mTCP NetDrive is a new utility by Michael B. Brutman which lets you connect under ms-dos a network drive which is in fact an image disk hosted on a windows or linux server (disk drive or hard disk image) for only 6 Kb of RAM (adds the RAM for the packet driver though). A mariage in heaven with the PicoMem card by FreddyV.

The latest adventure game by Stefan Vogt has been released the 2nd December 2023 : the Ghosts of Blackwood Manor for Amstrad CPC and PCW. It is also available on : C64, C128, Spectrum, Amiga, AtariST, Ms-DOS, BBC, Electron, Apple2, TRS80, Plus4, Mega65 and SpecNext.

PunyInform v5.2 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson is a library written in Inform 6 to create adventure game (pure text, no graphic support contrary to DAAD) using the Z-machine virtual machine which will run on 8bit computers (or more recent computers too). PunyInform has a parser, knowing of common verbs and a framework to write adventure games.

PunyInform is based on the Inform 6 library written by Graham Nelson. Its goal is to make easily adventure games in Inform 6, with a manual describing the differences between the official library and PunyInform..

Games using PunyInform can be compiled in z3, z5 and z8 format (z3 being the best format for 8bit computers, other formats have more features). Compared to the Inform 6 library, it means that there is no support for the Glulx virtual machine but z3 format is important as Inform 6 doesnt support it.

To compile games written with PunyInform, you should use the Inform 6 compiler maintained by David Kinder. Binaries are available on if-archive. PunyInform needs Inform v6.35 (or more).

They are tutorials to write adventure game with PunyInform (end of the page) and all the documentation including a 8 page cheat sheet (quick reference)..

To try your game after compilation, you can use WinFrotz by David Kinder, to create map easily you can use Trizbort.

And finally, to create an Amstrad CPC and PCW disk image, you will have to use the Puddle BuildTools.

New version by Roudoudou of his ACE-DL Amstrad CPC emulator (Xmas version). See the video below with the english subtitles for the new features of this version.

Sugarbox v2.02, the Amstrad CPC(+) emulator is available.

Noel Llopis presents in his new video how he goes from 64 Kb to 1 Mb of RAM on an Amstrad CPC 464.

The expansion card to be used should have been by Revaldino but some components being hard to get, it's finally the card by Rebobinando which has been used.

Caprice Forever v2023-11 by Frédéric Coste is a modified version of the Caprice emulator (by Ulrich Doewich) for windows (32/64 bit). This version features :

• Add SSA-1 Speech emulation
• Add DK'Tronics Speech emulation
• Improve Tape viewer including PPI audio direct navigation
• Improve CRTC1 emulation (Thanks to Philippe 'Offset' Rimauro)
• Fix minor bugs

Seventy-seven days still to discover Goldorak by Zisquier, Pulsophonic and Titan. It's a shoot them up for Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000.

The video below of Goldorak is an alpha version (4.4.1) eight months ago.

Targhan has created CPC Scene Radio as Roland Radio has some problems since a few months.

Also, I just saw that there is now a version of Arkos Tracker v2.0.1 for Raspberry PI (also on linux, windows and mac).

The latest adventure game by Stefan Vogt will be soon released : Ghosts of Blackwood Manor which he is presenting the loading screen on Amstrad CPC. It will be available alson on : C64, C128, Spectrum, Amiga, AtariST, Ms-DOS, BBC, Electron, Apple2, TRS80, Plus4, Mega65 and SpecNext.