Sardina Forever by Gen Soft (showed at the RetroMadrid 2012) is available on Amstrad ESP.
It's a remake of the Sabrina game by Iber Soft in 1989. It's the original programmer Javier Garcia who wrote the remake.
The remake include a new loading screen by David (6128) and music by McKlain.
Controls are Q, A, O, P to move Sardina and 1, 2, 3 to beat people.
Boulder Dash - the collection is available on Android Market, 5 games in on (buy them grouped or each individually) with new graphics or old school.
As announced in march, the remake of the Amstrad CPC game is now available on Iphone and Ipad under the name Tuniques bleues : nord vs sud.
There are 2 versions, the first one at 1,99 € and the other one at 2,99 €, I couldnt see at first glance their differences.
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Talking about the Mojons Twins, I went to their web site and found their latest Amstrad CPC game : Uwol 2 Quest for money.
As usual, you can also download the source of the game if you are curious.
Looking on Itunes in the apps store with the Amstrad keyword, I was surprised to see an iOS application written by Manuel F. Garcia CABELLO (ZX Nostalgia Arcade edition volume 1 : The Mojons Twins) which let you playing several game written by The Mojons Twins, who are prolific authors of ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC games.
European Soccer Challenge is an Amstrad CPC soccer game created by Fun Factory and published by Edos in 1989.
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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.
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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 :
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).
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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.
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.
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The Iphone/Ipad port of Lords of Midnight by Chris Wild is still on the way. You can see a video of the game running on Youtube.
While waiting for this precious gem, you can either play the original Lords of Midnight game with an emulator, or with one of the various following ports :
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