8-Bit Keys has made an interesting video showing the structure of the music played during the high score table of Commando, which he is playing on a Yamaha PSR-32 keyboard (1987).

After Octopus Pocus in 2019, Pulpo Corrosivo has released Daymo of the Tentacle for the Amstrad CPC, which got the 3rd place at the oldskool intro contest at the Revision 2020. The code was written by Toms, music by Targhan and graphics by Barjack (link on Pouet).

Atic Atac is a classic on ZX Spectrum (Atic Atac on Wos). The game was written by Tim and Chris Stamper, it was published by Ultimate Play the Game (alson on the BBC micro) in 1983.

John Ward is working on a version of Atic Atac for Amstrad CPC (CPCWiki).

A first video of Atic Atac is available on John Ward's Youtube channel.

Kenshiro is a demo for the Amstrad GX4000 console or the Amstrad CPC+ computer by Cyrille GOURET about the manga Ken the survivor. There is a screen by Eric Cubizolle (2019) and two unknown songs (more later maybe for their name). The Kenshiro demo is available on Youtube.

The bug was found by Velus on CPCRulez. In a basic program, type the following ligne : 10 rem |era,"toto.txt" (on a french 464 the | is replace by ù). Next RUN the program or edit the ligne (EDIT 10) and validate with return. Last look at the progam with the LIST command, the character after the | (or ù) has been removed.

A video on Amstradiens channel by Cyril to show you how to open an Amstrad CPC 6128 plus and clean its keyboard if some keys arent working correctly anymore.

A new version of Mod Master XT beta 19 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA). This last version adds the support for adlib sound music files, and for a next version the support of the OPLxLPT (OPL2 and 3).

Orgams is an assembler in ROM for Amstrad CPC, created by Madram, Drill and Hicks. A new version is available.

The documentation in french and english is available on Dorgams' wiki.

• Download the last beta (11th May 2020)
• Download the last stable version (9th June 2019)

Thanks to Xporter and RVMEngine available for the Amstrad CPC framework CPCTelera v1.5 (WIP), you can already test the possibility of exporting your Amstrad CPC game to an Android program.

Cronosoft is an editor for homebrew games for retro computers and consoles since 2002/2003, including the Amstrad CPC : the Smirking Horror (2004, initial release in 1991), Balloonacy (2007) and Stranded (2009).

Retro Video Gamer made a short interview of Cronosoft in January 2016.