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|{{Infobox Game
|Image = [[Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Box) - (Front).jpg|center|300px|Box Front]]
|Company = [[Ubi Soft]]
|Developer = Unknown
|Publisher = [[Ubi Soft]]
|Musician = Unknown
|Release = [[:Category:Games 1990|1990]]
|Platform = [[Amstrad CPC|CPC]]
|Genre = Adventure
|GameModes = Unknown
|Controls = {{Keyboard}}
|Media = {{Disk}}
|Language = {{EN}} {{FR}}
|Info = Unknown
}}
|}
Unofficial adaptation from a well know George Andrew Romero film : Dawn of the Dead (known as simply "Zombie" in French/France).

Zombi on CPC is also the very first commercial product from UBIsoft (now one of the biggest name in video Games industry).

== Synopsis ==

<B>The nightmare has just begun.</B><BR>
For mysterious reasons, dead people came back to life to feed themselves on the flesh of human being. The earth is inhabited by millions of Zombies, who are spreading terror, and by gangs of hooligans, who are ready to do anything to survive.<BR>
Yet four people didn't lose hope and decided to run away for new horizons.<BR>
<B>When there is no room left in Hell....<BR>
... dead people come back to Earth.<BR></B>

== Release Date ==

This game was originally released in France in 1986, as listed in the links below. It was re-released in 1990, including on other platforms such as the Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. This release is the re-release, as the screenshots (according to the box) are of the Atari ST version which did not exist in 1986.

== trivia ==

The character's portraits represent the faces of the UbiSoft team from the era. They were re-used in Hurlement, a spinoff using almost the same game engine but Werewolf themed.

UBISoft will be then well known for their graphical adventure and RPG games in Mode1 on the Amstrad CPC, producing awesomness such As Iron Lord, Le Maitre des Ames, Fer & Flammes and so on.

== Disc ==

<gallery caption="Box">

Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Box) - (Front).jpg |side 1
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Box) - (Rear).jpg ‎|side 2

</gallery>

== Disc ==

<gallery caption="Zombi">

Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Disk) - (Front).jpg |side 1
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Disk) - (Rear).jpg ‎|side 2

</gallery>

== Manual ==

<gallery caption="Zombi">

Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Front Cover).jpg |Front Cover
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 1).jpg |Page 1
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 2).jpg |Page 2
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 3).jpg |Page 3
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 4).jpg |Page 4
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 5).jpg |Page 5
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 6).jpg |Page 6
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 7).jpg |Page 7
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 8).jpg |Page 8
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 9).jpg |Page 9
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 10).jpg |Page 10
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Page 11).jpg |Page 11
Image:Zombi (Disk) (Ubi Soft) (1990) (Manual) - (Back Cover).jpg |Back Cover
</gallery>

== Links ==

* {{CPCPower|1239}}
* [http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/filedetail.php?recid=1044 The Amstrad CPC Games Resource]
* [http://www.cpcgamereviews.com/z/index.html#zombi www.cpcgamereviews.com]

[[Category:Games]]
[[Category:Games 1990]]
[[Category:Game Manual]]

Contiki

2011-08-11T16:39:48Z

MiguelSky: /* Weblinks */

== What is Contiki? ==

(Text copied from the official Contiki website.)

[[Image:contikic64.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Contiki running on the Commodore 64]]

The Contiki operating system is a highly portable, minimalistic operating system for a variety of constrained systems ranging from modern 8-bit microcontrollers for embedded systems to old 8-bit homecomputers. Contiki provides a simple event driven kernel with optional preemptive multithreading, interprocess communication using message passing signals, a dynamic process structure and support for loading and unloading programs, native TCP/IP support using the uIP TCP/IP stack, and a graphical subsystem with either direct graphic support for directly connected terminals or networked virtual display with VNC or Telnet.

Contiki was designed with very low hardware requirements. And can run on a unexpanded Commodore 64.
The portability is ensured by the core being written entirely in ANSI [[C]].

