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






Kangaroo Musique on Jamendo

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I was just browsing on Jamendo when I did a research on the Amstrad keyword, and found the page of Kangaroo Musique, a well known musician on Amstrad scene. If you are fond of Amstrad CPC games music, listen this album : The Alan Sugar Trash Orchestra.

And if you are german or if your german isnt too rusty (mine is quite rusty), you can read Kangaroo blog.



Tower Toppler v1.1.3 for windows, a Nebulus remake

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There is a new version of Tower Toppler since I wrote about this remake of Nebulus, with one more mission of several towers (tower toppler v1.1.3).




a tribute to the sisters, a remake of Great Giana Sisters

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A tribute of the sisters (click on download) is a work in progress of a great giana sisters clone for FutureOS (an alternate operating system for Amstrad CPC). It's written by TFM, sound by Kangaroo Musique and graphism by Tolkin.

You can test a tribute to the sisters on CPC-Live.




Quasar the fanzine by Futurs now as a wiki

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From paper area to numeric Quasar is back ! Quasar the french fanzine is now available as a wiki.



Retro Still Alive

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I found Retro Still Alive on GameBase CPC, you will find 47 reviews of Amstrad games there (french only though).



Gamebase CPC

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GameBase is an Open Source "Emulator Frontend", released under the GNU General Public Licence. It is a program that attempts to make running games on various emulators very easy, so that you don't have to remember lots of command line parameters and config settings. GameBase is the Official Frontend for the GB64 Collection of C64 games. It manages games, music, docs, screenshots and more

There is of course a GameBase CPC maintained by Loïc Daneels. He is adding .YM music, screenshots, scans of package and documentation.



Institut national de l'Audiovisuel

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The web site of Institut national de l'Audiovisuel (its goal is to keep archives of french television and radio) got a lifting. They also now have 200.000 televsion ads from 1968 to today. I invite you to go see ads about Amstrad products.