RetroVirtualMachine by jcgamestoy is a new Amstrad CPC WIP emulator for MacOS, Windows and Linux. There is no available version to try at the moment. Though there is a version 1.1.6 which emulates only the ZX Spectrum.

At the moment, there are five videos of the emulator on his Youtube profile.

DSP v0.18 WIP is available, it emulates several computers including the Amstrad CPC.

Caprice Forever v2017-11 by Frédéric Coste is a modified version of the Caprice emulator (by Ulrich Doewich) for windows.

• Fix FDC engine to pass most of Kevin Thacker's New acid tests
• write sector with wrong cylinder
• write sector with bad cylinder
• Fix FDC engine to pass old Kevin Thacker's acid tests for Amstrad CPC 6128 only
• Load disk and tape images inside ZIP from menu
• update fullscreen dialog windows
• Add AMX Mouse simulation
• Improve support of second joystick
• Add display option to reduce text during pause
• Add dialogs GUI skin customization
• Fix minor bugs

The last version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CapriceRPI (v 1.3c) by KaosOverride for Raspberry PI is available with some minor updates and more command line customizations.

This emulator based on the sources of Caprice32 by Ulrich Doewich, can also be compiled on something else than a PI with the following command : make -f makefile.notpi.

Prior to compilation, you must install the following dependances (including SDL v1.2 from memory) :

• libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
• libfreetype6-dev
• libsdl-image1.2-dev

A new version of the Amstrad CPC emulator Sugarbox is out. But at least today the site has an error 500.

To load an Amstrad CPC tape (or a ZX Spectrum one), you can use the old method : using a tape player. Or you can do it like a geek and use Android phone with tapDancer Virtual Datasette, but it's still a bit low tech. So for the geeks used to the HxC floppy emulator or the Gothek USB, you can use the TZX Duino.

How-to compile and use Amstrad CPC and PCW emulators on Linux (PC and Raspberry), it's on Malagueños originales y libres (in english).

New version of the Amstrad CPC core for MiST by Renaud Helias is available. : robustness (quality of code).

Habi Soft also wrote an emulation of the Chip-8 (wiki) on Amstrad PCW.

Habi Soft worked on an interface for a Amstrad PCW motherboard to add a PS2 keyboard and video (PAL/NSTC), joystick and mouse. He is also the author of an Amstrad PCW emulator : CP/M Box.

And now he is working on an enhanced abbey of the crime version for Amstrad PCW.

Arnold build 20170513 is the new version of the Amstrad CPC emulator by Kevin Thacker.

Caprice Forever v2017-5 by Frédéric Coste is a modified version of the Caprice emulator (by Ulrich Doewich) for windows.

• Add cheat script keywords
• Fix FastFDC crashes when trying to read multi-sided disk image
• Play CSW tape images
• Convert WAV to CSW tape images (see Hints)
• Fix game controller detection issues (Xbox 360)
• Fix FDC write sector issues
• Fix FDC read sector regression (Dimension6)
• Use « Keep original aspect ratio » option for fullscreen display
• Add PlayCity audio channels
• Fix minor bugs

New version of the Amstrad CPC core for MiST by Renaud Helias is available. : TV mode with border and screen well centered.

SAMdisk v3.8.10 by Simon Owen is out since the 18th December.

The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.

Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.

• added read and write support .qdos (QL) disk images
• added --irregular option for blind output image if first track isn't regular
• added --fill to set filler byte for regular formats
• fixed setting perpendicular mode for 1Mbps data rate
• fixed reading directly to single-sided formats from a:/b:
• fixed short data indicator showing on no-data sectors
• fixed raw output not using source format fill byte for missing sectors
• changed raw output to allow blank head 1 to mirror head 0 format

There is also a Samdisk 4.0 beta version on github for windows, linux and MacOS.

A new version of the Caprice32 emulator by Colin Pitrat is available.