This year another ReSeT demoparty, which is a great success since 2000 (name was Amstrad Expo back then), will take place in Coutances, located in northwest France from Friday 22nd (10:00) to Sunday 24th of June 2012 (18:00). Like every year, the party is organised by Eliot / Benediction The party is opened to all computer enthusiast and for everyone who is intersted in coding, electronics, graphics, music, etc.. Be sure to participate if you can and register here.

Features

  • Big screen
  • Competitions to show up your creativity on Amstrad
  • Some other platforms will be present (Atari ST, Atari XL, C64, ZX Spectrum)
  • Food and Drinks included
  • Showers and Bedrooms
  • Lot of fun!

Competitions

  • Demo: No size limit. The entry must be runnable on CPC 6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension.
  • Intro (256b, 1k, 4k): Maximum size is 256, 1024 or 4096 bytes. The entry must be runnable on CPC 6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension.
  • Graphics: All formats / modes are allowed. The entry must be submitted with its viewer program runnable on CPC or Plus.
  • Music: No size limit. The entry must be submitted with its player. The music may not loop and has to end with silence.
  • Remote entries: Allowed for every competitions. Mail us your entry before Saturday 23rd of June.
 

Norecess released an update to his nice utility which makes it possible to use the Pasmo assembler instead of the in SDCC included ASZ80 assembler. This allows you to use a more familiar (Maxam style) assembly syntax. You can download it from Norecess’ homepage. You can also find my SDCC example project for the Code:Blocks IDE and a small coding tutorial on his page, too.

Changes:

  • source compatibility with ASM codes generated by SDCC v3.1.0
 

Hooray, there it is: the long awaited Amstrad CPC version of R-Type by Easter Egg. Ok, we already had a R-Type version for the CPC, but it was ported in just 21 days from the Sinclair Spectrum and looks like all the other Spectrum ports. Team Easter Egg got the original Spectrum source code and did an own port which perfectly fits the CPC. So this game is a must – so now you can download it from http://www.rtype.fr.

R-Type for the Amstrad CPC by Easter Egg
 

The CPC-Forum.de, a german CPC forum, will close it’s doors today, but nevertheless, it will come back as a subforum of the “Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V.”, which is a retro computing addicted organisation. Currently the administrators of CPC-Forum.de are trying to move the old forum messages to the new server, too. The intention of this movement is to get rid of the dependency on one person, who has the power to e.g. close the whole the forum from one day to another.

 

Push’n’Pop, the Amstrad CPC scene page, asked their members for a vote to create charts of the best productions, etc. for the last year. And here are the results (as you can see, mostly french sceners voted – water and wine are on top in the ‘top drinks’ list Zwinkerndes Smiley):

Top 5 demos of the past year (2011):

  1. Batman Forever (60 Votes)
  2. Bloc Us! (43 Votes)
  3. Still the Best! (21 Votes)
  4. Les Experts Coutances (16 Votes)
  5. Baratraz (10 Votes)

Top 5 games of the past year (2011):

  1. Sub Hunter (45)
  2. Edge Grinder (38)
  3. Bubble Bobble 4 CPC (34)
  4. Hora Bruja (11)
  5. Uwol 2: Quest for Money (8)

Top 5 demos of the past five years (since January 1st 2007):

  1. Batman Forever (55)
  2. From Scratch (49)
  3. Moody (23)
  4. Pheelone (22)
  5. Outdated (12)

Top 5 demos of all time (since 1984):

  1. Batman Forever (57)
  2. From Scratch (44)
  3. Ecole Buissonniere (23)
  4. DTC (8)
    The Demo (8)
    S&KOH (8)

Top 5 demogroups:

  1. Vanity (49)
  2. Arkos (24)
  3. Overlanders (33)
  4. Batman Group (21)
    Benediction (21)

Top 5 coders:

  1. Hicks (39)
  2. Rhino (32)
  3. Grim (25)
  4. Madram (23)
  5. Targhan (16)

Top 5 musicians:

  1. Targhan (46)
  2. Ultrasyd (43)
  3. Tom&Jerry (27)
  4. Factor6 (22)
  5. Shap (14)

Top 5 graphicians:

  1. Beb (43)
  2. Barjack (19)
  3. Supersly (16)
  4. CeD (14)
    Eldrik (14)

Top 5 drinks:

  1. Water (26)
  2. Wine (23)
  3. Tea (18)
  4. Rum (15)
  5. Pastis (14)
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