Author Archives: anyweb

Disassembling my old code part 10 – Code review

Posted on 26th July 2024 by anyweb

Introduction This is part 10 of a blog series I’m doing to catalog and revitalize one of the programs I wrote way back in 1988 on the Amstrad CPC 6128, which I called Disced. Back then when I had to … Continue reading →

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Vacation coming soon, back to Disced

Posted on 19th June 2024 by anyweb

Introduction I’ve been busy working and living my life so much so that this blog has taken a toll in terms of content lately, but fear not, I’m totally aware of this and plan on fixing it come July 2024. … Continue reading →

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Video: First looks at the New Dandanator Elite + from Rancanuo team

Posted on 13th May 2023 by anyweb

Introduction I reviewed the original Dandanator Elite + a few years ago here But time has moved on and Rancanuo team have developed a cool new Dandanator Elite + with new cartridges that look and feel straight from Amstrad CPC. … Continue reading →

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Video: 2 CPC 6128’s born hours apart

Posted on 23rd April 2023 by anyweb

Introduction I blogged about this yesterday and you can read all about it here. Part of my research into this involved me chatting with Juan and asking him to put together a video explaining and showing more about the 2 … Continue reading →

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A great story about twin CPC 6128’s most likely manufactured in the same factory hours apart

Posted on 22nd April 2023 by anyweb

Introduction I’m a member of many Facebook groups dedicated to Amstrad computers, and in one of those groups called Amigos y Usuarios de Amstrad which I think means friends and users of Amstrad in Spanish, I spotted a post by a … Continue reading →

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Video: First looks at the Alcon 2020 game on Amstrad CPC

Posted on 23rd March 2023 by anyweb

Introduction Here’s my ‘straight out of the box’ review of a hardware scrolling and awesome audio solution on an Amstrad CPC via a cartridge and associated adaptor (for Amstrad CPC). All the info is in the CPCWiki topics: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cpc-hardware/play2cpc-plus2cpc-ii-extra-sound-channels-and-rewritable-cartridges/ https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/games/alcon-2020-order-second-batch/msg216231/?topicseen#msg216231 … Continue reading →

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Video: Ghosts n Goblins game via the RGB2HDMI on Amstrad CPC 464

Posted on 23rd March 2023 by anyweb

Introduction This video came via a comment on amstrad-noob.com about scrolling in the Ghosts n Goblins game when using the RGB2HDMI adaptor. So take a look and tell me what you think

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Disassembling my old code part 9 – Assembling the code

Posted on 16th October 2022 by anyweb

Introduction This is part 9 of a blog series I’m doing to catalog some of the programs I wrote back in 1988 on the Amstrad CPC 6128, starting with a disc sector editor I wrote called Disced. I’m doing this … Continue reading →

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Video: Resetting a Dandanator after it was loaded with a 512kb game

Posted on 23rd August 2022 by anyweb

Introduction This video is a direct result of a comment I got where a user (Mark) had problems resetting his Dandanator Mini after it was loaded with the Sword of Ianna. That game uses up the entire 512kb ROM and … Continue reading →

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Video: First looks at the DES (Dandanator Entertainment System) for Amstrad CPC

Posted on 14th July 2022 by anyweb

Introduction I’ve been using Dandanators for a few years now and I love them, their simplicity makes loading games very easy. I heard about a competing product called DES which uses the same hardware and software to work with the … Continue reading →

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