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






Dungeon of the Silver Star, an Amstrad CPC game in basic by Retro VynZ

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DUNGEON of the SILVER STAR by Retro VynZ is an amstrad CPC game written in pure basic (about 30 Kb) and which is a mix of reflexion and adventure in a non linear dungeon of 12 levels. Check also his other Amstrad CPC game Stone Slyng (addapted from Stone Sling on Videopac Odissey).

There are already two videos of the game, one by Xenomorph and the other by Saberman.


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Disk Image Manager v2.5.1b for windows by Damien Guard

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Disk Image Manager v2.5.1b by Damien Guard is an application for examining and manipulating disk images in the Standard and Extended DSK format used by many Spectrum, Amstrad PCW and CPC emulators.



Gotek with deported screen on Amstrad PPC 640 by Dedion30

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An Amstrad PPC 640 with an internal Gotek and a deported screen on System.CFG, done by Dedion30. The deported screen is parked in the slot for the modem cable when the computer is closed.


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WIP Bubble Quest by Praline Software for Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000, gorgeous !

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Bubble Quest is a work in progress game for Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000. Barjack, Roudoudou, e-dredon and Toto are working on it. Last informations on CPCWiki are quite nice, see for your self the screenshots. The game will feature a multi-minute, fully animated intro. Beware the video is one year old.


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WIP Sente Mini-Golf by Copper France for Amstrad CPC and CPC+

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Sente Mini-Gold is a work in progress game by Copper France for Amstrad CPC and CPC+. It's a conversion of a 1985 arcade game, with up to 4 players (1 at a time). The Plus version uses hardware sprites and the extended palette.


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PunyInform v4.3 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson to write text adventure games

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PunyInform v4.3 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson is a library written in Inform 6 to create adventure game (pure text, no graphic support contrary to DAAD) using the Z-machine virtual machine which will run on 8bit computers (or more recent computers too). PunyInform has a parser, knowing of common verbs and a framework to write adventure games.

PunyInform is based on the Inform 6 library written by Graham Nelson. Its goal is to make easily adventure games in Inform 6, with a manual describing the differences between the official library and PunyInform..

Games using PunyInform can be compiled in z3, z5 and z8 format (z3 being the best format for 8bit computers, other formats have more features). Compared to the Inform 6 library, it means that there is no support for the Glulx virtual machine but z3 format is important as Inform 6 doesnt support it.

To compile games written with PunyInform, you should use the Inform 6 compiler maintained by David Kinder. Binaries are available on if-archive. PunyInform needs Inform v6.35 (or more).

They are tutorials to write adventure game with PunyInform (end of the page) and all the documentation including a 8 page cheat sheet (quick reference)..

To try your game after compilation, you can use WinFrotz by David Kinder, to create map easily you can use Trizbort.

And finally, to create an Amstrad CPC and PCW disk image, you will have to use the Puddle BuildTools.



Aljau, the Water Dam, a new adventure game for Amstrad CPC by Antero Martinez

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Aljau the Water Dam is a new graphical adventure game for Amstrad CPC by Antero Martinez in no less than three languages : spanish, french and english.

You have been working on the newly built Aljau dam for two weeks, an unexpected heavy rain has caused power cuts to the complex. The capacity of the reservoir is increasing alarmingly, you must manage to restore electricity to be able to open the 4 locks before it exceeds its maximum capacity, about 7000 hm3. The main objective is to relieve the dammed water, otherwise the dam will collapse causing a catastrophe.


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