CPC Thread !!!

[CPC464]

Well guys

My Name says it all this was my ALL TIME favorite home computer.

I still have my CPC Boxed ( I have a couple actually) and more original tapes than I have room for.

But IMHO some of the best games were.

Ollie & Lissa - The Candlelight Adventures
Macrocosmica
Skate Wars
Robin Hood
Titanic

Too many others to name but these stick out the most

Great (and old) news!!

The Amiga can be used to write CPC disks (no more headaches with CPDWrite or 22Disk). Download the CPC emulator for Amiga A-CPC and in the tools folder you'll find an util called 'dsk2real'

for example:

dsk2real 0 gryzor.dsk 1

will write the disk image gryzor.dsk on a disk inserted in DF0: using the side 1 of the CPC disk.

[Antiriad]

My Amstrad CPC Good News,

I now own a Amstrad 664! Now i have all the CPCs!

My Amstrad CPC Bad News,

I think ive fried my PCs floppy disk controller when i attached my 3" drive to it to write some dsk files
Never happened on my old motherboard...

Originally posted by Antiriad
I think ive fried my PCs floppy disk controller when i attached my 3" drive to it to write some dsk files
Never happened on my old motherboard...

You can attach the 3" drive to the Amiga if you read the docs included with the A-CPC emu, but the best option is to add the 3.5" drive to the CPC.

Some bad news: dsk2real doesn't support extended disk formats, so most copy protected disks only can be copied using CPDWrite

I miss those happy CPC days, the noise of the tape loading, the green monitor, the endless nights playing Bloodwych, Rick Dangerous, Nebulus, La Abadia del Crimen, Gryzor, Navy Moves, Combat School, Karnov, Abu Simbel, Marauder, Wec Le Mans, Dragon Ninja, Target Renegade, Buggy Boy, La Diosa de Cozumel...

[Dalai]

Jim: I remember that starting pack, don't remember which games were in it though!

Hmm, maybe:

Fruit Machine
Animal Vegetable Mineral
Caves of Doom?
Galactic Plague?

Argh, I can't remember!

[Antiriad]

Oh Mummy,
Roland On The Ropes,
Roland on the Run
Roland in the Caves
The Galactic Plague

Goto www.cpcgamereviews.com for your CPC fix!

The PC problem is weird. My PC recognises the drive (in XP) but the light never comes on.

[Antiriad]

CPC Oxygen.net are showing the way to us by starting to scan in all 117 issues of Amstrad Action. We really should start a similiar project for Amiga Format, Amiga Power and CU Amiga. Hell, even The One or Amiga Action!

The scanner dude has been thorough enough to even scan the ad pages...looking at this brought back some fond fond memories

Fixed up broken link. -Admin

[RetroMan]

Ok, since I got some "CPC Phase" now, I´m searching for any CPC Basic Compiler out there

I allready used google but all I found was some info about TURBO-BASIC by HiSoft .... any help would be very usefull

[Fred the Fop]

Originally Posted by RetroMan

Ok, since I got some "CPC Phase" now, I´m searching for any CPC Basic Compiler out there

I allready used google but all I found was some info about TURBO-BASIC by HiSoft .... any help would be very usefull

You know, in the TOSEC or Good Amstrad CPC sets, their are diskmags that may have it. it might take a bit of old fashioned digging.

[RetroMan]

Well, no Turbo Basic in TOSEC I allready performed that search

[RetroMan]

Well, I somehow completed my search for a Basic Compiler myself, now to something completely different

H.E.R.O. gets a CPC Port !!!!!!!!! After allmost 21 years this great game now runs on your CPC

Download here -> http://www.easypoint.ch/wincpc/hero/herodisk.zip

or the Tape (WAV) Version here -> http://www.easypoint.ch/wincpc/hero/herotape.zip

Oh and : Be sure to play this on a real CPC

Screenie :

[manicx]

Thanks for that..

[_ThEcRoW]

The best version of salamander is the MSX one!!!!!
See ya!

