Christophe Coupez put his son Stanislas in front of an Amstrad CPC 464, what should be the final verdict ?

A remake of Future Knight by Johndimi is available (original game out in 1986).

This PC version has a map design which doesn't follow the original game but rather designed from scratch. Some game mechanics are improved, like the ability to move while jumping, having an inventory, faster gamespeed, etc...

The game features 7 levels. There are enemies to kill, items to find and use, keys to unlock doors, traps to avoid, shortcuts to take, new weapons, and bosses to exterminate.

Xyphoe just published a new video on Youtube, but not about an Amstrad CPC game as usual, this time it's about how to comme d'habitude, mais comment repair an Amstrad CPC 6128 disk drive (belt replacement and cleaning the head).

After iMPdraw (download link), here is a new version of the Claudia Converter utility by Eliot.

it can load .BMP and .SCR created with the ConvIMG CPC utility, to show and modify them with the zoom tool. It manages fullscreen and CPC+ palette.

In december 2014, a preview of iMPdraw by AST was out. iMPdraw version 1 is now called iMPdraw lite, used for example for screens released at the Reset #20 meeting (usable on CPC and CPC+).

A new version (iMPdraw v2) is in the work since January 2015 by AST and ToTO.

Other painting program : GOS (CPC+ only) and Claudia (CPC and CPC+).

It seems that Amstrad forgot they made the Amstrad CPC+ if you take a look at the archived products page (which icon is an Amstrad CPC 464).

SAMdisk v3.8.8 by Simon Owen is out since the 8th July.

The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.

Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.

• Added D88 support for 1D and 1DD disk types
• Added .1dd output extension for 1D/1DD in D88 container
• Added cylinder count detection to D88 image reading
• Added support for .2d raw format
• Fixed destructor crash bug in gcc builds (Linux and Mac)
• Fixed TR-DOS false-positives by requiring .trd extension

TFM, author of FutureOS (an Amstrad CPC operating system) has put CP/M plus with utilities on 10 ROMs at the moment. Click on source link below for download.

Symbos v3.0 beta is available, with ethernet network support.

ESP Soft just released a new spanish adventure game : el misterio de la isla de Tokland. It is written by 6128 and use the game engine el DAAD.

It is based on the book of the same name by Joan Manuel Gisbert. With one year of learning spanish (and a dictionnary), the game is playable even if I didnt go very far at the moment. Thanks for letting me working my spanish this summer :-)

Download and more informations on the syntaxical engine on ESP Soft.