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






A port of Jack the Nipper on Atari XE and XL by Mariusz Wojcieszek

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Jack the Nipper (1986) is well know in U.K. as it's inspired by a comic : Sweeny Toddler. You play a small kid which must do foolishness without being punished. It was ported on several 8bit computers except Atari. SO Mariusz Wojcieszek who has also ported Gunfright (1985) and Skool Daze (1984) has ported this game just at the end of 2017. The port was done based on the original game on ZX Spectrum and not on the C64 version. But the sound part comes from the Amstrad CPC version. The game in version 1.1 is available on AtariAge.


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A fan book (french) about the Makaimura games (Ghosts'n Goblins) at Côté Gamers

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A fan book of 300 pages for the price of 25 € is available at Côté Gamers about the Makaimura games : Ghosts'n Goblins (1985), Ghouls'n Ghosts (1988) and Super Ghouls'n Ghosts (1991) and all the ports. The book details all the monsters, invtory of each game, les differents derived products and the clones of the Capcom licence. There are others versions of the book with goodies (see the source link below).

Fan book about Ghosts's Goblins and following games





Interview of Bo Jangeborg, creator of Fairlight 1 and 2 by Gear of Games

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Bo Jangeborg is the creator of two well know games I think : Fairlight 1 (a prelude) and Fairlight 2 (a trail of darkness). He was interviewed by Gear of Games.

Richard Jordan had an advanced project of a remake of Fairlight in 2015, but it seems that Bo asked it to be stopped from what I understand from a commentary of the remake video.


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Second part of a video by Keith56 about Z80 gamedev for Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX

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Keith56, the author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 and 2) has released another video after the first video showing his setup for cross-developpment : second part of this video detailing some of the challenges and solutions he has found while developing in assembly for multiple Z80 systems during development of his Chibi Akumas game.


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Emmanuel Viau, creator of ERE Informatique, honorary member of MO5, some history and video

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Emmanuel Viau the creator of ERE Informatique became a honorary member of the MO5 association.

You can read a bit of history about him (french only) and look a video interview of Emmanuel Viau on Youtube for about 2 hours (MO5 link here). The video was done in octobre 2017 by retrogamer.ca


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