News about Amstrad CPC, PCW, Notepad NC100 NC150 NC200, PDA600 and also Amstrad PC






CPCemu v3.0.1, an Amstrad CPC emulator by Rainer Loritz is available

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Rainer has released CPCemu v3.0.1 (19th April 2025). It's available for Windows and MacOS (a bit later for Android, iOS and Linux).

This new version is available on CPCEMU's web site.

This version corrects the emulator not starting on most Windows 11 machines. Besides, the setup of the Dobbertin HD20 was flawed. The file for the virtual harddisk was created in the executable directory (which, depending on its location, failed due to lack of write permissions). The new version uses (as originally intended) the folder where cpcemu.cfg is located ("%APPDATA%\CPCemu" in Windows and "Library/Application Support/CPCemu" in MacOS). The virtual HD20 file will be automatically created the first time the HD20 is used (for which the X-DDOS ROM needs to be loaded, e. g. as ROM 5).




4deKades by Creative People for CPC, an Amstrad CPC demo

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4deKades by Creative People for CPC is a demo for Amstrad CPC written by :

  • Tom et Jerry (music)
  • Optimus (code)
  • Eliot (code)
  • Krusty (code)
  • m_dr_m (code)
  • Voxy (palettes)

Youtube video



SkillTeam by David Programa, an Amstrad CPC puzzle game

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SkillTeam by David Programa is a puzzle game for Amstrad CPC, Sokoban like.

It was originally developed by LukaszM for the mobile application Fancade. David wrote first a ZX Spectrum version of SkillTeam one month ago.


Youtube video



AMSTrad Antic Internal Ripper v1.1 by Raft McMillan (TRSi)

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AMSTAIR or AMSTrad Antic Internal Ripper v1.1 by Raft McMillan from the TRSi group is a hardware tool made with components from the Amstrad CPC era that allows the display of Amstrad CPC signals. It allow to hack a game in real time, trace code/ports, diagnostic faulty Amstrad CPC (the gerber plan is available to make it), more precisely it allows :

  • Display CPC control lines via LEDs
  • Slow down your Amstrad at chosen speed
  • Freeze mode with step by step functionality : Step on each Clock, DMA access, CPU instruction, port read, port write, Memory access
  • Select the IO port you want to scan
  • Show address lines in binary and data lines in hexadecimal
  • Output the selected data to SOUND (Really?!)
  • Digiblaster compatible mode
  • DMA read or write in each cpu modes : fast, slow, paused
  • DMA can r/w Memory and IO ports
  • Selection of DMA address and data via switchs
  • Selection of Port or Memory address to intercept via switchs
  • Force DMA for dead z80
  • CPC or external power supply
  • Reset Amstrad

Youtube video




3DManiaks2, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by the group Impact

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3DManiaks2 by Impact is their latest production, an Amstrad CPC+ demo. You can download it on Pouet. You can see 3DManiaks2 sur Youtube (see below).

The demo has been written by :

  • Demoniak (code)
  • Kris (graphics)
  • Ultrasyd (music)

Youtube video



SDCC v4.5.0 (C programming for Amstrad CPC) on PC, Linux, MacOS

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A new version of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v4.5.0 is available since the 28th January 2025 for Windows, Linux and MacOS.




CPCemu v3.0 (April 2025), an Amstrad CPC emulator by Rainer Loritz is available

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Rainer has released CPCemu v3.0 (April 2025). It's available for MacOS, Android, iOS, Linux (x86_64 and ARM, included Raspberry Pi) and Windows.

This version provides these new features :

  • New GUI
  • New debugger/monitor including (re)assembler
  • ROM configuration by GUI
  • Basic V9990 graphics card emulation (primarily for SymbOS)
  • Emulation of Dobbertin HD20 harddisk drive
  • Emulation of keyboard clash
  • Virtual joystick/mouse left/right handles can be swapped
  • New video mode "simple" (should be faster, but that still needs to be proved)
  • IPv6 compatibility (only for the web server, not inside CPC via M4)
  • Usability of joysticks/game controllers improved
  • Mouse emulation (conversion of host mouse) improved, in particular the Symbiface mouse for SymbOS
  • Many bugs fixed (in particular compatibility with Windows 11)
  • Adjusted to SDL version 2.32.4 (which probably needs to be installed manually on Linux)