Ian Scott has released a new firmware v3.1.0 for his ISA card PicoGUS which supports the sound card Gravis Ultra Sound (and much more).

Since v3.0, it also supports CD-ROM emulation ! The new firmware can be downloaded on Ian Scott's Github.

SugarDS v1.2 is an Amstrad CPC emulator for Nintendo DS and DSi by Nige Rideout (github). This version features :

• Less pops clicks when going in/out of selecting games
• Cleaner/Faster Disk Writes (less pause, better "DISK WRITE" notification)
• Improved Z80 timing - found a few more instructions that needed timing tweaks
• Improved CRTC emulation - fixed regression on Pinball Dreams, etc. Back to emulation of Type 3
• Fix for two-sided drive signal for FDC (nothing seemed to be affected by this... but better to be accurate)
• Improved pan/scan for Mode 2 - auto-center and smoother scroll
• Improved offset handling - cleaner 1 pixel move and faster press-and-hold
• Added ESC as a possible key map

And if you are curious and you go check his Github profile, you will see that he has written several other emulators for Nintendo DS and DSi.

The CIRTECH Sprint accelerator card for Amstrad PCW has a 8 Mhz Z80 which replaces the original 4 Mhz Z80 inside the PCW.

Amstrad Retro Geek is showing this CIRTECH Sprint accelerator card being used on an Amstrad PCW 8256.

Génération Micros has just released yesterday an interview of Laurant WEILL, founder of Loriciels.

Classic Adventurer is a newspaper about adventure games by Mark Hardisty. Last issue number 12 just got released. As usual you can buy it printed or download it for free in PDF format..

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

His last video 5 days ago is about the flamboyant fiasco of the Amstrad GX4000, to be compared to the video on the same subject : Histoire d'un Flop : les Amstrad 6128 plus, 464 Plus, et la GX 4000 by Générations Micro in December 2024.

David HECQ is also the author of the book Marion et les crocodiles d'Amstrad : L'histoire d'Amstrad France recommended by Roudoudou on his Discord. I did read it and it's a good one.

Génération Micros has done a video about the french editor Loriciels two days ago (french inside). There is a microphone problem at the start of the video.

CPC Analyzer (for windows, can be compiled on MacOS and Linux) by Crabfists is an utility to reverse engineering Amstrad CPC programs : it's a combination of an emulator, debugger & interactive disassembler. Programs are loaded and run in the emulator and their state can be inspected using the tools provided. It's a port of Spectrum Analyzer by Mark Craig. The current features of CPC Analyzer are :

• Disassembler
• Debugger
• Graphics viewer
• Character map viewer
• Lua Custom viewers
• Frame trace
• Memory diff
• IO analyser
• Amstrad CPC 464 and CPC 6128 support
• Lua scripting

JasonA is the author of a MISTer FGPA core supporting the Amstrad CPC+ and the GX4000 console since the start of May 2025. There is already an Amstrad CPC old core.

ESPectrum is a ZX Spectrum emulator for the boards Ilygo TTGo VGA32 and Olimex ESP32-SBC-FabGL. There is now also an Amstrad CPC emulator named CPCESP, with a 3D printed packaging by Jose Lopez (other photos). CPCESP v0.85 is available on Github. You can also find CPCESP on :

• CPCESP on Facebook
• CPCESP on Twitter