The 3rd version of the HxC Floppy Emulator Manager is available.

It's a complete rewrite of the original software.

It features a new user interface (thanks Ced !), better support of the HxC Floppy Emulator device (detection, release..) and some critical bug-fixes.

Finally, it now allows proper exit to BASIC (Amstrad CPC's default shell).

The software remains available as a ROM.

Two generations are testing Roland in Time (Amsoft in 1984) on Youtube : David 40 years old (playing Amstrad CPC at 12 years old) and Ornella 11 years old.

Ultrasyd playing live at Blip Festival 2011 in New York, May 19th, 2011. Set performed using Atari STe, Amstrad CPC 6128 and Nintendo GameBoy. Background visuals provided by NO CARRIER.

Here is a HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Bruce Lee released by U.S. Gold in 1984. A great classic written by Ron J. FORTIER.

Metr81 also did a commented version of this Bruce Lee video.

Also, there is a new version of Bruce Lee 2 by Bruno R. Marcos.

Small graphical redesign of the site using HTML5 and "responsive design" to allow better surfing on smartphones and tablets.

Later I will use the Bootstrap CSS framework for more features.

Also, only the latest 15 news items will be shown on this page. Older news items are available in the archives.

KaosOverride showed two Amstrad CPC demoes at the Euskal Encounter 21 meeting (25-28 July 2013 in Spain (northern coast): Phortem by NoRecess and Still Rising by Vanity in front of 5.000 attendees.

Kaos Override also showed his adventure game at the "Open Game Compo" of the meeting and won against productions made ​​for smartphones, PCs.

This adventure game "Marron en la Euskal" (Big problem at the Euskal) was made possible thanks to the graphics libraries made ​​by Artaburu. In this game you are a helper of the party, that lost some flash drives full of demos that are indispensable for the scene contest.

For the moment there is only a spanish version of this game, an international version should follow.

Trick or treat ! Well today it's not about an Amstrad CPC demo, but about a ZX Spectrum demo called Outerloop by thesuper, release at the DiHalt 2013 meeting at the start of July. It seems a nice demo to me (sound included).

3D Construction Kit was written by Incentive Software and published by Domark in 1991 on Amstrad CPC. This utility let you create 3D graphical adventure games.

New games are available for all platforms on which 3D Construction Kit was ported, including the Amstrad CPC, on the unofficial 3D Construction Kit web site.

CPCGamesCD (created by MiguelSky) is an ISO image including several emulators (Amstrad CPC and PCW), and a frontend to launch the included games, which comes from the NVG FTP.

Cesar Nicolas Gonzales did update BB4CPC (v9) on the 7th July 2013.

The new version features : new overscan intro screen, new in-game tutorial (128k only), fixed water streams (ten blocks rather than just eight) and drowned enemies (water carries them now), minor changes in title screen and sprites, minor scoring overflow bugfixes, minor size and speed optimizations.