Red Sunset - An early Xmas Demo of a fabulous upcoming Amstrad shoot em up!

Listen up Amstrad owners have we got a special treat for you! As this week thanks to a heads up via our twitter page, we have found out that ESP Soft has released an early Xmas demo of their upcoming shoot em up ' Red Sunset '. This work in progress game due for release next year by ESP Software with music/fx by McKlain, graphics by Sad1942 and programming by Artaburu. Looks to be an incredible game that doesn't just feature high quality graphics but superb scrolling action as well.

#CPCRetroDev 2017 - Baba's Palace comes FIRST in this great Amstrad competition

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Great news for a weekend as the #CPCRetroDev 2017 - Amstrad CPC Game Creation Contest has finished and with the winners announced, the biggest overall winner was Baba's Palace! Yes a game we have featured before by Rafael Castillo and John McKlain; a rather lovely looking Amstrad game, that doesn't just feature a great soundtrack, but charming graphics and fun for all the family gameplay has come first! With Profanation 2 coming second, Basket Cases for third and Cris: Odd Prelude as fourth.

Baba's Palace - Charming in dev Amstrad game for the CPCRetroDev contest!

As many of you know by now the #CPCRetroDev 2017 - Amstrad CPC Game Creation Contest will be finished on Friday, 10th of November with 29 games entered that hope to win and come home with a prize. One of those games in that listing is Baba's Palace by Rafael Castillo and John McKlain; a rather lovely looking Amstrad game, that doesn't just feature a great soundtrack, but charming graphics and fun for all the family gameplay.

Baba's Palace - An Amstrad game is in the works and it looks great!

This isn't some sort of weird dream as we've recently found out the Amstrad is getting a new platformer called ' Baba's Palace ', developed by Rafael Castillo! Oh yes good news indeed, as this game that has been in development for a good few months now and created using CPCtelera, looks to feature a character that resembles Krillin from Dragon Ball Z that can also trade places with another character in the game. In light of this news of which we only found out today, the developer had released a teaser trailer through his Twitter page!

ADIÓS A LA CASTA - EPISODE 2 - The Amstrad gets a much improved homebrew sequel release

Some time ago now, 4mhz released the first chapter of ' Adios a La Casta ' for the Amstrad CPC 6128 and 6128 Plus. It was an enjoyable game that required a 128k based system, that mixed it up with classic platforming fun, while pushing out smooth frame rates and inclusive of a decent soundtrack. But today the developer has announced the final and sequel release of Adios a La Casta episode 2, which actually looks a much better game, taking advantage of the full colour range of the Amstrad CPC. To coincide with this news not only has a new trailer been released but you can order the game today!

The Amstrad CPC 6128 USB Floppy Emulator Hardware + New sound board addition!

Through last month we did two big hardware reviews for the Amstrad community, one of those was the DDI3 USB Floppy Emulator for the Amstrad CPC 464 and the other was The Amstrad CPC 6128 USB Floppy Emulator. Both of these hardware reviews were very popular and it's because of that, a good number of Amstrad users are now proud owners of these two devices developed by Zaxon also known as Piotr Bugaj. But the news of today is, the 6128 USB Floppy Emulator is going to be upgraded with a new sound board, which adds disk loading sounds, just like an original disk drive.

Amstrad GX4000 console converted to an Amstrad 6128 plus

You may or may not know this but there is a highly talented individual out there by the name of Piotr Bugaj that does some pretty impressive modifications and new builds of retro based hardware. He is well known in our community for creating not just the JUST CPC 128k but also the JUST SPECCY 128k as well. Implementations for the Speccy include dimensions to fit in a rubber 48, clone of 128 toastrack with addons, 128kb memory, DivSD on board, RGB video output, kempston interface and stereo AY output. Whereas the Just CPC 128k features 128k ram, DDI-floppy interface, LM2596 power supply, 2x MX4 slots, RGB out and a PS/2 keyboard interface. Two incredible builds, but today's feature is something even more special, it's the Amstrad GX4000 converted to an Amstrad 6128 plus.