[EmuChicken]

WOAH! I had many fond memories of meh Amstrad CPC464... 5 minutes a game load... You just KNOW how tense it was before the storm... then READ ERROR B .. READ ERROR A.... HATED THAT! Ruined both 3 of my great games - "Barry McGuigans Boxing", "Bruce Lee", and "Ghostbusters" ... On the other hand, heres a few of my favourites ;-)

Dizzy games,
Everyones A Wally
Yie Ar Kung Fu
Commando
Guardal Canal
Shackled
Advanced ... *some space game by codemasters ;-)*
Hacker 2 *this scared the shaz outta me!*

there's more that I cannee remember, I have like 3 cases full of games in Germany lying around somewhere

[s2325]

I'm searching for another rare remakes/ports of Amstrad CPC games for Amiga. Anyone can help me?

[viddi]

Ohhhh, I love my CPCs.

Especially the French CPC 6128 Plus!!
I drove to France to pick it up because I was afraid of delivery damage.

This was a cool trip. Pure fun!

[s2325]

http://hol.abime.net/3283 Now I'm searching for Apprentice for Amstrad CPC, not by Mastertronic because it's different game.

[s2325]

beat'em ups for CPC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQdKVVRR6WQ
racing games for CPC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnTP61N3WpM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI1iLupnDZ0

[MrZammler]

Originally Posted by Uukrul

Great (and old) news!!

The Amiga can be used to write CPC disks (no more headaches with CPDWrite or 22Disk). Download the CPC emulator for Amiga A-CPC and in the tools folder you'll find an util called 'dsk2real'

for example:

dsk2real 0 gryzor.dsk 1

will write the disk image gryzor.dsk on a disk inserted in DF0: using the side 1 of the CPC disk.

The link to a-cpc.lha seems down. Anyone has the archive? Or just the dsk2real would be nice.

Edit: Here it is: http://www.cepece.info/amstrad/download/a-cpc.lha

[A600]

Best option to write CPC disks is CPCDiskXP

[spannernick]

I had a Amstrad CPC 464 with colour monitor in 95 but i played on the commodore 64 more..

Oh Amstrad stands for "Alan Michael Sugar Trading"..

[Antiriad]

Long live the Amstrad CPC thread!!!

[MrZammler]

Finally found some free time to install a wandler RGB->Svhs/Composite adaptor on the cpc to get it on the 1084S.

The site is in Greek, but you can see some pics of the mod here: http://www.amigahellas.gr/modules/ne...d=634&forum=11

Image is okaish for the composite, looking for a s-video->chroma/luma cable. Should be much better.

[P-J]

Hi all!

I thought it might be nice to start a series of threads on some of the 8 and 16 bit machines that aren't Amiga and let the former users of these machines share some stuff.

• Games that really shone on the system (compared to the same on other systems)
• Good games that were unique to the system
• PD/scene demos that really showed what the hardware could do

It's Amstrad CPC this time, so anyone who is in the know, share the cool stuff!

(ps. None of this 'amstrad r0x0rs ur b0x0rs' crap. Show us some games and demos!)

[Marcuz]

i mean, like this one?
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=1972
or this one?
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=13182


edit: before you think of other 8/16 bit threads, look here:
Atari ST
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=6201
MSX
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=1473
C64
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=1880

[P-J]

Thanks for the input. Those posts all go back up to six years so it would be nice to have some new contributions.

//edit : What has this got to do with this thread?

//double-edit : Having read the threads you posted, it's clear none of them are really related to what I asked at all, so scratch my earlier comment.

[girv]

I shall speak on behalf of the CPC

I was active on the Amstrad CPC between 1986 and 1991. It was a very capable games machine with various graphics modes, decent sound, memory and processor power. The hardware design was cool too with everything built into one unit and they usually came with their own monitor, a step up from the RF modulator -> TV displays used by its C64 and Spectrum peers. It's probably the best thing Amstrad ever made and definitely an upgrade from the VIC-20 I'd been using before then.

The CPC had many high quality games with the most (if not all) of the major releases of the day making it to the platform. My personal recommendations would be to check out the original Cybernoid (best title track ever), ATF, Get Dexter!, XOR, War Machine, Spindizzy, Solomon's Key, Laser Squad and Nebulus. Some of these crossed the 16 bit line and appeared on Amiga as well. I'd love to see an Amiga Get Dexter! though

I wrote many BASIC games on the CPC and eventually learned enough Z80 assembly language to start on a "proper" game, a vertically scrolling shmup that went by the unlikely title YSEL: wot's it to you, tentacle face?. But I spent most of my time making type-in POKEs (cheats, trainers) for existing games and cracking them to load from disq instead of tape. Sound familiar ?

