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Sub Hunter, a new arcade game for Amstrad CPC by Axelay

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Sub Hunter for C64 by Richard Bayliss and Frank Gasking, first available as disk and tapes for Amstrad CPC at Psytronik is now available as a free download.

The amstrad CPC version has been converted by Paul Kooistra (Axelay), author of the CPC shoot 'em ups Star Sabre and Dead on Time.

Sub Hunter is an arcade game featuring 25 levels of sub-aquatic action, multi-layered parallax scrolling, intro sequence, superb detailed graphics, varied missions including shoot 'em up levels, rescue missions and boss encounters.

Music by Tom and Jerry (he has the gift of ubiquity).

Sub Hunter loading screenshot

Sub Hunter CAT loading screenshot

Sub Hunter menu screenshot

Sub Hunter game screenshot



Happy new year 2011

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I wish you a happy new year 2011, and a lot of Amstrad CPC meetings



Merry Christmas 2010

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Merry Christmas 2010





Cheril of the Bosque by the Mojon Twins

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This is one news I should have written months ago, so much to say, though it will still be short. The Mojon Twins are spanish developers who simply piss code like cows do, I really dont know where they find time to write so many games.

Their latest creation is Cheril of the Bosque.

Dont hesitate to get their other games, many are coming with the sources like Kevin Thacker did with Blue Angel 69.



Blue Angel 69 CPC conversion by Kevin Thacker is available

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Kevin Thacker's conversion of a Magic Bytes reflexion game released in 1989 : Blue Angel 69 (written by Winfried Stappert) is now available. The original game is turn based (vs computer or another player). The screen draws a 8x8 chessboard filled with positive or negative numbers. Each turn, the player must choose a number whichs on the same linge (or column for the other player) that the last chosen number. Once chosen the number est removed from the chessboard and added or substracted from the player score. The goal of the game is of course to have more points than your adversary at the end of the game (where you will see the sexy robot fully).

Blue Angel 69 has been programmed by Kevin Thacker, graphics by Markus Hohmann, CAT art, inlay, disc label by Kukulcan, Blue Angel 69 website hosted by Markus, created by Kukulcan.

You can download the FULL game and source from Kevin Thacker's website.

In the sources you will find a library to use StarKos from z88dk, and within morelib some extras for loading/saving files using amsdos, displaying double height chars and more. The code also includes a modified version of cpcrslib which Kevin modified to try and make the code smaller. Kevin hope others using z88dk to make games will find these sources useful.

All build files and tools (excluding z88dk) are in the download. Kevin Thacker provides all so that you can learn from it, and that's a very good idea.

You will also be able to download it from cpc-power, and here you will also find cassette inlay and a disc label, both created by Kukulcan.

Blue Angel 69 intro screenshot

Blue Angel 69 menu screenshot

Blue Angel 69 game screenshot



a remake of the MSX game Kings's Valley for Amstrad CPC by Syx

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I am quite busy professionnaly at the moment, which explains the lack of news during september, it will get better only starting with 2011...

King's Valley is a classic for the MSX computers, a remake of this game has been announced for on the Ladrillo-Pixeles de Colores blog. Programmation of this remake is in debugging stage.

game screen of the Kings's Valley remake for Amstrad CPC




CPC Scene moves

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CPC Scene moves to http://pushnpop.net/, update your bookmarks.