DarkSteph has programmed with Unity for windows, macos and linux a remake of airwolf : Airwolf 2024, code by DarkSteph and graphics by Vynz Retro who is already known on Amstrad CPC. The game will be released on the 30th March 2024.
You can already download a WIP version of the action game Papy Commando by Studio Vetea, Fano and Shiningbzh. The video below of Papy Commando is by Xenomorph.
The other productions of Studio Vetea are on their Itch.io page.
Retro Erick is presenting in video the a new CGA card wi tested with the MCE2HDMI. This card is able to do CGA composite and can be bought on Aliexpress. The MCE2HDMI can be bought on Serdashop (where I bought several things, including a few weeks ago two waveblasters card to get MIDI on my PPC 640 without connecting my Roland expander). You can see another Retro Erik video presenting the test of the MCE2HDMI.
You must know that the MCE2HDMI is none other than the RGBtoHDMI by Hoglet67 which exists for many others computers (8 and 16bit), not only for PC with Hercules/MDA/CGA/EGA, but also the Amstrad CPC and CPC+. A list of vendors of the many RGBtoHDMI is available.
The Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.5.2 by John Elliott already available for unix, windows and MacOS. It's a development version with Improved LocoLink emulation.
Los Elfos de Maroland is now also available in english. It's a graphic adventure game written by Dwalin for Amstrad CPC and PCW, msdos, C64, MSX1 and MSX2, Amiga and Atari ST. It's a conversion with DAAD of its game previously written with PAWS in 1993.
CP/Mish by David Given has been updated, last version is from the 7th January 2024.
All CP/MIsh sources are on Github for Linux.
The available memory is 60 Kb by using all the memory available (128 Kb) but please check the NC200 readme for more informations especially the warnings about files in RAM (lost after notepad is off), the disk cache (chance disk only at CP/M prompt, and switch off the notepad only at prompt or you may loose write disk accesses).
Abalore in three words it's :
What will he bring us for the future ?
If you wish to learn Z80 assembler programmation especially for Amstrad CPC, then don't hesitate to go to Amstrad PUSH'n'POP, whom are now up to 50 articles on this subject.
Cwiiis has just released his arcade Amstrad GX4000 and CPC+ game : Oh Chute (web site to order a physical cartridge of the game).
You are Ron Danger, stunt person and extreme sports enthusiast. You just can’t get enough of sky-diving, but the local helicopter pilots have had it with your antics and are out to get you… It’s up to you to show them who’s boss!
Choose one of four different levels of varying difficulty and see how long you can survive. Sky-diving is hard enough alone, but those darned pilots aren’t going to make it any easier for you. Keep an eye on their movement and choose the right time to open your ‘chute and manoeuvre to one of the designated landing zones.
Cwiiis is the author of Maped, a python utility to edit Amstrad CPC(+) tilemaps (see on CPCWiki and Github).
On his Github you can find two other Amstrad CPC related utilities : dsk2dir (creation/extraction of .DSK) and cprtools (concatenate ROMs in one .CPR).
Retro Erick is presenting in video the PicoMEM ISA card made by FreddyV (FreddyV on Twitter).
This card is a must for all PC XT, even for 286, 386 and 486+, its features are (and more are on the way, see the github) :
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).
Two videos presenting Multipaint (beware they are both from four years ago, so not about the latest version and features) :
Prodatron and Prevtenet are working on a virtual machine letting you running CP/M programs on SymbOS. First, screen drawing is faster because the emulation is using Z80 opcodes whereas CP/M is using 8080, and two you can of course have more than one CP/M VM due to SymbOS multitasking !
Yesterday there was a special Amstrad CPC show with the MO5 association MO5 on Twitch. You can see the replay on their Youtube channel. You will see Gunhed, Bruce and Maitre Joe GGP.
Ian Scott has released a new firmware v1.20 for his ISA card PicoGUS which supports the sound card Gravis Ultra Sound (and much more). This firmware replaces the Adlib mode with a SoundBlaster 2.0 mode where Adlib support is better, and also a fix for the MPU-401 emulation mode. The new firmware can be downloaded on Ian Scott's Github.
The Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.5.3 by John Elliott is available for unix, windows and MacOS. This emulates another proprietary communications interface : the PCW Linkit which links two PCW (click on the link PCW hardware information) whereas the LocoLink did link a PCW to another computer with its parallel port (PC, PcW16 or a PCW 9512 with a third-party software). The Linux build also has another feature : you can now use JOYCE as a terminal to your system's command line, so you can use MAIL232 (or other PCW terminal program of your choice) in the same way that you would an xterm.
This time it isn't a interview done by Super Sylvestre, but really an interview OF Super Sylvestre made by the RetroManiac web site which are used to quality interviews. Don't hesitate to see the web site of Super Sylvestre.
Rodolfo Skylarriente 2 is a graphic adventure game on Amstrad CPC by Sakis Kaffesakis, Manossg (music), Brundij (digitized screens) and MiguelSky (traduction). It is available in english, french, greek and spanish.
A video of presentation in french is available (soon also in english, check his Youtube channel).
You can right now download the first version of CP/M for SymbOS by Prodatron and Prevtenet. You will be able to use Turbo Pascal, Microsoft Basic, Wordstar and so much more programs (see picture below, ZIP of 407 Mo ).
It's a virtual machine letting you running CP/M programs on SymbOS. First, screen drawing is faster because the emulation is using Z80 opcodes whereas CP/M is using 8080, and two you can of course have more than one CP/M VM due to SymbOS multitasking !
DarkSteph has programmed with Unity for windows, macos and linux a remake of airwolf : Airwolf 2024, code by DarkSteph and graphics by Vynz Retro. A demo of the game is available as today.
Border 0 organizes his eleventh score contest on the game Goathfish (action game par Ervin PAJOR for CPCRetroDev 2020) till the 30th April 2024. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.
Pulpo Corrosivo and Futurs have released a new Amstrad CPC demo : Ghost NOP (local download) during the Revision 2024 demo party. The code is written by Toms and Offset, graphics by Rexbeng/PA and Hwikaa, music by Zik.
ugBASIC by Marco Spedaletti is a compiled basic which works on many computers including the Amstrad CPC(+). In fact this compiler write the code so a program works whatever the features of the targeted computer, a feature which doesnt exist in hardware will be managed by software. For ugBASIC's github it's here, an official Facebook group of ugBASIC and even an ugBASIC forum.
There is also an IDE for ugBASIC still by Marco Spedaletti available on Itch.IO.
A suggestion by Youtube and I stumbled on Colin Thomson's channel where you can see two gorgeous Amstrad CPC screens being drawn :
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