★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ BACKGAMMON (CP SOFTWARE) (c) CP SOFTWARE/DEEP THOUGHT SOFTWARE ★

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Less well known than chess or draughts, backgammon is addictive and compelling. In some ways like a sophisticated Ludo, your task is to pilot your counters back round the board to their base, at the same time knocking and blocking your opponent. On-screen dice indicate the moves you can make, either one piece for the total, or any combination for individual men. Catch an opponent's piece undefended and you can banish it from the board. He can only resume his master plan when he succeeds in releasing it. Great fun.

Written principally in BASIC with some machine code, this offering from CP features a black background, so no eye strain, redeemable colours, and an attractive representation of the board, though movement is rather flickery and the dice are by no means state-of-the-art graphics. Illegal moves are simply not accepted, as opposed to the message the inlay leads you to expect. Otherwise the instructions are good, though a little terse.

Settling down to a good game revealed two fatal flaws. In my first game, when inputting a coordinate, I accidentally pressed ESC instead of a number. The program crashed a move later and the computer reset. I loaded again, and after a few minutes play, the game ground to a halt with a BASIC “improper argument” message, and the program disappeared, it being a protected file. Very sad; this could have been a useful acquisition, but with the bugs present, it cannot be recommended.

D.M., HCW


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BACKGAMMON (CP SOFTWARE)
(c) CP SOFTWARE , DEEP THOUGHT SOFTWARE

Developeur: PI Software
Author(s): ???
Traduction française: Gilles Probst / Logi'Stick

★ PRICE: £8.95 (U.K.)

★ YEAR: 1986
★ LANGUAGES:
★ GENRE: INGAME MODE 1 , BOARD , BACKGAMMON , TAPE
★ LiCENCE: COMMERCIALE
★ RERELEASE: ACE SOFTWARE (SPAIN)

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Covers/Packages:
» Backgammon    (Release  DISC-ACE  SOFTWARE)    SPANISHDATE: 2015-06-22
DL: 97
TYPE: image
SiZE: 200Ko
NOTE: w1600*h1120

» Backgammon    (Release  TAPE-ACE  SOFTWARE)    SPANISHDATE: 2016-09-02
DL: 161
TYPE: image
SiZE: 350Ko
NOTE: SCAN by Abraxas ; w2337*h1667

» Backgammon    (Release  TAPE-CP  SOFTWARE)    ENGLISHDATE: 2019-06-27
DL: 110
TYPE: image
SiZE: 156Ko
NOTE: Scan by Abraxas ; w1202*h1179

Dumps disks:
» Backgammon    (ACE  SOFTWARE)    SPANISHDATE: 2023-02-02
DL: 85
TYPE: ZIP
SiZE: 14Ko
NOTE: 40 Cyls
.HFE: Χ

» Backgammon    ENGLISHDATE: 2021-01-31
DL: 227
TYPE: ZIP
SiZE: 13Ko
NOTE: 40 Cyls
.HFE: Χ

Dumps cassettes (version commerciale):
» Backgammon    (Release  ACE  SOFTWARE)    SPANISHDATE: 2017-04-30
DL: 187
TYPE: ZIP
SiZE: 14Ko
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» Backgammon    (Release  CP  SOFTWARE-1985)    ENGLISHDATE: 2017-12-17
DL: 308
TYPE: ZIP
SiZE: 12Ko
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Media/Support:
» Backgammon    (Release  TAPE-CP  SOFTWARE)    ENGLISHDATE: 2017-12-19
DL: 149
TYPE: image
SiZE: 138Ko
NOTE: Scan by Abraxas ; w1217*h773

Notices d'utilisation:
» Backgammon    (Release  TAPE-CP  SOFTWARE)    ENGLISHDATE: 2019-01-17
DL: 162
TYPE: PDF
SiZE: 597Ko
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» Backgammon    ENGLISHDATE: 2021-01-01
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TYPE: text
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L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent  du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko.