First read the article on Mark Eric Jones who is the engineer behind the conception of the Amstrad CPC and PCW then list to the spanish interview below done by Felisuco.
PintaPanta Plus is a windows utility by G. Gálvez which permits to convert pictures in a .SWC file format that you can read on Amstrad PCW with the PantaVisor utility. And the result is quite nice !
Amstrology for Amstrad CPC is a music disk made by Eliot (code and graphics) and Warlord (music). It was released for the Jumalauta Party in Finland.
Arkos Tracker v3.3 by Targhan is available on his web site. The site has many tutorials. This version is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Intel and ARM).
Ivan AVILA (21Bloques) is actually working on an Amstrad CPC version of the great classic Pitfall 2 the lost caverns first out on the Atari VCS 2600 console in 1984. I am waiting for it impatiently.
As usual a bit late announcing it but Amstrad Eterno X is an Amstrad CPC meetin which will take place at Barcelone (Spain) on the 25th October. Pour plus de détails allez lire leur compte Twitter et leur site web.
And 5 days later it will be Benediction Coding Party 5 (France) where I will go as usual with 42 other people and Eliot of course.
The XiAleste by h2w is a recreation with modern components of an upgraded Amstrad CPC 6128 presented on Hackaday (the sound is upgraded notably). The PCB of the XiAleste is available as is the FGPA code source of the XiAleste both on Github. You can read informations on the XiAleste on CPC Wiki.
You will find below informations from 2019 about the Aleste 520EX which inspired the XiAleste.
The Aleste 520EX is a russian clone of the Amstrad CPC and the MSX. It works not with AMSDOS but with the MSX DOS (see this russian site in english). There was already a thread about the Aleste 520EX on CPCWiki, but this time Sebastian Blanco is talking about the Aleste kit he just bought. Finally he isnt the only one in the Amstrad CPC community to have one. If you are interesting it's seems to possible to buy one kit by writing to tetroid at inbox ru like Sebastian did.
You can see a youtube video of an Aleste 520EX running the Phortem demo by Condense (and MSX games at the start of the video).
A modified version of Caprice32 permits to emulate at least in part the Aleste 520EX.
ZEsarUX 12.1 is a multi platform emulator, Amstrad CPC and PCW (and many others). You can compile the unix sources directly or get a binary for :
Disk Image Manager v2.9.0 by Damien Guard is an application for examining and manipulating disk images in the Standard and Extended DSK format used by many ZX Spectrum, Amstrad PCW and CPC emulators.
Ivan AVILA (21Bloques) is actually working on an Amstrad CPC version of the great classic Pitfall 2 the lost caverns first out on the Atari VCS 2600 console in 1984. I am waiting for it impatiently.
You can see a video of Pitfall 2 in action. Also Titan proposed to Ivan a loading screen for Pitall 2.
One more interview by Retro Maniac, this time of Anthony Flack. As always the interview is bilingual, first in spanish then in english. Anthony Flack wrote the remake of Bomb Jack released at the start of this year.
Pixsaur by Gurneyh is an online tool to convert pictures to the Amstrad CPC format. It was announced in May 2025 on CPCWiki and is updated since its beginging.
Phantomas 2 by Dinamic Software was released in 1986, in 2019 a new version for Amstrad cpc was out : Phantomas 2.0 by Jordi Sureda and Santiago Ontañon. Today it's a new version for windows and linux : Phantomas Adventure Dracula's Castle by Retro for Love.
Duke stops making the M4 wifi board after almost 1500 boards. He explains it on his web site. I want to thank him personnally as I am the happy owner of his board since years, it is still useful to me. Thanks for all these years of making board and supporting it with new firmwares and answering user on CPCWiki.
It could be an end but it is in fact a new start as Duke has released on Github all needed informations so at least for a start two people will make new boards :
Tronic, Siko and Longshot are presenting today a new audio file format called AYT (AY Turbo).
It is a compact and simple format usable by any program requiring high CPU performance and cycle-accurate constant-time operation, it is available on Pouet.
This format is intended for all platforms using an AY-3-8910/AY-3-8912 (General Instrument) sound processor or a compatible chip (YM-2149 from Yamaha). Several authoring tools and players have been developed and tested for the following platforms: Amstrad CPC and CPC+, MSX, ZX Spectrum 128, VG5000 (with VG5210 soundcard). AYT files are produced from YM files.
Many tools have been created around this format (windows, linux), some of which can be used directly online (e.g., YM->AYT converter, YM/AYT player, YM sequencer, AYT Jukebox).
Z80A players have been created on several old-school platforms, such as the Amstrad CPC and Plus, MSX, ZX Spectrum 128 and VG 5000 (with the VG 5210 sound card). These players have the particularity of occupying little memory space, being very (very) fast, and operating in constant cycles. More information is available (guides, sources, executable, benchmarks, ...) on Github, on AYT Web Tools and on AYT Player – AY/YM Emulator (WIP).
UPX v5.0.2 by The UPX Team is an executable compressor for several operating systems including ms-dos. It is very useful notably on PC XT where disk space was limited, whatever 5,25 or 3,5 disks or on hard disks. At the time of my Amstrad PC 1512, I was using Lzexe by Fabrice Bellard (who also owned an Amstrad PC 1512 DD), Diet by Teddy Matsumoto, PKLite by Phil Katz (PKWare) then later UPX.
