Border 0 organizes his eleventh score contest on the game Goathfish (action game par Ervin PAJOR for CPCRetroDev 2020) till the 30th April 2024. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.

Pulpo Corrosivo and Futurs have released a new Amstrad CPC demo : Ghost NOP (local download) during the Revision 2024 demo party. The code is written by Toms and Offset, graphics by Rexbeng/PA and Hwikaa, music by Zik.

ugBASIC by Marco Spedaletti is a compiled basic which works on many computers including the Amstrad CPC(+). In fact this compiler write the code so a program works whatever the features of the targeted computer, a feature which doesnt exist in hardware will be managed by software. For ugBASIC's github it's here, an official Facebook group of ugBASIC and even an ugBASIC forum.

There is also an IDE for ugBASIC still by Marco Spedaletti available on Itch.IO.

A suggestion by Youtube and I stumbled on Colin Thomson's channel where you can see two gorgeous Amstrad CPC screens being drawn :

• Amstrad Drawing (Bob Ross style, american artist), see below
• Drawing a Parrot (Amstrad 8bit Pixel Drawing)

DarkSteph has programmed with Unity for windows, macos and linux a remake of airwolf : Airwolf 2024, code by DarkSteph and graphics by Vynz Retro. A demo of the game is available as today.

The Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.5.3 by John Elliott is available for unix, windows and MacOS. This emulates another proprietary communications interface : the PCW Linkit which links two PCW (click on the link PCW hardware information) whereas the LocoLink did link a PCW to another computer with its parallel port (PC, PcW16 or a PCW 9512 with a third-party software). The Linux build also has another feature : you can now use JOYCE as a terminal to your system's command line, so you can use MAIL232 (or other PCW terminal program of your choice) in the same way that you would an xterm.

This time it isn't a interview done by Super Sylvestre, but really an interview OF Super Sylvestre made by the RetroManiac web site which are used to quality interviews. Don't hesitate to see the web site of Super Sylvestre.

Rodolfo Skylarriente 2 is a graphic adventure game on Amstrad CPC by Sakis Kaffesakis, Manossg (music), Brundij (digitized screens) and MiguelSky (traduction). It is available in english, french, greek and spanish.

A video of presentation in french is available (soon also in english, check his Youtube channel).

You can right now download the first version of CP/M for SymbOS by Prodatron and Prevtenet. You will be able to use Turbo Pascal, Microsoft Basic, Wordstar and so much more programs (see picture below, ZIP of 407 Mo ).

It's a virtual machine letting you running CP/M programs on SymbOS. First, screen drawing is faster because the emulation is using Z80 opcodes whereas CP/M is using 8080, and two you can of course have more than one CP/M VM due to SymbOS multitasking !

To make so beautiful Amstrad CPC loading screens like Eric Cubizolle (Titan), it's easy, you just need to use the same painting program : Multipaint by Tero Heikkinen AKA Dr. Terrorz, and maybe a bit of talent and mostly a lot of work.

Titan is describing Multipaint as a mmix of OCP Art Studio and Deluxe Paint for windows which offers the possibility of using the resolutions and palettes of a whole bunch of old computers including the Amstrad CPC (mode 0 and 1, overscan possible in mode 0).

Two videos presenting Multipaint (beware they are both from four years ago, so not about the latest version and features) :

• discovering Multipaint, a photoshop to draw 8bit screens (video in 2019 in french)
• presentation video by the author himself during a demo party : ZOOParty 2019 (see below)