Tag: Amstrad CPC
In a nostalgic nod to the golden era of French gaming, Laurent Benes’ classic adventure “Le mystère de Kikekankoi,” originally published by Loriciels in 1983-85 for the Oric and Amstrad CPC computers, has found a new home on the Apple II. The port, skillfully crafted by renowned retro Apple programmers Antoine Vignau & Olivier Zardini, brings another French mystery adventure to the Apple II world. Driven on by a passion to exponentially expand the library of captivating French games on…
A.P.P.L.E. is pleased to announce the immediately of Jack and the Beanstalk for the Apple II. Originally written for the Amstrad CPC in September 1984 by Steve W. Lucas and published in Amstrad Computer User in January 1985 (No. 3), the game has been ported to the Apple II by Bill Martens. This game was originally the runner up in the Amstrad Computer User magazine’s monthly software contest and is actually quite a challenge for a BASIC text adventure. Written…
Tom Harte has released an updated version of his Clock Signal multi-platform emulator for Mac OS X. The 19 December update includes a new section of code specifically allowing Clock Signal to emulate the Commodore Amiga. As Tom specifies in his release notes for the update, this release is a “low-Quality” emulator of the Commodore Amiga and he plans on updating it again soon with some better code. Currently the Clock Signal Emulator has a number of emulators including the…