The Amstrad Expo - Final Exams meeting will take place in in Coutances (Normandy, France) at Espace Jeunes (F.J.T) from 25th to 27th June 2010. Organization by the tireless Eliot, meaning it will be a great one.

Events will be :

• Essay (Z80 - up to 128 Kb), is it possible for a CPC scener to release something in 2 months ?
• Graphic art : 1) "MODE 2 is not a monochrome mode!", 2) "Small pixels are not beautifull"
• Musical education : "Does Starkos give a better result than Amstradeus?"

IMPORTANT : this year, the productions will be released as files, no special menu !

You will see at the metting :
Symbiface 2 + HD + Compact Flash
Virtual Net 96
SDisk Floppy Emulator

Already coming : Candy - Beb - Shap - Hicks - Kris - Papy CPC - Pulkomandy - Targhan - Tom et Jerry - Voxfreax - Kawickboy - Garett.

Food and drinks are included in the ticket (9 euros/day) for all students. Some bedroom will be available at the exams place.

For more informations, write to eliot(at)cpcscene(dot)com

You only have four days left to be able to order Orion Prime in a nice package in french, english or spanish. After this date you will only be able to download the game the 30th June 2010.

Have a look at Gavin Pugh twitter account about Roland in Time on Xbox360 with XNA.

The final version of the Sorcery+ remake by Antibug for windows is available, with the original graphics.

You can download the latest version of ccz80 (v3.0.0). The ccz80 language has a syntax based on C language, to program for Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and MSX on a PC.

P.S. : see CCZ80++ now.

You can read the diskmag Hugi 36 for another report of the Break Point 2010 meeting and the article about the Amstrad demo scene in 2009 by Optimus.

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

You can download the emulator MAC-CPC v0.9.2a for Mac OS X by Flynn. MacCPC is the C and Objective C port of his second Amstrad CPC emulator called WinCPC.

After a first Alan Michael Sugar biography : Alan Sugar: The Amstrad Story by David Thomas. I did read it and found it interesting, another one is out since March 2009 : Sir Alan Sugar: The Biography by Charlie Burden. It will be again available in August 2010 in paperback I suppose.

You can download the latest version of the PC-CPC emulator by Ludovic Deplanque (Demoniak).

This version corrects bugs and adds choice for color and green monitor, an assembler, the start of the CPC+ asic emulation.