Big news: my website has been rebuilt from scratch! No more Weebly – it is a proper static site now, generated by a compiler I wrote myself, so I finally control every single page that comes out of it. Which was mostly an excuse to do all…
I’ve been working on a personal project for some time now called PiStudio . It’s a new development environment that runs on a Raspberry Pi and connects to an Amstrad CPC through the CPC-CPLINK from Revaldinho . PiStudio transforms the CPC…
Like every December for the past three years, it has become a small ritual for me to write about what I have been doing with my Amstrad CPC/Plus hobby during the year. I already wrote retrospectives for 2023 and 2024 , so now it’s time to…
This ambitious project began in 2018, and after seven years of dedication, we’re thrilled to announce that it’s now officially available for download ! We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who showed interest, support,…
A new version is available. What’s new: CLR key added to move back to root folder while navigating C key added to clear current slot (that was removed since version V3.0 and +) ROM version can be launched with |HXC,0 or |HXC,1 to force…
One year has passed since my post called Retrospective 2023 . I really enjoyed writing it (especially after receiving some positive feedback about it), so why not create a follow-up for 2024! This article is not intended to provide a close…
I sat down with Nicolas “Dr JVTek” PERRET to talk through my career in the video game industry, and I got to cover the hobby side of it as well: programming for the Amstrad CPC and GX-4000 machines. The full interview, in French, on Dr…
So after all this time, you thought that Sonic GX was vaporware, right ? How wrong you are! :) Many things happened to the game in the last months… First, we rewrote the title screen , this time it’s almost a 1:1 with the SEGA Mega…
Since it’s mid-December 2023, I think it’s a good time to look back and see what I have done this year. Now that I have moved into my new home and that I’m fully installed, I decided to invest massively into my hobby (for the long term).…
In this new version, on top of the existing features of V1.1: 464 crash-fix + added Shift+TAB/COPY key usage for 464 users use A or B key to switch current drive to A: or B: use P key to open an ASCII file with with Protext use S key for…
A new version of the program is now available. This is the changelog: crash-fix + new keys for the Amstrad CPC 464 users: Shift+LEFT/RIGHT to select slot, COPY key to assign to current slot upgraded from SDCC 4.2 to SDCC 4.3 (provides…
CATRUN in action CATRUN is a simple tool for the Amstrad CPC machines to fasten the process of disc’s content discovery / launch a program. When inserting a new disc into the machine, I bet than 95% of the regular Amstrad CPC users will…
Yep, I’m not kidding – I’m still doing some side maintenance on this good old program :) As a reminder, the HxC Manager V4 is designed to run on Amstrad CPC/Plus computers. Its main purpose is to select disc images to be used by the HxC…
Here is some news regarding the development progress of Sonic GX , with a focus on the new Special Stage introduced today. While still being a WIP (disclaimer: expect some changes); it’s now advanced enough to provide a preview. The…
Fanzines for 8-bit Amstrad machines are nothing new, and yet I remain pleasantly surprised by the quality of the various efforts that have appeared here and there of late. Two new issues arrived in my letterbox, and I would like to say a…
I recently came across two efforts that are close to my heart, and I wanted to share what I made of them. A new issue of Amstrad Cent Pour Cent , picking up the codes of the original, came out earlier this year. The wager DarkSteph and his…
A new milestone in Amstrad CPC demoscene history has been reached by Longshot / Logon System , and I wished to enlight this effort here on my personal website. 32 years after its original release, a new version of the Amazing Demo has been…
In order to improve my development workflow on Linux, I decided to implement a GTK3 front-end for CPCEC, an accurate Amstrad CPC / Plus / GX-4000 emulator from Cngsoft. Project details can be found here
Today I’m sharing with you an update on Sonic GX’s development ! What was done since the last update: The game now features 4 unique zones, with their own set of visual styles, each made of 2 levels: the Green Hill Zone , the Bridge Zone ,…
I realize I did not give major updates regarding progress on development of Sonic GX (our game for the Amstrad GX-4000 ) since the Alchimie Treize (held in November 2019 in France ). So today after months of silence (and some published…
I’m glad to announce you that BLAST ANNUAL 2020 Vol.2 is now available. It features numerous articles related to the Amstrad’s 8-bit machines : programming tutorials, game reviews, Batman Group interview and finally, pages related to the…
