Jon Ritman, the author of Batman and Head over Heels (and others Amstrad CPC games) was present at the Retro Madrid 2018 and was interviewed (english).

The issue 12 of RetroManiac Magazine is available, with some Amstrad CPC content. You can download the PDF or read it page by page.

Renaud Helias is programming an Amstrad CPC core for the FGPA MiST board, but he is also working on MK2 (Mortal Kombat 2) :

• preview version (mode 2)
• normal version (mode 2), see the bottom of the page for a more recent version in mode 1

One of the most waited games The Shadows of Sergoth is available as today in no less than 3 languages : french, spanish and english. It's a dungeon crawler game for Amstrad CPC 6128.

One of the programmers, Chris94, did 2 videos of the making off (french with english subtitles) :

• 1ère partie du making off de The Shadows of Sergoth
• 2ème partie du making off de The Shadows of Sergoth

Announced in April 2016 by ESP Soft, Galactic Tomb is now available, with music by McKlain.

I saw on Amstrad.ES that Tomas Penalver wrote El Concurso (adventure game). This time still in 2017, he also wrote a platform game : Try to run away.

Arcade Game Designer v0.6 is a windows x64 utility by Jonathan Cauldwell to write games for Timex/Next, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation. It also exist directly on these platforms.

There is a forum about AGD.

Doragasu started a project in January 2017 about a ROM board interface with DMA transfert. The project is now a reality :

• it can play digital audio with approximately 0% CPU overhead. The limits are the bits per sample ( 8 ) and the maximum sample length (64 KiB). Sampling rate can be configured on the fly, and ranges from 3906 Hz to 50 kHz (and beyond)
• it can can transfer data from external ROM to internal CPC RAM at 1 byte per microsecond. While doing DMA the Z80 is stopped, but this is much faster than doing the copy using software routines

iMPdos Public Edition v1.17 by AST/iMPACT is available, a ROM for using the X-Mass extension card made by Toto. It must be installed as ROM 1 to 6, before the ROM 7 ! When the ROM is installed, iMPdos detects the X-Mass and format it. Dont forget to use the |hlp command for documentation.

Piko Interactive just released on Steam nine games including the Great Escape (Ocean Software in 1986) and Elf which was released two years ago on Amstrad CPC. Actual prices will be valid only for the first week.