Few years ago, Gerald released the fantastic C4CPC device allowing the use of cartridge images stored on a micro-SD card. This resulted a general availability of the GX-4000 software library, plus other side effects such as original Amstrad CPC 64Kb games converted to the platform (thanks Phantomz and others), or system cartridge replacements that includes some popular Amstrad CPC ROMs at startup (that also includes the HxC Floppy Emulator Manager - thanks Dragon !). More information here.

Unfortunately, the platform still lack interest from developers... till now ! During the Alchimie 2017, not 1 but 2 demoscene productions were released !

Eerie Forest by Overflow/Logon System

We all remember IO demo for MSX (released at Forever 2015) and the great Logon's run - 3D meets the aging bits (released at Revision 2017 for Amstrad CPC machines).
And now Overflow strikes again with Eerie Forest, a demo for the Amstrad GX-4000 !

This intro is an adaptation of the famous in-game screen of the running beast in Shadow of the Beast game on Amiga.
It's a well-rounded production, made coherent thanks to excellent TotO's sense of design, that definitively unleashes the GX-4000 abilities. Who thought this under-appreciated console would one day rivalise with 16-bit machines !?

Click here for Pouet.net link !

CRTC³ by Flower Corp + Futurs + X-men

Roudoudou (french interview here) is an active programmer mostly focused on the Amstrad Plus machines. He released last year the Asic Intro 2 (released at the VIP 2016) and released rasm this year, a cross-platform Z80 assembler.

With the help of Zik, Zisquier, Hwikaa, Fra and CoyHot, CRTC³ is a multi-part demo released at Alchimie 2017 for Amstrad Plus machines. It features impressive effects never seen before. It's not only about visuals, but audio also - which is a pleasant mix of soundchip and samples ! Since it uses the 128Kb of RAM of the Amstrad Plus, don't expect a GX-4000 conversion one day.

Congratulations to everyone involved in this production !

Click here for Pouet.net link !

As a final note, thanks to everyone releasing those productions for the platform. Clearly, the Amstrad Plus / GX-4000 machines are progressively transitioning from under-rated machines to platforms of choice ! The future is bright for the white CPCs ;-)

A new version is available !

As a reminder, the HxC Floppy Emulator is a device allowing your software library to be stored on a USB/SD card (DSK + HFE disc image formats) for usage on a real Amstrad CPC machine.

This news is about the Manager for Amstrad CPC (the program to select disc images on the HxC Floppy Emulator's slots).

End-user can now select .DSK files (when using latest firmware for Gotek USB). Memory footprint has been improved (memory above &8800 is not used, which means users with tons of installed ROMs will not experience crashes anymore). As usual, a ROM version is also provided. Finally, the sources are now available online on GitHub.

Feel free to download latest software by clicking here !

I completed an interview for Epsilon, click here for download.

It's funny how life may bring some surprises. I interviewed Epsilon few months ago ; but doing that gave him enough motivation to create a new website dedicated to the Amstrad CPC called Amstrad Paradise. Make sure to check it out ! (french only).

Overflow/Logon System presented at Revision 2017 his demo called "Logon's run - 3D meets the aging bits". Reception has been really good and the production was ranked 2nd in the oldschool demo category. Congratulations Olivier !

As promised last December, a making-of (written by Overflow himself !) is now available on this website. It explains all the technical details that fits in 22Kb, including the introduction of a custom 3D engine + some clever use of hardware features.

Click HERE to read the making-of.

Despite what I said in the previous news ...

To begin the year, here is a new interview of Christophe Kastriottis, also known as Epsilon / Power System & Arkos in the Amstrad CPC demoscene world ! He was mostly active from 1992 to 1996. He was a prolific author of demos, musics, tools and games. His work was underrepresented on the net, it was time to fix this !

Click here to read the interview.