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What will he bring us for the future ?
Los Elfos de Maroland is now also available in english. It's a graphic adventure game written by Dwalin for Amstrad CPC and PCW, msdos, C64, MSX1 and MSX2, Amiga and Atari ST. It's a conversion with DAAD of its game previously written with PAWS in 1993.
DarkSteph has programmed with Unity for windows, macos and linux a remake of airwolf : Airwolf 2024, code by DarkSteph and graphics by Vynz Retro who is already known on Amstrad CPC. The game will be released on the 30th March 2024.
You can already download a WIP version of the action game Papy Commando by Studio Vetea, Fano and Shiningbzh. The video below of Papy Commando is by Xenomorph.
The other productions of Studio Vetea are on their Itch.io page.
Sadly it doesnt run correctly with CPCBasicTS to be able to play online, so I removed it. I will see with Marco Vieth if we can correct this.
Released at the end of 2023, Gold Maze by Retro VynZ is a puzzle/adventure amstrad CPC game written in pure basic v1.1, you can see Gold Maze in a Youtube video. A version in basic 1.0 for Amstrad CPC 464 was released in January 2024.
On the left you can see the three treasures that you can recover with four marbles indicating when they will disappear. It's better to collect treasure as soon as possible. Below the three treasures is the player's box that you will have to position on the map in the first round. Then each turn you must rotate a box (or a row ?) and move your character.
Replay : Mémoires d'une famille is the history of Jordan Mechner, hist family and the programming of the mythic game Prince of Persia on Apple 2 as a comic.
I was able to buy it directly from Jordan Mechner and I did read voraciously, and I did loan to my mother and other people, all loved it. It's a dive into the history of 20th century in Europe with the Mechner family. The first reading can be difficult because the reading is not linear in time, you jump from one era to another but you really have to hang on because it is simply an extraordinary reading, 320 pages of pure joy, I wished there were more. I rediscovered historical facts through reading it, in addition to discovering the genesis of the Prince of Persia game. And I'll read it again as soon as I get it back from the last person I lent it to.
It is now available in english : Replay, memoir of an uprooted family. Buy it, read it !
Always in advance being late, the Crack'n Rom Nostalgie's web site is online since a moment already, but also on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.
It features about fanzines Crack'n Rom, le Canard déchainé and Cpc Fanz Bzh, and more.
Davide Bucci is the author of adventure games, including On the Queen's footsteps for several platforms. On the 3rd February 2024, he has released the source code of his game on Github.
His game is written with The Adventure Writing System (AWS) by Aristide Torrelli and his own utility aws2c which translates AWS ascii files directly in C code. As his utility uses Z88DK to create the ZX Spectrum version, it was easy for him to write an Amstrad CPC version.
Here is the introduction of the game : today is August 27th, 1904. Nine months ago, you, Emilia Vittorini, joined the Italian Archeological Expedition in Egypt led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. You are now back in Genova, Italy: your steam ferry arrived three days ago with 25 wooden boxes containing Queen Nefertari Meritmut's grave goods, a real treasure! They left Genova by train, heading towards Turin, yesterday evening. While they were in transit, you were invited to a sumptuous reception organised by a wealthy art lover, Eugenio Collovati, count of Raligotto, but it would be hard to say that you appreciated the evening. But the reception was yesterday: now, you must catch the train to Turin and check that the treasure arrived safely. I will be your eyes and ears. Good luck.
After the loading screen, press the Return Key to get the start of the game (see second screen below).
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Border 0 organizes his tenth score contest on the game 2048 (reflexion by Crackers Velus for CPCRetroDev 2014) till the 29th February 2024. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.
Chris Wild has released version 2.0.8 of Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge for OSX and Windows, click on the links to get the beta Android or IOS versions.
Robocop is an action game on Amstrad CPC by Ocean Software in 1989.
On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is showing a speedrun in 15 minutes on Robocop.
Playing to Wolfenstein 3D on a PC XT in CGA was your dream, James Howard did it. Several video modes are available :
James also wrote a web navigator : MicroWeb for Intel 8088 or compatible CPU, CGA, EGA, VGA or Hercules compatible graphics card, network interface (it is possible to use your machine's serial port with the EtherSLIP driver), mouse is desirable but not 100% required, 640k RAM is desirable. EMS/XMS are not required.
As announced on Twitter by Cepeceros Podcast, thanks to Syx you can download a version of Nebulus where you can choose your level instead of playing linearly.
Also the remake Toppler has changed its web address and is now version 1.3.
And to finish, two music remix of Nebulus :
Mananuk (on Twitter) has released the next episode of the Mandarin : the Mandarin 2.
Prospector is a ZX Spectrum game by AMCGames using the AGDx engine. It has been ported on Amstrad CPC by Ayor61. It's a platform game with 30 levels where you have to save a team who went into a mine, but its local inhabitants are maybe not so peaceful... Video below by Xenomorph.
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