A new release candidate of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v3.4.0 is available for download.

Olivier Gout aka Overflow du groupe Logon System has been interviewed by No Recess.

He is the author of Amstrad CPC demos like S&KOH (1991), Backtro (2001) and Yet Another Plasma! (2012).

Two online Amstrad CPC emulators have been updated with bugs corrections and new features :

• Sugarbox : loading of snapshots (.SNA)
• JavaCPC : you can load your own disks images files (.DSK), some important keys are F1 - Show some info, F12 - Reset CPC, F2 - Load medium (CDT, DSK, even SNA is possible), F10 - Boot DSK in DF0, F9 - Toggle turbo mode and ALT + Enter - Toggle fullscreen)

SAMdisk v3.8 by Simon Owen is out since the 9th March 2014.

The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.

Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.

Version 3.8, last updated 9th March 2014
- Added support for SuperCard Pro .scp flux disk images (MFM+FM)
- Added --pll option to control PLL method with flux image scanning
- Fixed --head giving ambiguous option error due to typo
- Fixed KBI-19 format slightly overhanging track wrap
- Improved EOT handling of flux images containing just one revolution
- Changed --slow-step to --old-drive to better match usage

A new Bolloware game : Sven.

Phactory (a development environment targetting Amstrad CPC)and Phortem's (demo) code source are available on NoRecess web site.

Amstrad Today, a good site about repairing and upgrading your Amstrad CPC has now a little brother Homebrew.AT (english and french) which is about Amstrad CPC homebrews.

Here is a HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game La Guerra de Gamber by ESP Soft released on the 30th January 2014 for the 30th anniversary of the Amstrad CPC.

It's a robocop/green beret like game with a horizontal scrolling with 3 levels, and a bonus level like the Prohibition game between each level.

You can download La Guerra de Gamber on Amstrad.ESP.

The principal musical theme was written by McKlain and can be heard on SoundCloud.

Sugarbox is a new Amstrad CPC emulator (beta) for windows. Beware, there are some problems with windows XP SP3, it works without problems on windows 7 or 8.

Ces ordinateurs sont dangereux is a book written by François Quentin about the Amstrad CPC. Long lost, it is now available with the agreement of the author on Amstrad.eu's forum as PDF (Epub link, PDF link, as Amstrad.eu is not up atm). Happy reading ! Thanks to ced64k for his scanning work.