In 2012 a PC remake (written in basic : QB64) of a classic Barbarian 1987 by F.L.

Two years later, his author is still using basic (BasiEgaXorz) for the Sega Genesis !

Gauntlet by Arrowhead is a reboot of the 1st gauntlet, available in 1985 on Amstrad CPC. Online gaming up to 4 players will be available, with the warrior, valkyrie, elf and wizard.

It will be available the 3rd september 2014.

F.L. (Barbarian 1987) just added the other cars in his Outrun remake. See the Youtube video of this new version.

Hermol has a new version out of Flappy Rulez for Amstrad CPC+.

Optimus (Dirty Minds) also released a clone of Flappy Bird : Flappy UFO. See the Yoututbe video below.

Athanor is a new Amstrad CPC (and Oric !) graphical adventure game in french (english incoming) by Eric Safar.

It has vectoriels graphics with an extended package (see below). Beware, the included sealed envelope must not be opened before the program tell you so (hint inside).

You can buy Athanor for 20 € (postage included for france though) with 3 or 3,5 inch disk. A .DSK will be available for free later.

English and german translations are done but must be corrected. A C64 version is being done.

An interview of Eric SAFAR is available on Ordiretro.

Two generations (David 40 years old and Ornella 11 years old) are testing several Amstrad CPC games on Youtube :

• Ikari Warriors
• Jet Set Willy
• gore games

A work in progress of Flappy Bird on Amstrad CPC+ ? Yes, it's called FlappyRulez, written by Hermol (webmaster of CPCRulez).

There is an update on CPC Game Reviews talking about the last Crackers Velus program, a reflexion game (taquin like) called Kamyzol.

The goal of the game is to move the red piece toward the exit by moving all others pieces with a twist, they can be moved only horizontally or vertically.

• CholoCPC
  • International Karate Plus in 1988 by System3
• Xyphoe
  • Trantor - the last stormtrooper in 1987 by Probe
  • Gryzor in 1987 by Ocean on Amstrad CPC (Konami actually). It's a speedrun : 5 mn 27 seconds.
  • Fruity Frank in 1984 by Kuma Computers.
  • Fantasy world dizzy in 1989 by Codemasters.
• Metr81
  • Cybernoid in 1988 by Hewson

Today with the LCD screens, the Amstrad CPC emulators don't display the same result than with a real Amstrad CPC and a Cathodic Ray Tub (CRT) television.

So Alex76gr has created a collection of 75 loading screens pictures of Amstrad CPC games with a scanline effect (1536x1080 resolution).

However adding scanlines isnt enough to looks like a CRT television set.

Winape and Caprice32 are 2 Amstrad CPC emulators which can provide a CRT rendering.

Two years ago Syx et TotO released an emulation of the original arcade ROM of Pac Man.

Today it's a new version of Pac-Man for Amstrad CPC with a speed bump, to let you play this classic game with more pleasure.

You will need 128 Kb and to import the original arcade roms inside the .DSK with an utility.

This Pac-Man emulator for Amstrad CPC is based on the work by Simon Owen for Sam Coupe and ZX Spectrum.

Life of Pixel is an original windows platform game as it lets you play in worlds of retro computers : ZX81, ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC of course and many more.

An interesting article about the making of Match Day by John Ritman on ZX Spectrum (football game).

You have still 3 days to be able to buy Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams on Humble Bundle (weekly). Nine dollars will be enough to get it, and money goes to charities.

Nice music by the way.

A new Bolloware game : Sven.