Magic Pockets - A great Amiga platformer as a port for the Amstrad CPC 6128 via Lake Software and AI

One of my personal favourites, the 1991 platformer Magic Pockets, originally developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade, has been ported to the Amstrad CPC 6128 by Lake Software with the help of AI. The game follows the adventures of the Bitmap Kid, who must journey through four distinct worlds—The Cave, The Jungle, The Lake, and The Mountain—to recover his toys from his bottomless trousers. Spanning 30 levels, the conversion hopes to replicate the iconic gameplay mechanics, where players run, jump, and blast unique world-specific weapons like whirlwinds, rolling balls, ice cubes, and snowballs. 

Bubble Ghost - A fan conversion of the 1990 Game Boy game for the Amstrad 6128 by Kirby2000

Time for some Amstrad fun, as developer Kirby2000 has released a new fan conversion of the classic 1990 Game Boy title, Bubble Ghost, for the Amstrad CPC 6128. Stepping into the shoes of a helpful spirit, players are tasked with navigating a delicate soap bubble through 35 treacherous chambers of a haunted fortress. Because the ghost cannot make direct contact with the bubble, success depends entirely on carefully blowing it forward while snuffing out candles and navigating around hazards like spikes, moving fans, and rival phantoms before the level's bonus timer ticks away.

Check out this awesome Turrican 128k remaster for the Amstrad CPC 6128!

Possibly the best retro gaming news for today, is the latest 128k remaster of 'Turrican' for the Amstrad CPC; a hit classic originally released in 1990 by Rainbow Arts and programmed by Manfred Trenz. For what I would class as the ultimate run jump and shoot action game, Turrican and its sequels such as Turrican II is a game series that is set in the heart of millions of Retro fans across the world. They had great shooting action, amazing game play and the most awesome of sound tracks by Chris Huelsbeck and Jochen Hippel(ST Version).

Street Fighter II 128K - The REAL CPC Edition shown off in this gameplay footage [2021 UPDATE]

This year has just been fantastic for the Amstrad CPC with a ton of Amstrad homebrew games to spoil us, but even though we had the incredible Amiga to Amstrad port of Pinball Dreams, we haven't finished with the Amstrad yet. Now you may remember our big article on the very impressive looking homebrew remake of Street Fighter II titled 'Street Fighter II - CPC Edition' which is being developed by DaDMaN, and AugustoRuiz for the Amstrad CPC 6128 (128Kb RAM). Well at the end of last month a new video tease was released, showing us just how far the game has progressed and what it's like to actually play.

The Shadows Of Sergoth - Prepare yourselves as a CPC Dungeon Crawler is coming May 6th! [ RELEASED ]

How time flies as it was only last year I was overwhelmed with joy to find out a high quality dungeon crawler was coming to the Amstrad CPC 6128, as an inspiration to all those great first person grid based dungeon crawlers such as Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Master. Well once again I'm in disbelief as I've just been told by Christophe(Chris94) that his dungeon crawler of 'The Shadows of Sergoth' is going to be released May 6th, which as of this moment is tomorrow!!!

The Abbey of Crime Extensum - Full English translation of the Amstrad game La Abadía del Crimen

In 1987, Opera Soft released ' The abbey of crime ' also known as ' La abadía del crimen ', which was regarded as one of the best video games for the 8bit system such as the Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, and MSX.  It had a high level of detail, a decent plot, good mapping, sound and much more which made it a worth while game to collect even if it was never released outside of Spain. Thankfully things have changed since then as not only was there a PC remake (link) released not long ago, but as of today if you have an Amstrad, you can now check out the fully English translated version which has since been released by khaz and the help of the cpcwiki community.

Mario Demo Test - Batman Group shows us impressive scrolling on the Amstrad CPC

While many of us are eagerly waiting Batman Group's Amstrad CPC port of the classic Amiga game ' Pinball Dreams ' by Digital Illusions CE, Batman Group has once again shocked us with just how good the Amstrad CPC could've been, if games were done correctly in the past rather than many of the shoddy ports released all those years ago ( Yes you R-Type! ). As an impressive showing, a member by the name of Rhino has released a demo disk, which has some elements to simulate a Mario style game with pixel precise scroll with a new routine pixel to pixel, 50 fps overscan on the Amstrad CPC!

Street Fighter II 128K - The latest CPC edition with new AI implementation teased

Indie Retro News has been keeping you up to date with the latest developments with the impressive looking homebrew remake of Street Fighter II titled ' Street Fighter II - CPC Edition ', which as we said before in a number of articles is being developed by DaDMaN, McKlain and AugustoRuiz for the Amstrad CPC 6128 (128Kb RAM). Well you'll pleased to know after numerous updates another video has appeared today showing the first AI implementation with both players computer controlled.

Pinball Dreams (Preview) - Fantastic Amiga classic is now available as a preview on the Amstrad CPC!

After multiple articles and a big tease on the social media sites, the fantastic Amiga pinball game ' Pinball Dreams ' by Digital Illusions CE in 1992 has finally been made available as a preview download on the Amstrad CPC by none other than Batman Group, creators of the scene demo Batman Forever. Experience one of the best ever Amiga pinball games and now in glorious 8bit Amstrad graphics, as one person puts it "This is nothing short of amazing".

The Amstrad CPC 6128 USB Internal Floppy Emulator Hardware Review!

