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Metal musical remake of the Amstrad CPC game Mask III Venom Strikes back by Angelo Theodorakis

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The Youtube channel of Angelo Theodorakis has metal musical remakes of Amstrad CPC games. The latest in the serie is about Mask III Venom Strikes back. I invite you to check his other videos.


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Fitorian by Fitosoft for Amstrad CPC

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Fitorian Fitosoft is a shoot them up for Amstrad CPC inspired by Galaxian. It is written in Locomotive basic and compiled with ABASC.


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Defender of the Crown (the legend returns) available now

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Defender of the Crown (the legend returns) is available now for several platforms (PC, PS5, Xbox). it features three distinct modes (retro, classic and kingdom). Conquer provinces, raise armies, storm castles, and influence the balance of power through bold strategy and action moments. You can see the trailer of Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns there a a video test in another video below.


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Xecutor v1.01, an Amstrad PCW game by Enrique G. Gálvez

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Xecutor is at the start a shoot them up on ZX Spectrum by Cybadyne in 1987. Today Enrique G. Gálvez has ported Xecutor on Amstrad PCW (available on PCWWiki. You can play it solo or with a friend, it supports joystick with the hardware expansion DK'Sound (by DK'Tronics) and as usual colour support with the CP/M Box emulator by HabiSoft.

Version 1.01 brings increased spped and support of the 16 colors mode 3 of the PCW+.


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Target Renegade v1.01, an Amstrad PCW(+) game by Enrique G. Gálvez

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Target Renegade is an Amstrad PCW(+) action game in 1988 by Mike LAMB (programmation), Dawn DRAKE (graphics) and Gary BIASILLO (music), with a cover by Bob WAKELIN. It was edited by Imagine Software (a label by Ocean Software).

Enrique G. Gálvez has released Target Renegade v1.01 for Amstrad PCW(+) in 4 colors modes which are available with these two emulators : CP/M Box and ZEsarUX, music and effects with the Dk'Sound, joystick support and two players available.

Version 1.01 features :

  • Significant speed improvement
  • Added Mode 3 with 16 colors
  • Fixed bug that caused the game to crash after several matches
  • Minor improvements to the start menu


Starglider Plus Edition by Enrique G. Gálvez for Amstrad PCW

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Starglider Plus Edition is an Amstrad PCW(+) conversion of this classic game by Enrique G. Gálvez. It's bootable, manual-base copy protection removed, speed upgraded. DK Sound (sampled Atari ST music theme and AY music and sound effects), mode 1 in 4 colors.


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Liezere, an Amstrad CPC simulation game by Snauts

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The lastest Amstrad CPC game by Snauts is a platform game : Liezere. It's ice fishing simulation game based on real life in the 1990s. The game also exists for ZX Spectrum.

Check his other Amstrad CPC games on his Itch.IO page. The video is played on the ZX Spectrum.


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Astro Marine Corps v1.1 by Enrique G. Gálvez for Amstrad PCW

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Astro Marine Corps v1.1 is an Amstrad PCW(+) conversion of this classic game by Enrique G. Gálvez. As usual DK'Sound music and sound support, either monochrome gameplay for standard PCW or PCW+ mode with colours (16 in mode 3), joystick support. You can see a video of Astro Marine Corps v1.1 on Amstrad PCW below.


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CPCtelera Next v1.03 by Arnaud Bouche, an Amstrad CPC game engine for C and Assembler

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Before CPCteleraNext v1.03 by Arnaud Bouche based on SDCC v4.6.0 there was CPCtelera by Francisco Gallego based on an older version of SDCC. It's a game engine for Amstrad CPC written in C and Z80 assembler which was used by countless of game notably for the CPCRetroDev competition (which has stopped sadly).



Englebert GX by ShaCPC, a remake of the 1985 game by John KENNEDY

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Englebert is an Amstrad CPC action game written in 1985 by John KENNEDY, it's inspired by the classic Qbert. Today ShaCPC is presenting his Amstrad CPC(+)/GX4000 remake : Englebert GX as a .CPR cartridge file. You will need a M4 addon to load the .CPR with a plain Amstrad CPC.



Music of Thanatos remade by Moonove

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Moonove has many videos of music of videos games remade, this time it's a video of Thanatos.


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El Capitan Trueno by Enrique G. Gálvez for Amstrad PCW

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El Capitan Trueno is an Amstrad PCW(+) conversion of this classic game by Enrique G. Gálvez. As usual DK'Sound music and sound support, either monochrome gameplay for standard PCW or PCW+ mode with colours (16 in mode 3), joystick support. You can see a video of El Capitan Trueno on Amstrad PCW below.


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Switchblade by Enrique G. Gálvez for Amstrad PCW

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Switchblade is an Amstrad PCW(+) conversion of this classic game by Enrique G. Gálvez. As usual DK'Sound music and sound support, either monochrome gameplay for standard PCW or PCW+ mode with colours (4 in mode 1), joystick support. You can see a video of Switchblade on Amstrad PCW below.


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Chuckie Egg 3 by Langford Productions, a windows remake of the Vortex Software game

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Chuckie Egg 3 by Langford Productions is a windows remake of the great classic Chuckie Egg (first one). The original platform game was released in 1985 edited by A&F Software Limited.



Return Home by WacKEDmaN, an Amstrad CPC shoot them up

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Return Home by WacKEDmaN is a new Amstrad CPC shoot them up game.

It is written in Z80 asm with the help of the AI Claude code, and the RASM assembler written by Roudoudou. It plays in mode 0 (6 coulors), your ship is at the right of the screen and the ennemies comes from the left. You can play with keyboard or joystick.


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