== Efforts in porting Contiki to Amstrad CPC ==

[[Image:contikicpc.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Contiki running on the Amstrad CPC]]

Previously there have been attempts to port Contiki to the CPC. The most successful port was done by [[Kevin Thacker]].

This was accomplished by:
1. Modifying the linker so that it could generate binary files with relocation data
2. Modifying the optimiser rules to reduce the program size.
3. Modifying the source so it produced smaller and better code for the [[SDCC]] compiler to work with.

The nature of Contiki (written almost entirely in C) and the poor Z80 optimisation by the SDCC compiler makes Contiki slow compared to other operating systems.
The desktop routines in the Amstrad port relies on the slow [[firmware]] routines because it was quicker to make the port this way.

The Amstrad port runs in 64k. It doesn't make use of any extra RAM, this choice was taken so that a quick port could be done to proove it was possible.

A key feature of Contiki is its ability to access networks.

Two reasons prevented this in the Amstrad port:
1. The compiled binaries for the webserver and other network programs were large, meaning that at runtime, both the binaries and contiki OS code could not fit into the 64K ram at the same time
2. The networking hardware was not at a sufficiently developed stage.

The original plan was to implement CPC Booster support in Contiki.
The CPC would be connected to the PC via a serial cable.
On the PC would be Linux running Slip or PPP.
The PC would be connected to the internet through a Broadband connection, with port 8080 opened for incomming connections.

The linux machine would effectively become a gateway and would pass information to/from the CPC through the serial connection.

However, because the Contiki programs could not all fit into ram, this plan was shelved.

The Amstrad version is based on Contiki v1.0.

== Other Operating Systems for the CPC ==

* [[CP/M]]

* [[FutureOS]]

* [[SymbOS]]

== Weblinks ==

* [http://www.sics.se/contiki/about-contiki.html Official site of Contiki]
* [http://www.cpctech.org.uk/download/contiki12.zip Contiki source code for CPC version]

[[Category:Operating System]][[Category:CPC GUI]]

2010-01-15T09:22:59Z

MiguelSky:

Creador de Aventuras. Aventuras Nova (C.A.A.N.) was a Spanish text adventure maker.

It was created in 1990 by Héctor Alarcón Martínez and it is made in BASIC.

== Manual ==

* [[Media:CAAN_Manual.pdf|CAAN Manual (spanish)]] (pdf)

[[Category:Applications]] [[Category:Manual]]

== Download ==

* [[Media:Caan.zip|Creador de Aventuras. Aventuras Nova]] (DSK for emulators)

2008-09-23T16:42:46Z

MiguelSky:

Creador de Aventuras. Aventuras Nova (C.A.A.N.) was a Spanish text adventure maker. It was created in 1990 by Héctor Alarcón Martínez and it is made in BASIC.

 

== Manual <br> ==

[[Creador_de_Aventuras._Aventuras_Nova|cpcwiki.eu/imgs/c/c5/CAAN_Manual.pdf ]](pdf)

File:Creador de Aventuras. Aventuras Nova (CAAN) Manual

2008-09-23T16:39:38Z

MiguelSky:

Creador de Aventuras. Aventuras Nova

2008-09-23T16:20:59Z

MiguelSky:

Creador de Aventuras. Aventuras Nova (C.A.A.N.) was a Spanish text adventure maker. It was created in 1990 by Héctor Alarcón Martínez and it is made in BASIC.

 

== Manual <br> ==

[http://cpcwiki.eu/imgs/c/c5/CAAN_Manual.pdf cpcwiki.eu/imgs/c/c5/CAAN_Manual.pdf]

2008-01-03T18:51:11Z

MiguelSky:

'''CPCLoader''' is not an emulator exactly. '''CPCGamesCD''' is the main objective of CPCLoader: a CDRom containing a navigable database with all the games of Amstrad/Schneider CPC, similar to Mame32, including screenshots of the games and information about publisher, year, type of game...

