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






An Amstrad PCW 8256 in a case by Sebastian Blanco

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What could you do if you had a spare PCW 8256 main board ? You could put it in a case like Sebastian Blanco did, see below.













New v2.0.5b9 of the firmware for the wifi card M4 Board by Duke

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The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.5 beta 9 :

  • Fix Hack menu - Flaw in IM 2 detection
  • Fix Hack menu - Resume "some games" (Pinball Fantasies, atleast on my one CPC)
  • Added Hack menu - AZERTY keyboard support (Huge thanks to @dxs for the painful keymap table! And thanks to @ZbyniuR for the keyboard detection method)


M4FE v1.9.8, a frontend in ROM for the Amstrad CPC wifi extension card M4 Board

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The new version of M4FE v1.9.8, a frontend for the wifi M4 board by Abalore is available. It needs the last firmware for the M4 : v2.0.5b8 for the support of long file names.



New v2.0.5b8 of the firmware for the wifi card M4 Board by Duke

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The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.5 beta 8 :

  • Fix DSK file size 0 bug
  • Fix |longname / C_FSTAT bug, now (again) displaying long filenames properly
  • Fix Hack menu - Slowdown keyboard reading
  • Added Hack menu - Support full keyboard character set (QWERTY only for now)
  • Added Hack menu - Pokes (Press ESC when done entering pokes)
  • Added Hack menu - Display memory


CP/M Box v1.8 by Habi Soft, an Amstrad PCW emulator

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CP/M Box by Habi Soft, an Amstrad PCW emulator, is available in version 1.8, with a lot of new things : new video system (with color support), new languages system, actions, video recording, a new better debugger, more hardware options, light pens, mass storage, test PCBs, fast loading, keyboard redefinition...


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RASM v0.105 by Roudoudou, a multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC

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The last version of RASM is v0.105 (2nd January 2019). This multi platform assembler (linux, windows, but not only like MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC.

The online documentation is available.

  • do not allow CALL (IX) or CALL (IY) syntax
  • added comments begining with //
  • added SIZEOF support for fields of structures
  • new directive TICKER to count instruction duration



Happy new year 2019

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I wish you all and also to your loved ones a happy new year 2019, good health, and long life to our Amstrad CPC, PCW, NC...




New v2.0.5b6 of the firmware for the wifi card M4 Board by Duke

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The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.5 beta 6 :

  • Fix do not erase ESP flash, if CRC error in ESPFIRM.BIN
  • Added RSX command |ROMSOFF
  • Added upgrade report, that is generated in root of microSD, called report.txt