The ZX Spectrum Computer Sound Chip Emulator v3.0 (December 2024) by Sergey Bulba is available, it's an utility for windows and linux to listen to many music format files, including .YM, .AY and .AYM music files.

Ian Scott has released a new firmware v3.1.0 for his ISA card PicoGUS which supports the sound card Gravis Ultra Sound (and much more).

Since v3.0, it also supports CD-ROM emulation ! The new firmware can be downloaded on Ian Scott's Github.

Fast AY Player (FAP) par Vanity is a constant-excecution-time and ultra-fast (10 raster-lines at most) AY3-891x music player for the Amstrad CPC. It was written by Hicks (Vanity) and Gozeur (Contrast) for the programmation and Zik (debug and help).

A big thanks to Targhan/Arkos, Grim/Semilanceata, toms/Pulpo Corrosivo, Tom et Jerry/GPA for support & testing. A special thanks to Zik/Futurs' for additional debugging & testing !

You can download FAP on Pouet (link above) or locally on Genesis8bit.

Grazia Pizzuto has many videos of music of videos games played on piano, this time it's a video of Thanatos on piano.

Arkos Tracker v3.2.6 by Targhan is available on his web site. This is no longer a beta version, the site has many tutorials. This version is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Intel and ARM).

After CPCBasic unchained and CPCBasicTS unchained, Marco Vieth (author of the first Amstrad CPC emulator CPCEmu) has released LocoBasic five months ago.

LocoBasic is a streamlined adaptation of Locomotive BASIC, designed primarily for calculations. It is lightweight and can run either in a browser or on the command line using Node.js. It has NO GOTO but supports a subroutine style with GOSUB. Line numbers are optional and only needed to start a subroutine or a DATA line for RESTORE.

You can try LocoBasic here.

This new version brings the following features :

• SVG Output
• Examples to check out: Sierpiński triangle, Mandelbrot set, "Little Architect" demo
• Real-Time Clock RSX commandsexample=drawclk
• Also included : syntax highlighting editor for BASIC

Grazia Pizzuto has many videos of music of videos games played on piano, this time it's a video of Bruce Lee on piano.

Arkos Tracker v3 by Targhan is available on the web site, which holds already several tutorials.

The last version available is v3.2.4 (14th February 2025). It's a beta version but totally usuable for windows, mac and linux (intel and ARM).

This new version brings many improvements and one big unique feature called Effect Context.

After CPCBasic unchained and CPCBasicTS unchained, Marco Vieth (author of the first Amstrad CPC emulator CPCEmu) is releasing LocoBasic.

LocoBasic is a streamlined adaptation of Locomotive BASIC, designed primarily for calculations. It is lightweight and can run either in a browser or on the command line using Node.js. It has NO GOTO but supports a subroutine style with GOSUB. Line numbers are optional and only needed to start a subroutine or a DATA line for RESTORE.

You can try LocoBasic here.

I invite you once again to go listen to E-dredon's music for Amstrad CPC who write it for the Playcity (3 AY soundchip for 9 channels) or the Play2CPC.

The Play2CPC is an evolution of the Plus2CPC who let using CPC+ cartridges on an plain Amstrad CPC but with additional features :

• Extra audio capabilities (Yamaha YMF288 OPN3 soundchip)
• Sound mix into the CPC speaker or stereo audio jack
• Full Amstrad Plus ROM decoding
• Extra on-board V-ROM (512K RAM expansion mapped as ROM) for amazing new AAA games
• General purpose programmable raster interrupt
• Compatible with standard Amstrad cartridges and new extended formats
• 100% compatible with C4CPC
• Support for RW cartridges to save/update games, scores and settings
• Boot switch and reset button commodities

He wrote his Rasters music (1xYM2203, 3xOPs et 3xPSG) with the tracker Furnace (github) written by Tildearrow.

Retro Piano Guy plays on piano the music of retro games including Defender of the Crown.

The ESP32AY by Alexander Sitnikov is a hardware AY musical player (Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MSX, Pentagon, ZX Spectrum). It reads many different formats (more informations on Github).

Grazia Pizzuto has many videos of music of videos games played on piano, today it's video of Cybernoid 2's music by J. Dave ROGERS on piano.

Arkos Tracker v3 by Targhan is available on his web site, the new site isn't complete but it holds already several tutorials. The last version available is v3.2.2 (1st December 2024). It's a beta version but totally usuable for windows, mac and linux (intel and ARM).

This new version brings a few bug fixes and many improvements in the user interface, especially in the Instrument Editor.

Arkos Tracker v3 by Targhan is available on his web site which holds several tutorials. The last version available is v3.2.1 (21th October 2024). It's a beta version but totally usuable as stated by the Targhan, for windows, mac and linux (intel and ARM).

Dizark isn't anymore embedded in Arkos Tracker and has now its own web site. Disark is a Z80 disassembler, but it is more than that as it can be used to convert sources from an assembler to another.

Below you will find the content of the announcement of Arkos Tracker 3 on CPCWiki :

Arkos Traker 3! It is a 100% redesigned, recoded version of Arkos Tracker. Don't worry though :

• Compatibility with the previous versions of AT is ensured
• The players are unchanged, minus a few bugs (AKY users should re-encode their files though)

A few features :

• Open source
• A completely new instrument editor
• Simplified pattern management
• Undo/redo everywhere
• Theme-able