News about Amstrad CPC, PCW, Notepad NC100 NC150 NC200, PDA600 and also Amstrad PC







Turrican in 128 Kb with music for Amstrad CPC, conversion by Jean-Marie

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Turrican est un jeu de plate-forme pour Amstrad CPC sorti en 1990, édité by Rainbow Arts.

Jean-marie has modified Turrican to use 128 Kb, which permits to add music form the Atari ST game.

The link of the download is on CPCWiki.



The Secret of Darren Blake by Altanerus Dog, an Amstrad CPC game (windows too)

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The Secret of Darren Blake for Amstrad CPC by Atanerus Dog is released today. It's a spanish graphical novel in several parts (video below by XeNoMoRPH). For each screen, you have a picture and some text and you must write a sentence for the aventure to continue. Originally the game is a book written by a friend of Antero MARTINEZ : Jonathan Carrers.

The prelude to this story is as follows : in Rawlins (Wyoming), two brothers who have lived far from their parents make crime their way of life. By chance, they discover that their father, a prestigious scientist, has appeared hanged on his own property. Without hesitation, they decide to go to Arthur (Nebraska) to claim the inheritance that rightfully belongs to them. Due to complicated circumstances discovered there, they decide to investigate their father's death, as they do not believe it was a suicide. Something else must have happened that will endanger the lives of the two brothers.


Youtube video



Batman, an Amstrad PCW(+) by Enrique G. Gálvez (originally Jon RITMAN)

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Batman is a great classic for Amstrad CPC written in 1986 by Jon RITMAN (programmation), Bernie DRUMMOND (graphics) and Mark SERLIN (music). It was edited by Ocean Software.

Enrique G. Gálvez has just released yesterday Batman for Amstrad PCW and PCW+ in 4 and 16 colors modes which are available with the two following emulators : CP/M Box and ZEsarUX, music and effects with the Dk'Sound.


Youtube video




RASM v2.3.6 by Roudoudou, a multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC

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The last version of multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC RASM (v2.3.6) is released today on Github.

This multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC (for linux, windows, and also for MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC. It's recommended to use it with the new emulator also by Roudoudou : ACE-DL released today, to get symbols and breakpoints importation and much more.



Battlot (2022) for Amstrad CPC by Inufoto now also for CPC+

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Inufuto is a japanese who write many games, each time for several platforms including Amstrad CPC. He wrote initally Battlot in 2022, this year he is releasing a new version of Battlot for Amstrad CPC+ with hardware sprites. You will find there the Youtube channel of Inufuto.


Youtube video



Arkos Tracker v3.2.6 by Targhan is available

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Arkos Tracker v3.2.6 by Targhan is available on his web site. This is no longer a beta version, the site has many tutorials. This version is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Intel and ARM).



LocoBasic v0.1.74 by Marco Vieth, a Locomotive Basic light and quick

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After CPCBasic unchained and CPCBasicTS unchained, Marco Vieth (author of the first Amstrad CPC emulator CPCEmu) has released LocoBasic five months ago.

LocoBasic is a streamlined adaptation of Locomotive BASIC, designed primarily for calculations. It is lightweight and can run either in a browser or on the command line using Node.js. It has NO GOTO but supports a subroutine style with GOSUB. Line numbers are optional and only needed to start a subroutine or a DATA line for RESTORE.

You can try LocoBasic here.

This new version brings the following features :

  • SVG Output
  • Examples to check out: Sierpiński triangle, Mandelbrot set, "Little Architect" demo
  • Real-Time Clock RSX commandsexample=drawclk
  • Also included : syntax highlighting editor for BASIC


CPCemu v3.0.2, an Amstrad CPC emulator by Rainer Loritz

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Rainer has released CPCemu v3.0.2 (24th April 2025). It's available for Windows, Android and MacOS (a bit later for iOS and Linux).

This new version is available on CPCEMU's web site.

This version corrects the following bugs :

  • Android: Lagging hardware keyboard input
  • Missing or wrong mapping of some hardware-keyboard keys
  • Selection of keyboard layout during setup sets hardware keyboard layout now, too, and configures national ROMs where appropriate
  • SymbOS 4.0 boots from disks now
  • Fixed bank-switching bug: SymbOS boots with RAM sizes between 128k and 576k now
  • M4 board (Windows version): Folders can now be deleted, |CD,".." works now
  • M4 board/SymbOS: SD card live mode significantly improved, but still not reliable enough for production use. Caveat emptor! If you have used live mode before please make sure to restore all SymbOS files, they might have become damaged
  • Portable version (Windows): ROM paths are relative now