News about Amstrad CPC, PCW, Notepad NC100 NC150 NC200, PDA600 and also Amstrad PC








Star Trip, an Amstrad CPC demo by the Osmium Path group (Optimus and Ham)

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Star Trip by Osmium Path is an Amstrad CPC demo about 3D, a return to the past after the Utimate Megademo by Face Hugger.

It is written by Optimus (code) and Ham (graphics and music). It got the 4th place at the demo compo at the Demosplash 2024 meeting in November 2024.

You can see a video of Optimus explaining the 3D engine made for this demo.


Youtube video




Tarzanete de la boca al ajete, an Amstrad CPC platform game by Retromakes

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Tarzanete de la boca al ajete is an Amstrad CPC platform game by Retromakes released three days ago.


Youtube video






New version of ACE-DL (14/12) by Roudoudou

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New versions by Roudoudou of his ACE-DL Amstrad CPC emulator (12/14/2024) :

  • added new traductions
  • added FullScreen mode for Linux/Windows users (F11 key or Apple-F)
  • upgrade width/height limit to 512 in Graphics Explorer
  • added Amsdos header option for Memory import in configuration saves
  • now you can resize Graphics Explorer window + size saved in configuration
  • display an error message when a file is not supported (instead of simply discarding it)
  • bugfix step over in trace with HALT, LDIR, CPIR and other 'looped' instructions
  • bugfix number of selected Upper Rom, displayed in Gate Array window
  • bugfix number of selected bytes after a successful search
  • bugfix recovery of explorers coordinates after close/reopening


Gotek integrated inside an Amstrad FD-1 for Amstrad CPC

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The FD-1 drive is a second disk drive for Amstrad CPC 664 and6128 or first disk drive for Amstrad CPC 464 when you connect it to the DDI-1 drive controller.

Amstrad Retro Geek is showing a Gotek integrated inside a 3D print FD-1dans un FD-1 avec impression 3D réalisée par Benemerit (Madrid).

The Amstrad CPC 464 in the video has a DK'Tronics 64 Kb RAM extension and its ROM has been replace by one of the 6128 : basic v1.1 instead of v1.0.


Youtube video