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






The creator of the Logo Language Seymour Papert dies At 88

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Logo is a programming language (logo history, a dialect of LISP) which can be found on Amstrad CPC 664 and 6128 on its CP/M disks. His creator the professor Emeritus Seymour Papert dies at 88 (other authors of logo : Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon).

Another article on Seymour Papert.

By the way, the LEGO company named its Mindstorms robotics kits in recognition of Seymour Papert's seminal book : Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (ISBN 978-0465046744).



Jewel Warehouse by EgoTrip, a platform/reflexion game for Amstrad CPC

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Jewel Warehouse is a platform/reflexion game for Amstrad CPC written by EgoTrip. It use the development framework CPCTelera.

I havent finished it yet, but it is fun to play. Difficulty isnt too hard.

There is also a Nintendo DS version of Jewel Warehouse.

Another video of Jewel Warehouse finished by GiorVarm.


Youtube video



Joyce v2.2.9 by John Elliott, an Amstrad PCW emulator

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Joyce v2.2.9 by John Elliott (unix and windows) adds support for the Electric Studio light pen.

Be aware than his web domain has changed, please update your boorkmark.




Demo available of Adios a la casta 2 by 4mhz

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After Adios a la casta, here is a demo version of the platform game Adios a la casta 2 by 4mhz, a spanish team. They also wrote Sardina forever.

Adios a la casta 1 and Sardina forever are available in a physical package on 4mhz's shop.


Youtube video





CDT2WAV v1.6 by DevilMarkus, an utility to read .WAV on a real Amstrad CPC

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A new version (v1.6) of the CDT2WAV utility (windows/linux/mac) by DevilMarkus.

It let you use resulting .WAV on a real CPC with a tape drive or a MP3 player.

For Linux and Mac users, launch the cdt2wav.jar with the following parameters : cdt2wav.jar -Xms512m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m (or set all to 256 if you want only 256 Mb max. ram usage).




Pang adventure on PC, console IoS and Android

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Pang Adventure by Pastagames is availabel for a low sum on PC, console, IoS and Android.

Solo game and multi in local network only.


Youtube video