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






A bugfix of Konami's Ping Pong by 40Crisis (March 2022)

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Ping Pong by Konami is a great classic which I discovered first on the MSX of a friend. Like a lot of people, I did play a lot of this game which had sometimes a graphic bug : a part of the ping pong racket and/or the ball stay on screen.

The problem seems to have its origin in an overflow in add a,b instruction at $4fad when calculating the difference in height to be added to the ball and its shadow later at $5003 and $5016. There is a modified disk image by MaV with the correction by 40Crisis. Thanks to them.


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El Gerente - The Manager 2022, a remake by Enrique BUZON and Targhan for Amstrad CPC

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El Gerente is an enterprise simulation game in spanish released in 1984, written by DIMensionNEW and edited by Idealogic.

Enrique Buzon and Targhan has released a rameke of this game this time in spanish and in english.

They both have released a remake of the physical game Simon for the CPCRetroDev contest in 2020 : Memtrainer.


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Three Amstrad CPC games by Fitosoft in 2022

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Fitosoft has released no less than three Amstrad CPC games in 2022 :



Veteran Megademo, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Impact

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Impact has released a new Amstrad CPC+ demo : Veteran Megademo during the Benediction Coding Party #2, for the CPM's anniversary. The code was written by AST, Sid, Demoniak and Kris, graphics by Demoniak and Kris, music by Madmax.


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Foursome, an Amstrad CPC demo by Pulpo Corrosivo

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Pulpo Corrosivo has released a new Amstrad CPC demo : Foursome during the Benediction Coding Party #2. The code was written by Toms and graphics by Beb.


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CRTC³ v2 by Roudoudou, an Amstrad CPC+ demo

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Roudoudou has updated his Amstrad CPC+ demo CRTC 3, you can download CRTC 3 v2 : several bugfixes in order to keep a proper 50Hz at transitions, fix some visual glitches, a new screen conversion for the Serval, more colors, better palette choice, better dithering, and the final Wasp is now truly interactive.


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PunyInform v4.0 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson to write text adventure games

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PunyInform v4.0 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson is a library written in Inform 6 to create adventure game (pure text, no graphic support contrary to DAAD) using the Z-machine virtual machine which will run on 8bit computers (or more recent computers too). PunyInform has a parser, knowing of common verbs and a framework to write adventure games.

PunyInform is based on the Inform 6 library written by Graham Nelson. Its goal is to make easily adventure games in Inform 6, with a manual describing the differences between the official library and PunyInform..

Games using PunyInform can be compiled in z3, z5 and z8 format (z3 being the best format for 8bit computers, other formats have more features). Compared to the Inform 6 library, it means that there is no support for the Glulx virtual machine but z3 format is important as Inform 6 doesnt support it.

To compile games written with PunyInform, you should use the Inform 6 compiler maintained by David Kinder. Binaries are available on if-archive. PunyInform needs Inform v6.35 (or more).

They are tutorials to write adventure game with PunyInform (end of the page) and all the documentation including a 8 page cheat sheet (quick reference)..

To try your game after compilation, you can use WinFrotz by David Kinder, to create map easily you can use Trizbort.

And finally, to create an Amstrad CPC and PCW disk image, you will have to use the Puddle BuildTools.



VEZZA, a new Z-machine interpreter for Amstrad CPC and PCW by Shawn Sijnstra and Stefan Vogt

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VEZZA by Shawn Sijnstra (and Stefan Vogt) is a new Infocom/Inform/Z-machine interpreter for Amstrad CPC and PCW (and other computers) to play adventure games without needing a memory expansion (Inform format v1 to v8), under CP/M and not Amsdos.

The program you need to dowload is different if you are using an Amstrad CPC (vezza-nb.com) or a PCW (vezza-90.com).