@khaz - It actually depends on what model you have. Many French CPCs work very well. It's just the late models with AZERTY keyboard that won't work. If you have a QWERTY keyboard on your CPC it will definitely have no issues. But the whole matter is not a typical Hibernated problem. The late AZERTY models had many, many compatibility issues, especially with adventures that make use of the keyboard because of the modified keymap. I still have no idea what Amstrad was thinking back then. There are probably workarounds I'm not aware of. The keymap is hardcoded in the interpreter, so to resolve the issue, the whole interpreter would need to be recoded to support the AZERTY layout. The game uses DAAD, an engine created by Tim Gilberts of Gilsoft / Infinite Imaginations. I addressed the issue and already talked with Tim (I know him very well), but I'm not very confident to get AZERTY support added soon. The 80 columns version works without any issues on any French model, so for now this is the only workaround unfortunately.
- The SD card includes all images of Hibernated for all systems. The addon is just included as a download code in the box. Eight Feet Under is bigger than Hibernated, adding physical media for the addon too would have gone beyond the budget. It's just 20 Euros for a big box with feelies, e.g. a patch, a poster, lots of content, that's quite value for money and we wanted to keep it that low. You can download all images for the addon though as well. The publisher now added an all-in-one bundle if it's the physical media you're after.
- For now, there will be only big box releases. The publisher did budget versions in the past, so maybe it's going to happen one day but I can't promise that. The Amstrad "tape" version kinda is budget already. Because when you order this version, you get the Spectrum version on the other side of the tape.
- The engine actually supports EGA/CGA/VGA. It's just that the artist who created the title picture (Vanja) chose a black and white style screen for Amiga / ST / and IBM (DOS).
Hope this helps