Amstrad.EU is going to be 25 years old soon, it seems it's the year to hit this threshold as this site got its anniversary in may. So Amstrad.EU just got a lifting at the start of October. The content of the old site is at its old address which you will find here. The content will be migrated from the old site to the new with time, so be patient.

Long life to Amstrad.EU and all other Amstrad computers related web sites, but lets not be sectarian towards those about other old computers as we didn't start all with an Amstrad CPC (I did start in fact with a ZX 81, not mine though).

Allister Brimble is a british composer of music for video games, who worked for example for Team 17. He did release in 2015 The Spectrum Works which is a compilation of remake of Amstrad CPC games music.

These last years several expansions allows you to use mass storage (USB or sd...) on Amstrad CPC, each needing a ROM to use it correctly.

And if you use two of these expansions, you will need to load two ROMs, so less RAM for your Amstrad CPC.

So Offset did write UniDOS and drivers to be able to use another expansion, needing only one ROM with features being the same whatever the expansion. Unidos can manage actually :

• Albireo by PulkoTronics
• M4 Board by Duke
• X-Mass by Tot0
• Symbiface II by Dr.Zed
• Nova by PulkoTronics

Offset also wrote UniDOS Cartridge Creator (v1.4) which is an utility to create Amstrad Plus cartridges equipped with a patched firmware which allows to add UniDOS and its DOS nodes. You can furthermore configure up to 30 additional tool ROMs (such as Utopia, Maxam, Protext..) in the cartridges (compatible with ParaDOS and Burnin' Rubber) without requiring a real ROM board. The tool also let you automatically download the latest UniDOS ROMs from the official web site.

Unidos v1.51 is a minor release released in September 2024, which is only fixing the|COPY RSX so that it also works properly with weird binary headers generated by some PC tools.

First announced in May 2024, SymCalc by Prodatron for SymbOS is available since the 18th October 2024. It's a spreadsheet software for the SymbOS operating system. Le code de l'application disponible sur la page github de SymCalc, its documentation is available on SymbOS web site.

Even if you see 3 inc disks on this tweet by Kevin Edwards, they were used on a Tatung Einstein TC-01 computer. But they hold the development archives of the brothers Tim and Geoff Follin (with their agreement of course) for C64 but also for Amstrad CPC and ZX Spextrum.

On this github page, you will be able of course to download the content of the disks (music and player code source) but also an historic of the preservation of these data which were done in two steps first by Dean Belfield then by Kevin Edwards. Sadly Geoff Follin leaved us in May 2024 due to a cancer.

Border 0 organizes his thirteenth score contest on the Amstrad CPC game 77 Attempts (platform game by Alvaro JOVER, Jordi AMOROS and Cristian GARCIA for the CPCRetroDev 2018) till the 30th November 2024. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.

Mighty Street Fighter by AmstradGGP will be released in December 2024. On their Itch.IO page you will find now an art gallery. And if you still didn't get it, go quickly download their port of the great classic Toki.

The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.8 which corrects DNS issues occurring under certain conditions (first seen with french users).

There is also a new extended documentation of the M4 board written by Csaba Toth in english (PDF format).

Génération Amstrad CPC is a book written by Patrick Hellio edited by Pix'n Love.

It's a big book, A4 format with no less than 538 pages. Indeed you must do some muscle work before being able to read a book about Amstrad CPC computers. I can't give an opinion about the book as I couldn't order it before. It is available as a limited edition on Pix'n Love web site, simply in a french library shop or on Amazon.fr if you don't live in France. The photo below is of the limited edition of our BND 4 nice organizer.

P.S. : Tonight for the meeting dinner, it's turkey with sour cream and mushrooms, accompanied by a potato and cauliflower gratin, enjoy your meal

Ghostship Delgado is an adventure game written with the Quill utility by Tony Kingsmill (Loftcat Software), in two parts. The game is free on Itch.io with detailed instructions and some optional additional content available for only 2 dollars.

Take on the role of George Pike, a happy go lucky chap renting a yacht on the holiday of his lifetime in the 1960s. George is accompanied by his partner, sleeping on the lower deck, and Ruffles, George's trusty dog.

While dozing off to sleep in the sunshine of the upper deck you awake to find yourself on the quarter deck of a mysterious, seemingly abandoned historic ship.

Only Ruffles the dog and the clothes you are wearing appear to be the same. You begin to survey your surroundings you immediately notice a stillness in the air, and no-one in sight.

Yet the ship appears to be far out to sea with no land in sight. You call out in hope that someone may hear you but to no avail.

Ruffles begins to sniff, circling with his nose to the deck. Has he smelt something ?

Can you discover why George arrived here? Can you find a way off the ship and back to your yacht and partner? And will Ruffles safely make it along with you ?