AMSTRAD SAKIS

 GIFT FINDING QUIZ!   GREEK VIDEO:

  Here you can see the inteview of AMSTRAD SAKIS to Retro Game Couple Youtube channel (there are also English subtitles)

 ARABIC NUMBERS ON AMSTRAD

 ART ON AMSTRAD! (digitized images)

ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΟ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙΣΤΗ ΒΑΣΙΛΗ ΚΑΡΡΑ (1953-2023) ΣΕ AMSTRAD CPC  TRIBUTE TO GREAT GREEK SINGER VASSILIS KARRAS (1953-2023) ON AMSTRAD CPC    Programming and digitized images by Amstrad Sakis  Music by ManosSG.  ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙΑ/SONGS:  1)ΑΣΤΗ ΝΑ ΛΕΕΙ  2) ΤΟ ΔΗΛΗΤΗΡΙΟ 3) ΑΠΟΡΩ ΑΝ ΑΙΣΘΑΝΕΣΑΙ ΤΥΨΕΙΣ  Οι εικόνες είναι από εξώφυλλα δίσκων του Βασίλη Καρρά.   Βασίλη σε ευχαριστούμε για όλα! Download from: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hZcn2TQ0GRmKUW4oY4IGR-eiDlEpcan8  (filename: Karras) RUN"KARRAS.BAS" Digitized images:                     

 ART IN BASIC! Here you will find some of the pictures that we made using only BASIC 1.1 for our games.  All pictures are made using PLOT/DRAW/FILL commands (and very few characters using CHR$). Please have in mind that, in BASIC, in order to draw a simple line, you have to enter the coordinates of the first point and then of the second point in the screen. Amstrad screen is 600x400, that means 600 pixels horizontally and 400 pixels vertically. So, e.g., by using the commands: MOVE 100,200:DRAW 500,200 we draw a line that connects these 2 points (100,200 and 500,200). That's how the pictures are made in BASIC. Then, all these lines together can create a nice picture. Pls also note that drawing curves in BASIC is usually slow and also circles are drawn slowly in Amstrad BASIC. In most curves (not for circles) we tried to make many short diagonal lines that are seen finally as a curve, as this is much faster. An example of this is our picture of AMSTRADAIR aircraft, where the cu...

 OTHER INTERESTING VIDEOS AND DEMOS In this post, we will mention some interesting videos that we have made, from our youtube channel. At the bottom, you can find our two little demos. Our youtube channel was initially created just to have a place to upload the videos of our games. It is not a channel that we review games etc generally, but sometimes, for games that we love a lot, or for programs that are rare and no video has been made by anyone else, we may upload. This post will be always updated when we upload a new video. Videos:  YOUR HEALTH EXPERT SYSTEM - AMSTRAD 1985 BY HISOFT  COPYRIGHT BY ROSS ANDERSON The source code - list is shown at the end of the video.     I also loved this point: Statistics Program for Amstrad in Greek (1993). By Fotis Salmas (it is mentioned as a program from University of Piraeus - Department of Economics). The code is shown at the end of the video.     PING PONG AMSTRAD CPC GAME by KONAMI (1985). Level 5 (most diff...

  This is a small article in Greek that I have written and posted some years ago in some Greek forums . It includes some useful info for someone that suddenly discovers Amstrad again and has some inquiries regarding how to do some things (emulators, Gotek, scart etc). I copy it here, in case it can be useful to someone. Αυτό είναι ένα μικρό άρθρο στα ελληνικά που είχα γράψει πριν μερικά χρόνια. Περιλαμβάνει μερικές χρήσιμες πληροφορίες για κάποιον που ανακαλύπτει ξαφνικά ξανά τον Amstrad και έχει κάποιες ερωτήσεις σχετικά με το πώς να κάνει κάποια πράγματα (emulators, Gotek, scart κ.λπ.). Το αντιγράφω και εδώ, ίσως φανεί χρήσιμο σε κάποιον.   <<Μια και πολύς κόσμος μπαίνει, ψάχνει, και ρωτάει πώς να μπορέσει να φτιάξει τον Amstrad του, ή να αγοράσει, σκέφτηκα να γράψω ένα μικρό κείμενο με οδηγίες, κάπως συγκεντρωμένες, για να μην χάνεται ο χρόνος σε ερωτήσεις γύρω γύρω. Εννοείται ότι αν βρείτε κάτι λάθος με διορθώνεται, είμαι κ εγώ ένας από αυτούς που ρώταγαν σε φόρ...

 TUTORIAL FOR BASIC IN GREEK!  I made a small tutorial for BASIC in GREEK, you can find it here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hZcn2TQ0GRmKUW4oY4IGR-eiDlEpcan8

  AMSTRAD SAKIS Physical edition!   We finally managed to fix our old hardware and some disks and we have now a limited and amateur physical edition! All disks are formatted with multimark and have an <error> file in each side (in order to isolate the bad sectors), but this only affects the capacity of the disk which is a bit smaller now. All games written in each disk were tested and all work normally.  All our little games are included in the disk (original Amstrad 3" disk) except <<AMSΤABOO>> and the text adventure games <BUDRUMI!>,  <ART WAR>,  <BATTLE OF LENINGRAD> and <RODOLFO SKYLARRIENTE 1 and 2>. So, we bought some paper boxes, some stickers for the box and the disks, printed an A4 2 side color manual, and there is a also a sticker as a present.   The edition is very limited, only 15 disks! If anyone is interested in this physical edition of AMSTRAD SAKIS games, pls contact via e-mail. Thank you!

RETRO-LOADSHEET ON AMSTRAD CPC! Retro-loadsheet is a program (not a game) made for fun on Locomotive basic 1.0 for Amstrad CPC, which is trying to calculate weight and balance data of an aircraft.  Retro-loadsheet was reviewed on 8 BIT MAGAZINE issue 8. Just remember that you need to restart the emulator (close it and open it again) before and after you run this program. That means that if you try to run this program after having played another game, it will probably could not be loaded, or if your try after running this program to load another game, it will probably not be loaded, and you will see an error message <memory full>.  As for the code to log in, please use  USERNAME: <OPS> and for PASSWORD: <4>. More info, download, manual, etc at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hZcn2TQ0GRmKUW4oY4IGR-eiDlEpcan8    or  https://cpcrulez.fr/applications_util-retro-loadsheet.htm