SBEMU by Crazii is an OPL3 Sound Blaster sound card emulator for DOS and a physical PCI sound card.

Ian Scott has released a new firmware v4.1.1 for his ISA card PicoGUS which supports the sound card Gravis Ultra Sound and much more including recently the Sound Blaster 16. This version also corrects an old bug : playmidi.exe now works in GUS mode.

Targhan has updated CPC Scene Radio with the latest games and demos musics.

Abalore just released his latest project, no more no less than a newémulateur multi platform Amtrad CPC emulator, but only compiled for Linux at the moment. It do not support CPC+ but can read .CPR cartridge and run Alcon 2020 for example.

A new version 260516_r007.9 of the Amstrad CPC core for MiST by Renaud Helias is available.

The adventure game enging (point & click) Paket is made by Jordi Sureda (graphics) and Santi Ontañón (code). It was first used for a demo : the Escape the ROM game then the episodes 1 to 3 of the game The Key.

A Great Pakete Point & Click Adventure for Amstrad CPC Creation Contest is open (with some rewards for the winner) till the 31th December 2026. The winner will be announced at the end of January 2027. You can download Paket v1.1 on its Github page (compiler and documentation).

Longshot has released version 1.9 of the Amstrad CPC CRTC Compendium (15th May 2026) which is a documentation about the CRTC 6845 (and some others circuits). Note that the CRTC is a generic component used in several computers including the IBM PC.

It is possible to check if an emulator is good with the SHAKER tests by Longshot. SHAKER is a program designed to run on CPC machines produced by AMSTRAD in the 80s-90s. The objective of this program is to carry out extensive tests on the video circuits of this machine. These video circuits are the GATE ARRAY and the CRTC 6845. AMSTRAD produced several series of GATE ARRAY and used CRTC models produced by different manufacturers (HITACHI, MOTOROLA, UMC, AMSTRAD). This has been causing compatibility problems on operations that exceed the functional specifications of these circuits. The identified CRTCs are numbered from 0 to 4.

And last, if you like reading, don't hesitate to go check Longshot's blog.

DAAD Ready version B (05/15/2026) has been released for Windows. DAAD Ready allows you to create a graphical adventure game with DAAD Adventure Writer and create a binary for several 8bit and 16bit platforms including the Amstrad CPC.

For more information on DAAD Ready, follow this link. If you want to create a purely text adventure game, you can use the PunyInform library written by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson.

Little Puff in Dragonland for Amstrad CPC is a great classic by Christian URQUHART, Glenn BENSON, Paul JOHNSON, Dave KELLY in 1989 and edited by Codemasters Software.

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is doing a speedrun on Little Puff in Dragonland in about 8 minutes and 4 seconds.

Saboteur for Amstrad CPC is a great classic by Clive Townsend in 1986 and edited by Durell Software.

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is doing a speedrun on Saboteur 1 in about 11 minutes and 50 seconds.