Posted on the Amstrad IBM PC compatibles Facebook group par Stéphane LeMochi, here is an 1994 U.K. advertisement for Amstrad computers : PenPad 600 (1993), PCW 10 (1993), Notepad NC100 (1992) and Notepad NC200 (1993), PC série 7486 (1992 or 1993) and 9486. The 9486 PC serie was using Intel processors 486 SX and DX was released in 1994 as stated on the new Amstrad web site (product page), with two documents : first and second PDF with technical informations. I was surprised that the Notepad NC200 was more than three times the price of the Notepad NC100 !

Flash news, Sonix GX will be available at the next meeting Benediction coding Party 5 which will take place in October 2025.

I will at once suggest to Eliot to double the entrance price and getting a nice percentage (or not).

Of course your Amstrad PC 1512, 1640, PPC 512, PPC 640 and more (286 and 386) can run Doom8088 by FrenkelS. The fist version of Doom8088 was released the 28th August 2023.

Doom8088 can run in text mode, MDA, CGA, EGA, VGA and MCGA. It can use EMS if any for a 64 Kb buffer, and XMS for a RAMDRIVE if you have some. This version is based on GBADoom, a port of PrBoom for Game Boy Advance.

Below a video of Doom8088 in CGA.

Seen on the Amstrad IBM PC compatibles Facebook group, Mark RAWSON did post photos of the Amstrad RP4 diagnostic board for Amstrad PC 1512 and 1640. The manual should be available later. Thanks to him for sharing these informations.

Border 0 organizes his fifteenth score contest on the Amstrad CPC game Druid & Droid (action game by Arnolde in 2022) till the 31th march 2025. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.

The Saboteur 2 mod by theALFEST is available as v1.0.3 on Itch.IO. It feature 12% performance improvement.

Until the Last Plane 1942 by CarlosC is a free remake for PC available on Steam of Steam de 1942, a classic shoot them up game, video by Tarodius.

A new version of ConvImgCpc by Ludovic Deplanque is out (21th February 2025).

It's a windows utility to convert PC images to Amstrad CPC.

Impossamal by the Mojon Twins was released yesterday on Amstrad CPC. It's an action game first released last year on ZX Spectrum.

It is released, the mode 1 remake of Bomb by Anthony Flack after two years of work.

Micro Machines for SymbOS and V9990 graphical card by Trebmint and Prodatron is an hommage to the game made by Codemasters. The game is work in progress but it is shaping quite nicely as you will see in the video below.

Master Piece is an Amstrad CPC reflexion game by Tartessos Games, which is using the MK1 Pestecera engine by The Mojons Twins. It's a chess oriented game, but you really don't need to like the chess game to be able to play this one.

Move the pieces across the board in the same way as in standard chess, but making a capture with each move. The goal is to finish each level with only one piece remaining: The Master Piece. 199 challenges that progress from beginner to expert level.

Mighty Street Fighter v1.1 by AmstradGGP is available for Amstrad CPC, it features :

• Implementation of a 2-speed Turbo mode that can be combined with all current difficulty levels
• Simplification of the buttons (controllers) by removing the charge function. From now on, all special moves are performed diagonally down, right, or left, depending on the direction of the NPC. This makes combat more dynamic
• Speeded up the selection cursor in the menu
• Offset of the difficulty indicator stick figure because it was difficult to see on some CRT screens
• Revision of Vlad's spinning special move
• Reed, Vlad, Bud may have some non-blocking visual issues on an exceptional basis. A review will come later.
• All characters enlarged by +/-10%
• Changed Vlad's clothing colors from Red to Blue
• The scenery has been reworked, limiting the use of hatching. The combat zone has been brightened and redone. The sky is now based on the same pattern for all levels

Le Dernier Serment par Narkhos is a french graphical adventure game for Amstrad CPC released in 2024. This year it's the english version the Last Oath which is available.

Seing the posts on CPCWiki, it is appreciated. But if you are loading too many ROMs, it can be a problem as the program is using a lot of RAM.

The video of the french version Le Dernier Serment is made by Xenomorph.

I let you discover this video by Luis Pazos which is showing which USB keys he is using on his Amstrad CPC with an external Gotek.

The 8th November 2019 a book has been released about the Amstrad history in Spain, written by Jesús Martínez del Vas : Queremos Su Dinero (we want your money). You will learn more about Indescomp, Amstrad Spain and José Luis Domínguez (founder of Indescomp in 1982).

Personnally I bought the book in 2019 but I still have to read it... It is now available as an ebook on Amazon : Lo Increíble: El vendedor de libros puerta a puerta que transformó con Amstrad la informática en España.

For more informations (from 2019) :

• Dolmen (editor of the book)
• El mundo de Spectrum
• Ready And Play
• AUA