What could you do if you had a spare PCW 8256 main board ? You could put it in a case like Sebastian Blanco did, see below.

The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.5 beta 9 :

• Fix Hack menu - Flaw in IM 2 detection
• Fix Hack menu - Resume "some games" (Pinball Fantasies, atleast on my one CPC)
• Added Hack menu - AZERTY keyboard support (Huge thanks to @dxs for the painful keymap table! And thanks to @ZbyniuR for the keyboard detection method)

The new version of M4FE v1.9.8, a frontend for the wifi M4 board by Abalore is available. It needs the last firmware for the M4 : v2.0.5b8 for the support of long file names.

The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.5 beta 8 :

• Fix DSK file size 0 bug
• Fix |longname / C_FSTAT bug, now (again) displaying long filenames properly
• Fix Hack menu - Slowdown keyboard reading
• Added Hack menu - Support full keyboard character set (QWERTY only for now)
• Added Hack menu - Pokes (Press ESC when done entering pokes)
• Added Hack menu - Display memory

CP/M Box by Habi Soft, an Amstrad PCW emulator, is available in version 1.8, with a lot of new things : new video system (with color support), new languages system, actions, video recording, a new better debugger, more hardware options, light pens, mass storage, test PCBs, fast loading, keyboard redefinition...

The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.5 beta 7 : monitor and snapshots !

The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.5 beta 6 :

• Fix do not erase ESP flash, if CRC error in ESPFIRM.BIN
• Added RSX command |ROMSOFF
• Added upgrade report, that is generated in root of microSD, called report.txt

Abalore is the author of M4FE, a frontend for the wifi M4 board created by Duke.

It is written in assembler, it lets you move through the directories and launch programs. It supports 64k files for each directory, joystick (2 buttons), snapshots, reading text files, search for a file or directory, it remembers the last directory used..

Comments and suggetions to the author are welcome.

The Odroid GO supports now a QWERTY keyboard with is used by a C64 emulator (the second C64 emulator in fact).

Sadly, still no Amstrad CPC emulator in sight, but we can still pray for one, especially with this keyboard which would really help such emulator.

Seen on BYTECellar, the WIFI232 created by Paul Rickards (see his page on the WIFI232) is an electronic card (with an ESP8266 micro-controller) which you connect on any computer with RS232 (DB9 or DB25 with an adaptator) so you can get like a good old modem used with AT Hayes commands to connect to an internet BBS, for an Amstrad Notepad NC100 for example. See this video for using TCP/IP encapsulated with pppd.

You can buy a WIFI232 at Simulant (U.K.), this address was in a comment at BYTECellar.

From time to time, an article not about Amstrad computers, well till 1986 when Amstrad bought the computer part of Sinclair Research.

OSNews mentions an interesting article about the making of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, its colour clash and graphics engines like Nirvana+ which allow nice games without this colour clash like Gandalf released in 2018 (see the video below).

There are a lot of ergonomic keyboards, one of them is the ErgoDox (see also there).

This ErgoDox Amstrad CPC 464 keyboard is certainly interesting.

The Odroid GO is a portable video game console with a LCD screen (320 x 240), battery, direction pad and 6 buttons (easy to build). It uses the ESP32 SOC microcontroller. The builtin firmware emulates old consoles (GB, GBC, NES, SNES, SMS, GameGear and Colecovision). More interesting, it can emulate a ZX Spectrum, MSX both using a Z80. So of course, it could lead to a possible Amstrad CPC firmware.

Reading the last page of the September Odroid magazine, Andrew ARMSTRONG intends to use an Odroid Go to transfer to and from an Amstrad CPC 464.

Emotional stories about processors for first computers: part 4 (Zilog Z80) is an interesting article about the Z80.

A new version r005.8.16.4 of the Amstrad CPC core for MiST by Renaud Helias is available.