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






Happy new year 2016

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I wish you all a good and happy new year 2016. May the Amstrad CPC be with you.



Merry Christmas 2015

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Merry Christmas 2015 to all.





New versions of WinAPE (Amstrad CPC emulator) and ParaDOS by Richard Wilson

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At least a new version of the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator by Richard Wilson.

En résumé elle apporte des améliorations sur l'émulation du Z80, changement de palette, émulation sonore, support des cassettes, assembleur et désassembleur.

Also, there is a new version of ParaDOS, a ROM (for CPC old and +) used for disc and files manipulations. Source of ParaDOS is available too.





Photos of the X-Mem (memory extension,RAM and ROM) inside an Amstrad CPC 464

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Click on the source below to find photos of an Amstrad CPC 464 upgraded with a X-Mem card (memory extansion by ToTO) inside the keyboard.



Hewson Consultants, a book and some 8bit music

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Hewson Consultants, created in 1980 by Andrew Hewson, did publish several good games on Amstrad CPC like Uridium, Paradroid, Nebulus, Firelord, Stormlord and Cybernoid, but not only.

Available on their site web, a book (epub or not) as pre-order, and 11 incredible tracks from 10 classic Hewson games, remade by legendary artists (reduction of 40% with the code retrogamer on Bandcamp).



CPCRSLIB for SDCC updated, a development library in C for Amstrad CPC (September 2015)

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The library CPCRSLIB for the SDCC compiler has been update. It allows to program in C on PC for Amstrad CPC. The CPCRSLIB version for the Z88dk compiler is still from February2015.

This new version is smaller, faster and benefit from the new version (v3.5) of SDCC. There is a new scroll code.

Also you will find an interview of ESP Soft on RetroManiac and another interview of ESP Soft on Video Juegos Retro.