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






FPGAmstrad on MiST-board revision r005.8.13e by Renaud Helias (hardware Amstrad CPC emulation)

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The MIST is a Field-programmable gate array (FGPA) board designed to implement classic 16 bit computers like the Amiga and Atari ST(E) as System-on-a-Chip using modern hardware. But it equally well supports 8 bit systems like the Atari XL, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, C64, Atari VCS, Atari 5200, Colecovision, Apple II, Sega Master System, NES, Odyssey2 and of course the Amstrad CPC.

Renaud Helias has written an Amstrad CPC 6128 core for this Mist Board. The last revision of this core can run correctly the Still Rising demo by Vanity (see the youtube video).


Youtube video









An Amstrad CPC 6128 upgraded to 4 Mb of RAM by Zaxon

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Zaxon has upgraded his Amstrad CPC 6128 with 4 Mb of RAM internally and play on it the video of Take on Me by A-ha.

Go to 1mn10 of the video to see the interior of the modded Amstrad CPC.


Youtube video



Prototype of an IDE hard drive working on an Amstrad PCW 9256 by JonB

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JonB wrote an IDE driver for CPM PLUS on Amstrad PCW 9256, with a hardware prototype.

He wants to know before making boards if other persons are interested. If you are, please click on the source link below (CPCWiki's forum).


Youtube video



Test of the Amstrad CPC game Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 (Imagine) by ChinnyVision

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A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 is available. This arcade fighting game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1986 by Imagine.

He also tests it on MSX, BBC, C64 and Sinclair Spectrum.

Honestly the game was ugly and not good, whereas the first version was really nice like the arcade game.


Youtube video