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.

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 by Eric Chahi is using a virtual machine and Cyxx did the reverse engineering of the Amstrad CPC .DSK image 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.

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 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.

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

Elite is a classic video game and Fessor started to disassemble the source code of the Amstrad CPC version to upgrade it using such ressources as the 6502 code of the Apple 2 version (commented) and the code of Elite TNK (The New Kind) by Christian Pinder. There is also the source code (with comments) of the BBC micro version.

Mabus Mania by Oscar Llamas (Hicks) is a platform game released at the start of 2021 for Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum and now soon for windows.

A new version of Mod Master XT beta 27 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...

There was already in the Sierra adventure games a mode to support the special 16 color mode of the Amstrad PC 1512. This driver has been updated by ripsaw8080 :

• scrolling issue resolved so no more screen corruption: instead there are screen transitions that are better suited anyways for the slow PC1512 (additional changes were needed in the driver's dispatch routine to preserve the value of the DI register)
• color issue that resulted in unreadable areas is now resolved so newer EGA games are now readable (issue was the driver inexplicably reporting support for 65535 colors instead of 16), this made some later EGA titles playable: KQ5, SQ4, PQ3, SQ1 remake, LSL1 remake