After the availability at the start of 2017 of the issue 2 of Colour Personal Computing Fanzine by James Ford, the first issue of Colour Personal Computing Fanzine can be read now freely but in black and white as the colour edition was for Kickstarter's backers.
8 bit annual magazine is the new project of George Bachaelor and John Kavanagh.
It's a paper magazine of 250 pages with content for Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and MSX.
The Amstrad CPC part will cover : Hardware (DDi3 USB Floppy Drive Emulator & 512kb Memory Expansion), Previews (Babaliba, Galactic Tomb Golden Tail - Kitsune's Curse, Jarlac, Ninjajar - The Lost Levels, Robbie Strikes Back, Street Fighter 2, Space Moves 2, Sudoplus, Super Mario Bros, The Shadows of Sergoth) and reviews (Chibi Akumas Episode 2, Combat Pilot, Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, Finding Red, Lost CPC Games (Frogger, Acolyte, Ninja Grannies and Unpredictabal), The Lost Treasure of Cuathemoc, Pentomino 4, Turn Quest, Try To Run Away, XALK, PLUS: All 29 games form CPC retrodev reviewed).
I am late, but No sin mi Amstrad is an article by Álvaro Corazón Rural with pictures by Jelena Arsic seen on Jot Down web site an also in a paper edition it seems. It's an article about the Amstrad Eterno 2017 meeting which held in Barcelona on the 18th March 2017.
Eight Bit Magazine will print this Eight Bit Adventurer column by Stuart Williams about the adventure games on 8bit compouters. Stuart is already writing in Eight Bit Magazine about Apple computers, and an article the apple adventurer will be in the incoming issue 3. For more informations, go read Retro Computing News.
Issue 3 of Eight Bit Magazine can be pre-ordered.
One person created a collection of 30 Gb of Amstrad CPC files as a torrent file.
You will find PDF files of
Eight bit Magazine isnt the only one to be on Kickstarter, there is also Colour Personal Computing Fanzine issue 2 by James Ford.
This issue has 40 pages of Amstrad CPC content :
Eight Bit Magazine issue 3 will be this week-end on Kickstarter.
For the Eight Bit Magazine issue 2 it's here.
In the past CPCOxygen has written an online newspaper about Amstrad computers : CPC Oxygen.
Today he is doing the real thing, magazine on paper and Eight Bit Magazine issue 2 is available on Kickstater.
A new video by ChinnyVision, informations from the Alan Michael Sugar biography : The Amstrad Story by David Thomas (I did read it and found it interesting).
Christophe Coupez put his son Stanislas in front of an Amstrad CPC 464, what should be the final verdict ?
Ces ordinateurs sont dangereux is a book written by François Quentin about the Amstrad CPC. Long lost, it is now available with the agreement of the author on Amstrad.eu's forum as PDF (Epub link, PDF link, as Amstrad.eu is not up atm). Happy reading ! Thanks to ced64k for his scanning work.
The 6 issues of the newspaper CPC Attack! are available on CPCWiki (in the forum, not in the CPC Attack! page of the site).
These issues went out from June to Novembre 1992, following the defunct Amstrad Computer Use newspaper, those first 14th issues were published directly by Amsoft.
The french newspaper Hebdogiciel published many computers listings, for all computers of the 80 era in this weekly newspaper by Shift Editions.
It was available between 1983 and 1987, and survived only with its sales, disallowing ads to stay independent.
Today, all its listing are available on Hebdogiciel.
After a first Alan Michael Sugar biography : The Amstrad Story by David Thomas (I did read it and found it interesting), another is out since March 2009 : Sir Alan Sugar (the biography). It will be again available in August 2010 in paperback I suppose.
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