Ana Rosa v1.0.0 is an Amstrad PCW16 emulator by Habi Soft.

At the first use of the emulator, you must install the OS of the PCW16 which you will find there.

You can check the doumentation of the emulator.

A new version of Amspirit, an Amstrad CPC emulator for windows by Dmanu78 is available on his web site. There are 32 and 64bit version.

This version features :

• Amstrad CPC+ emulation
• Cartridge file management (.CPR)
• Support for an additional floppy disk drive (B)
• Added timelapse function
• Support for writing script files (.CSL)
• Various fixes for CRTC 0, 1, 2, and 4 emulation
• Improved CTM emulation
• Improved FDC emulation
• Emulation engine optimization
• Keyboard Clash support
• New online commands added
• Improved support for additional ROMs
• Various ergonomic improvements

The thread on CPCWiki is here.

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.

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

RetroVirtualMachine v2.1.20 by Juan Carlos González Amestoy is available since the 14th June. It's an Amstrad CPC emulator (also ZX Spectrum, MSX-1, SG-1000 and Sega Master System) for MacOS, Windows and Linux (including Raspberry PI).

SugarDS v1.0 is an Amstrad CPC emulator for Nintendo DS and DSi by Nige Rideout (github). This version features :

• Improved Z80 / CRTC timing so more games run more correctly.
• Improved Mode 2 rendering so it's a little better positioned 'compressed' on the DS screen.
• Improved default key mapping that maps Y button to Joystick Fire 2 (used by many homebrews).
• Another round of improvements for FDC handling of two-sided disks. Orion Prime no longer warns of disk issues, Batman Forever 3.5" loads.
• Fixed the sound mute handler so that there are less frequent pops/clicks when loading up new games.
• Improved auto-load detection - more disks load the correct file more often.
• Lots of small cleanups and commenting of the code.

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.

SpecIde by MartianGirl is a ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC old (non CPC+ emulation) whose first version was April 2024. The current features are :

• Emulation of ZX Spectrum 48K (Issue 2/3), 128K, +2, +2A and +3
• Emulation of Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128. No support for Plus models yet!
• FDC765 disk drive emulation. (Scan commands are missing yet)
• Emulation of Spanish 128K, +2, +2A and +3
• Emulation of Pentagon timings (but no BetaDisk yet! Sorry for that!)
• PSG (AY-3-8912/YM-2149) sound emulation
• Turbosound emulation. Supports two and four PSG modes
• Covox/Soundrive emulation
• Loading of tapes via .tap and .tzx tape images, and .csw files
• Loading of disks via .dsk disk images
• Flashloading of .tap files and .tzx that use the ROM routines
• Flashsaving to .tap files using the ROM routines
• Full screen video mode detection
• Double scan interlaced modes. (Gigascreen modes)
• Kempston/Sinclair/Cursor/Fuller joystick emulation from the PC joystick/gamepad
• Fuller box audio
• Works in GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS

SugarDS v0.9 is an Amstrad CPC emulator for Nintendo DS and DSi by Nige Rideout (github). This version features :

• Fix disk write-back so it doesn't potentially corrupt a .dsk file! Sorry about that
• Improved save/load state so it preserves Dandanator carts and Extended Memory > 128K
• More robust CRTC handling to fix games like Hypernoid Zero, Galactic Tomb 128K and Bomb Jack Extra Sugar
• You can now put [[cmd]] in the title of the .dsk file to force a RUN command
• Other cleanups, minor timing improvements and fixes as time allowed

SugarDS v0.8 is an Amstrad CPC emulator for Nintendo DS and DSi by Nige Rideout (github). It features :

• Emulates CPC 464 (64K) and CPC 6128 (128K)
• Loads .SNA and .DSK files up to 1024K total length (single and double sided)
• Plus2CPC Cartridge Support to load .CPR files up to 512K
• Dandanator Cartridge Support - banking only (no EEPROM writes)
• Emulates CRTC Type 3 roughly - with provisions to handle split screen, rupture, smooth vertical scroll and a reasonable facsimile of smooth horizontal scroll
• Full button mapping - supporting all 3 possible joystick buttons of the Amstrad as well as mapping buttons to keyboard keys
• Save / Load state so you can pick up where you left off

The version 3.0.2 of CPCEMU for iOS and iPadOS is available, an emulator also available for Windows, Android and MacOS (a bit later for Linux.

This new version can be downloaded on the author's web site.

You have 48 hours left to get your copy of the Recalbox RGB DUAL 2 which is a Raspberry PI hat for using a CRT monitor with Recalbox's lots of emulators.

After CPCBasic unchained and CPCBasicTS unchained, Marco Vieth (author of the first Amstrad CPC emulator CPCEmu) has released LocoBasic five months ago.

LocoBasic is a streamlined adaptation of Locomotive BASIC, designed primarily for calculations. It is lightweight and can run either in a browser or on the command line using Node.js. It has NO GOTO but supports a subroutine style with GOSUB. Line numbers are optional and only needed to start a subroutine or a DATA line for RESTORE.

You can try LocoBasic here.

This new version brings the following features :

• SVG Output
• Examples to check out: Sierpiński triangle, Mandelbrot set, "Little Architect" demo
• Real-Time Clock RSX commandsexample=drawclk
• Also included : syntax highlighting editor for BASIC

Rainer has released CPCemu v3.0.2 (24th April 2025). It's available for Windows, Android and MacOS (a bit later for iOS and Linux).

This new version is available on CPCEMU's web site.

This version corrects the following bugs :

• Android: Lagging hardware keyboard input
• Missing or wrong mapping of some hardware-keyboard keys
• Selection of keyboard layout during setup sets hardware keyboard layout now, too, and configures national ROMs where appropriate
• SymbOS 4.0 boots from disks now
• Fixed bank-switching bug: SymbOS boots with RAM sizes between 128k and 576k now
• M4 board (Windows version): Folders can now be deleted, |CD,".." works now
• M4 board/SymbOS: SD card live mode significantly improved, but still not reliable enough for production use. Caveat emptor! If you have used live mode before please make sure to restore all SymbOS files, they might have become damaged
• Portable version (Windows): ROM paths are relative now

The last version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CPCEC by César Nicolas Gonzalez, was released yesterday on the 20th April 2025.