Archives for the month April 2025 of Genesis8 Amstrad Page






C3 support for the expansion card PicoCPC by Rodrik Studio and FreddyV

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Modification of this news, contrary as to I wrote first, as Prodatron stated on CPCWiki, SymbOS doesn't need C3 memory mode support to work. But C3 memory support on the PicoCPC card is still an excellent thing.

A second video of the PicoCPC card by Rodrik Studio and FreddyV is presenting some news since the first one, one very interesting feature being that the PicoCPC is the first ever Plug and Play card on Amstrad CPC !


Youtube video



mTCP v20250110 by Michael B. Brutman, TCP/IP for Ms-Dos and NetDrive's source code

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mTCP v2023-01-10 by Michael B. Brutman is a set of TCP/IP applications for personal computers running PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, and other flavors of DOS. mTCP needs a 8088 processor (or +), 96 to 256 Kb of system memory depending on the application, ms-dos v2.1 (or +) and a network card (Ethernet adapter, or a device emulating Ethernet) that has a packet driver.

The source code of NetDrive is available on mTCP's web page. It's a Ms-Dos driver to access a disk image (floppy or hard disk) which on another computer on the local network under windows (10 and 11), Linux (x86 or ARM) and MacOS.

If you go on the mTCP web page, you must know that it's a 41 years old PC Jr which is running mTCP own http server.





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)


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.


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