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Xecutor v1.01, an Amstrad PCW game by Enrique G. Gálvez

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Xecutor is at the start a shoot them up on ZX Spectrum by Cybadyne in 1987. Today Enrique G. Gálvez has ported Xecutor on Amstrad PCW (available on PCWWiki. You can play it solo or with a friend, it supports joystick with the hardware expansion DK'Sound (by DK'Tronics) and as usual colour support with the CP/M Box emulator by HabiSoft.

Version 1.01 brings increased spped and support of the 16 colors mode 3 of the PCW+.


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Target Renegade v1.01, an Amstrad PCW(+) game by Enrique G. Gálvez

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Target Renegade is an Amstrad PCW(+) action game in 1988 by Mike LAMB (programmation), Dawn DRAKE (graphics) and Gary BIASILLO (music), with a cover by Bob WAKELIN. It was edited by Imagine Software (a label by Ocean Software).

Enrique G. Gálvez has released Target Renegade v1.01 for Amstrad PCW(+) in 4 colors modes which are available with these two emulators : CP/M Box and ZEsarUX, music and effects with the Dk'Sound, joystick support and two players available.

Version 1.01 features :

  • Significant speed improvement
  • Added Mode 3 with 16 colors
  • Fixed bug that caused the game to crash after several matches
  • Minor improvements to the start menu


Disk Image Manager v2.12.0 for windows by Damien Guard

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Disk Image Manager v2.12.0 by Damien Guard is an application for examining and manipulating disk images in the Standard and Extended DSK format used by many ZX Spectrum, Amstrad PCW and CPC emulators.



Amspirit Lite Lite 1.13, an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator by Dmanu78 for Linux, Windows and MacOS

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Dmanu has just released a light version of his Amstrad CPC emulator Amspirit : Amspirit Lite in 64bit for Linux (soon Raspberry PI too), Windows and MacOS. Amspirit Lite is also available on his Github.



1984 v0.4.18, an Amstrad CPC emulator by salvogendut

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The Amstrad CPC emulator 1984 by Salvogendut is available as version 0.4.18. This version adds real tape input, output, monitoring and conversion.



Starglider Plus Edition by Enrique G. Gálvez for Amstrad PCW

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Starglider Plus Edition is an Amstrad PCW(+) conversion of this classic game by Enrique G. Gálvez. It's bootable, manual-base copy protection removed, speed upgraded. DK Sound (sampled Atari ST music theme and AY music and sound effects), mode 1 in 4 colors.


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Liezere, an Amstrad CPC simulation game by Snauts

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The lastest Amstrad CPC game by Snauts is a platform game : Liezere. It's ice fishing simulation game based on real life in the 1990s. The game also exists for ZX Spectrum.

Check his other Amstrad CPC games on his Itch.IO page. The video is played on the ZX Spectrum.


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EndBASIC v0.14.0 by Jmmv, Locomotive basic inspired on windows, mac, linux, RPI

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Julio Merino is the author of EndBASIC v0.14.0 (available on github). You can test EndBASIC online at this address.

Why am I writing about EndBASIC ? Well it is an interpreter for a BASIC-like language and is inspired by Amstrad's Locomotive BASIC 1.1 and Microsoft's QuickBASIC 4.5. Like the former, EndBASIC intends to provide an interactive environment that seamlessly merges coding with immediate visual feedback. Like the latter, EndBASIC offers higher-level programming constructs and strong typing.

EndBASIC offers a simplified and restricted environment to learn the foundations of programming and focuses on features that can quickly reward the programmer. These features include things like a built-in text editor, commands to render graphics, and commands to interact with the hardware of a Raspberry Pi. Implementing this kind of features has priority over others such as performance or a much richer language.

EndBASIC is written in Rust and runs both on the web and locally on a variety of operating systems and platforms, including macOS, Windows, and Linux.



Astro Marine Corps v1.1 by Enrique G. Gálvez for Amstrad PCW

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Astro Marine Corps v1.1 is an Amstrad PCW(+) conversion of this classic game by Enrique G. Gálvez. As usual DK'Sound music and sound support, either monochrome gameplay for standard PCW or PCW+ mode with colours (16 in mode 3), joystick support. You can see a video of Astro Marine Corps v1.1 on Amstrad PCW below.


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