I've recorded some of my CPC activities on my website http://www.girv.net/amstrad-cpc, where you can see more games I'd recommend and even play some in your browser, if you're Java enabled.

Other CPC sites worthy of mention would be CPC Zone, which would be the CPC equivalent of EAB & HOL combined

You should also look at Devilmarkus' site http://cpc.devilmarkus.de/ for over 300 CPC games to play online. He's been on here before and he's also made a Windows conversion of the Amstrad classic "Cauldron"

Amstrad CPC FTW !

[P-J]

Thanks for the info mate. Do you also have any interest in scene-demos? If so any recommendations?

[Marcuz]

Originally Posted by P-J

Thanks for the input. Those posts all go back up to six years so it would be nice to have some new contributions.

//edit : What has this got to do with this thread?

//double-edit : Having read the threads you posted, it's clear none of them are really related to what I asked at all, so scratch my earlier comment.

meh... your thread your rules.
my point is that talking of systems dead already more than 10 years ago, hardly the threads about them started a couple of years back here get more retro than that: their content has the same exact value...

[girv]

Originally Posted by P-J

Thanks for the info mate. Do you also have any interest in scene-demos? If so any recommendations?

Sorry, I was never into the demo scene really. Same as Amiga I guess The CPC demo scene being mainly French didn't help though.

Theres some decent scene links on my links page. http://www.girv.net/amstrad-cpc/links.html

[T_hairy_bootson]

CPC is terrible in comparison to my psp, if I went back in time in my delorian with the flux capacitor and showed the kid I knew who had a CPC when the rest of us had c64s and amigas my psp he would vomit and then proceed to trash his CPC. They both have three letters but the PSP is so much better...




Sorry P-J couldnt resist....

[Retro-Nerd]

Nearly all CPC games lacked a smooth scrolling, terrible machine for gaming. The graphics were more colorful, compared to the C-64, but that's all. Not to mention the C-64 SID soundchip.

[P-J]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Nearly all CPC games lacked a smooth scrolling, terrible machine for gaming. The graphics were more colorful, compared to the C-64, but that's all. Not to mention the C-64 SID soundchip.

I think this thread has gone off the beaten track already.

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by P-J

I think this thread has gone off the beaten track already.

There were indeed good CPC games, no doubt. But imho the C-64 & Atari 800 XL were more suitable for playing 8-bit games.

[Mad-Matt]

Ive only played cpc games in emualtors, but the extra colours didnt do much for the gfx as the pixels were bigger then even the c64s. no idea if it has hardware sprites or not but a vast majority of games were as jittery as the spectrum counterparts. that said, few games differed much from the spectrum versions. The c64 is deffinatly the deffinitive 8bit machine in my mind.

[girv]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

There were indeed good CPC games, no doubt. But imho the C-64 & Atari 800 XL were more suitable for playing 8-bit games.

No way! My 8-bit computer was better than yours!

C64 games were OK, if you liked brown and chunky. Atari 800 XL games were ... well, I'm sure there were some at any rate.

[s2325]

In some emulators CPC games are incorrectly, too much stretched to fill screen, so you see big pixels. Try Caprice32.

[girv]

@mad-matt: the C64 and CPC could both do 160x200 in 16 colours, except that the CPC could have a colour per-pixel but the C64 had a colour per 4x8 pixels. I think. I was never really into the C64 and only know one person who ever had one!

CPC game speed (especially scrollers) suffered despite its faster processor as it had 16K of screen memory to move around, crappy hardware scrolling and no hardware sprites. It beat down the C64 on 3D games though

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by girv

No way! My 8-bit computer was better than yours!

C64 games were OK, if you liked brown and chunky. Atari 800 XL games were ... well, I'm sure there were some at any rate.

Only a friend of mine had an Atari 800 XL, but this machine can do at least a proper scrolling with colorful graphics.

[s2325]

That's true: