Abalore has a project he is working since September 2024 : the Abatape.

It is using an Arduino Nano ATMega328p@16 Mhz, a 700 mAH battery for about 24 hours of use, a SD reader and an OLED screen. It is especially able to detect the two motors making a real taping moving the magnetic band so it can support multi loading. Someone did suggest to add writing support to create new tape files. The Abatape supports of course the Amstrad CPC (.CDT) but several other computers as it is based on a Maxduino firmware :

• Spectrum : TAP, TZX
• MSX : CAS, TSX
• ZX80 : O
• ZX81 : P
• Acorn Atom, Electron : UEF (without compression), TSX
• Dragon 32/64, Tandy CoCo : CAS, TSX
• SVI Spectravideo : TSX
• Oric 1/Atmos : no .TAP support unless converted to TSX

UPX v5.0.2 by The UPX Team is an executable compressor for several operating systems including ms-dos. It is very useful notably on PC XT where disk space was limited, whatever 5,25 or 3,5 disks or on hard disks. At the time of my Amstrad PC 1512, I was using Lzexe by Fabrice Bellard (who also owned an Amstrad PC 1512 DD), Diet by Teddy Matsumoto, PKLite by Phil Katz (PKWare) then later UPX.

A new version of Amspirit, an Amstrad CPC emulator for windows by Dmanu78 is available on his web site. There are 32 and 64bit versions.

The thread on CPCWiki is here.

Roudoudou has released a Raspberry PI version of his Amstrad CPC ACE-DL emulator on the 13th Octobre 2025. There is no update for the other operating systems. He is working on supporting other hardware expansions. This version has been tested on a Raspberry PI 5 but should work on a PI 4.

GX-Pong by Stephen Waywood and graphics/design by Oncle Ced and Viny-Kun is a game for the Amstrad GX-4000 console. It's an order for a french convention française wich will take place in November 2026 where Oncle Ced will present a stand about the video game history (1970 to half 1990).

Arkos Tracker v3.4 by Targhan is available on his web site. The site has many tutorials. This version is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Intel and ARM).

This v3.4 features :

• Amstrad PCW support
• Spectravideo 318/328 support
• Merge song option (don't thank me @Prodatron !)
• Export as TXT (which may please @m_dr_m)
• Skip the possible amsdos header when loading .SKS and .128 (once again to please @Prodatron !)
• RASM 2.3.9 compatibility
• Much better import of Chp'n'sfx songs
• and other cool stuff!

To make so beautiful Amstrad CPC loading screens like Eric Cubizolle (Titan), it's easy, you just need to use the same painting program : Multipaint by Tero Heikkinen AKA Dr. Terrorz, and maybe a bit of talent and mostly a lot of work.

Titan is describing Multipaint as a mmix of OCP Art Studio and Deluxe Paint for windows which offers the possibility of using the resolutions and palettes of a whole bunch of old computers including the Amstrad CPC (mode 0 and 1, overscan possible in mode 0).

Dia de los Muertos will be released tomorrow on the 31th october 2025, it is written by Vitop69. This Amstrad CPC platform game is tribute to his father who died in June 2023, he did offer his son an Amstrad CPC 464 in 1985 and they both discovered Locomotive Basic programmation. The game is written in pure assembler.

It is the end of October (Halloween can be ok). Pedro must reach his Family's tomb by the day of the death (2 of November). Time is short, he must cross the desert, the cursed castle and finally reach the Santa Fe cementery.

There are many difficulties, and his enemies will try to slow down his way by taking away his time.

Collect as many candles as possible, along the way, will help him gain time to reach the party (Dia the Los Muertos) on time. Then RUN,RUN and RUN !

Amstrad Eterno X was released during the last Amstrad Eterno event this October 2025. It's an Amstrad CPC platform game by CapaSoft. It was programmed by Sergi Caparrós (Mr. Capa), graphics by Xeif and Javy Fernández, music by Riskwood, loading screen by Titan and an idea by Blackmores.

Don't hesitate to discover the other Amstrad CPC games by Capasoft :

• Mine Escape in 2024
• Roland in Retroalacant in 2024
• Jax the Dog in 2023

Vous souhaitez un clavier mécanique pour remplacer celui d'origine sur un Amstrad CPC 464 ? Alors Bread80 a ce qu'il vous faut avec toutes les informations sur la carte disponible sur Github.

In the same CPCWiki's thread, Salvogendut is showing his replica of an Amstrad CPC 464 main board with Bread80's mechanical keyboard. This replica of the Amstrad CPC 464 main board comes from Bob's Bits site on Tindie (out of stock sadly). But this is also in stock this time a replica of the Amstrad CPC 6128 main board. You will find below three photos of Salvogendut's keyboard.