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






CPCTelera v1.4 by Ronaldo and RGAS v1.1.1 by Lachlank (Development for CPC on PC)

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CPCTelera is a multi platform (Windows with Cygwin, OS X and Linux) development framework for creating Amstrad CPC games in C and also assembly programmers. Click to see the news of CPCTelera on Github.

Retro Game Asset Studio (RGAS) v1.1.1 by Lachlank is the next evolution of Amsprite (now defunct). Using .NET, you can create graphics, sound/music levels for Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.



ChinnyVision: The True Story Of How Amstrad Bought Sinclair

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A new video by ChinnyVision, informations from the Alan Michael Sugar biography : The Amstrad Story by David Thomas (I did read it and found it interesting).

Alan Sugar : The Amstrad story by David Thomas







WYZTracker v2 by Augusto Ruiz, WYZPlayer and cpcwyzlib

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WYZTracker is a tool developed by Augusto Ruiz (interface in english and spanish), from Retroworks, that can be used to compose music for WYZPlayer.

WYZPlayer is a Z80 player for the AY-3-8910 sound chip (a 3-voice PSG : Programmable Sound Generator designed by General Instrument) used by (and for) the Amstrad CPC, MSX and Spectrum. It can be used for games and demos due to its minimal use of CPU and RAM, the player takes little code and all musics are compressed.

Finally, you can use cpcwyzlib by Raul Simarro, an Amstrad CPC library to play wyztracker tunes with SDCC. He also wrote the cpcrslib used with z88dk.



CapriceRPI v1.3 by KaosOverride, an Amstrad CPC emulator for Raspberry PI

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The last version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CapriceRPI (v 1.3) by KaosOverride for Raspberry PI is available.

This emulator base on the sources of Caprice32 (Ulrich Doewich) can also be compiled on something else than a PI with the following command : make -f makefile.notpi.



Joyce v2.2.7 by John Elliott, an Amstrad PCW emulator

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Just 16 months late to announce the latest version of the Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.2.7 by John Elliott (unix and windows).

Be aware than John's web domain has changed, please update your boorkmark.



Free Usborne books about programmation

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Usborne published 15 books in the eighties for several familial computers (except the Amstrad CPC...) about programmation (games especially). They are all available for free now.



Way of the tiger and gamebooks

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Until now for me, The way of the Tiger and Way of the Tiger II: Avenger were just 2 video games by Gremlin Graphics. But in fact, they comes from 6 gamebooks (la voie du tigre ou way of the tiger for more informations) written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson :

  • Avenger! in 1985
  • Assassin! in 1985
  • Usurper! en 1985
  • Overlord! in 1986
  • Warbringer! in 1986
  • Inferno! in 1987

A seventh book was written in 2014 by David Walters and also a prequel, available in paper at Megara Entertainment following a kickstarter project.

The prequel et the 7th book are available in english and french, the 6 original books in english only at the moment.

There may be digital books by Tin Man Games, but still not available (should have been 2014 and 2015).

If you liked gamebooks, you can download Lone Wolf one Iphone and Android.