On the 8th November a book will be 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).

The book will be showed for the first time the 5th November at the Fnac of Callao (Madrid) with José Luis Dominguez himself.

Personnally I will buy this book, a good way to ameliorate my spanish. I dont see it yet on Amazon or Fnac though at the moment, so no pre-order.

For more informations :

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

From Rhayader Computers's tweet I went to its web site of his shop at Mid Wales Plus in the United Kingdom, which sells several things but what interests us is mugs, mouse mats and coaster with an Amstrad CPC theme, but also for other 8bit computers.

You dont even think about it, mais there is something just up your 6128 disk drive :

It isnt very sexy, so why not giving your loving Amstrad CPC a cure of youth with something more complete and beautiful made by Frédéric Bellec of ACME web site ?

He also has another project of change :

After NoRecess's birthday cake, it's the turn for Xyphoe to receive a nice cake made by Mrs Xyphoe for his anniversary.

I think I just found my perfect future birthday present, an Amstrad CPC phone flip case on Ebay.

New characters will be added to Unicode following an Unicode working group doccument, which mentions a CPCWiki page about keyboard versions as a reference.

Sadly, only 2 Amstrad CPC characters will be added to Unicode, and not all of them as I thought at my first quick lecture, the dream was short.

You want to impress your friends with a brand new Amstrad CPC 464 ? Then make this CPC 464 in paper !

For downloading this Amstrad CPC 464 in paper, it's here.

It's official as announced by Lord Alan Michael Sugar himself, the company Amstrad (Alan Michael Sugar TRADing) was created 50 years ago, the 8th December 1968 !

Damien Guard wrote an article about 8bit computers fonts, including the Amstrad CPC, and you can download a true type font. So now we know that it is influenced by the PC CGA font !

Jon Ritman, the author of Batman and Head over Heels (and others Amstrad CPC games) was present at the Retro Madrid 2018 and was interviewed (english).

The reality show the Apprentice (UK) with Lord Alan Michael Sugar will open his 14th edition soon. Inscriptions will close on the 29th January 2018.

What are you waiting for ?

The company Amstrad (Alan Michael Sugar TRADing) has been created the 8th December 1968. So at the end of this new year 2018, it will be 50 years of history, which are told in the last issue of the Retro Gamer magazine.

Mr_Lou is active on Amstrad CPC scene, he wrote the game Sort'Em in 2009 (LuBlu Entertainment), programmed with Z88dk and cpcrslib.

Today, he finished the first issue of his 8-Bit Memoirs, a free ebook of his personal 8bit experience (about for example the Philips Videopac G7000, the Amstrad CPC and the Amiga) with more than 5 hours of video, illustrations (by Marlene "BlueAngel" Johansen), screenshots... It's free, but you can buy the physical collector edition for 17 €.

Amstrad CPC Mémoire écrite is an Amstrad CPC web site by Frédéric BELLEC to preserve Amstrad CPC documents, programs, newspapers, etc...

There is also a facebook page for Amstrad CPC Mémoire écrite.

I just discovered on Amstrad.EU's facebook group that Amstrad sold a furniture with a bundled MP-3 analogic TV tuner and CT-1 radio. With the reference to X, the article is coming from the newspaper Amstrad 100%.

A quick internet search didnt permit to find other photos of this furniture, if you have any, I am interested.