You will find a complete report of the Reset meeting at Push'N'Pop (in french). The only problem is that the meeting only starts tomorrow o.O. So I wouldn't believe right away all what is written, especially the part about me :-) (by the way I prefer gin, not schnapps).
Today a new version of the Amstrad CPC emulator Sugarbox is out :
The prisoner is a new text adventure game about the famous TV serie with Patrick McGoohan in the sixties.
First on C64 and C64 plus, an Amstrad CPC (conversion by Miguel Sky, ESP Soft) spanish version is available since October 2013 and an english version just came out.
This news isnt for the young ones under 18 years old. But are they people under 18 years old interested in the Amstrad CPC ?
So, it's the first ever nude photo on this site, and it's a hard one !
By the way, there is an intruder in this photo, a bit hard to find though...
The Amstrad CPC use 3" disks because Alan Michael Sugar got a large batch of 3" drives, and then stayed with it for compatibility. Game editors started to add protections to avoid piracy. Amstrad CPC emulators are using the .DSK format to store the content of a disk (but it assumes that each track have only one size). This format can't manage well protections, for this you need the extended DSK format where each track can have a different size to support more protections, but still not all of them. That's why hardware solutions are necessary to preserve the exact content of the original disks in their totality (and then you can write them again to real disks) such as :
There is a problem to create .IPF for Amstrad CPC programs, the real disks have been either :
Every emulator can use the raw or CT Raw kryoflux files if using the SPS decoder library. If an emulator doesnt use this library, then the best thing is to use .DSK created from kryoflux files with Samdisk like those dumped by Maxit on CPC-Power. SuperCard Pro support must be added internally into an emulator. Sugarbox already supports the SCP and of course the kryoflux (from a kryoflux raw or CT Raw, sugarbox can create a SCP file). Samdisk will soon support the SCP hardware, so it will be possible to read one track only.
The Amstrad notepad NC100 was out in 1992 with the protext word processing (already on Amstrad CPC and Amstrad PCW). But it's also possible to use it with ZCN by Mark Russel wich is a native CP/M, or use the all new Fuzix (fuzix announced on google+), this time an unix (system 5) by Alan Cox. You can emulate an Amstrad NC100 (and also NC150 and NC200) with nc100em (still by Mark Russel) for linux or ms-dos, and since start of 2014 as I just discovered for windows (port by Stefano Bodrato). The MESS emulator also supports the 3 Amstrad notepad NC. If you dont have the original NC100 ROM, you will need the ZCN.BIN file included in ZCN v1.3. You will find more informations about the Amstrad Notepad NC on the excellent Tim's Amstrad NC users site (see ZCN page).
After the article Why the Z80's data pins are scrambled, here is another one by Ken Shirriff : down to the silicon: how the Z80's registers are implemented.
A new hardware interface by TotO the hero which should be available for Christmas on Cent Pour Cent. See below, it's just a copy and paste of this site about the X-mass.
Shown at the ReSeT #18 event in France, the X-MASS is actually work in progress.
This last MX4 expansion is a mass storage. It embed a 128MB turbo flash drive for storing thousands of files into your CPC and definitively make it autonomous as no PC is required to configure and use it.
Developers will be able to work on more ambitious projects requiring megabytes of resources and code to be compiled, breaking the floppy limitation. Used in conjunction with X-MEM, the cross-dev will be no more the only issue for the future.
Last but not least, users will be able to copy, load, save, run files faster than ever !
By the way, the X-Mass can already be used with SymbOS.
Les Crackers Velus just released the reflexion game 2048 for Amstrad CPC.
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