Here are some Amstrad related posts on, especially the first one if you want to have sweet dreams :

• Amstrad bedding with the direct link to buy it but is it really legal, I doubt they paid the right to use the Amstrad brand
• playing Amstrad GX4000 at the Pixel Museum in Bruxelles
• paying 3D print model of an Amstrad CPC 464

New articles are available on 64 NOPS, a blog about programmation on Amstrad CPC by Hicks (Vanity) and Toms (Pulpo Corrosivo). There is a english translation of a french one by Tom and Jerry about musical composition software, and more articles about the FDC by Roudoudou (in french) :

• musical composition software on Amstrad CPC (english) and the french version
• discovering the FDC (issue 1)
• discovering the FDC (issue 2)
• discovering the FDC (issue 3)
• discovering the FDC (issue 4)

ACE v1.24 is available. Since v1.22, this emulator can use plugins which emulates :

• Amdrum (Cheetah) sound card which lets play 8bit samples, seen in ads a percussion synthesis
• X-Mass IDE interface
• Albireo card by PulkoTronics
• MultiPlay : supporting mices and joysticks
• Mirage Imager (a primitive Multiface Two)
• Multiface Two (new with v1.24)
• Nova by PulkoMandy, RTC and NVRAM support
• Amstrad SSA-1 Speech Synthetizer
• DK'Tronics speech synthetize

A SDK exists if you want to program your own plugin for the ACE emulator.

You can download a first beta version of an upgraded Elite by Fessor which is available on CPCWiki :

• Splashscreens 1 and 2 revised, Splashscreen 2 is now a showcase similar to the 16bit Elites
• The mechanics of the BBC disk version, which reloads various shipsets, have been reproduced
• In the savegames it is now noted which shipset is active, they are therefore incompatible with the officially published versions, so you have to start a new career
• Routines for loading / saving savegames in order to be compatible with future changes to the game (encryption against program code deactivated)
• Unused code commented out and a little over 1000 bytes gained. This may be enough to retrofit the two missing missions (Hunting the Constrictor / delivering Thargoid-Plans), but I have to take a closer look at that in the BBC code

After Dash 4 in 1 and Starbobs464 (in 2 versions for plain CPC and GX4000), here are two new Amstrad CPC demos by Oneman :

• Bucket in Space released in August 2021
• Goldrunner wannabe released in February 2021

Nanako is a game character first seen on ZX Spectrum, and later in 2009 on Amstrad CPC en 2009 in two game by The Mojon Twins which we find once again 10 years later upgraded in a compilation called Nanako Chronicles (sold by BitmapSoft) which was released in 2019. Today it is available as a download:

• Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle, a reflexion and platform game, get up the tower in 25 levels to save your sister
• Nanako Descends To Hell, in this action/adventure game, you must find 4 parts on an artifact to save her village

PunyInform v2.8 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson is a library written in Inform 6 to create adventure game (pure text, no graphic support contrary to DAAD) using the Z-machine virtual machine which will run on 8bit computers (or more recent computers too). PunyInform has a parser, knowing of common verbs and a framework to write adventure games.

PunyInform is based on the Inform 6 library written by Graham Nelson. Its goal is to make easily adventure games in Inform 6, with a manual describing the differences between the official library and PunyInform..

Games using PunyInform can be compiled in z3, z5 and z8 format (z3 being the best format for 8bit computers, other formats have more features). Compared to the Inform 6 library, it means that there is no support for the Glulx virtual machine but z3 format is important as Inform 6 doesnt support it.

To compile games written with PunyInform, you should use the Inform 6 compiler maintained by David Kinder. Binaries are available on if-archive. PunyInform needs Inform v6.34 (or more).

They are tutorials to write adventure game with PunyInform (end of the page).

To try your game after compilation, you can use WinFrotz by David Kinder, to create map easily you can use Trizbort.

Torreoscura by Bieno Marti is an adventure game written with The Quill (Gilsoft) in its Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ORIC versions and with the DAAD (Aventuras AD) in its ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad PCW and PC MS-DOS CGA ports :

• MiguelSky on Amstrad CPC in spanish (in 2020) and soon for the english version
• Pedro Fernández on Amstrad PCW, ZX Spectrum, MSX and PC-DOS CGA (spanish and english)

Ace for Haiku v1.21.0 by Pulkomandy is an Amstrad CPC emulator available since the 16th August.

If you want to test this emulator on a PC with VirtualBox you can look at the two following videos (audio in spanish, but not necessary for comprehension) :

• Installation of Haiku on VirtualBox
• Installation of ACE on Haiku

Knight Lore released in 1984 on Amstrad CPC has been ported to Amstrad PCW by Habi Soft in 2020 (with color support). This year he is also releasing a version for Amstrad PcW16 (still with color support).

The Amstrad PcW16 released in 1995 wasn't compatible with the previous Amstrad PCW. It had a new graphical OS : Roseanne (single task, 640x480 using VGA). The word processor could read Locoscript but it was written by Creative Technology. The package also included a spreadsheet, address book, diary, calculator and file manager.

You can emulate the Amstrad PcW16 with tje emulator Ana Rosa v0.1.1 by Habisoft.

If you need help to finish the game, go see StrategyWiki.

There is a windows remake of Knight Lore by Peter Hanratty.