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Amstrad Eterno 2023, the 30th September 2023 in Malaga

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A bit late to announce, but Amstrad Eterno 2023 is an Amstrad CPC event in Barcelone (Spain) on the 30th September 2023 (10am to 8pm), more detals on their site, notably Roland Perry, Batman Group and much more.



WIP Booty the remake for Amstrad CPC by Salvador Cantero

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Booty the remake first released on ZX Spectrum in 2019 by Salvador Cantero is a remake of the original game still for ZX Spectrum in 1984 by Firebird Software and in 1986 on Amstrad CPC. This remake is now released on Amstrad CPC, see the announcement on Twitter.

It is programmed with the collaboration of Beyker, Brundij and Atila Merino. The game will be showed on the Play on Retro stand at AmstradEterno. Check the short video of Booty the Remake on Twitter.





Chloe Aprende a Reciclar and Rigor Mortis, two Amstrad CPC platform games by Churrosoft

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Thanks to Youtube which showed me a video of Chloe aprende a Reciclar by Francisco José Poyato Falero (Churrosoft), which did lead to his other platform game : Rigor Mortis, which I had both missed at their release (about 2 months ago, seing the download date).


Youtube video






Fugitif by Frederic MANTEGAZZA, a 1991 Amstrad CPC game, commented sources and WIP remake

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Frédéric MANTEGAZZA and Laurent DIEUDONNE (his cousin) are the authors of an Amstrad CPC game edited by Lankhor : Fugitif. Drawing are by Jean-Paul RENAULT (read the description on CPC-POWER about the drawing, it's interesting), music by Laurent MOLLARD and box cover by Stéphane POLLARD.

box cover by Stéphane POLLARD of the  Amstrad CPC game : Fugitif

It was made in mode 1 using rasters to show more than 4 colors. Frédéric has lost the original source code, so he disassembled the program and commented it (download available).

For more details, read the AMSnews article on the game.

A solution of Fugitif is available if you are blocked somewhere. And you can also check the video by Amstrad Maniaque below.

Frédéric is working on a new release of Fugitif, to address the main issue of the original game: at the time, he was unable to do anything else during the raster display. The new release will use demomakers tricks to display a hud below the image. This hud will non longer be icons-based, but rather a console, whith a syntax interpreter, as in many adventure games in this era (and something he originaly wanted to do). The game will be translated in other languages.


Youtube video



Physical edition of several Amstrad CPC games by Play on Retro

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Play on Retro is selling physyical editions of several Amstrad CPC games :

  • Baba's Palace (2017), a reflexion game by Rafa CASTILLO and John McKlain
  • Castaway (2022), an action game by the T Team
  • Jax the Dog (2023), a platforma game by Capasoft and Digital Studio
  • Shadow Hunter (2023), an action game by Mananuk, Xavisan, Xenomorph, Titan
  • Space Saga which includes Space Panic (2022) and Spaceman Kerl (2022), two action games by Fitosoft
  • Transylvanian Castle DX2 (2022), a RPG game by Fitosoft, adapted from a ZX Spectrum version which is also included