixes and improvements. Here is the complete changelist for the new version: Correct Z80 Flags emulation for IN and OUT and all derivatives. Added support for CRTC Type 1 register 6 border blanking when set to zero. Changed breakpoint conditions to use 32 bit values rather than 16 bit values….

Push’n’Pop is known by the Amstrad demoscene for many years bringing articles and news related to the platform. Despite the sad news, the website shows a humorous message explaining what happened: Based on the message above, it seems Push’n’Pop team wasn’t very careful with their backup and because of their inability to bring the site back, it is gone for…

A new version of the Z88dk development environment for Z80 based computer like the Amstrad CPC, Cambridge Z88, MSX, Sinclair ZX 81, Sinclair ZX Spectrum was just released. The release is a transition release on the way to v2.0 which aims on using the SDCC compiler instead of the Small-C compiler, which was used before. This leads to much faster…