Novabug presents his personal top 11 of the worst Amstrad CPC games.

For balancing the universe, you could also see his Top 11 of the best Amstrad CPC games.

AYMaker v1.2 is a set of console tools by Abrimaal to create and edit audio .AY files. The author is looking for someone to make a GUI.

CRTC3 (CRTC x CRTC x CRTC) by Roudoudou, Futurs, X-men, Karbonik prod, Résistance and Morzienda is a new Amstrad CPC plus demo as a cartridge released at the demo meeting Alchimy 2017.

Eerie Forest ("Shadow of the Beast" one-screen intro) by Logon System is their last demo released this week-end at the Alchimy 2017 demo meeting.

Download Eerie Forest on Pouet.

It features :

• original music by David Whittaker, from a 4 channel mod to a 3 channel song made for Amstrad CPC plus DMA-AY (samples)
• 80+ colors from the 4096 palette of the Amstrad CPC plus
• 3 mixed overscan modes (640-320-160)
• 40+ splitscreens and rasters
• pixel accurate hardware scroll
• 100% bitmap, 1 layer, no text-mode)
• 16 colourful sprites
• 512 Ko ROM, 64 Kb (V)RAM

Operation Warcade is a virtual reality remake of Operation Wolf, compatible with the Occulus Rift and Vive VR gear on Steam. It will be also soon be compatible with all the recent mixed reality gear by Asus, Dell, Acer, HP and Samsung), which are just VR, not like Microsoft Hololens. It's a good looking version of Operation Wolf.

The video is done by Nostalgia Nerd.

Orion Prime by Arkos and les Sucres en Morceaux, THE Amstrad CPC adventure game (english, spanish, french and german) in a solution video by JB Le Daron on Youtube (first part).

Before the Z-Mem by TotO, there were the X-Mem and the Y-Mem : the difference is the addressing of RAM and ROM. While the X-MEM addresses the lower ROM, ROMs 0-6 and 8-31, the Y-MEM addresses the ROMs from 32 to 63. The X-MEM allows to access 512 Kb RAM using the port &7Fxx. And the Y-MEM addresses another 512 Kb using the port &7Exx.

Using the X-MEM and the Y-MEM together you get 1 Mb of expansion RAM and 1 MB of Flash-ROM for the CPC or Plus computers.

And so the new Amstrad CPC expansion card Z-Mem get 1 Mb of RAM already (but without ROMs), useful for SymbOS users or to run the demo Bad Apple which needs as such RAM as 1 Mb ! So see this demo running with a Z-Mem and a PlayCity below.

The Z-Mem manages all PAL modes for the 464/664 and 464+ users. A switch "RAM 64K/SET" let you run like a basic 6128 ou to state the quantity of memory to use up to 1024 Kb. The Z-MEM will be sold for 29.90 € for 2x512K SRAM (other configurations to be defined later).

The D-ROM (dual rom) is a 2x 256Kb flash board for 19.90 €) that allows you to handle two independants sets of ROM, boot, firmware or DOS (ROM7 compatible). The principle is the same than the ROM part of the X-Mem. The card let you boot on either of them with its own firmware and basic. A switch "ROM7 YES/NO" let users with CPC without AMSDOS (or which cant be desactivated) to install their own DOS.

Chibi Akumas (Episode 2 : Confrontation!) by Keith56 is available. Dont forget to use a 256 Kb RAM expansion, real or emulated, for best results.

Not really a fresh news (2011), but while reading the thread about the english version of the abbaye of crime, that there is an updated version of Zynaps due to CPC Wiki user with the following updates :

• Loader & overscan code : SyX
• Overscan splash screen : TotO
• Splash screen music : Neil Grieve (C64) converted by SuTeKH/Epyteor
• Splash screen music play-routine : Targhan
• Cheat-Mode & Raster-Logo patch : CPC-Wiki & SaroneTC

A new video by John Gage : synchronized music of the arcade game 1943 (Capcom) converted on Amstrad CPC by Probe Software (AY in stereo) and Amiga.

The original music is written on both computers by Jason C. Brooke with the same octave and tempo.