It's been awhile since we've done any hardware reviews and now thanks to Zaxon (Piotr Bugaj), creator of the DDI3 USB Floppy Emulator and the Amstrad CPC 6128 USB Floppy device we have a new hardware device to review; the Amstrad CPC 6128 USB Internal Floppy Emulator. This latest hardware from Zaxon replaces the disk drive and enables the Amstrad to run disk files from an USB memory stick with clearly visible LCD display. But is this latest addition to the Amstrad worthy of a purchase? Check out our review and find out.

CPC vs Virgill - A new Music Disk for your Amstrad CPC!

Some rather epic tunes this evening for your Amstrad CPC, is the latest release by TRSI, 'CPC vs Virgill '. Released at the Nordlicht party last week and coming first under wild demo, is a 6 track musical album of top quality tunes that sound fantastic on both a real Amstrad and via an emulator. Tunes such as Prism Break, Dott, Galavanize, Chyphilis and Requiem for a CPC! Oh and if you haven't heard of Virgill, he's a music artist, texter and graphics artist, going way back to 1990, also previous member of Scoopex!

Links : 1) Source 2) Listen Now (Soundcloud)

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

Not long ago, 4mhz released the first chapter of ' Adios a La Casta ' as a homebrew 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's news is a bit more eye opening, as the developer has announced Adios a La Casta episode 2, which actually looks a much better game, taking advantage of the full colour range of the Amstrad CPC, unlike the blander pinks and purples of chapter 1. To coincide with this news, a new teaser trailer has been released!

The Amstrad CPC gets some converted tunes such as Ghosts 'n' Goblins!

It has been ages since we have featured any Amstrad CPC tunes, and that is about to change as of today. From the creator of ' Now That's What I Call Chip Tunes (WinAPE) ' comes some brand new conversions for the CPC! Converted by none other than SuTeKH/Epyteor are 5 disks for you to load up and listen to that are sure to bring back those gaming memories. Tunes such as Turrican 2, Kong Strikes Back & Friends, Ghosts'N'Goblins (By Mark Cooksey), Donkey Kong Country (Aquatic Ambience), and The Secret Of Monkey Island (Title)!

ELF - Amstrad CPC Adventure based on the Ocean arcade classic now in English!

Remember when we gave you the heads up for Defecto Digital Studios in development Amstrad CPC Adventure, which at the time was only in Spanish? Well we've just been given a tweet from the developer that this game is now in English! What great news indeed as that means all of our English readers can now play this new Amstrad Adventure which is based on the arcade version released by Ocean Software in 1992!

Railways : A Railroad management game in development for the Amstrad CPC

Before I even read the description of the game, just looking at the above image gave me nostalgic memories back to the 1990's game ' Railroad Tycoon ' by Microprose Software Inc. It was a game in which you managed your own Railroad company from placing train lines, creating stations and making as much profit as possible via goods or passengers. And that's basically where this new game ' Railways ' is headed as it too is a Railroad management game, but this is in development for the Amstrad CPC and developed by Trewdbal.

JavaCPC Desktop - The best Amstrad CPC emulator reaches version 2.9m

As someone who uses both real hardware and emulators, it's great being able to play games either from the real thing or through a PC using the latest software. For some going on Ebay and spending hundreds of pounds if not thousands of pounds playing every single game they remember just to have an original on a 30 year old computer just isn't always possible. Now many of you have heard how amazing WinUAE is for the Amiga community, but did you know that our recent feature of the Amstrad emulator 'JavaCPC' is just as good? Well it is, and that emulator today has just reached a brand new build of 2.9m that features a number updates to make this emulator even more brilliant!

The lost treasure of Cuauhtemoc - Impressive Amstrad CPC game - Teaser trailer!

The latest teaser video has been released for Sad1942's Amstrad homebrew platformer, 'The lost treasure of Cuauhtemoc'. Although we still don't know a great deal about the game as it's still very early in development as can be seen by the trailer, we do know that it will be very similar to both Castlevania, Pentacorn Quest and have a hint of Rick Dangerous.

JavaCPC Desktop - Impressive CPC emulation and Shadow of the Beast [UPDATE]

A world without emulation, what a thought! No way of playing retro games other than on the system hardware they were designed for and having to spend thousands upon thousands of pounds just to play every game in that retro catalogue. So we have to be thankful for emulation such as the Amstrad CPC - JavaCPC Desktop by Devil Markus (Markus Hohmann), of which we are going to give a quick feature today that does a lot more than play just Amstrad games.

The lost treasure of Cuauhtemoc - Impressive Amstrad CPC game teased

After the recent flood of C64 and jaw dropping ZX Spectrum games such as Castlevania and Pentacorn Quest, it seems to have pushed the Amstrad homebrew scene into action with the latest teased announcement of 'The lost treasure of Cuauhtemoc'. What looks to be an arcade platformer with very similar styles to Pentacorn, should hopefully see a release at some point this year.

HxC Floppy Emulator Manager v3.1 - By Norecess for Amstrad CPC!

For those of you like myself who has an Amstrad CPC with a connected HxC, will be interested to know that Norecess has released the latest HxC Floppy Emulator Manager v3.1. Used as a manager for loading Amstrad dsk->hxc roms, which enables the playing of classic games in disk format, or new homebrew releases. This latest version works on both 464,664 and 6128 with attached HxC thanks to the 464 / 664 support in changelog. ( Thanks octoate/vintageisthenewold)

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