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






Eliot's Amstrad hardware shop

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Need some Amstrad CPC parts ? Well time to go on Eliot's shop !

Rules of this useful shop :

- parts are aimed to be used in the CPC community or any other 8bits friendly community,
- some parts are rare so please order only what you really need,
- please do not resell parts you got from the site.



Welcome to Coutances !

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Welcome to Coutances, home of Amstrad Expo meeting, organized by the tiredless Eliot. Arrived Friday in the morning, 2 people already, myself and a distinguished member of Greece : Voxfreak.

Welcome to Coutances !

Symbos running on Eliot's computer with a symbiface and a Compact Flash card working as a hard disc.

Symbos on Eliot's computer with symbiface and Compact Flash card as a hard disk for CPC

Voxfreak (left) and Eliot (right).

Voxfreax and Eliot





Arkos Tracker v1.0 beta 3 for PC

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You can download Arkos Tracker v1.0 beta 3 for PC by Targhan.

Here's the changelist :

  • AKStoYM, a command line tool to convert any AKS song into an interleaved or non-interleaved YM6 format,
  • MSX2 compatible player test thanks to WYZ.

If you don't have .Net, you can still use the command line tools (AKStoYM, STKtoAKS, AKStoYM) if you have Mono installed.



New order of the SDCard HxC floppy emulator

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Another order on Ebay of the SDCard HxC floppy emulator. The price is 60 sterling pounds (add shipping cost).

You will also need a cable :

Dont forget that you need a 5 volts alimentation for the HxC.

See below for a nice integration of the HxC inside an Amstrad CPC by MUSICMAN3512 of the CPC Rulez forum :

SDCard HxC floppy emulator inside an Amstrad CPC




SDiskEmul v3 by Sundance, a 3,5" drive emulator

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Version 3 of SDiskEmul by Sundance, a floppy disk emulator, is available.

SDiskEmul works with Atari XE/XL (SIO mode), Atari gamme ST, Amiga (MFM mode) and Amstrad CPC. Writing is only possible with Atari .ST disks images.

Version 3 brings :

  • installation without soldering on SCART,
  • graphic resolution : 320x240 (40x32 characters),
  • PS2 mouse port included,
  • hardware and software optimization : performances up to 50%.

You can check a video of SDiskEmul v3 on Youtube.


Youtube video



XNACPC, an Amstrad CPC emulator for Xbox 360 by Gavin Pugh

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Gavin Pugh updated his twitter account, XNACPC is now working, an Amstrad CPC emulator for Xbox 360.

Source code will be later available, but it could take weeks or months.