<br>But '''CPCLoader''' is not only a frontend. It includes tools for extract/create dsk images and create new games collections. The internal emulators (Caprice32 and Arnold at the moment) support autotype feature: if you want to play a game only select it in the Explore window and it loads automatically !!

<br>'''CPCLoader''' is developed by TroelsK and '''CPCGamesCD''' and its screenshots are compiled by MiguelSky.

<br>Last update: 14/12/2007:

*
* Frontend 
* CPCLoader 2 Beta by TroelsK
*
* NVG games update
* 06/11/2007
*
* Snap-Pack with ALL the captures (3.491
* )
*
* New version of CPCE (1.85
* ) and WinApe (2.0a15) emulators
* Improved categorization
*
* Included 
* Apps (utils/cpc) and Cartridg folders of NVG<br>

== Web Links ==

* [http://cpcgamescd.amstrad.es CPCGamesCD homepage] down for now, but you can download it [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/CPCGamesCD_20070624.iso.zip here]!!!

* [http://cpcloader.trak.dk CPCLoader homepage]

[[Category:Emulation_Tools]]

CPCGamesCD-CPCLoader

2008-01-03T18:50:07Z

MiguelSky:

'''CPCLoader''' is not an emulator exactly. '''CPCGamesCD''' is the main objective of CPCLoader: a CDRom containing a navigable database with all the games of Amstrad/Schneider CPC, similar to Mame32, including screenshots of the games and information about publisher, year, type of game...

<br>But '''CPCLoader''' is not only a frontend. It includes tools for extract/create dsk images and create new games collections. The internal emulators (Caprice32 and Arnold at the moment) support autotype feature: if you want to play a game only select it in the Explore window and it loads automatically !!

<br>'''CPCLoader''' is developed by TroelsK and '''CPCGamesCD''' and its screenshots are compiled by MiguelSky.

Last update: 1

4/12/2007:

*
* Frontend 
* CPCLoader 2 Beta by TroelsK
*
* NVG games update
* 06/11/2007
*
* Snap-Pack with ALL the captures (3.491
* )
*
* New version of CPCE (1.85
* ) and WinApe (2.0a15) emulators
*
* Improved categorization
*
*
* Included 
* Apps (utils/cpc) and Cartridg folders of NVG<br>

== Web Links ==

* [http://cpcgamescd.amstrad.es CPCGamesCD homepage] down for now, but you can download it [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/CPCGamesCD_20070624.iso.zip here]!!!

* [http://cpcloader.trak.dk CPCLoader homepage]

[[Category:Emulation_Tools]]

CPCGamesCD-CPCLoader

2007-10-01T10:13:56Z

MiguelSky:

[[Category:Emulation Tools]]
'''CPCLoader''' is not an emulator exactly. '''CPCGamesCD''' is the main objective of CPCLoader: a CDRom containing a navigable database with all the games of Amstrad/Schneider CPC, similar to Mame32, including screenshots of the games and information about publisher, year, type of game...

But '''CPCLoader''' is not only a frontend. It includes tools for extract/create dsk images and create new games collections. The internal emulators (Caprice32 and Arnold at the moment) support autotype feature: if you want to play a game only select it in the Explore window and it loads automatically !!

'''CPCLoader''' is developed by TroelsK and '''CPCGamesCD''' and its screenshots are compiled by MiguelSky.

Last update: 24/06/2007:
*Frontend CPCLoader 1.6.3 by TroelsK
*NVG games update 10/06/2007
*Snap-Pack with ALL the captures (3.464)
*New version of CPCE (1.81), WinCPC (0.9.26) and WinApe (2.0a12) emulators
*Improved categorization

== Web Links ==

* [http://cpcgamescd.amstrad.es CPCGamesCD homepage] down for now, but you can download it [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/CPCGamesCD_20070624.iso.zip here]!!!

* [http://cpcloader.trak.dk CPCLoader homepage]