L'émulateur Amstrad CPC ACE par Offset n'est disponible que pour MorphOS et Haiku. Il a une fonctionnalité fort intéressante par rapport à d'autres émulateurs Amstrad CPC : avoir un système de plugin pour rajouter le support pour des extensions matérielles.

Mais bientôt avec Ace Hacked par Roudoudou, il sera disponible pour Linux, MacOS et Windows !

Bread80 has several project, the latest one is a modular Amstrad CPC using a modified backplane of a RC2014 (Z80 based computer) !

The C4CPC isn't made anymore by Gérald due to lack of time and exploding costs (x3).

But the Backbit Pro could be a possible replacement. Beware it's more than 100 dollars, but you also have the to buy the corresponding Amstrad CPC+/GX4000 adaptater :

• the adaptater has a chip for ACID protection bypass
• The adapters include a solderless jumper (one jumper is included, and extra jumpers can be purchased, required for ACID bypass)
• 3.5mm jack allows connecting a BackButton (to move back in the menu without touching the backbit pro, some systems such as Amstrad require an included solderless jumper) or a GenAssister
• Supports cartridge images (BIN/CPR) up to 1MB in size
• Real-time-clock remembers date & time even after shutoff. Useful when creating new files or versions
• One-button diagnostic mode helps you identify system faults (on most systems)
• Upgradeable via MicroSD card

The CPCRetroDev 2023 competition is announced. You can check the details on CPCRetroDev.

You can submit your game from the 13th October to the 2th November 2023. The award cermony will be the 17th November 2023 at 7:00pm.

The games will be submitted on Itch.io.

The meeting Benediction Coding Party #3 organazied by Eliot will take place from Friday the 27th to Sunday the 30th October 2023 at the Salle polyvalente, 44 rue de la Poterie, Gavray sur Sienne (50450).

For more informations go to the Benediction Coding Party #3's web page.

Ikonsgr has released new firmware for his expansion cards USIfAC II and ULIfAC . THe ULIFAC is the last iteration of his card which started with the USIfAC 1.

The 4th version of the HxC Floppy Emulator Manager is available.

It features :

• User can now edit up to 20 slots (previous version: 15 slots was the max.)
• New UI, removed the old "demomaker style" presentation, now displaying more files on screen (with longer filenames)
• DEL key added to move back to parent folder while navigating
• The manager now skips DSK files when using a HxC SD/Slim device
• The Help page now reports the firmware version + build date of the Manager
• Switched compilation to SDCC 4.2.0 (resulting better Z80 implementation)
• Now compiled using RASM from roudoudou (previous version: Pasmo)
• Now compressed using ZX0 packer (previous version: the good old Bitbuster)
• Smaller binary (11KB) resulting a faster load from BASIC prompt (previous version: 16KB)

It remains compatible with the 64KB RAM-based machines, and the ROM version is sdirectly available into the AUTOBOOT.HFE file.

A new version of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v4.3.0 is available since the 7th June 2023 for windows, linux and MacOS.

Anthony Flack is working on a remake of Bomb Jack for Amstrad CPC with the aim of bring faithful with the arcade version. Don't hesitate to check his videos on his Youtube channel.

A video by Rodrik Studio where he explains how he has coded the Bad Apple demo on an Amstrad PC 1512. At the start of the video you will be able to hear the music played with traditionnal music instruments.