R-Type 128k - It's now time for the Enterprise to have this incredible Shoot em up port conversion!

You may remember our big article on the Amstrad remake of 'R-Type 128k' which came with high praise and regarded as one of the most downloaded Amstrad homebrew's ever. But there's another remake that is set to take the Enterprise scene by storm and it's 'R-Type 128k', which has since been released by Easter Egg and converted by Geco @ 2019. This conversion of an already ported game, is an incredible overhaul of a classic as it sports much higher detail, smoother frame rates, and top quality sound.

WinAPE 2.0 Beta 2 - Amstrad emulator for windows gets an update

Just recently after a long four year break, Richard Wilson released the Amstrad CPC emulator of ' WinAPE 2.0 Beta 1 ' for Windows based systems. Although you can also use the excellent 'JavaCPC' with a lovely OS frontend, you can also try this straight up launcher with no fancy backdrops emulator which has had a recent big fix update ' WinAPE 2.0 Beta 2 '. As a test of the emulator I'd highly recommend playing the R-Type 128K Remake, which is a fantastic overhaul of the rather poor Amstrad CPC original.

R-Type 128K - One of the best Amstrad CPC remakes available!

Usually I'm not one to bang on about how good most remakes are as usually they are of a lower quality affair. But when it comes to the R-Type 128K remake for the Amstrad CPC that's an exception. This cult classic shoot em up was first ported across from the ZX to the Amstrad CPC in the very late 1980's, although it was a good game it was a rather lackluster port. Not that the ZX was a bad machine, but the Amstrad CPC version had very little enhancements and actually ended up being worse than the ZX Spectrum version  (slower being one such problem). But fast forward to 2011-12 and one of the best things was to ever happen to the Amstrad version!