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Chipnsfx tracker+player suite

Jun 162017

Chipnsfx is a music software suite with focus on a lightweight code and data written by CNGSoft. The player routine is under 950 bytes long and can be as small as 550 bytes. Like all newer software the softwore focus more than one system, so you can produce music for the Amstrad CPC, Sinclair Spectrum 128 and the MSX1. Other platforms can be supported by minor changes on the player routine (e.g. the Sega Master System). The tracker was already used in several CNGSoft productions like Bubble Bobble for CPC, Hire Hare, Frogalot, etc.

You can download the latest version from CNGSofts Chipnsfx website.

#CPCRetroDev 2015 final results (35 new games)

Amstrad CPC, Development, Game 2 Responses »

Nov 032015

Wow, what a competition and I really needed some time to write this news and upload all competition entries to the download section of this page. It was already clear, that the #CPCRetroDev 2015 is a huge success this year, but it is time to have a look at the entries of the competition now. There were 35 entries in the competition which where

3 are coded in BASIC
1 in BASIC+ASM
2 in ASM
1 uses AGD
1 uses its own engine (C+ASM)
27 use CPCtelera

But I don’t want to bore you with the details, so here are the official results of the competition and the links to the download section.

#CPCRetroDev 2015 awards nominees

Amstrad CPC, Development, Game 1 Response »

Oct 282015

The deadline for the #CPCRetroDev 2015 is already met and in only a few days, there will be the big price ceremony where the winners of the Amstrad CPC retro game development contest will be announced. This year the #CPCRetroDev is already a very big success with about 35(!!!) submissions to the competition and so it was hard to decide the final nominees for the different categories. Thanks to all the contributors for your work on your submissions!
Well, I don’t want to put your on the rack, so here they are:

BASIC category

Junior / Miguel Sky
Regreso al CPC / Antonio Corpas
Super Thordercam / CARLIO

PRO category

4 to 4 Back to the future / www.cpc-power.com
Frogalot / CNGSoft
Paranormal Outbreak / Noxtale1
RUN CPC / Ervin Pajor
Space Pest Control / usebox.net
Space Moves / Toni Ramírez
Top Top / Rantan Games
ZNAX / Shinra

Special mention to the Best Technical Achievement

Frogalot / CNGSoft
Spaces Moves / Toni Ramirez
ZNAX / Shinra

Devilish Games special mention to the Most Original Game

4 to 4 Back To the future / CPC-Power
Mas To The Past / Antrax CPC
Top Top / Rantan Games

The price ceremony will take place on Saturday, 31st of October, 2015, 19:00h CET (UTC+1) at the Museum of the University of Alicante. A live stream of the event can be found here: http://vertice.cpd.ua.es/mua.

BB4CPC – finally a great Bubble Bobble version for the CPC

Amstrad CPC, Game 1 Response »

Dec 272011

CNGSoft released his long awaited remake of the game Bubble Bobble. Finally, the CPC gets a version of this great, which it deserves. Compared to the original CPC port of Bubble Bobble, it features very colourful graphics, the intro sequence and bigger sprites. To sum it up: it is much closer to the original arcade version. Be sure to download and test it. You can get the game from CNGSofts homepage (click on the image).

CPCE v1.94

Amstrad CPC, Emulator No Responses »

Oct 132010

CNGSoft released a new version of his CPC emulator for DOS, DPMI and Windows called CPCE. This emulator is written in 100% assembly. You can download the newest version from the CPCE homepage.

Here are the changes:

New autorun engine: feed it a file and go.
New tape engine with 16-bit precision rather than the old 8-bit: recording a CSW and then playing it back output the same sound.
Fixed a potential buffer overflow in the ZIP file handler.
Added support for UNRAR.DLL. Oh, and CPCE.TXT is 1010 lines long, too.

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