In 2001 a limited licence for using CP/M was given to Tim Olstead (The Unofficial CP/M Web site) by Bryan Sparks who was (and still is) CEO of Lineo (successor of Caldera).

This licence has been clarified by Brian Sparks, CP/M is now clearly under an open source licence.

Source code of CP/M (different versions) is available, also their respective manuals.

You will find more informations about CP/M on John Elliott's web page.

Two very recent videos in french about the history of Amstrad :

• by le Joueur du Grenier (a little on on the information side)
• by Generations Micros (done more seriously than the first video)

You are so used to it, but the cover of your Amstrad CPC disk drive has some informations. Why not getting an upgrade of these informations by getting the one made by Frédéric Bellec (ACME web site) ? It's available in azerty and qwerty, and in english.

Here are some Amstrad related posts on, especially the first one if you want to have sweet dreams :

• Amstrad bedding with the direct link to buy it but is it really legal, I doubt they paid the right to use the Amstrad brand
• playing Amstrad GX4000 at the Pixel Museum in Bruxelles
• paying 3D print model of an Amstrad CPC 464

The reality show the Apprentice (UK) with Lord Alan Michael Sugar will open his 2021 edition. It's time to apply for the show.

When you have a wonderful wife, here is what you can receive as a Christmas gift : Amstrad CPC 6128 socks !

You can see many Amstrad CPC screens made by Eric Cubizolle (Titan) on CPCWiki and will learn how he creates them (french inside).

Xyphoe did organize a Alan Michael Sugar drawing contest with Paint, I let you see the results. Congratulations to all who did submit a drawing.

Jon Ritman, the author of Batman and Head over Heels (and others Amstrad CPC games) was interviewed in 2016 by Retro Video Gamer.

It took me time before starting reading this book, but now it's done, the official biograhy of and by Lord Alan Michael Sugar.

I did read already his other biographies :

• Alan Sugar, the Amstrad Story by David Thomas
• Sir Alan Sugar, the biography by Charlie Burden

The first one gave insights about his childhoold but nothing about his football years. Whereas the second one was introducing his foootball years. WYSIWYG give a lot more details about his childhood, the first steps which made him the man we all know and also a lot more on his football years. Honestly, I did appreciate this book and I recommend its reading. The only regret and it's purely personal, the book has a part about the Amstrad CPC computers but nothing about the CPC 664 which was my first computer, not very important though.

The year 2019 is near the end, it gave a lot of good things for the Amstrad computers, not only for the CPC, one of the very last being the Toki beta by AmstradGGP for example.

So, let's wish at least as much good if not more for the hear 2020. And personnally I wish you and people you care for a good and happy new year.

After ZCN and CP/Mish, you have now a third possibility to use CP/M programs on your Amstrad Notepad NC100 : CP/NC par Nils M Holm.

I do think that Robin Hood was using already in his time an Amstrad CPC, and that I think he would be proud of these following arrows fired today (4 x 10 et 2 x 9), especially the arrow feathers :

Better but purely accidental (last 20th November) :

For this I had to wait 6 years... This result due to the many and good advices from the other people in my club, thanks to them !

You can play Amstrad CPC games online on BZH Games (without sound though) thanks to the CPCBox emulator. If you are one of the best, your score will be registered.

Amstrad CPC Mémoire écrite by Frédéric BELLEC has now the integrality of the WEKA binders with a lot of Amstrad CPC technical informations.