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Retro-style cassette cover artwork for a Knight’s Tour program on the Amstrad CPC, showing a numbered chessboard, a knight piece, and a glowing path representing the solution across all 64 squares.

Knights Tour – My First Entry into the 2026 BASIC10 Competition

A look at my first entry into the 2026 BASIC10 Liner Competition for the Amstrad CPC: a Knight’s Tour solver written in just 8 lines of Locomotive BASIC. Using Warnsdorff’s heuristic, the program solves a centuries-old chess puzzle in real time while drawing the board, rendering a knight graphic, and displaying each move on screen.

Retro cassette cover artwork for “Pavement Panic” on the Amstrad CPC, showing a pixel character running along a road while surrounded by colourful ghost enemies, styled like a vintage 1980s arcade game.

Pavement Panic – My Second Entry into the 2026 BASIC10 Competition

My second entry into the 2026 BASIC10 Liner Competition is Pavement Panic, a fast-paced ghost-dodging survival game for the Amstrad CPC written in just 10 lines of BASIC. Inspired by simple road-crossing games, it starts gently, then quickly turns chaotic as the ghosts speed up and survival time becomes your score.

Retro cassette cover artwork for “Volt Maze” on the Amstrad CPC, featuring a glowing orange electrified maze, a small green player character, and a red robotic hunter, styled like a classic 1980s home computer game.

Voltmaze – My Third Entry into the 2026 BASIC10 Competition

Voltmaze is my third entry into the 2026 BASIC10 Liner Competition… a procedurally generated maze game for the Amstrad CPC written in just 10 lines of BASIC. Inspired by classic 8-bit design and powered by a stack-driven depth-first search algorithm, it’s a small game with surprisingly sharp teeth… electrified walls, flickering hazards, roaming hunters, and a new maze every level.

Cover of the Amstrad CPC Calendar 2026 featuring pixel art of Toki the ape, enemies, and retro fantasy elements.

Amstrad CPC Themed 2026 Calendar

Forget the 80s loading screens, the 2026 CPC calendar celebrates new releases from the modern Amstrad scene. Download it free and prove the CPC is still leading the 8-bit pack.

Amstrad CPC Calendar 2026 cover: vibrant pixel art scene from “Toki,” showing a cartoon ape, dragon, and colourful retro elements. Includes project title and QR codes in the corners.

Calendar Compiler

Create gorgeous, personalised printable calendars with CalendarCompiler! This open-source Python tool lets you mix your own artwork, public holidays, and special events (like “International Day Of…” and birthdays) in a fully customisable layout. Free to use and easy to configure, just update a settings file and hit run. Grab the latest version or contribute at: https://github.com/muckypaws/CalendarCompiler

FlySpy Loading Screen - Amstrad CPC

Let’s Hack… Fly Spy!

In the early days of Hacking, it was rare a protection system would be as memorable as the one created by Richard Aplin, Author of Fly Spy published by Mastertronic. Havking was always a trade of ideas and new techniques. In this post I'll cover off how to transfer FlySpy to disk that you can follow along.

Amstrad and ZX Spectrum DSK Tool

I found myself needing a command line tool to investigate and extract files from DSK Image files used by Emulators, after archiving my own 1980's hack disks. I wrote my own and made it opensource for you to use, amend or even improve on if it helps your projects.