Emulators: Amstrad CPC

Information

Pros

  • Good emulation

Cons

  • Only a single game!

Links

PACO

PACO is an Amstrad CPC emulator, written in Spanish. Actually, the file is named AbadiaAdvance.gba, and is really just the emulator with the game La Abadia del Crimen built into it. So, you don't have any options to play anything else. I assume the author liked only that game, but I don't speak Spanish so I can't verify. Can someone find a way to hack into this and add other roms? Pflats provided the following rough translation of the readme:

"This is an emulator of the Armstrad CPC 6128 version of the game La Abdia del Crimen (lit: The Abbey of the Crime), one of the best 8-bit games in history. Graphics by Juan Delcán and programmed by Paco Menedez, former member of the group "Made in Spain Soft", who recently passed on.

The emulator has been programmed in assembly (ARM) and optimized to be executed on the Game Boy Advance video game console, or an emulator of said console."

Note: the readme literally says that Paco Menendez "recently dissapeared", but the first result for his name on Google is a fanpage reporting his death; mostly likely a mistake on my part because I'm not super knowledgeable in Spanish idioms. Apparantly, La Abadia del Crimen is his most popular game, hence the GBA version of the game named PACO, in memorium.

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