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






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 .




CPCESP, an Amstrad CPC emulator for ilygo's TTGo VGA32 and Olimex's ESP32-SBC-FabGL boards

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ESPectrum is a ZX Spectrum emulator for the boards Ilygo TTGo VGA32 and Olimex ESP32-SBC-FabGL. There is now since a few an Amstrad CPC emulator named CPCESP, with a 3D printed packaging by Jose Lopez (other photos). The first software version of CPCESP was released the 7th July 2024 on Github. You can find CPCESP on :





Marion et les crocodiles d'Amstrad : L'histoire d'Amstrad France, a french book by David Hecq

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Gunhed TV (David Hecq) is a known french youtubber with some videos on Amstrad CPC.

But it's also the author of the book Marion et les crocodiles d'Amstrad : L'histoire d'Amstrad France recommended by Roudoudou on his Discord. I just received it and I will read it at the end of the week.




Xcpc v0.52.0, an Amstrad CPC emulator for Linux, BSD and Unix by Olivier Poncet (and AYM JS)

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Olivier Poncet is the author of an Amstrad CPC emulator : Xcpc v0.52.0 for Linux, BSD and Unix. It doesn't emulate the + models though.

He is talking about how to write an emulator on his web site.

And also quite interesting, he has released last month AYM JS which is a sound chip emulator written in JavaScript emulating the AY-3-8910 PSG (Programmable Sound Generator) and the YM2149 SSG (Software-Controlled Sound Generator). You can test AYM JS here (press the Power button and the Play button). At the moment YM files must be converted to javascript (but the conversion tool isn't available yet), but direct support of YM files is on the way.



Windows remakes of Amstrad CPC games by Alaiing

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Alaiing présent on Itch.IO, Twitch and Twitter/X is the author of windows remakes of the following Amstrad CPC games using the MonoGame framework, and of games on other platforms) : Bomb Jack (three first levels), Arkanoid (three first levels) and Airwolf (first level).