Mr_Lou is active on Amstrad CPC scene, he wrote the game Sort'Em in 2009 (LuBlu Entertainment), programmed with Z88dk and cpcrslib.

Today, he finished the first issue of his 8-Bit Memoirs, a free ebook of his personal 8bit experience (about for example the Philips Videopac G7000, the Amstrad CPC and the Amiga) with more than 5 hours of video, illustrations (by Marlene "BlueAngel" Johansen), screenshots... It's free, but you can buy the physical collector edition for 17 €.

The ZX Spectrum Computer Sound Chip Emulator v2.9 beta 24 by Sergey Bulba is available, it permits to listen to many music format files, including .YM, .AY and .AYM music files, for windows and linux.

Another new table for Pinball Dreams by Batman Group : Ignition, created by Toni Gálvez/MAC.

Targhan has done many things, two are an Amstrad CPC soundtrakker (STarKos) and a PC soundtrakker (Arkos Tracker).

After the teaser of a new version (v2) of Arkos Tracker, now there is the alpha of Arkos Tracker for linux, windows and mac.

An interview of Jean-Paul Mari who worked at Microids where he participated to the following games : Sliders, Eagle's Rider, Rodeo, Grand Prix 500 2 and also to Shufflepuck Cafe (Broderbund).

He is working at the moment with Eidos Montreal.

SInce one year, a remake of Ghost'n Goblins for Amstrad CPC 6128+ is in the work by :

• Program: Frédéric Poesy (Golem13)
• Graphics: Thomas Ferté (Winner)
• Sound/Fx: Julien Riet (Ixien)

With the help and support of the following peoples :

• Gérald Vincent (gerald) for the C4CPC card
• Richard Wilson (Executioner) for WinAPE, the Amstrad Plus emulator
• Edouard Bergé (roudoudou) for RASM, the ultimate Z80 assembler !
• Julien Nevo (Targhan) for Arkos Tracker
• Richard Gatineau (TotO)
• Amaury Durand (BDCIron)
• All the amstrad.eu members!!!

Caprice Forever v2017-11 by Frédéric Coste is a modified version of the Caprice emulator (by Ulrich Doewich) for windows.

• Fix FDC engine to pass most of Kevin Thacker's New acid tests
• write sector with wrong cylinder
• write sector with bad cylinder
• Fix FDC engine to pass old Kevin Thacker's acid tests for Amstrad CPC 6128 only
• Load disk and tape images inside ZIP from menu
• update fullscreen dialog windows
• Add AMX Mouse simulation
• Improve support of second joystick
• Add display option to reduce text during pause
• Add dialogs GUI skin customization
• Fix minor bugs

Another video by Prodatron showing the AMSDAP (Amstrad MSx aDAPter) which allow the use of MSX cartridges on Amstrad CPC, and in this test using a SE-ONE by TMTLOGIC which is a MP3 player a and FM receiver (radio).

Damn, my Amstrad CT-1 (a Clock/Radio module to sit underneath the CTM640 or CTM644 Amstrad CPC monitor) is now useless !

Here is the first video by Prodatron showing SymbOS on Amstrad CPC with AMSDAP + MSX Graphics9000.

At 2mn45 of the video, a video is running in SymbOS. The following words are from Prodatron : 16 colour bitmaps require the double amount of data compared to a 4 colour bitmap of the same size. The blitter inside the V9990 is doing a lot of things to speed up the graphic output. But it can't help so much when just pumping bitmap data from CPU memory to the screen. A video with the same resolution will have about half the framerate in 16 colours compared to 4 colours. So video output is not the best example for demonstrating the power of the GFX9000 (aka =CPC Powergraph).

BDCIron is streaming Baba's Palace, Profanation 2, BasketCases, Bitume and Gryzor. Of course the first two games issued from CPCRetroDev 2017 should be the more interesting to see.

Greetings to him and the happy mother for their first born !