News about Amstrad CPC, PCW, Notepad NC100 NC150 NC200, PDA600 and also Amstrad PC






The Great Pakete Point & Click Adventure for Amstrad CPC Creation Contest (new version 1.1)

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The adventure game enging (point & click) Paket is made by Jordi Sureda (graphics) and Santi Ontañón (code). It was first used for a demo : the Escape the ROM game then the episodes 1 to 3 of the game The Key.

A Great Pakete Point & Click Adventure for Amstrad CPC Creation Contest is open (with some rewards for the winner) till the 31th December 2026. The winner will be announced at the end of January 2027. You can download Paket v1.1 on its Github pagge (compiler and documentation).



Amstrad CPC CRTC Compendium v1.9 by Longshot (May 2026) and his blog

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Longshot has released version 1.9 of the Amstrad CPC CRTC Compendium (15th May 2026) which is a documentation about the CRTC 6845 (and some others circuits). Note that the CRTC is a generic component used in several computers including the IBM PC.

It is possible to check if an emulator is good with the SHAKER tests by Longshot. SHAKER is a program designed to run on CPC machines produced by AMSTRAD in the 80s-90s. The objective of this program is to carry out extensive tests on the video circuits of this machine. These video circuits are the GATE ARRAY and the CRTC 6845. AMSTRAD produced several series of GATE ARRAY and used CRTC models produced by different manufacturers (HITACHI, MOTOROLA, UMC, AMSTRAD). This has been causing compatibility problems on operations that exceed the functional specifications of these circuits. The identified CRTCs are numbered from 0 to 4.

And last, if you like reading, don't hesitate to go check Longshot's blog.



DAAD Ready version B (windows) by Uto to create adventure games

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DAAD Ready version B (05/15/2026) has been released for Windows. DAAD Ready allows you to create a graphical adventure game with DAAD Adventure Writer and create a binary for several 8bit and 16bit platforms including the Amstrad CPC.

For more information on DAAD Ready, follow this link. If you want to create a purely text adventure game, you can use the PunyInform library written by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson.



A speedrun of Little Puff in Dragonland by Kukulcan on Amstrad CPC

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Little Puff in Dragonland for Amstrad CPC is a great classic by Christian URQUHART, Glenn BENSON, Paul JOHNSON, Dave KELLY in 1989 and edited by Codemasters Software.

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is doing a speedrun on Little Puff in Dragonland in about 8 minutes and 4 seconds.


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Programming Amstrad CPC games with Retrodev by TLOTB (Metal Slug mini as an example)

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Retrodev by Astharoth (demo groupe TLOTB) is a software toolchain for windows to develop Amstrad CPC gaes, but later also for ZX Spectrum, C64 and MSX. I invite your to check the Github page to see all the features.

As an example of using Retrodev, you can check and play a mini game made with it : Metal Slug Mini whose sources are on Github.


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Xevious 128k by Nemo Kantio out the 9th May 2026

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Xevious is a classic shoot them up by Namco which was released on Amstrad CPC by Probe Software is being remade by par Nemo Kantio and its release will be right tomorrow saturday 9th May 2026 on CPC-Power. Between the original version by Probe and this remake, there is no doubt that this new version is much better.


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