I had the honour and the privilege to discuss 1 hour about the Amstrad GX-4000 and bring some updates on Sonic GX (our conversion of Sonic the Hedgehog for the GX-4000) during the AMSTREAM held on Youtube by Xyphoe ! The stream, on…
Good news ! RetroGamer (Issue 207, May 2020) contains an excellent article about the Amstrad Homebrew community, many great projects with exclusive interviews are presented inside. We felt honored to have some participation in it,…
When I came at the Alchimie Treize , my good friend TotO made me a gift and created a poster for Sonic GX ! It was great exposing it at party place. So exactly like I did at Revision 2018 , I asked all my CPC friends to sign the poster so…
This is the first game from CONDENSE for the Amstrad GX-4000 / Amstrad Plus machines....... The game is called Sonic GX Coding: NoRecess / Condense Graphic Enhancements: CeD / Condense Audio: Targhan / Arkos Thanks to our friends TotO ,…
Some exciting news about our game currently in development: BLAST ANNUAL 2020 will feature exclusive coverage of the game. Even better, BLAST ANNUAL actually became the official sponsor of the game ! => It’s a win-win situation where BLAST…
As you may know it, Condense basically spent the last decade creating demos for the Amstrad CPC 6128 , releasing Pheelone ( 2009 ), Phortem ( 2013 ) and phX ( 2018 ). We started to get some interest lately for the Amstrad Plus / GX-4000…
I don’t have a Facebook account so I can’t comment much on that event ( here for link); but CeD - the talented artist of Condense - just won the competition with his Harley-Queen picture shown just here. Yayy!! :) There is a little story…
I’m so excited to share this news - phX , our demo presented at Revision 2018 (ranked 2nd at the oldschool demo-compo) has been nominated this year in the “ BEST LOW-END PRODUCTION ” category of the great Meteoriks Awards !!! This means…
Mystery Demoscene Theater 9000 S03E06 Watch it on YouTube I have been asked by psenough to participate to its Mystery Demoscene Theater 9000 show, where multiple participants can have a friendly discussion about demoscene in general. This…
When I came to the Revision 2018 , I asked Carlos Pardo a.k.a. “ Made ” to come with a poster (check his website for more information). I always enjoyed his work for the demoscene (but not only), if you remember well I even interviewed him…
phX, released at Revision 2018. People can now have a look at phX implementation. The repository that hosted the source code is no longer online. DISCLAIMER : this is released for educational purposes only. No documentation nor support is…
The phX team: NoRecess (code) + Factor6 (audio) + CeD (graphics). It’s now official: phX got the 2nd place at the Revision 2018 ’s oldschool competition . The 1st place was pretty close (1st: 1045 points; phX: 1020 points) so we were a…
Vanity surprised us through the oldschool demo compo with their Onescreen Colonies dentro, ranked 4th , an Arkanoid-inspired production with an incredible design ! The following statement may make smile some people, but this production is…
Two Amstrad -focused artists participated to the oldschool graphics competition at Revision 2018 ! Congratulations to Beb/Vanity ( 3rd place ) and CeD/Condense ( 4th place ), you both got great ranking considering the fact that the 2 first…
Finally, after 5 years of hard work, we are delighted to announce that our latest demo, phX , is RELEASED and available for download ! We sincerely hope you will enjoy it. Thanks to everyone that contributed to this production. Bonus: a…
Quick news about our next production… As mentioned here , we remained silent while working (hard !) on our next demo for Amstrad CPC . It’s still not totally completed yet, but it’s now in pretty good shape for a release at Revision 2018 .…
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…
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…
I completed an interview for Epsilon . 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…
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…
Despite what I said in the previous news … To begin the year, here is a new interview of Epsilon / Power System & Arkos ! He was mostly active from 1992 to 1996 . He was a prolific author of demos , musics , tools and games . His work was…
Some news… Condense is working hard on its next demo. The plan is to release it at Revision 2018 (yes, 2018 !). Expect something new and refreshing from us :) We already spent 2 years of development on it… but only half of the demo has…
ForEver 2015 is over ! Overflow / Logon System just released there a new demo called IO , created with the help of Ced / Condense for the graphics and Factor6 for the audio-part. From my point of view, some particularities to note for any…
Carlos Pardo , also known as Made / Bomb in the demoscene world, is an highly-skilled graphist on modern platforms that initially started his creative path on Amstrad CPC . I was curious to know more about him, his history. He kindly…
