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Impetus+, a shoot them up for Amstrad CPC+ by Inufoto

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Inufuto is a japanese who write many games, each time for many platforms including Amstrad CPC. He wrote initally Impetus in 2022 for CPC old, this year he is releasing a new version of Impetus+ for Amstrad CPC+ with hardware sprites. You cab check the Youtube channel of Inufuto. Impetus+ is a classic shoot them up game, whose sources you will find on Github.


Youtube video



SugarDS v1.4, an Amstrad CPC emulator for Nintendo DS and DSi (and more)

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SugarDS is an Amstrad CPC emulator for Nintendo DS and DSi by Nige Rideout. This version 1.4 features :

  • DSi now double-buffers LCD rendering for smoother performance and syncs to true 50Hz refresh
  • Added Favorites system - use SELECT when loading games to toggle between like/love
  • Added new 130% rendering speed as a per-game option
  • Improved key map handling - all virtual Amstrad CPC keys are now mappable to the NDS keys
  • Added vertical jitter handling - improves look of vertical compression making games like Tempest look much improved when scaled
  • Improved save state support - AY music is properly restored when loading an old save state
  • Added instructions for use on first boot of the emulator
  • Switched to O3 optimization for a few more frames of performance
  • Lots of other small improvements and cleanups under the hood as time permitted

And if you are curious and you go check his Github profile, you will see that he has written several other emulators for Nintendo DS and DSi.



Making a joystick with 3D print by Manuel3D

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Manuel3D is the author of 3 Amstrad CPC programs, two utilities : New font for Amstrad CPC and Draw a star, and also a game : the hangman.

On his Youtube channel, he was showing a case for an Amstrad CPC 464.

Today he is showing how to make a joystick for Amstrad CPC with the needed components and 3D printing (thanks to Amstrad Power for the tweet.

Et pour voir le résultat, allez voir cette vidéo du joystick fabriqué sur une partie d'Arkanoid.


Youtube video



Universal Basic Library (UBL) to program in Locomotive basic on Amstrad CPC (and much more)

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Amstrad Power presents Universal Basic Library (UBL) by Orac81 which is a basic library for Amstrad CPC but also for C64, VIC-20, C16, PET, DOS QBasic, Apple II, Dragon 32, BBC Micro, ZX-Spectrum, MSX, TRS-80, Exidy Sorcerer and Ohio Superboard. UBL will use the lines 1 to 49 (fast function) and 9500-9999 (heavy functions), you code will then use lines 50 to 9499.

You can download a .DSK compiled by shacpc with examples programs using UBL.



New firmware 16th Novembre 2025 for the PicoMEM 8bit ISA card by FreddyV

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La FreddyV has released a new firmware for his PicoMEM 8bit ISA card today on Github. This new version brings the following points:

  • Sound Blaster support (compatible with some games)
  • Covox sound card support (a card connected to the printer port, like the digiblaster on Amstrad CPC, which needs a lot of CPU time to send data)
  • a lot of corrections


WIP Ayane by Madram, an Amstrad CPC music player

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Ayane by Madram is an Amstrad CPC utility to read musical files. It's not a final version, but a WIP version to let you know the features of Ayane that you can donwload on Pouet, and also listen to with a Youtube video of Ayane.


Youtube video



The Zilog Z80, the nightmare for Intel, a video by Olivier Poncet

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Olivier Poncet is the author of the Amstrad CPC Xcpc emulator for Linux, BSD and Unix. Il a a réalisé une video sur le processeur Zilog z80 qui équipe bien d'autres ordinateurs que l'Amstrad CPC.


Youtube video




RASM v3.0 (Polaris) by Roudoudou, a multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC

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The last version of the multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC RASM (v3.0) by Roudoudou is available since yesterday on Github.

This multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC (for linux, windows, and also MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC. It's recommended to use it with the new emulator also by Roudoudou : ACE-DL.

This new version features :

  • pre-processing improvement to handle multi-param functions, better string merge
  • pre-processing refactoring/cleaning/speed
  • new math functions pow, lerp, clamp, fdim, fremain, fmin, fmax, fstep... (see online doc)
  • new functions CHECK, DELFILE, READFILE for EDSK directive
  • new ZX0 cruncher by Emmanuel Marty which is x30 faster than original implementation
  • SAVE on DSK is now using EDSK directive core and is able to update any kind of floppy
  • STR directive evolutions (allow bytes inside strings, hex output, but... see online doc)
  • simple banking is now supported when assembling to emulator RAM
  • enforce memory configuration when recalling a rombank set
  • added a warning for empty strings
  • bugfix intempestive error with OR and XOR directive
  • bugfix octal 0o prefix
  • better error messages
  • hundreds of new autotests
  • added Z80 simulator by superzazu for cruncher autotesting
  • documentation is up to date