A video by Duke the author of the wifi M4 board for Amstrad CPC of an upgraded version of the ANSI Telnet client for M4 Board by Fergus Leen.

Retro Erick presents in video the FreeSP utility by ChartreuseK (link to github or local download) which is useful to accelerate disk reading (with the DIR command) under FAT16 with msdos 4.0 and more. It's not useful with a FAT12 disk and/or msdos 3.x as DIR then doesnt calculate free space and msdos 3 keeps more informations in memory). But with FAT16 disks the DIR commandand (msdos or 4dos) is slowly calculating the free space, so the two following utilities will do the trick :

• freesp (not TSR : Terminate and Stay Resident) : put the command freesp c: (drive A to Z) in your autoexec.bat and forget it (one disk only)
• freespt (TSR) : it intercepts msdos interruptions msdos 21h/36h and can manage up to 18 disks, put the command freesp cdef in your autoexec.bat to manage drives C, D E and F (in my case the C: disk by the PicoMem and my ZIP drive as D:)

Recommended by Stefan Vogt, The Ruin of Oceanus Pr1me by Marco Innocenti is a science-fiction text adventure for Amstrad CPC, PCW and many other computers.

While reading Scali's blog, I saw this demo by the finnish group Alumni written by Terwiz : Three shades of Grey (local download) which is using the Hercules video mode which isnt often used (see video below using an Amstrad PC 1640). I invite you to see their other productions including Wild Scene which is an humorous video. I don't know but I feel I like this person, but why ?

I wish you all a happy new year 2024, health and success, for you and those who count in your heart (other also). And of course a lot of new Amstrad CPC programs, new hardware expansions and why not a CPCNext like the Zx Spectrum Next or a CPC-X64 which we are lacking news since a moment.

Personnally I am for a CPCNext which would incorporate all hardware expansions which exists already with an HDMI output for a simple reason, our Amstrad CPC won't last forest. Giving them a new corporal enveloppe will ensure a longer life (well till our own end at least :-). And no need to extract components from existing CPC, there are already replacements for the gate array and the AY-3-8912 sound chip, other will come certainly later.

Mananuk (on Twitter) is working on a next episode of the Mandarin : the Mandarin 2 which you can see some screenshots on CPCWiki.

An information that I missed in April 2023, the release by Impact ofEGX Martine's slideshow for Amstrad CPC+ available on Pouet and here on Genesis8bit.

You can see EGX Martine's slideshow on Youtube in a by Xenomorph.

Martine v0.39 is an utility written by the Impact group :

• converting JPG and PNG images to Overscan screen or window for Amstrad CPC (and Plus series)
• new tile map mode, which allow to analyze an image of a level game, and produce .imp and .til readable by tile tool from Impact

This version was released the 28th August 2023. It is available for Windows, MacOS, ARM64 and linux.

Little Winter Demo by Leosoft is an Amstrad CPC demo in 3D for the end of the year, nice. You can download it on CPCWiki or here on Genesis8bit.

You can see Little Winter Demo thanks to Xenomorph on Youtube (see below).

Still the one by Impact is their latest Amstrad CPC demo for a CRTC 1 and 512 Kb of RAM, available on Pouet. Also available here on Genesis8bit.

The demo was made by :

• AST (code, graphics)
• Hwikaa (graphics)
• Kris (graphicse)
• Tomchi (music)