The last version of 8BP (v042-01), a programmation framework, is presented by his author on his web site. This version is available since the first September.

For your information, the documentation of 8BP is now available in five languages.

And if you want to program with 8BP under windows, then why not take a look at IDE8BP written by Toni Longo and released at the end of May 2024. You will find a présentation of IDE8BP's features on AUA.

The information is a bit old as it's from March 2024, but Lord Alan Michael did buy back the rights for the Amstrad brand and launched a marketing company under the name Amstrad Digital.

Amstrad.EU is going to be 25 years old soon, it seems it's the year to hit this threshold as this site got its anniversary in may. So Amstrad.EU just got a lifting at the start of October. The content of the old site is at its old address which you will find here. The content will be migrated from the old site to the new with time, so be patient.

Long life to Amstrad.EU and all other Amstrad computers related web sites, but lets not be sectarian towards those about other old computers as we didn't start all with an Amstrad CPC (I did start in fact with a ZX 81, not mine though).

Allister Brimble is a british composer of music for video games, who worked for example for Team 17. He did release in 2015 The Spectrum Works which is a compilation of remake of Amstrad CPC games music.

These last years several expansions allows you to use mass storage (USB or sd...) on Amstrad CPC, each needing a ROM to use it correctly.

And if you use two of these expansions, you will need to load two ROMs, so less RAM for your Amstrad CPC.

So Offset did write UniDOS and drivers to be able to use another expansion, needing only one ROM with features being the same whatever the expansion. Unidos can manage actually :

• Albireo by PulkoTronics
• M4 Board by Duke
• X-Mass by Tot0
• Symbiface II by Dr.Zed
• Nova by PulkoTronics

Offset also wrote UniDOS Cartridge Creator (v1.4) which is an utility to create Amstrad Plus cartridges equipped with a patched firmware which allows to add UniDOS and its DOS nodes. You can furthermore configure up to 30 additional tool ROMs (such as Utopia, Maxam, Protext..) in the cartridges (compatible with ParaDOS and Burnin' Rubber) without requiring a real ROM board. The tool also let you automatically download the latest UniDOS ROMs from the official web site.

Unidos v1.51 is a minor release released in September 2024, which is only fixing the|COPY RSX so that it also works properly with weird binary headers generated by some PC tools.

First announced in May 2024, SymCalc by Prodatron for SymbOS is available since the 18th October 2024. It's a spreadsheet software for the SymbOS operating system. Le code de l'application disponible sur la page github de SymCalc, its documentation is available on SymbOS web site.

Even if you see 3 inc disks on this tweet by Kevin Edwards, they were used on a Tatung Einstein TC-01 computer. But they hold the development archives of the brothers Tim and Geoff Follin (with their agreement of course) for C64 but also for Amstrad CPC and ZX Spextrum.

On this github page, you will be able of course to download the content of the disks (music and player code source) but also an historic of the preservation of these data which were done in two steps first by Dean Belfield then by Kevin Edwards. Sadly Geoff Follin leaved us in May 2024 due to a cancer.

Border 0 organizes his thirteenth score contest on the Amstrad CPC game 77 Attempts (platform game by Alvaro JOVER, Jordi AMOROS and Cristian GARCIA for the CPCRetroDev 2018) till the 30th November 2024. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.

Mighty Street Fighter by AmstradGGP will be released in December 2024. On their Itch.IO page you will find now an art gallery. And if you still didn't get it, go quickly download their port of the great classic Toki.

The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.8 which corrects DNS issues occurring under certain conditions (first seen with french users).

There is also a new extended documentation of the M4 board written by Csaba Toth in english (PDF format).