CPCBasicApps
CPCBasic Apps Collection (Games)
CPCBasicApps is a collection of CPC BASIC apps. They can be run on a Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128, in an emulator or with CPCBasic or CPCBasicTS.
Links: Source code, HTML Readme,
Some Games Highlights
3dfour - 3D-Four In A Row (TODO)
(c) Dudley Brooke, 1987
3heaps - 3 Heaps (3 Haufen)
(c) Jens Uwe Timm, 1985
3times1 - 3 Times 1 (3 mal 1)
(c) Jens Uwe Timm, 1985
artwar - Art War
(c) Sakis Kaffesakis, 2021
assess - Assessment (Idiotentest)
(c) Marco Vieth, 198x
atombu - Atombunker
(c) Marco Vieth, 1986
Atombunker Editor
(c) Marco Vieth, 1986
Additional files:
- atombu0.dat - Map file
- atombu1.dat
- atombu2.dat
ballcra - Ball Cracker
(c)
balloon - Balloon
(c)
basgame2 - BASIC Game 2
(c) Roald (Mr.Lou) Strauss
Unfinished BASIC game 2.
bigprice - Big Price (Der Grosse Preis)
(c)
budrumi - Budrumi
(c) Sakis Kaffesakis, 2021
canyons - Canyons of Cannons
(c) Ingo Pax, 1985
cardrive - Car Drive (Autofahren)
(c)
cards - Card Games
(c)
Some card games: Blackjack (“17 und 4”) and Memory.
castle - Castle Crystal
(c) Frak Eilts
catch - Catch
(c) PC Amstrad International, 1990
cityland - Citylander
(c) Jujstronic Software, 1985
The tune Fuer Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven can also be played separately.
clearpa - Clear Path
(c) Peter Goode, 1984
A lander clone from The Amstrad Program Book by Peter Goode, improved by Im Wald.
clumsy - Clumsy Control
(c) ?
connect4 - Connect 4 (Tower: 4 Gewinnt)
(c) O. Zabel
copter - Copter Patrol
(c) Christian Moeller, 1985
canabalt - CPCanabalt
(c) Logiker, 2019
From the BASIC 10-Liner Contest 2019.
crib - Crib (Cribbage v1)
(c)
cribbage - Cribbage (v2)
(c) Nick Herrick, 1986
dambust - Dambusters
(c) Paul Stanley, 1984
dihunt - Diamond Hunt
(c) Shaun Walton, 1992
duel - Duel
(c) Bernhard Morell
dungeons - Dungeons (8 Bit Dungeons)
(c) JNL, 2019
Emperor (Kaiser)
(c)
To select an action during the game, use joystick or numpad numbers.
engelber - Engelbert
(c) John Kennedy, 1984
garfunkl - Garfunkel
(c) Roland Bendig, 1987
goldrush - Goldrush (Goldrausch)
(c) Jörg Walkowiak, 1984
hopper - Hopper (Hüpfer)
(c) Marco Vieth, 1986
(c) Marco Vieth, 1986
inka - Inka Sogra
(c) F. Meurer
jackpot - Jack-Pot
(c) Jean-François SEHAN, 1985
joker - Black Joker (Der Schwarze Joker)
(c) Marco Vieth
kalaha - Kalaha
(c) Eugen Schuelter
klondike - Klondike
(c)
lander - Lander
(c) Georg Huonker, 1985
lenin - Lenin (Battle of Leningrad)
(c) Sakis Kaffesakis, 2022
maze - Maze
(c) Joerg Heise
mchess - Mini Chess
(c) Matthias Uphoff, 1986
Additional file with learned positions: mchess.dat. German Documentation can be found at Software Experiment 6.
painty - Painty
(c) ?
patience - Patience: The Card Game
(c) Clive Blackmore
points - Points
(c)
preside - President (Praesident)
(c)
roguedes - Rogue Descender
(c) Graham Briggs
BASIC 10-liner.
scolor - Shielding Color
(c) Antonio “acorpascuenca” Corpas Cuenca, 2019
From the BASIC 10-Liner Contest 2019.
shot - Shot Game (Textual)
smily - Smily
(c) Medi-Software, 1985
Pac Man Clone
solitair - Solitair
(c) Uwe Ganter, 1985
solita2 - Solitair 2
(c) Philip Jimenez, 1984
spacera - Space Race
(c) Peter Pekarek, 1986
spaceba - Space Base
(c) Robin Nixon, 1986
- You are the captain of Earth’s first space base in the asteroid belt.
- Your station acts as a base for mining ships to re-fuel and their crews to rest.
- However, hostile alien craft from the Andromeda galaxy are also mining the belt and will stop at nothing to prevent any competition from Earth.
- Your task is to defend the base from attack.
- Use Z and X to control your lazer and press ENTER to fire.
spacewar - Space War
(c) Daniel Flower
Minimalistic fun!
stardodg - Stardodger
(c) Stewart C. Russell
Minimalistic fun! You really need the SPACE key only.
Check 2D Star Dodge flies again! on Stewart C. Russell’s blog.
states - States of the Earth
(c) Marco Vieth, 1988
Additional files:
- statesfx - States of the Earth (Data)
sultan - Sultan’s Maze
(c) Gem Software, 1984
On a real CPC, the game is rather slow, so I never played it. With CPCBasic it has a good speed now.
sunburst -Sunburst Contamination
(c)
swamp - Swamp
(c) David Muir
- Your job is to destroy the eggs of giant frogs in the swamp. You move using cursor keys or joystick. You destroy the spawn by standing on it.
- You have to avoid the two frogs. If they catch you then you will lose one of your five lives.
- You score 10 for each egg destroyed. You gain a bonus of 100 and 1 extra life for each board of 72 eggs you destroy, after which you are given a new screen.
tanks - Tanks Alot
(c) Ross “Out Bush” Simpson, 2019
From the BASIC 10-Liner Contest 2019.
tarot - Tarot Reader
(c)
titan - Titan
(c) MS-Software, 1985
tower - Tower of Hanoi (Türme von Hanoi; Pagoden von Peking)
(c)
yahtzee -Yahtzee (Kniffel)
(c) J. E. Muschik, 1985
yahtzee2 - Yahtzee 2 (Kniffel)
(c) Veb Mikroelektronik Muehlhausen
This version is based on Yahtzee 1 and uses MODE 1 and BASIC 1.1
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