amstrad cpc

Retro Virtual Machine, which previously emulated the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, has added support for a bunch of Z80 systems: MSX, Colecovision, Master System and SG-1000. The updated emulator has also added support for the Amstrad CPC Plus and the GX-4000 console as well as ZX Spectrum...

We've updated our mega list of Antstream games, with the latest games added to the retro-game streaming service. The new games included Loaded - the first PlayStation game added to Antstream. The line-up of newly added games include: Amiga Fire & Forget II Amstrad CPC Cybernoid II: The...

When we first looked at Antstream Arcade three years ago, it featured just over 500 games across C64, Spectrum, Amiga, Megadrive, and Arcade platforms. Since then the platform has grown to include additional platforms (MSX, DOS, Atari Lynx, Game Boy, NES) and now boasts over 1,300 games. It can...

Shahid Kamal Ahmad is working on a follow-up to his classic 8-bit game, Chimera. The original game was developed on a ZX Spectrum and ported to the C64, Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC – and for some reason*, the Watara Supervision. In the original game you must explore a spaceship, which is on target...

We had a brief chat to ChinnyVision about his popular Youtube channel. Based on your Twitter posts you have a lot of affection for the Amstrad CPC - was this your introduction to computing? Yes. First got to use a CPC 464 at some point in 1985 and we got a CPC 6128 for Christmas 1985. Did...

In 2020, Amstrad coder Abalore released their Amstrad port of Toaplan's arcade shooter, Slap Fight. If you act fast, you now have the opportunity to purchase the game as a cartridge for the GX4000 and CPC Plus models. (If you don't have a cartridge port on your Amstrad then Abalore also sell a...

Here's a brief run down of recent ports, home-brew and indie games from the last few weeks. Check out the video at the end, and if you've made a game for a retro machine that you'd like us to cover please let us know :) Beethoven's Revenge (ZX Spectrum) Check out our news article here...

You may have come across Wordle - a web-based word game created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and since acquired by the New York Times. The idea is simple. You have six guesses to guess a five-letter word. If a letter you guess is in the word but in the wrong place, it is highlighted in yellow. If the...

Voxel Tower have added a new version of the Amstrad football game CPC Soccer as downloadable on Itch.io. CPC Soccer was created by Israel Roman and is in the style of the classic game, Sensible Soccer. The downloadable version is called CPC Soccer: Community Edition. Last month Voxel Tower...

There’s a whole bunch of retro-game related croud funding projects being crowd-funded at the moment – here are a few of our picks. The ones nearer the top of the article are ending soonest, so act fast if you’re interested. Bear in mind that when you contribute to a crowd-funding campaign...

Commodore Plus/4 Version The Curse of Rabenstein is a new horror text adventure from Stefan Vogt. The game is available on multiple formats: Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, ZX Spectrum Next, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and should you wish, ‘modern PC’. Vogt has previously...

Last night on Twitter, Batman Group announced their Amstrad conversion of Digital Illusion’s classic Amiga game, Pinball Dreams. The port features all four tables: Ignition, Steel Wheel, Beat Box and Nightmare. The graphics and music are impressive and show how good the CPC can be. The...

Artist, Rocky Bergen, has created cut-out paper versions of a bunch of retro-computers and consoles. ideal for livening up your desk area! As well as the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and Amiga above, Bergen has also created cut-outs for Apple II, Atari 520ST, IBM 5100 Portable Computer, IBM 5150...

As you might guess from the spelling of colour in the title, I’m from the UK. And in the UK in the eighties only the rich kids had microcomputers with disk drives. The rest of us made-do with cassette tapes. And if you collected computer cassette tapes then there is no way you wouldn’t have...