24th December 2009
Rick Dangerous 128+ has been completed and is now available to
download. Fano, BDCIron and MacDeath have done a great job in enhancing the
original game! You can see lots of screenshots, and download the game, from
BDCIron's
web site; click on the "Telechargeable ici !!!" link at the bottom of the
page to download the game. Don't forget that it only runs on 6128 Plus machines,
so you will need an emulator that supports this machine; WinAPE is the
best choice for this.
I would also like to wish every visitor to this site a happy
Christmas and New Year. There have been many new games released for the Amstrad
CPC in 2009, and you should find that Rick Dangerous 128+ is an excellent
Christmas gift to the CPC scene!
Stranded title screen
Screenshot of Rick Dangerous 128+
13th December 2009
Bob Smith has recently made his Spectrum game, Stranded, freely
available for downloading - so Kevin Thacker, who programmed the CPC conversion,
has decided to do the same thing! You can download the full version of
Stranded, and see some of the other games that Kevin has converted to the
CPC, from
his web site.
Meanwhile, a group of three CPC fans are working on an
enhanced version of Rick Dangerous - one of my favourite games for the
Amstrad CPC (and I'm sure it's on a lot of other readers' lists of favourite
games, too!). It's known as Rick Dangerous 128+, and it will only work
on the 6128 Plus machine. Among the enhancements are music and digitised sound
effects taken from the Atari ST version of Rick Dangerous, graphics and
sprites that use the Plus' extended palette of colours, and the full levels from
the 16-bit versions. The game is scheduled for release on 24th December 2009,
which should be an excellent Christmas present! You can follow the progress of
the game on the CPCWiki Forum.
28th October 2009
The French version of Orion Prime, styled as "the best adventure
game ever made on the Amstrad CPC", is now freely available to download! The
two people behind the project, Julien Névo of
Arkos, and Sylvestre Campin of
Les Sucres en Morceaux, have spent
over four years working on this game. It's so big that it requires four 3″
disc sides - as was the tradition with many other French adventure games!
However, it's also available on 3.5″ disc, which means that no side
swapping is required. Take a look at the mouth-watering screenshots below, and
I'm sure that you will appreciate that Orion Prime was well worth waiting
for.
However, if you're unable to understand French, don't worry
too much, because the game is being translated into English, Spanish and German.
The English version is in the final stages of preparation at the moment; I know
this, because I have spent the last nine months translating it! I don't know
when it will be released, but I hope it will be available before the end of the
year. Like the French version, a limited number of physical copies will be
available in a
DVD case with some extra goodies, and the emulator version will be released
several weeks later. Hopefully these screenshots will encourage you to at least
have a look at the French version of the game and buy a physical copy of the
English version when it is released!
More information about Orion Prime is available on the
Orion Prime web site, and
you can also download the French version from the same location.
Exploring the hall on level 1
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What are those strange marks on the floor?
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Using the RepairKit to repair a door
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Using the HackerBoy to hack into a computer successfully
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Screenshot of Platformer Medley Block #1
18th October 2009
The Mojon Twins have recently
released Platformer Medley Block #1. Amazingly, this is their fourth
Amstrad CPC game of 2009! It stars a new character - a cute supermarket cashier
called Mari Stormbringer. Bored to tears, she eats some n & n sweets, but
unfortunately, they are located next to a particularly radioactive brand of
alkaline batteries, and she is transported to another world. You must help her
escape from this world.
Platformer Medley Block #1 is a simple platform game
with very colourful graphics and nice music - exactly what one expects from The
Mojon Twins! You can read more
information about the game on the Mojon Twins' site, and you can also
download the game using the same link as well. The Mojon Twins also promised to
release a sequel if someone succeeded in completing the game - and someone
has
done just that! You can see some
preview screenshots on the Mojon Twins' site. Keep up the good work!
Screenshot of iLogicAll
10th October 2009
No new reviews yet, but ESP Soft
have converted the Spectrum game iLogicAll to the Amstrad CPC. It's a
version of the Japanese puzzle game Picross, and as far as I know, it's the
first such game to be released on the CPC. It would take me too long to explain
the concept of Picross, but I have found
a tutorial on how
to play Picross which you may wish to read. You can
download
iLogicAll from the Amstrad ESP web
site; both cassette and disc versions are available.
In other news, Retro
Gamer magazine has reviewed Binary Sciences' Sudoku Master in their
latest issue (#69), and it scored a very respectable 81%.