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






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.


Youtube video




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.


Youtube video





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.


Youtube video





Newspaper CPC Anachronie issue 4 by Oncle Ced

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On Elégance Editions by Oncle Ced, you can pre-order the newspaper CPC Anachronie issue 4.

But you will also find stickers in french, english and german for Amstrad CPC 6128 to put on the disk drive, packs of 10 labels for 3 inch disks, a poster for CPC Anachronie 1, cartridges of Burnin'Rubber.