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






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.



The story of Dinamic Software

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Pixel Thing is talking about the spanish publishing house Dinamic Software on Youtube in english.


Youtube video




8BP v027, a RSX library to develop Amstrad CPC games in Basic

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Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has written a new version of 8BP v27 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library for writing Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.

This v27 version has 2 new features :

  • RINK RSX for ink animation
  • change state for sprites (badly translated from spanish)





Dragon Attack by Bitplane Technomantes, fourth place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

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Bitplane Technomantes won the fourth place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game Dragon Attack. It's an arcade game (think galaxian). Your fighter can only be destroyed if its middle is touched, but the dragons are shooting everywhere on the screen ! And of course it's no less the future of the Earth which is on your shoulders...

Dragon attack is the collective work of :


Youtube video



VirusDog par CPC-Power, third place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

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CPC-Power won the third place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game VirusDog. It's a reflexion game where you must save the life of your dog by pairing the same virus near each of them.

VirusDog is the collective work of :

  • code and idea : Kukulcan
  • graphics : Kukulcan, CED
  • music : Tom and Jerry (GPA)
  • cover and manual : Ixien
  • tests : AST, Galamoth, Lone, Maxit, C. PETIT, Fredouille

Youtube video