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






Another ReSeT meeting (#10) at Coutances, thanks to Eliot,

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ReSeT is an Amstrad CPC demo party taking place at Coutances from friday 28th june (10 am) to sunday 30th june (6 pm) in Normandy.

Named before Amstrad Expo, this party organized by Eliot (Benediction), is a success each year since 2000.

Whatever your interest in Amstrad CPC, you will be welcomed. It will be the occasion to see previews of incoming programs and to meet other CPCists..

As usual there will be a contest.

More informations on ReSeT's site.




Batman Ending by Vanity will be released at Revision 2013

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Revision 2013 will take place in Saarbrücken (from 29/03 to 01/04).

A little group of CPC users will be there (Offset, Toms, Eliot, maybe Grim, Rouquemoute, Hicks and others).

The next Vanity demo will be presented saturday night, in the oldskool category : Batman ending.



Mind in Motion, an Amstrad CPC demo by Ham (Software failure)

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Mind in Motion, an Amstrad CPC 15 Ko dentro written in 3 days and released at Forever 14 by Software Failure in 2013. Code, graphics and music by Ham/SFL, Arkos Tracker Music player by Targhan and Grim/Arkos. It needs a 64 Ko CPC.

Mind in Motion, an Amstrad CPC demo by Software Failure



Arcade Game Designer by Jonathan Cauldwell on Zx Spectrum and Amstrad CPC

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Arcade Game Designer (documentation of AGD) is a tool by Jonathan Cauldwell to make games on ZX Spectrum and lately on Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation. The games created wont scroll the entire screen : they are static. There is also a PC tool : TommyGun.AGD to make the games, working only with the ZX Spectrum AGD version only at the moment.

Check the youtube video of an AGD game : Donkey Kong Reloaded.

menu of Arcade Game Designer


Youtube video



Invasion of the Zombie Monsters on Amstrad CPC by Relevo Videogames

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Invasion of the Zombie Monsters by Relevo Videogames is a spanish game release in 2010 on ZX Spectrum and now in 2013 on Amstrad CPC and MSX.


Youtube video



Samdisk v3.5 by Simon Owen, disks tranfers

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SAMdisk v3.5 by Simon Owen is out.

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.

Version 3.5 (2013-01-07)
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- Fixed interleave and skew values for Pro-Dos .cpm images
- Alignment tweaks to some output formatting
- Restored code signing to help download validation


Happy Christmas 2012 for everybody

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Have a great holiday and let's hope Santa Claus will bring you a lot of things.



Space Harrier 3D by Sega available on Nintendo 3DS (download)

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Space Harrier is a well known game by Sega published on Amstrad CPC by Elite in 1986.

In 2004, Space harrier was available on PS2, today Space Harrier 3D is available on your Nintendo 3DS as a download for the eShop.

You can check the longplay video by Xyphoe on Youtube in 2 parts : first part and last part.

Space Harrier, un jeu Amstrad CPC game par Sega


Youtube video