Archives for the month September 2018 of Genesis8 Amstrad Page




A possible portable Amstrad CPC with an Odroid GO ?

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The Odroid GO is a portable video game console with a LCD screen (320 x 240), battery, direction pad and 6 buttons (easy to build). It uses the ESP32 SOC microcontroller. The builtin firmware emulates old consoles (GB, GBC, NES, SNES, SMS, GameGear and Colecovision). More interesting, it can emulate a ZX Spectrum, MSX both using a Z80. So of course, it could lead to a possible Amstrad CPC firmware.

Reading the last page of the September Odroid magazine, Andrew ARMSTRONG intends to use an Odroid Go to transfer to and from an Amstrad CPC 464.



A MAC remake of Cauldron by Boris360 (WIP)

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Boris (Boris360 on Twitter) is working on a Cauldron 1 remake on MAC (eventually also on Android and iOS as he is using Xamarin Forms).





Source code of the Telnet by Duke for the wifi M4 Board (and SymTel for SymbOS)

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Duke wrote a telnet program for the wifi M4 board, whose sources are now available since the start of August.

To compile the source with RASM (Windows), here are the how-to.

The source code of SymTel for SymbOS is also available.



The making of Total Eclipse (1988) in Retro Gamer (April 2018)

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An article of the Retro Gamer (April 2018) issue will let you learn more about the making of the Amstrad CPC game Total Eclipse (Incentive, 1988) which uses the 3D engine Freescape.


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