We are in 2020, and at least it is possible to send a SMS using an Amstrad CPC thanks to Kiragregis. It uses an RS232 interface (by Amstrad) connected to a GSM A6 module bought on AliExpress.

If you understand french, you should really listen to the vidéo by Kiragregis, it's a funny one. If you dont understand, maybe the youtube subtitle will be good enough to understand it.

Sylvestre wrote a new article, this time about the Amstrad Plus or the myths of the CPC+.

A new version of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v3.8.0 is available since the 30th January 2020 for windows, linux and MacOS.

CPCEC (windows) is a new Amstrad CPC emulator by CNGSOFT released in 2019, which replaces CPCE (dos/windows). This version adds Amstrad CPC+ support.

The 14th release is available since the 1st March 2020.

Damien Guard made a 3D print faceplate to use a 3 inch disk drive inside a PC in a 5,25 inch spot.

The symbiface 3 is presented on twitch by Oncle_ced. The video really starts at 11 minutes.

Sigh has finished all the artworks for his game Takedown (inspired by the game Dive Kick) for Amstrad CPC in mode 1 with 128 Kb of RAM. He is needed help from programmers to finish his game. If you can help him, just click on the source link just below.

You can download an archive of Amstrad PCW games from a message of the CPCWiki forum.

Ghosts'N Goblins is a classic arcade game by Capcom in 1985 and released by Elite in 1986 on Amstrad CPC.

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is showing a speedun in 6 minutes and 47 seconds on Ghosts'N Goblins.

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has released a new version of 8BP v39 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.

A new game comes with this new version : Blaster Pilot, an arcade game inspired in part by Time Pilot (Konami).

After the announce by No Recess about Sonic GX on Amstrad GX-4000 game, Novabug is showing the first level alone then a four screen comparison with the Mega Drive, Master System et Master Gear versions !

A new version of the desktop JavaCPC is available. It's an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator written in Java by Markus Hohmann (DevilMarkus).

Jon Ritman, the author of Batman and Head over Heels (and others Amstrad CPC games) was interviewed in 2016 by Retro Video Gamer.

Shinobi is an arcade game made by Sega. It was released on Amstrad CPC in 1989 by the editor Virgin Games.

Fmtrx did decide to remaster it and this new version is available on CPCWiki.

He was helped by Fano for his Patch utility and also Yves Rizoud and Sigh (sprite).

The changes are :

• sprite of the principal character
• color change
• new textures

You can see this new version on Youtube.

You already did download Pinball Dreams par Batman Group but dont have to make a nice physical edition with an official cover ? Well your wishes are now reality, see below.