Oliver Mayer is a programmer / musician that is mostly famous for his work as an audio programmer for the Amstrad CPC platform. He is the author of several demos as also the Soundtrakker ( 1991 ). This program allowed him to compose some…
Kalle Rechberg , also known as Thriller / Cadjo Clan , was a demomaker in the early days of the Amstrad CPC demoscene, from 1988 to 1992 . I was definitively curious to know more about him since he had good memories to share - and guess…
HxC Manager V3 is now compatible with 464 - 664 machines. Download fixed version here
My girlfriend caught me this year with a complete surprise for my 35th birthday. I felt the need to share… a way to congratulate, once again, the amazing work of Ced provided on Phortem ! ps. yes, the 3” disks are all made of sugar too
Olivier Gout , also know as Overflow / Logon System in the demoscene, is the programmer of the splendid S&KOH demo ( 1991 ) - one of the most technical demo ever released for the CPC. He also produced some other mentionable productions…
Phactory (a development environment targetting Amstrad CPC) and Phortem (demo released last year) complete source-codes are now available for download here and here . Those projects are not maintained anymore, please don’t ask for support.…
Prehistorik 2 (Amstrad Plus version) Elmar Krieger , also known as Elmsoft / EGS in the demoscene, was a famous programmer active on Amstrad CPC platform. He created some worth-watching demos (including Chain Demo ), but he is better known…
HxC Floppy Emulator Manager V3 This third major version is a complete rewrite of the original software. It features a new user interface (thanks Ced !), better support of the HxC Floppy Emulator device (detection, release..) and some…
I decided to cancel the writing of the previously announced Phortem ’s making-of . Feel free to contact me privately if you have any questions regarding the demo. As a side news, I have been interviewed here (french
8234039 Our latest demo, Phortem , is now RELEASED and available for download ! We sincerely hope you will enjoy it. Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this production. A making of will be available later this year… Related links :…
Since December 2011 , we were engaged to work on a new production… and we never stopped to be productive through all this time. Good news to announce today: we just finished our next demo . We are preparing final package.. Stay
While this website was supposed to be a personal website, I progressively felt that my past activities on other platforms needed to be more represented. I always have been a very versatile person regarding development and this was not…
Longshot was quoted in question 9 of the Prodatron’s interview with the sentence A CPC with SymbOS + Symbiface 2 […] is not a CPC anymore . Unfortunately, I had a little misunderstanding and Longshot himself wished to add few words to…
R-Type “Collector Edition” EasterEgg’s remake of R-Type game is probably one of the most noticeable production that has been made lately. Great reviews of the game itself are available from multiple sources . Today I would like to focus on…
Digital Orgasm, a demo coded by Prodatron Jörn , also known under the name of Prodatron / SymbiosiS in the demoscene, is famous for his impressive Amstrad CPC productions. During 1993-94 , at a time where demos were all about scrollers and…
As I wrote last December, I started a new project and I’m still busy on it. Actually, I have never been so motivated for a CPC project. A tool ? A demo ? A game ?… time will answer, hopefully for Xmas since the project is only 40%
This small update fixes a problem with IX / IY register handling. Once again, thanks to Optimus for providing the patch ! SDCC2Pasmo v1.7 (binary + sources) is available in Productions section of this
This update brings compatibility with ASM source-codes generated by SDCC v3.1.0 . Thanks to Optimus for providing the patch ! SDCC2Pasmo v1.6 (binary + sources) is available in Productions section of this
One year ago, I resigned from Push’n’Pop website, mainly because I felt incompatible with high elitism and arrogance found there. As a result, I actually went my own way and created this website. The funny thing is that I quickly enjoyed…
This is a new version of Phactory , a powerful development environment targeting Amstrad CPC (Windows-only). The most noticeable changes: revamped user interface, overall speed improvements thanks to new plugin system, a new source code…
This might not be the best code I ever done, but at least, it does the job pretty well : SDCC2Pasmo takes as input a .asm file generated while compiling C code with SDCC , and outputs an other .asm file that is compatible with Pasmo ,…
