Ivan AVILA (21Bloques) has released yesterday his lateste Amstrad CPC, a remake of the classic Pitfall 2 the lost caverns initialement sorti sur la console Atari VCS 2600 en 1984. Avec un écran de chargement par Titan. You can see a video of Pitfall 2's gameplay by Xenomorph below.

Ian Scott did create the PicoGUS card emulating the Gravis Ultra Sound sound card (you can buy a PicoGUS in Europe at Serdashop).

He has announced today the future availability of the PicoIDE which features ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. A new card next to the PicoMEM card by Freddy Vetele (the PicoMEM can be bought too at Serdashop).

Even for PC XT (and up), it can be interesting to use SCSI emulation as it exists SCSCI controllers for PC XT : BlueSCSI v2, ZuluSCSI, PiSCSCI.

Bertrand Brocard was interviewed by Génération Micros. Bertrand Brocard did create Cobra Soft with Gilles Bertin in 1983.

The PCW Mini expansion card by Habi Soft let you add more features on an Amstrad PCW computer :

• sound and music DK'Sound, TurboSound and DAC
• two joysticks
• HDMI output
• four colour modes

The New Zealand Story is an Amstrad PCW(+) conversion of this classic game by Enrique G. Gálvez. As usual DK'Sound music and sound support, either monochrome gameplay for standard PCW or PCW+ mode with colours, joystick support and faster scanline mode for classic Amstrad PCW. You can see a video of The New Zealand Story on Amstrad PCW below.

Alien Intruder by Reidrac is a msdos platform game in VGA, starting with the 80286 processor (to be tested though on a 8086 or Nec V30), it was released in 2024. Alien Intruder in physical edition at Polyplay is now available.

The weather is gloomy, with no sun at all. There's not much joy left in your heart, but maybe I have the solution for you: just watch the video the Amstrad CPC for Noobs by Nicolas PREIRE below, and maybe a ray of sunshine will appear behind you.

Usually Tollis is making musical remakes of Amstrad CPC games, but this time is a musical remake of the Amstrad CPC demo Phortem by Condense in 2013, a nice remake.

Counterpoint is a GUI for msdos seen on the Amstrad PC 5000 serie (download the system disks of the Amstrad PC 5286 by Banjo. You will find more informations on Counterpoint on Banjo's site and also an utility to write icorns for Counterpoint by VileRancor. John Elliott has also a page on Counterpoint.

Today Frédéric Cherpe is working on his Project Counterpoint Hommage (CPH) :

Counterpoint was a graphical user interface found on some Amstrad PC models in the early 1990s. Counterpoint Homage Project (CPH) aims to revive the spirit of Counterpoint. It modernizes this interface while preserving its retro aesthetic. It's as if we were still using Amstrad PCs running DOS in 2025. This project allows enthusiasts to rediscover the unique user experience of Counterpoint in a contemporary environment.

It runs on the 8086 @ 8 MHz with the same sluggishness as back in the day! The user experience is improved with the 386 at 25 MHz, normally like on the Amstrad Mega-PC, but I don't have one to test on. So, for now, there's a VGA version and a CGA Monochrome version. I'm planning to make a 320x200 CGA version later, with a choice of four color palettes.

This interface uses my own scripting language, "Nova Script," the result of many years of work. But I'll probably make lighter versions without this language, for example, for the 8086 and 8088. I still need to write the language selection button, because yes, this interface can be in any language, but right now it will only be available in French and English. Of course, you can manually write the configuration files to set your own language.

I'll also set up a website with a download page for the different versions and a donation page. It takes up a lot of my time, and I'd like to dedicate more time to this project. So, a few small donations would greatly help me offer you more features, etc. I'll also need to write a user manual in French and English; the amount of work is enormous.

Felisuco has made at the start of October 2025 an interview of Mark Eric Jones who is one of the engineer of the Amstrad CPC and PCW. The interview is in spanish but as usual there is a translation possible on Youtube.

And as a bonus, a short video by Felisuco on the best Dandanator possible.