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Happy new year 2017

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I wish you all a good and happy new year 2017. Good health for all you love. And also a year 2017 as rich as it was in 2016 for the Amstrad CPC.




CPC Basic 3, an IDE for writing locomotive basic programs and compiles them in Z80 asm

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CPC Basic 3 is an integrated environment for developing programs for Amstrad CPC. It works on Windows, Linux (Mono) and Mac OS (Wine).

CPC Basic function is to allow input and editing a program and compile it to to generate the necessary machine code and run it on a Amstrad CPC computer or an emulator.

Programs are written in Basic language based on Locomotive Basic with a number of differences required because it is a compiler and optimize the speed of code produced.





Caprice Forever v0.30, an Amstrad CPC emulator by Frédéric Coste for Windows

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Caprice Forever 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 acid tests
  • Add option to cold reset at real speed (see Hints)
  • Load disk and tape from ZIP archives files
  • Add disk menu to manually update and reload disk image
  • Add disk menu to manually update and reload disk image
  • Fix Tape to load The Last Mission
  • fix minor bugs


Merry Christmas 2016

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Merry Christmas 2016 to all.