Captain Fizz - Another Amstrad CPC game is lost and found!

Checking through the CPCWiki forums once again we've just come across an announcement that is every bit as good as the previous Amstrad news we featured in the early part of this month. Previously four games Acolyte, Frogger(Deanysoft), Ninja Grannies and Unpredictaball after all these years had seen the light of day and were made freely available to download, preserved as lovely CPC versions of Clockwize's/Video games. Well just moments ago, another clockwize game has appeared and this one is called Captain Fizz - Meets The Blaster-Trons, fixed by SyX and supplied with the generosity of Dean Hickingbottom.

Hot News as FOUR unreleased Amstrad games including Frogger see the light of day!

Checking through the CPCWiki forums we've just come across an announcement that is sure to excite the Amstrad community, as just moments ago four unreleased games such as Acolyte, Frogger(Deanysoft), Ninja Grannies and Unpredictaball, have seen the light of day and are available to download. Originally these games were hinted at in 2014 after a bit of an annoyance on why C64 and ZX games are recovered but never the CPC versions, such as these unpublished games where the community was more interested in the ZX Spectrum ones.

Space Pest Control - Jump and Shooter platformer in dev for the Amstrad CPC

This year so far has been pretty decent for the Amstrad CPC, as we've seen a number of games in development or that have been released, that are real eye openers for the ageing 8bit system. Just search Amstrad on our site to get a good idea of what we are talking about. But here we are again with another in development game, ' Space Pest Control ' by Reidrac (Juan J. Martinez), that will hopefully be a submission for the CPC retro Dev 2015 competition.

Pac-Mania - Classic Pac, now for the Amstrad PCW

Many years ago there was an arcade sequel to Pacman called Pac-Mania which was ported over to the Amstrad CPC from the ZX Spectrum. It was a decent effort as an Arcade port and featured many of the original gameplay elements such as being able to jump over ghosts, collect pellets and power up pellets in a 3D isometric like design. What let the game down on the Amstrad was the poor graphics, lack of speed and jerky scrolling, but at least the music was good! But today's news is from Habi, as he has now done an Amstrad PCW conversion with frame skip option for better speed but lack of smoothness. As such Pac-Mania is available to download and can be used on a real Amstrad PCW or emulator such as JOYCE.

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Roland of Sherwood - Carnivac's Amstrad CPC styled game gets new details!

Another Amstrad announcement today and it's all to do with Carnivac's great looking Amstrad CPC styled game ' Roland of Sherwood ' which is still in development with a release looking likely this year. An update of the Roland in Time/Space pics with his time travelling phone booth having landed in medieval England. The latest update features a completely redone status bar as a medieval banner, menus now auto-tiled to look like scrolls and a new font. In terms of what's to come next, apart from the main stuff almost done, Carnivac is doing more screen layouts and obstacle courses for each screen. A worthy looking game indeed and one I seriously hope will appear on a real Amstrad!

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Roland of Sherwood - Carnivac's Amstrad CPC styled colorful game update!

Through these last few months we've been giving you the heads up over a great looking Amstrad CPC styled action platformer game of 'Roland of Sherwood', which is being developed by our friendly CPCwiki user, Carnivac. Well that same game has received another update today in the form of the picture above and a whizzy little gif. For those of you who didn't read our previous article, Roland of Sherwood is an update of the Roland in Time/Space pics with his time travelling phone booth having landed in medieval England.

Roland of Sherwood - Carnivac's Amstrad CPC styled game gets an update!

You may remember our recent feature of Carnivac's most impressive looking Amstrad CPC styled platformer game of 'Roland of Sherword' which is still in development. But we've just been given the update of a new screenshot which looks rather nice to say the least. The developer has also noted since our most recent article, that he only started it not long ago but it's a relatively simple game with almost all of the main code and 75% of level graphics are done, so technically it's already the most complete of his CPC projects.

Roland of Sherwood - Carnivac's next impressive Amstrad CPC game

Carnivac of the CPCWiki forums is certainly no stranger to us, in making Amstrad games that are real eye openers in graphical detail. He blew us all away with the work in progress Cosmic Prison Commando, now he's doing the same with his latest platformer game 'Roland of Sherwood'. Unlike his previous work in progress title, this one isn't as far developed as he's only just been making it over the last few days as a test project for himself and any CPC developer who wants to have a go at converting it to a real CPC when finished.

Minecraft being ported to the Amstrad CPC? Welcome to AmsCraft!

This picture above may not look like much, but this is actually a very early preview shot of a Minecraft-style game for the Amstrad CPC that is being developed by lachlank. The current title of the game is being called 'AmsCraft' and will be written mainly in C using SDCC/CPCTelera but with assembler to draw blocks. So far the developer has noted that he is only drawing the screen and player sprite at present and is hoping for contributions from other programmers to make the music that sounds very similar to Minecraft, but in that 8bit style. Also to coincide with this news, the developer has released a very short video tease that goes to show how far the development has come.