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






Knight Lore ported by Habi Soft on Amstrad PcW16

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Knight Lore released in 1984 on Amstrad CPC has been ported to Amstrad PCW by Habi Soft in 2020 (with color support). This year he is also releasing a version for Amstrad PcW16 (still with color support).

The Amstrad PcW16 released in 1995 wasn't compatible with the previous Amstrad PCW. It had a new graphical OS : Roseanne (single task, 640x480 using VGA). The word processor could read Locoscript but it was written by Creative Technology. The package also included a spreadsheet, address book, diary, calculator and file manager.

You can emulate the Amstrad PcW16 with tje emulator Ana Rosa v0.1.1 by Habisoft.

If you need help to finish the game, go see StrategyWiki.

There is a windows remake of Knight Lore by Peter Hanratty.




WIP The Swarm is coming... by Minilop Software for Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum

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The swarm is coming... by Minilop Retroware (on Twitter) is a WIP game for ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. It's a cybernoid like game with 4 levels made on ZX Spectrum and one only on Amstrad CPC for the moment. Graphics are nice, there are two videos available on Twitter :




WIP CPC Tile by AST/Imp4ct, a tile editor to be used with iMPdraw

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CPC Tile by AST/Impact is a tile editor in beta version. It must be used with iMPdraw as it is using its I/O. You can see a video of CPC Tile on Youtube.


Youtube video



Ana Rosa 0.1.1, an Amstrad PCW16 emulator by Habi Soft

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Ana Rosa 0.1.1 is a beta of an Amstrad PCW16 emulator by Habi Soft, after an alpha released in 2016.

At the first use of the emulator, you must install the OS of the PCW16 which you will find there.

You can check the doumentation of the emulator.




WIP Shadows of Death by Eric Cubizolle, a Beat them all game on Amstrad CPC

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I am late to write about a WIP game as its release could maybe be soon, it's the beat them all Shadows of Death by Titan (Eric Cubizolle).

You should really go look at CPCWiki and of course the official web site of Titan which has many informations, graphics, pre-version for windows (using the motor OpenBOR) and Amstrad CPC.

Code and graphics are by Titan, musics by Pulsophonic, sound effects and voices by CosmoBuggi.


Youtube video



RASM v1.5 by Roudoudou, a multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC

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The last version of RASM is v1.5 (19th July 2021).

Rasm is now available on Github (documentation included).

This multi platform assembler (linux, windows, but not only like MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC.



A musical album made by Keen On Keys with an Amstrad Fidelity CKX100 (MIDI keyboard)

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The Amstrad Fidelity CKX100 is the one and only music keyboard made by Amstrad, for more informations see this page and this other one.

Keen on Keys has made a musical album with this Amstrad CKX100 and also made a test of the MIDI keyboard on Youtube and a short preview made before the long test.

If you are curious enough, you can actually buy one being sold on Le Bon Coin.

Thanks to PulkoMandy for the information.


Youtube video