You can play Amstrad CPC games online on BZH Games (without sound though) thanks to the CPCBox emulator. If you are one of the best, your score will be registered.

Amstrad CPC Mémoire écrite by Frédéric BELLEC has now the integrality of the WEKA binders with a lot of Amstrad CPC technical informations.

Then get out your best pens and go to this following page to participate to the contest for the cover of the physical edition of ERIDU : the space port by Jose Javier Garcia Aranda (scramble clone) written with the basic librairy 8BP.

The last version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CrocoDS v2.1 for the Nintendo DS went out in 2013 and is available on github. It is based on the WinCPC emulator by Ludovic Deplanque.

And now Kyuran has ported CrocoDS (RG350) on the portable console using OpenDingux (debian) : the Retro Game 350, which you can find easily on Amazon.

But a Sony PSP or PS Vita will let you emulate the Amstrad CPC better on a graphic point of view :

• Nintendo DS : 256 × 192
• RG 350 : 320x240
• Sony PSP : 480 × 272

You can see a vidéo by Oldschool is beautiful (french) which will show you how to use emulators on Sony PSP. To do the same thing on the PS Vita, you can check the site of Wololo.

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has released a new version of 8BP v38 (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.

One thing about this version is the game Happy Monty (11th at CPCRetroDev 2019), you should read this article about how the game is done (spanish).

The Aleste 520EX is a russian clone of the Amstrad CPC and the MSX. It works not with AMSDOS but with the MSX DOS (see this russian site in english). There was already a thread about the Aleste 520EX on CPCWiki, but this time Sebastian Blanco is talking about the Aleste kit he just bought. Finally he isnt the only one in the Amstrad CPC community to have one. If you are interesting it's seems to possible to buy one kit by writing to tetroid at inbox ru like Sebastian did.

You can see a youtube video of an Aleste 520EX running the Phortem demo by Condense (and MSX games at the start of the video).

A modified version of Caprice32 permits to emulate at least in part the Aleste 520EX.

Abandonware France has an interesting article about the history of the video game company Cobra Soft, in english.

The draw utility by AST/Imp4act Impdraw v2 is out since the 8th November, coming also with the release of iMPdos 512 (a FAT16 ROM for your xMass, M4 or Symbiface 3, it doesnt need Amsdos so an CPC 464 can use it). Click on the source link below for download (at the end of the first message).

La précédente version (v1.2) date d'avril 2016, les améliorations sont les suivantes :

• a huge zoom zone
• using he 4096 palette of the Amstrad Plus
• fullscreen support for the 3 graphical modes of the CPC (0, 1 et 2)
• possibility of creating plugins with OrgAms or any other assembler
• adds Undo/Redo
• 100% compatible xMass with iMPdos, M4 wifi board and Symbiface 3 (thanks to @Kris for testing it)
• in case of basic return or reset, you can get back your file
• an included utility to create frames
• Load/Save .win
• Load .scr 17 kb files
• integrated help

Beware, Impdraw uses more than 128 Kb, if you use WinApe please choose 4 Mb of RAM. Also a new version will be out in a few days

There is an interview of Stéphane F. on Amstrad.EU about his game the Carnival Masks which I wrote about last month.

The results of the CPCRetroDev 2019 competition are out, see below. Congratulations too all the teams for their efforts from the last to the first. Writing a game is certainly not the easiest thing to do between programmation, gameplay, graphics and sound. Thanks to you for all your work which helps the Amstrad CPC live still.

I will try to take time to test them all in the following days. My first try will be the 31th game : Cpcrogue as I like roguelike games.

• 01 - Miss input
• 02 - Ludic Break the loop
• 03 - EPIMETEO
• 04 - Cobra
• 05 - Bike masters
• 06 - Super Tongue Dino
• 07 - Hey Sailor !
• 08 - Ratones y mazmorras
• 09 - Woods rescue
• 10 - ManPac
• 11 - Happy Monty
• 12 - Jackstrad
• 13 - Shinobu
• 14 - League of tanks
• 15 - Dragon egg
• 16 - DiscRespect
• 17 - UFO driver
• 18 - Shadow soul
• 19 - Invasion a Marte
• 20 - Fitzroy in the dark
• 21 - Runninja
• 22 - Jack's bubble island
• 23 - PP space mercenary
• 24 - Combat tendency
• 25 - Project thing
• 26 - Retro tennis super wave
• 27 - Angry Kitten
• 28 - Area51Raid
• 29 - Mediaval brawl
• 30 - Plant Attack
• 31 - Cpcrogue
• 32 - Ronin Revenge
• 33 - Resignation Quest
• 34 - DJD
• 35 - CAPITAL QUIZ!