There are contexts where simple sinus curves might not be enough to achieve demo-effects. One great alternative is to use “cloud”-based data, allowing creation of bi-dimensional data tables where values smoothly evolve over the variation…
When I was a kid, I typed lots of programs from Amstrad CPC-dedicated magazines. That was actually my introduction to the world of computing. Most of them were poorly designed, some of them were quite inspiring (especially the ones from…
Bryce’s MegaFlash Bryce , the author of the famous MegaFlash - allowing up to 32 ROMs simultaneously on your Amstrad CPC -, just got interviewed ! I was very curious to know more about him and his work, and he kindly agreed to spend some…
I finally decided to release my own IDE, called Phactory . It’s basically a program that allows to create Amstrad CPC productions without using third-party tools : everything is integrated into the same user interface. The whole…
Lately (these three last months actually), I have been quite busy with both HxC Floppy Emulator Manager and QuickCMD . I’m actually quite happy with these two products, I consider them mature enough now so I can eventually switch on…
And here we go again for a new tool release ! This time it’s QuickCMD that got updated to version 2.3 . This adds support for a new command history to be used through UP and DOWN keys (was requested by many of you !). Also, a critical…
Thanks to Gryzor , CanonMan and Terje_Norway from CPCWiki that reported the issue, there is now a new released version of the HxC Floppy Emulator Manager . Only one change : it adds auto-detection of the HxC Floppy Emulator device when…
Version 2.3 of HxC Floppy Emulator Manager just got released here . It’s now faster to launch, spaces in directory names can now be used, and the user interface is now using the default system font with new color scheme (aligned to ParaDOS…
A new version of QuickCMD , a shell-like user interface for disc-based Amstrad CPC computers, is available here . These are the changes: Added support for Bryce’s MegaFlash Renamed RO and RW commands to READONLY and READWRITE Removed CRTC…
Georg Odenthal , better known under the name of Odiesoft , was a very productive programmer back in the early nineties. He produced one major game - Megablasters - as also many innovative visual effects for the time (especially since…
Octoate sent me words about the updated project template he did for Code::Blocks IDE (which is a free and powerful source-code editor). Sample project allows to compile SDCC Tutorial Part 3 (“ Hello World ”). An archive is provided with…
I decided to push back the News section of the site. It was actually useful to hear about software updates and
A new version of QuickCMD , a new shell-like user interface for disc-based Amstrad CPC computers, is available here . These are the changes: Correctly handles missing disc in drive for all commands PUTROM command now checks for BINARY…
New version available here . Changelog: Fixed CRT function duplicates in the case where 2 separate C files were merged later into a same asm file Fixed local function name
This version is a complete rewrite. It’s now a real ROM (executed from there, not copied to RAM like in previous version), does not auto-launch at startup (CTRL+TAB to launch now), features low-level file handling (allowing operations like…
Latest version is available here. It fixes problems with IX/IY registers
Did you know both WinAPE emulator and ParaDOS were made by the same author ? Now you do ! Richard Wilson , also know as Executioner pseudonym on cpcwiki forum , kindly accepted to answer my questions regarding his past work… and future…
Version 2.2 of HxC Floppy Emulator Manager just got released here . It includes a precious fix provided by Jeff to avoid slowdown issues when folder’s content is about 100 files (or more). On my side, I made few enhancements to the user…
For many of us, Longshot from Logon System is a living legend. He has been a pioneer in the Amstrad CPC demoscene, back in the 80s. He was one of the first to introduce advanced usage of CRTC Amstrad CPC ’s graphic chip, and is well known…
As mentioned during the Face Hugger’s interview , the author used a custom sound tracker to compose the musics of its Ultimate Megademo . The disc image of this tracker, mostly written using BASIC programming language (even the sound…
The author of the famous Ultimate Megademo , released in 1992, answered my questions regarding his past work. As a reminder, he is the one who started everything regarding realtime 3D usage in Amstrad CPC demos. He is also one of the first…
I interviewed Hervé Lange , the programmer behind UbiSoft ’s Fer et Flamme and B.A.T games. The article being written in French, I had it published on the Phenix Informatique website — since become Amstrad.eu. The whole interview is now…
Few days ago, the really impressive Batman Forever demo has been publicly released and has surprised many people, including me. I was curious to know more about the programmer behind it, Rhino from Batman Group , as also the demo itself.…
