[AMSTRAD CPC] R-Type 128K Remake – Exclusive Preview!

Amstrad CPC – remake of R-Type (for 128k machines) EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW VIDEO!!

Hey guys I’m very excited to bring you a sneak peek preview video of the work done so far on the remake of the Amstrad port of R-Type!

(** PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON AN EMULATOR, THINGS LOOK AND MOVE A LOT NICER ON A REAL AMSTRAD! **)

A long time ago, the Amstrad received the port of the legendary coin-op R-Type, it was OK but it was a rush job and was just completely ported from the (excellent) Speccy version. Very little enhancements were made, apart from workarounds to get it displaying correctly on the CPC, this resulted in further overheads and thus ended up being slower and far less impressive than the Spectrum original. The Easter Egg team began work on improving the game back in December 2009, now a year later you get to see their progress! What started out as just improving the graphics, sound effects and music, turned into a massive rewrite of the game improving and enhancing many aspects and introducing even more new stuff. The original Amstrad programmer Keith Goodyer even turned up on the CPC Wiki forums to assist and give his side of the story! Then Bob Pape the Spectrum version programmer came forward with some of his original code! That then became the base for this remake…

This is still the unfinished preview version bare in mind, but already we have an amazing improvement and a port all Amstrad fans can be proud of…

Enjoy!

Full discussion right from the beginning of this project on the CPC Wiki forums here – http://cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php/top…

(re)Programmed by – Easter Egg team

Code : Fano
Graphics : TotO
Sound effects & Music : iXien