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







Marion et les crocodiles d'Amstrad : L'histoire d'Amstrad France, a french book by David Hecq

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Gunhed TV (David Hecq) is a known french youtubber with some videos on Amstrad CPC.

But it's also the author of the book Marion et les crocodiles d'Amstrad : L'histoire d'Amstrad France recommended by Roudoudou on his Discord. I just received it and I will read it at the end of the week.




Xcpc v0.52.0, an Amstrad CPC emulator for Linux, BSD and Unix by Olivier Poncet (and AYM JS)

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Olivier Poncet is the author of an Amstrad CPC emulator : Xcpc v0.52.0 for Linux, BSD and Unix. It doesn't emulate the + models though.

He is talking about how to write an emulator on his web site.

And also quite interesting, he has released last month AYM JS which is a sound chip emulator written in JavaScript emulating the AY-3-8910 PSG (Programmable Sound Generator) and the YM2149 SSG (Software-Controlled Sound Generator). You can test AYM JS here (press the Power button and the Play button). At the moment YM files must be converted to javascript (but the conversion tool isn't available yet), but direct support of YM files is on the way.



Windows remakes of Amstrad CPC games by Alaiing

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Alaiing présent on Itch.IO, Twitch and Twitter/X is the author of windows remakes of the following Amstrad CPC games using the MonoGame framework, and of games on other platforms) : Bomb Jack (three first levels), Arkanoid (three first levels) and Airwolf (first level).





New version of the Amstrad CPC assembler Orgams (GG beta 6)

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Orgams is an assembler in ROM for Amstrad CPC, created by Madram, Drill and Hicks. A new version GG beta 6 is available (5th August 2024).

The documentation in french and english is available on Orgams' wiki.




Coloco by Tuxedo games for Amstrad CPC

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Coloco by Tuxedo Games already exists on ZX Spectrum and is now available on Amstrad CPC in tape, snapshot format (also in .DSK on CPCWiki's forum).

You can see a video of Coloco by Saberman on Youtube.




Amstrad CPC 4mb demo - 40 Years Of Magic by Devilmarkus

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40 Years of Magic par Devilmarkus is a remix of Sandra's title "Hi! Hi! Hi!" sampled in 4bit, 14khz, Stereo, for the Amstrad CPC.

You can download 40 Years of Magic by Devilmarkus on Pouet. You can run it either on an Amstrad CPC with 4 Mb of RAM and a mass storage expansion card or with an emulator supporting 4 Mb of RAM and the CPCDOS ROM.