Octoate sent me words about the updated project template he did for Code::Blocks IDE (which is a free and powerful source-code editor). Sample project allows to compile SDCC Tutorial Part 3 (“ Hello World ”). An archive is provided with…
Paul Kooistra , also known as Axelay , is the author of Star Sabre (2007, 2009 for the 128Kb-version), Dead On Time (2010) and Sub Hunter (2011). He is one of the most productive game programmer for the Amstrad CPC these days. I was…
Many thanks to Optimus for reporting me some badly generated code when dealing with AND
I usually don’t give personal news related to my private life. But this one has a direct consequence on this website : my second child is born yesterday ! It does not mean the end of my CPC activities, it simply means my spare time is…
PC-CPC integrated in Phactory PC-CPC is an Amstrad CPC emulator being developed by Demoniak . While not being 100% accurate with Amstrad CPC emulation these days, it actually replays decently Pheelone and Phreaks demos. Internally, this…
Many thanks to Metr from CPCWiki forum that just uploaded a proper version of my 2008’s Phat demo on YouTube ! Its corresponding demo description also got
Metr from CPCWiki forum seems to be in pretty good shape these days : he just uploaded another Youtube video , this time dealing with the Pheelone’s unreleased preview ! The corresponding description page has also been updated with new…
Octoate sent me words about his template-project for Code::Blocks IDE (which is a free and powerful source-code editor). Sample project allows to compile SDCC Tutorial Part 3 (“ Hello World ”). An archive is provided with step-by-step…
I just updated the article explaining the algorythm behind the Phreaks demo’s animation system. Added topics are anti-alias and reverse-mode support, both are covered at the end of the article (before the conclusion). Click here to read…
I went further with my own development editor lately. First, I switched the build pipeline from PhrozenC to SDCC /SDCC2Pasmo. As a consequence, I can now use a full-featured ANSI C compiler using Maxam-style syntax for inlined assembly…
My personal conclusion thanks to my own experience with z88dk and SDCC was that SDCC produced much better code than z88dk. Today I got confirmation from one of the z88dk authors here : “ sdcc currently generates code which in general is…
Too many of you asked for implementation details of Phreaks demo. So I wrote an article describing the different steps of creation I had to get the best data format ever done ( to this day! ) on Amstrad CPC for storing a full-screen,…
Once again - a new release. From here this release is a stable version and recommended for everyone. Changelog : fixed other minor issues with IX/IY registers handling, added better support for #< and #> SDCC’s operations, and finally,…
This version includes many important bug-fixes, thanks to your awesome feedback (hello Optimus ! :-). IX/IY registers should now be correctly handled, and utility functions such as _multiply or _abs are now automatically inserted at end of…
I made available as a download link the PhrozenC’s manual I wrote. It’s about 36 pages to explain how to use the compiler and its dedicated small library for the Amstrad CPC. As a reminder, PhrozenC is a K&R C compiler running on Amstrad…
This is a custom tool to be used to convert .asm files generated by SDCC C compiler to .asm files compatible with Pasmo . Pasmo is a Z80 assembler with Maxam-style syntax. This is version 1.0, so please be indulgent with potential issues…
Today I decided to start writing a series of 4 tutorials dealing with C programming for the Amstrad CPC using SDCC compiler. These articles are : introducing C usage for the Amstrad CPC, compiling a C program with SDCC, using Maxam syntax…
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The day of new www.norecess.net announcement, this site has been advertised to 20 personal contacts (related to CPC) and few websites : CPCRulez (french), PhenixInformatique (french) and CPCWiki (english). For the fun, I just checked the…
While making Phreaks demo, I received some graphics from Ced that unfortunately did not fit well with the
I just finished adding more informations for each productions
Looks like people enjoyed Pheelone logo after all ! :) Demo can be watched here (YouTube
Before making the Pheelone demo, just after the release of Phat 2, I created a small framework all written in assembly and wrote a plasma effect for it. It was my first collaboration ever with Ced for the graphics
I created today this new website to describe my past, current, and future work dedicated to the Amstrad CPC . Hope you will enjoy it ! Do not hesitate to regularly visit this site to gather new updates ! In its current state, I completed…
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