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






Replacing the Megadrive ASIC of a MegaPC by Keropi

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If you still didnt buy the MegaCard to upgrade your MegaPC, there is another useful upgrade. Replacing the Megadrive ASIC on the ISA card as it's an early version with a bug. Beware, you need to be careful when removing the bugged ASIC and putting a new one coming from a Megadrive donor. It will let you use flash cartridges with more success like the MegaEverdrive PRO (other source here).


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Symamp v4.1 by Prodatron for SymbOS, a musical player

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Symamp by Prodatron is a musical player for SymbOS which let you play these formats :

  • MOD (4 canals)
  • SA2 (Surprise! Adlib Tracker 2)
  • SKM (compiled Starkos modules)
  • ST2 (Soundtrakker 128 modules)
  • PT3 (ZX Spectrum Protracker/6channel Vortex Tracker)
  • MP3

It supports the following sound cards/chips (all internal sound chips of course) :

  • Dave soundchip of the Enterprise 64/128
  • CPC Playcity expansion
  • MSX Darky catridge
  • Dk'tronics AY soundcard for the PCW
  • any MP3MSX compatible MP3 decoder on any platform
  • OPL4 (MoonSound, MonsterSound, OPL4 Shockwave, Dal So Ri)
  • carte Willy de Pulkomandy

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Zym by Prevtenet, an Infocom games interpreter for SymbOS

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Zym by Prevtenets is an adventure game interpreter for Infocom like games using the Z-machine. It can play infocom games with using the format Z3, 4 5 and 8.




RetroMagazine World issue 12 (english and italian) by Francesco Fiorentini

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Seen on Facebook, the issue 12 of RetroMagazine World by Francesco Fiorentini is released in english and italian.

And a web article about the correction of a basic (and asm) basic listing : Frotee which was in Amstrad Computer User issue 34 in September 1987.



Aquablue demo for the Amstrad CPC by Cyrille GOURET

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Aquablue is a short demo for the Amstrad CPC by Cyrille GOURET. it's available on the Amstradiens Facebook group.

You can see a video in the Twitter link. The video below is related to Aquablue (video by Comsoft).


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