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






Interview of Tim Gilberts, author of the Quill

-

Tim Gilberts is the author of the utility The Quill which allows to write adventure games without any programmation skill. He is also talking about his company Gilsoft and the place of adventure games in gaming.

The interview is on Audioboomand Youtube with RetroManCave and BackOfficeShow.


Youtube video



Remake of the game Head over Heels on Steam

-

Head over Heels is a classic game released in 1987 by Ocean Software and written by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond. A remake was written in 2003 by Tomaz Kac (without IP rights) and freely available on Retrospec.

This remake is also on Steam by Piko Interactive which bought the IP rights. Below a longplay of this remake on Youtube.


Youtube video



A preview of an Amstrad GX-4000 game by No Recess at the Alchemie 2019 (november)

-

Seen on CPCRulez, No Recess has announced a WIP game for Amstrad CPC+/GX-4000, a preview will be showed at the Alchemie 2019 (1st to 3rd November 2019).



Interview with Mevlut DINC, programmer of Enduro Racer on Amstrad CPC

-

An interview with Mevlut DINC on retrogamesmaster who is the programmer of Enduro Racer on Amstrad CPC (made in 2016). See a longplay video on youtube by Xyphoe.


Youtube video





Demo of Amstrad CPC+ sprites by Arnaud for CPCTelera, and about WinCpctelera

-

Arnaud Bouche is the author of Bitume inspired of Asphalt and Deeper Warrens inspired of the classic gauntlet with some RPG elements.

He is also the author of the WinCpctelera utility which lets you program quickly under windows a program using the CPCTelera framework which will compile also on Amstrad CPC with this CPCTelera library.

And it's with CPCTelera that he programmed a demo of Amstrad CPC+ sprites.



Richard Aplin's games longplay by Xyphoe with an interview

-

A night with Xyphoe playing all the games by Richard Aplin (Fly Spy, Shinobi, Double Dragon I and II 128k versions, Final Fight) including a longplay of Fly Spy), with an interview withj Richard Aplin himself.


Youtube video




Z80 BBC Basic by Richard Russell is now open source

-

David Given who is the author of CP/Mish (CP/M for Notepad NC200 using disk drive) did obtain from Richard Russell author of the Z80 BBC Basic that this version becames open source (Zlib license) and so available on CP/MIsh's github.

You can read the history of the BBC Basic on Richard Russell's web site.