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Vox populi,vox dei, so don't hesitate to go vote on Push'n'Pop about what you consider the best 2013 Amstrad CPC productions.

Just after a few days that Death Sword was available, and you can already find tests of this new Amstrad CPC game on Youtube :

• test for the frogs of Death Sword on youtube
• test in english of Death Sword on youtube (see below)

An update of Totems by ESP Soft is out.

It's a columns like game for 1 or 2 players (coop or vs).

You can play Totems online with JavaCPC.

One year later, Elite dangerous exists in alpha version, you can also pay to be able to play beta versions when they will be available.

More informations on the Elite Dangerous officiel web site.

The library CPCRSLIB for the SDCC compiler has been updated :

horizontal scroll sample (011 - Small Sprite Demo (Tile Map) - SCROLL) included. Some tilemap functions updated with minor changes improving the tile drawing speed.

NoRecess did interview Elmar Krieger, the author of Amstrad CPC demos and programs (such as Prehistorik).

A new version of the desktop JavaCPC is available. It's an Amtsrad CPC(+) emulator written in Java by Markus Hohmann (DevilMarkus).

Well it's all about the poster's film which really looks like the Saboteur loading screen, I will let you judge.

Happy new year 2014, I hope you will get what you wish for (for you and all those you love).

As a Christmas gift, Death Sword is an update of the Barbarian game for Amstrad CPC(+) 128 Kb by Devilmarkus (code), ToTO (Backgrounds Update), MacDeath (additional graphics) and CNGSoft (compression).

It's a bit late to wish your a merry Christmas, I hope so that you received what you were asking for.

HxC Floppy Drive Emulator v2.0.18.4 is available on Sourceforge (source included of course).

It's an utility to create images to be used by the SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator, to replace the good old 3 inch disks drives of our Amstrad CPC.

After a remake of Barbarian and Crazy Cars, F.L. is currently writing a remake of Outrun (beta)

F.L. did program it with in basic (QB64), which is a windows compiler. You can get out your gwbasic or quick basic programs and still run them with QB64, or use the new features bringed by QB64 (like networking).

Jean Philippe Biscay is the original developper of Billy La Banlieue (1986) and Billy 2 (1987), both of them published by Loriciels.

He is programming with his son a new sequel : Billy Run Again for Android, IPhone, Web, Windows, Mac and Linux.

You can subscribe on his web site to know of any advancement.

Double Dragon is already available in the Nintendo 3DS Eshop (virtual console, black and white game).