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SonicGX – Preview of a new GX4000 / Plus game by NoRecess

Nov 012019

NoRecess, who is well-known for his demos, tools and also interviews in with CPC sceners, released a work in progress video of his game for the Amstrad Plus / GX4000 computers. It is called SonicGX and obviously it is a Sonic the Hedgehog game and features a framerate of 50Hz and around 40 colours on screen. He plans to show other previews during the development and wants to release the game at the end of 2020. So keep your fingers crossed that we will have a cool jump and run game at the end of next year :-). Until then: subscribe his Youtube channel to get informed about his next previews and enjoy the preview…

Novabugs Top 11 Amstrad CPC games 2016

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Apr 032017

Novabug, who creates a lot of Youtube videos related to our beloved Amstrad CPC, has released a video where he did a retrospective of 2016. In this video, he shows his very own Top 11 of the last year (which was an awesome year for the Amstrad CPC users :-)). Enjoy the video:

The Amstrad CPC story – Youtube video by Nostalgia Nerd

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Mar 022017

Did you ever asked yourself how the Amstrad CPC was developed back in the 1980s? What was the intention of its design? Why did they change the main CPU from an MOS 6502 to a Zilog Z80 during the development? Why did they chose Locomotive BASIC instead of an other BASIC dialect? …
Nostalgia Nerd uploaded two great videos to Youtube where he had a closer look at Amstrad and the CPC development. Enjoy them!

Amstrad CPC Horror Games! (Resurrected Version 2015)

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Oct 312015

It’s Halloween so it is a good idea to have a look at horror games for the Amstrad CPC, isn’t it? Xyphoe did this some years ago, but the video was deleted by Youtube because of the background music, so he resurrected it and record it again and here it is. Enjoy it and Happy Halloween :-)!