The Amstrad CPC meeting ReSeT #30 will take place at Coutances from friday 29th June (12am) to sunday 1st July (6pm) 2018 in Normandy (Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs, 162 rue Régis Messac, Coutances).

This meeting is organized by Eliot (Benediction). It's a success each year since 2000.

Whatever your interest in Amstrad CPC, you will be welcome. It will be the occasion to see previews of incoming programs and to meet other CPCists.

As usual there will be a contest.

More informations on ReSeT's site.

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda will release soon 8BP v33 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max) with four new features including sprites flipping.

There are five clones left of the compatible MX4 Multiface 2 interface. They are made by Talkrek.

Download directly Ghosts'n Goblins GX4000 on CPCWiki. It is written by Xifos and Targhan, and not by Golem13, Ixien and Winner as I wrote earlier, thanks to Targhan for the correction.

Pond Software just released a new text adventure game for Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and C64/C128 : Hibernated, written by Stefan Vogt.

Swivel Creations Ltd just released its remake of Bounder on Iphone (Android a bit later) with 3 graphic modes (C64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC).

12 days still left to support Eight Bit Magazine on its Kickstarter page for the issue 6.

The last version of RASM is v0.86 (27th April 2018). This multi platform assembler (linux, windows, but not only like MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC.

The book The story of the Commodore Amiga in pixels on Kickstarter worked well. One of the perks was the port of Starquake on Amiga. Galahad is the programmer of this port, with the permission of the actual right owner : Steve Crow. A mockup of the box is available.

Two interesting videos by RetroManCave : restoring an Amstrad CPC 6128 :

• First part
• Second part