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	What are those strange marks on the floor?
Using the RepairKit to repair a door	Using the HackerBoy to hack into a computer successfully

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%.