A work in progress of Spirits DS for Nintendo DS is available on Nightfox and co (spanish link Nightfox and co).

Spirits (see Spirits on Youtube, ZX Spectrum version) is an action/adventure game by Topo Soft in 1987. You must fight an evil sorcerer in his castle and help a poor young woman.

Here is a new HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Jet Set Willy edited by Software Projects in 1984.

If you prefer, you can see the video of Jet Set Willy with comments in spanish.

Jet Set Willy is the following of the classic Manic Miner, you have to find 65 items in a big house and be allowed to sleep with your wife.

The Unity project by Bacteria is ambitious, to make an all in one video game console (see Hack a Day).

At the moment, you have the following video game consoles inside :

• Sega SMS (done, not added into system yet)
• Nintendo NES (done, not added into system yet)
• Mattel Intellivision
• Nintendo GameCube
• Nintendo GBA
• Amiga CD32
• Philips CD-i
• Playstation
• Playstation 2

And he is working on adding others consoles, including our Amstrad GX4000 !

For the 25 years of Barbarian, F.L. delivered us Barbarian 1987 : the most faithful remake possible of this game which did cut a lot of heads years ago.

F.L. did program it with in basic (QB64), which is a windows compiler. You can get out your gwbasic or quick basic programs and still run them with QB64, or use the new features bringed by QB64 (like networking).

Ste86 has created a new loading screen for the wizball Amstrad CPC game (to the left below, original screen to the right below).

Wizball was written originally for C64 by Jon Hare and Chris Yates (who created Sensible Software) in 1987. The original music was written by Martin Galway. The Amstrad CPC version was released the same year by Ocean.

There is a remake of Wizball on Retrospec for windows and mac.

Three weeks ago, the source code of the Apple 2 version of Prince of Persia has been found by his author Jordan Mechner.

And today, you can get this source code of Prince of Persia on Github.

You will see on the photo boxes of cassette version of Prince of Persia and Karateka.

The last version of the CPCDiskXP utility is available on CPCMania.

You will also find various programming tutorials, especially tutorials about using C compilers like Z88dk and SDCC, or assembler compiler like Pasmo.

Last week-end at Revision demoparty, demosceners have pushed further the limits of what can be done in a single 64kb executable file. Using extensive procedural techniques and compression : see Gaia Machina on Youtube.

Waiting for the same thing to happen on Amstrad CPC !

Wake up is the latest Amstrad CPC demo by Benediction and Sector One.

It was written by :

• DMA-SC/Sector One (sfx)
• Eliot/Benediction (code)
• Exin/Benediction (gfx)
• Krusty/Benediction (code)
• McKlain (sfx)
• Supersly/Les sucres en morceaux (cat art)
• Voxfreax/Benediction (gfx)

Impossible Mission is an Amstrad CPC platform game published by Epyx in 1986.

It was initially created on C64, programmed by Dennis Caswell and published by Epyx in 1984.

This C64 version was known for the use of digitized speech, which is lacking in the Amstrad CPC version.

You can see a video of this test and longplay of Impossible Mission on Youtube by Axelino.