The year 2019 is near the end, it gave a lot of good things for the Amstrad computers, not only for the CPC, one of the very last being the Toki beta by AmstradGGP for example.

So, let's wish at least as much good if not more for the hear 2020. And personnally I wish you and people you care for a good and happy new year.

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

The 14th release is available since the 27th December.

You are a graphist on PC but you want that your pixel art to be on one of the following platform quoted below. Pixel Polizei will check the conformity of the color limits and save the result in the native format :

• Amstrad CPC
• ColecoVision
• Commodore 64
• Commodore Plus/4
• MSX
• Oric
• Panasonic JR-200
• Sharp MZ-700
• Sharp MZ-800
• ZX Spectrum

Smash my CPC gives you two musical remakes of Amstrad CPC games :

• Ghosts'n Goblins
• Saboteur II, used in the new version by Clive Townsend

I dont know yet Kim Justice, but she did a video of her 15 best old new new games for Amstrad CPC featuring Amstrad youtubers including Top Hat Gaming Man, Novabug, DJ Slope, Yellow Belly and Xyphoe.

If you didnt buy the physical edition of Operation Alexandra (4Mhz), you wont have the original sound track written by McKlain.

But you can at least listen one track : Greater Evil. Honestly it's just gorgeous.

I invite you to read the french article on Amstrad.EU which title is Retrogaming, between nostalgia and business.

See below the two youtube video mentionned in this article about the Amstrad CPC games featuring the Roland character :

• History of Roland and the Amstrad CPC (french)
• Guide to Amstrad's Roland

Two years after discovering the Amstrad CPC at 43 years, Oldschool is Beautiful is making a summary of using this computer (french).

Started since 1971 computer science was being introducted in french schools (6 years to 18 years). In 1985 the plan Informatique pour tous was bringing Thomson MO5 and TO7/70 computers linked in a network controlled by a PC with two 5,25 inc disk drives (later with a hard disk). What most of people like me didnt know, there was a definitive plus for technology classes : Youpi is a robotic arm with 5 liberty degrees made by JD Productique. It is controlled through the parralel port with a basic program and assembler routines on a Thomson MO5. You will find below two french interesting links :

• the réference site by Edouard Forler
• the assocation VoRoBoTics

Youyoudid was able to get a Youpi which he wanted since his young age. He wrote about it on CPCRulez. In a frist video he is controlling the arm in basic, but the movement is slow so he wanted to accelarate it with a basic compiler :

But finally thanks to the Turbo-Pascal compiler (CP/M) he is able to give a new youth to the robotic arm to let it serve a drink from a plastic bottle.

You can download a beta of Raid over Moscow for Amiga written by Erik Hogan (Earok).