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






Ana Rosa 0.1.1, an Amstrad PCW16 emulator by Habi Soft

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Ana Rosa 0.1.1 is a beta of an Amstrad PCW16 emulator by Habi Soft, after an alpha released in 2016.

At the first use of the emulator, you must install the OS of the PCW16 which you will find there.

You can check the doumentation of the emulator.




WIP Shadows of Death by Eric Cubizolle, a Beat them all game on Amstrad CPC

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I am late to write about a WIP game as its release could maybe be soon, it's the beat them all Shadows of Death by Titan (Eric Cubizolle).

You should really go look at CPCWiki and of course the official web site of Titan which has many informations, graphics, pre-version for windows (using the motor OpenBOR) and Amstrad CPC.

Code and graphics are by Titan, musics by Pulsophonic, sound effects and voices by CosmoBuggi.




RASM v1.5 by Roudoudou, a multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC

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The last version of RASM is v1.5 (19th July 2021).

Rasm is now available on Github (documentation included).

This multi platform assembler (linux, windows, but not only like MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC.



A musical album made by Keen On Keys with an Amstrad Fidelity CKX100 (MIDI keyboard)

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The Amstrad Fidelity CKX100 is the one and only music keyboard made by Amstrad, for more informations see this page and this other one.

Keen on Keys has made a musical album with this Amstrad CKX100 and also made a test of the MIDI keyboard on Youtube and a short preview made before the long test.

If you are curious enough, you can actually buy one being sold on Le Bon Coin.

Thanks to PulkoMandy for the information.




Infernal Runner JS by Cyxx, a HTML Javascript version of the game by Eric Chahi

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Infernal Runner by Eric Chahi is using a virtual machine and Cyxx did the reverse engineering of the Amstrad CPC .DSKimage and Z80 code to write Infernal Runner JS. This version written in Javascript is reading the .DSK of the game to get the bytcode running in the virtual machine and the original Amstrad CPC graphics in mode 1.

You can also read in german with english subtitles the presentation by Norbert Kehrer : The Virtual Machine Architecture of Infernal Runner and another javascript port of this virtual machine.




Joyce v2.2.15 by John Elliott, an Amstrad PCW emulator

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The Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.2.14 by John Elliott already available for unix and windows, and now also on MacOS (5th August 2021).

This version fixes handling of DSK files with unformatted tracks.



Cosa Nostra by Cheapeesoft, a remake of the Opera Soft Amstrad CPC game

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Cosa Nostra is a game created in 1986 by Opera Soft, a run and gun type game. For its 35th anniversary, Cheapeesoft has released a remake for windows and android. For the curious, a video of Cosa Nostra on Youtube.




CPCemu v2.3.3, an Amstrad CPC emulator by Rainer Loritz is available

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Rainer has released CPCemu v2.3.3. It's available for MacOS, Android, iOS, Linux (x86_64 and ARM, in particular on Raspberry Pi) and Windows.

New version features :

  • Snapshot sizes of up to 576 K (uncompressed only)
  • Default snapshot size can be changed in configuration file
  • New option to use on-screen joystick as cursor keys
  • Several bug fixes, in particular in the context of ROM handling