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







4deKades by Creative People for CPC, an Amstrad CPC demo

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4deKades by Creative People for CPC is a demo for Amstrad CPC written by :

  • Tom et Jerry (music)
  • Optimus (code)
  • Eliot (code)
  • Krusty (code)
  • m_dr_m (code)
  • Voxy (palettes)

Youtube video



SkillTeam by David Programa, an Amstrad CPC puzzle game

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SkillTeam by David Programa is a puzzle game for Amstrad CPC, Sokoban like.

It was originally developed by LukaszM for the mobile application Fancade. David wrote first a ZX Spectrum version of SkillTeam one month ago.


Youtube video



AMSTrad Antic Internal Ripper v1.1 by Raft McMillan (TRSi)

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AMSTAIR or AMSTrad Antic Internal Ripper v1.1 by Raft McMillan from the TRSi group is a hardware tool made with components from the Amstrad CPC era that allows the display of Amstrad CPC signals. It allow to hack a game in real time, trace code/ports, diagnostic faulty Amstrad CPC (the gerber plan is available to make it), more precisely it allows :

  • Display CPC control lines via LEDs
  • Slow down your Amstrad at chosen speed
  • Freeze mode with step by step functionality : Step on each Clock, DMA access, CPU instruction, port read, port write, Memory access
  • Select the IO port you want to scan
  • Show address lines in binary and data lines in hexadecimal
  • Output the selected data to SOUND (Really?!)
  • Digiblaster compatible mode
  • DMA read or write in each cpu modes : fast, slow, paused
  • DMA can r/w Memory and IO ports
  • Selection of DMA address and data via switchs
  • Selection of Port or Memory address to intercept via switchs
  • Force DMA for dead z80
  • CPC or external power supply
  • Reset Amstrad

Youtube video




3DManiaks2, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by the group Impact

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3DManiaks2 by Impact is their latest production, an Amstrad CPC+ demo. You can download it on Pouet. You can see 3DManiaks2 sur Youtube (see below).

The demo has been written by :

  • Demoniak (code)
  • Kris (graphics)
  • Ultrasyd (music)

Youtube video



SDCC v4.5.0 (C programming for Amstrad CPC) on PC, Linux, MacOS

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A new version of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v4.5.0 is available since the 28th January 2025 for Windows, Linux and MacOS.




CPCemu v3.0 (April 2025), an Amstrad CPC emulator by Rainer Loritz is available

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Rainer has released CPCemu v3.0 (April 2025). It's available for MacOS, Android, iOS, Linux (x86_64 and ARM, included Raspberry Pi) and Windows.

This version provides these new features :

  • New GUI
  • New debugger/monitor including (re)assembler
  • ROM configuration by GUI
  • Basic V9990 graphics card emulation (primarily for SymbOS)
  • Emulation of Dobbertin HD20 harddisk drive
  • Emulation of keyboard clash
  • Virtual joystick/mouse left/right handles can be swapped
  • New video mode "simple" (should be faster, but that still needs to be proved)
  • IPv6 compatibility (only for the web server, not inside CPC via M4)
  • Usability of joysticks/game controllers improved
  • Mouse emulation (conversion of host mouse) improved, in particular the Symbiface mouse for SymbOS
  • Many bugs fixed (in particular compatibility with Windows 11)
  • Adjusted to SDL version 2.32.4 (which probably needs to be installed manually on Linux)