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Upgrade your Amstrad CPC disk drive with the ACME cover

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You are so used to it, but the cover of your Amstrad CPC disk drive has some informations. Why not getting an upgrade of these informations by getting the one made by Frédéric Bellec (ACME web site) ? It's available in azerty and qwerty, and in english.



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.