SBEMU by Crazii is an OPL3 Sound Blaster sound card emulator for DOS and a physical PCI sound card.

DAAD Ready version B (05/15/2026) has been released for Windows. DAAD Ready allows you to create a graphical adventure game with DAAD Adventure Writer and create a binary for several 8bit and 16bit platforms including the Amstrad CPC.

For more information on DAAD Ready, follow this link. If you want to create a purely text adventure game, you can use the PunyInform library written by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson.

The Black Sun Affair by Silentplacesgames is an Amstrad CPC narrative adventure game, in the spirit of exploration stories, mysteries, and classic adventure serials.

Somewhere between London, the desert, and a forgotten city, an investigation gradually leads to something older, more dangerous, and perhaps best left unsaid. Your choices will determine what should be saved, handed over to the authorities, silenced or left buried.

The game features a story-driven progression, choices with consequences, multiple endings, and a retro atmosphere designed to recapture the joy of classic CPC adventures.

The following text comes from the github page : ABASC (Amstrad BASic cross Compiler) by Fragarco is a cross-compiler written entirely in Python, with no external dependencies. This makes it highly portable and easy to run on any system that has a standard Python 3 installation.

It is designed to support the dialect of BASIC created by Locomotive Software for the Amstrad CPC series of microcomputers, ensuring that all existing documentation for this language remains fully relevant and useful.

Because ABASC is a cross-compiler that runs on modern systems, it also incorporates several features from Locomotive BASIC 2 Plus, offering a development experience closer to that of contemporary programming languages while preserving the classic style of the original BASIC.

In addition to the compiler itself, the ABASC package includes several auxiliary tools, such as an assembler and disk/tape image packers for generating DSK and CDT files. Full documentation for each tool is available in the DOCS directory, provided in both English and Spanish.

Two programs have been ported with little modifications with ABASC : Sultan's maze and 3D Maze.

Warning: The following text is taken from the Itch.IO page. I don't think I can do a better job than its author when presenting this utility used to create text adventure games for the Amstrad CPC.

GRIMM is a retro game creation utility to produce text adventure games in the spirit of the Amstrad CPC. It combines three essential elements:

• an adventure engine
• a dedicated editor
• a simple, structured, and readable scripting language

GRIMM is for authors, creators, and retro-computing enthusiasts who want to design parsable adventure games, interactive fiction, and old-school exploration experiences without having to build a complete engine from scratch.

The principle is simple: you write your game's content, organize your locations, objects, and rules, and then generate a final playable version.

With GRIMM, you can :

• create locations, objects, and interactions
• define exits, hidden passages, and conditions
• write an introduction, an ending, and death sequences
• manage Object properties and simple game logic
• Set up a score and usage counters
• Associate images with the introduction, ending, death, or locations
• Export your project as a final playable build

GRIMM is not a modern drag-and-drop game maker. This is a focused authoring tool, built around :

• clarity
• structured writing
• deliberately retro constraints
• an old-school philosophy

It will be particularly suited to those who enjoy :

• the Amstrad CPC aesthetic
• parser games
• text adventures from the 80s and 90s
• dungeon crawlers and exploration
• compact and readable game logic

This project includes :

• the GRIMM editor
• the scripting workflow for GRIMM V1
• export/build tools
• documentation
• files example

This publication corresponds to GRIMM V1, the first stable, production-oriented version. It is in French. The next version will allow the use of English.

rtzx by Phil Stewart is an utility for windows and linux written in Rust language to manage tape files for ZX Spectrum (TZX) and Amstrad CPC (CDT). It can inspect, convert to wav, and play to audio.

MicroWeb v2.1 par James Howardest un navigateur web pour processeur Intel 8088 (et +), CGA, EGA, VGA ou Hercules, interface réseau ou port série et driver EtherSLIP), souris recommandée non nécessaire, 640 Ko de mémoire recommandé, EMS/XMS non nécessaire (mais permets de charger des plages plus importantes en taille).

rtzx by Phil Stewart is an utility for windows and linux written in Rust language to manage tape files for ZX Spectrum (TZX) and Amstrad CPC (CDT). It can inspect, convert to wav, and play to audio.

Arkos Tracker v3.5.1 by Targhan is available on his web site. The site has many tutorials. This version is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Intel and ARM).

This v3.5.1 corrects a few bugs and brings a few optimizations.

ImageMode0 by CheapeeSoft for windows converts images to screen mode 0 Amstrad CPC format (160x200px 16colours). It features :

• Open images and resize them to 160x200px
• Apply nearest palette colours to image (16 colours)
• Change palette using full Amstrad palette (27 colours)
• Load/Save current palette
• Save final image in PNG format (160x200px 16colours)
• Save screen file for Amstrad CPC machine
• Save basic code to update palette

You will find on Tronic's web site (GPA) various utilities for use on or for the Amstrad CPC, several about YM music but also GPArt Studio v1.3 which can converts and modify Amstrad CPC screens.

Pixsaur v1.7 by Gurneyh is an online utility to convert pictures to the Amstrad CPC format, but also for windows, MacOS and Linux on Github.

rtzx by Phil Stewart is an utility for windows and linux written in Rust language to manage tape files for ZX Spectrum (TZX) and Amstrad CPC (CDT). It can inspect, convert to wav, and play to audio. This version features :

• Bug: Fixed parsing of StandardSpeedDataBlock
• Bug: Fix StandardSpeedDataBlock start pulse high logic to ensure an edge is present between pilot and sync pulses
• Bug: Fix display format exception when PulseSequence contains no pulses

CPC-Playground by Gurneyh is an online IDE for Z80 programmation for Amstrad CPC. The code of CPC-Playground is available on Github.

rtzx by Phil Stewart is an utility for windows and linux written in Rust language to manage tape files for ZX Spectrum (TZX) and Amstrad CPC (CDT). It can inspect, convert to wav, and play to audio.