It took me time before starting reading this book What you see is what you get, but now it's done, the official biograhy of and by Lord Alan Michael Sugar.

I did read already his other biographies :

• Alan Sugar, the Amstrad Story by David Thomas
• Sir Alan Sugar, the biography by Charlie Burden

The first one gave insights about his childhoold but nothing about his football years. Whereas the second one was introducing his foootball years. WYSIWYG give a lot more details about his childhood, the first steps which made him the man we all know and also a lot more on his football years. Honestly, I did appreciate this book and I recommend its reading. The only regret and it's purely personal, the book has a part about the Amstrad CPC computers but nothing about the CPC 664 which was my first computer, not very important though.

Border 0 organizes a score contest, whose rules are below :

1.	Use the WinAPE v2.0 Beta 2 emulator
2.	Use the following settings :
	GENERAL: CRTC Type: 0 DISPLAY: Enable Plus Features / Pal Emulation / Linear Palette MEMORY: RAM: 128K / ROM Lower: OS6128 / Upper 0: BASIC1-1 / Upper 7: AMSDOS
3.	Load the following DSK of Run CPC
4.	Save a SNR session of your game :
	4.1.	Save ONLY one game per session
	4.2.	Start at the menu screen		4.3.	End at the score menu
5.	Send your SNR session with a tag or your name BEFORE the 31th January 2020 to :
Nothing to win except the respect of other who will be able to see the results on Border 0's contest web page, looking at the best SNR on CPC-Power and a video on Youtube.

The firmware v1.1.0 of the Imperium Solo by Duke is available (more wireless gamepads supported).

It's an adaptator to use USB joysticks (PS4, Xbox One...) on a standard joystick port of an Amstrad CPC (and later ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga and Atari ST).

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