A new version of Amspirit, an Amstrad CPC emulator for windows by Dmanu78 is available on his web site. There are 32 and 64bit versions.
The thread on CPCWiki is here.
Roudoudou has released a Raspberry PI version of his Amstrad CPC ACE-DL emulator on the 13th Octobre 2025. There is no update for the other operating systems. He is working on supporting other hardware expansions. This version has been tested on a Raspberry PI 5 but should work on a PI 4.
GX-Pong by Stephen Waywood and graphics/design by Oncle Ced and Viny-Kun is a game for the Amstrad GX-4000 console. It's an order for a french convention française wich will take place in November 2026 where Oncle Ced will present a stand about the video game history (1970 to half 1990).
Arkos Tracker v3.4 by Targhan is available on his web site. The site has many tutorials. This version is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Intel and ARM).
This v3.4 features :
To make so beautiful Amstrad CPC loading screens like Eric Cubizolle (Titan), it's easy, you just need to use the same painting program : Multipaint by Tero Heikkinen AKA Dr. Terrorz, and maybe a bit of talent and mostly a lot of work.
Titan is describing Multipaint as a mmix of OCP Art Studio and Deluxe Paint for windows which offers the possibility of using the resolutions and palettes of a whole bunch of old computers including the Amstrad CPC (mode 0 and 1, overscan possible in mode 0).
Dia de los Muertos will be released tomorrow on the 31th october 2025, it is written by Vitop69. This Amstrad CPC platform game is tribute to his father who died in June 2023, he did offer his son an Amstrad CPC 464 in 1985 and they both discovered Locomotive Basic programmation. The game is written in pure assembler.
It is the end of October (Halloween can be ok). Pedro must reach his Family's tomb by the day of the death (2 of November). Time is short, he must cross the desert, the cursed castle and finally reach the Santa Fe cementery.
There are many difficulties, and his enemies will try to slow down his way by taking away his time.
Collect as many candles as possible, along the way, will help him gain time to reach the party (Dia the Los Muertos) on time. Then RUN,RUN and RUN !
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Amstrad Eterno X was released during the last Amstrad Eterno event this October 2025. It's an Amstrad CPC platform game by CapaSoft. It was programmed by Sergi Caparrós (Mr. Capa), graphics by Xeif and Javy Fernández, music by Riskwood, loading screen by Titan and an idea by Blackmores.
Don't hesitate to discover the other Amstrad CPC games by Capasoft :
Vous souhaitez un clavier mécanique pour remplacer celui d'origine sur un Amstrad CPC 464 ? Alors Bread80 a ce qu'il vous faut avec toutes les informations sur la carte disponible sur Github.
In the same CPCWiki's thread, Salvogendut is showing his replica of an Amstrad CPC 464 main board with Bread80's mechanical keyboard. This replica of the Amstrad CPC 464 main board comes from Bob's Bits site on Tindie (out of stock sadly). But this is also in stock this time a replica of the Amstrad CPC 6128 main board. You will find below three photos of Salvogendut's keyboard.
The last PC released in 1996 by Amstrad was the Integra PC/TV with a 486 DX2 (80 ou 100 Mhz) or pentium (75 à 133 Mhz) processor, 8 Mb of RAM (up to 128), 540 Mb hard disk (up to 1 Tb), a CD-ROM drive and especially a TV Tuner. Windows 95 was installed on the Integra PC/TV. You can download the brochure and specifications on Amstrad web site (or here locally). You can see below a video of the Amstrad Integra PC/TV by Nostalgia Nerd.
Mighty Street Fighter for Amstrad CPC is a Beat Them All game by GGP released in 2024, it needs 512 Ko of RAM to work.
On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, OursoN is doing a speedrun on Mighty Street Fighter.
Z88dk is a development toolkit whose target are notably the Z80 (but not only) which permits to program in C and/or assembler for Amstrad CPC, Notepad NC100/150/200 and PCW (and many more computers) on PC and MacOS.
The last version of Z88dk was released the 2th October 2025 on Github.
Better late than never, Uniload by Futur's was announced on CPCWiki the 10th November 2024. It's a game launcher for Amstrad CPC(+) to be used with the Unidos ROM which manages several Amstrad CPC mass storage expansion cards.
You can create your own game database on MorphOS, AmigaOS, macOS, Windows and Linux to be used with Uniload thanks to the Uniload Database Creator utility, or download on the site Barjack's game compilation. Beware about one quarter of the games in this compilation won't work with Uniload (track load instad of a files version, error in the database).
Abalore has a project he is working since September 2024 : the Abatape.
It is using an Arduino Nano ATMega328p@16 Mhz, a 700 mAH battery for about 24 hours of use, a SD reader and an OLED screen. It is especially able to detect the two motors making a real taping moving the magnetic band so it can support multi loading. Someone did suggest to add writing support to create new tape files. The Abatape supports of course the Amstrad CPC (.CDT) but several other computers as it is based on a Maxduino firmware :
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