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






Tenebra by Haplo for msdos and 80286

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Tenebrae by Haplo has been ported to msdos with a 80286 and more. It's an excellent reflexion/puzzle game. You are moving in a roguelike environment with an important twist : you can only do it a lighted zone... It also exists for other computers including Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore.



Newspapers CPC Anachronie and Fanzine GX by Oncle Ced (and still more)

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Elégance Editions by Oncle Ced is the place to order the newspapers Fanzine GX (issues 1 to 3) and CPC Anachronie (issue 1, the second is W.I.P which will also be about other 8bit machines). 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.



mTCP NetDrive (16th August 2024) by Michael B. Brutman

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New version (16th August 2024) of mTCP NetDrive, an utility by Michael B. Brutman which lets you connect under ms-dos a network drive which is in fact an image disk hosted on a windows or linux server (disk drive or hard disk image) for only 6 Kb of RAM (adds the RAM for the packet driver though).

A nice utility to use with the PicoMem card by FreddyV.



New version of the Amstrad CPC assembler Orgams (GG beta 7)

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Orgams is an assembler in ROM for Amstrad CPC, created by Madram, Drill and Hicks. A new version GG beta 7 is available (18th August 2024).

The documentation in french and english is available on Orgams' wiki.



New version of the ACE-DL emulator by Roudoudou yesterday (2024 Summer Fixes)

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New version yesterday by Roudoudou of his ACE-DL Amstrad CPC emulator.

After downloading the emulator, you can also get a SymbOS disk image or OPL3 music to be used with the Willy OPL3 plugin.



SDCC v4.4.0 (C programming for Amstrad CPC) on PC and MacOS

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A new version of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v4.4.0 is available since the 29th January 2024 for windows, linux and MacOS.



Tribus, a new spanish game by Epic Adventures

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Tribus by Epic Adventures is a new adventure/RPG game written with the DAAD adventure engine. Even if it's a text adventure at start, emphasis is done on the RPG part so less text to read than in an usual adventure game. This game has an open world to discover, several NPC to talk to and missions to do, a lot of enemies with weakness which you must discover, a combat system with statistics and weapons, an adult story. It is recommended to read the documentation which explains the working of the RPG to face the dangers of your mission. The game is free, but if you want to support their authors, you can buy for 2 dollars the thank you pack which includes several elements.





Star Cadre : Combat Class by Cyningstan Retro for PC and CGA card

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Star Cadre : Combat Class by Cyningstan Retro (on Twitter) is a game for msdos with CGA card. If you liked Rebelstar 1 and 2 on Amstrad CPC which is a part of the inspiration, then you will like Star Cadre. More informations on the developpment of Star Cadre : Combat Class on the web site.

No dosbox, PCEM or PC XT ? It's not a problem, you can play to Star Cadre : Combat Class by Cyningstan Retro in your internet navigator.

There are also other games on Cyningstan Retro web sites, including two C libraries used for the programming of these games : CGALIB and .