After the physyical edition of Space Moves sold by Matra announced for 21,45 euros, there is now an upgraded version available.

For the pleasure of your ears, here are two musical remixes of the game International Karate :

• International Karate played with a homemade 8-bit synthesizer : the chipophone by Linus Åkesson
• International Karate (C64 cover) by SynthPeter

Released in April 2020, Las Aventuras de Rudolphine Rur is a spanish adventure game written by Dwalin where you are the shoemaker Rudolphine Rur who has everything to be happy but still is going to a dangerous place.

The game was first written in 2005 with the Superglus software (by Uto) which is a port of the virtual machine Glulx. In 2015 the game was ported to the ngPAWS still by Uto which lets create an online version. Finally in 2019, work started to port the game with the DAAD software created initially by Tim Gilberts and actually maintained by Stefan Vogt. Daad can create ports to many computers including the one which interests us :

• Amstrad CPC
  • tape version without graphics, with short places descriptions and answers
  • disk version with graphics, with short places descriptions and answers
  • version M4 Wifi with graphics, with short places descriptions (but long description by using the command D) and long answers
• Amstrad PCW without graphics, with long places descriptions and short answers

The firmware v1.1.5 of the Imperium Solo by Duke is available (more wireless gamepads supported).

It's an adaptator to use USB joysticks (PS4, Xbox One...) on a standard joystick port of an Amstrad CPC (and later ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga and Atari ST).

Richard Bannister was the maintainer of a MacOS port of the Arnold emulator, now maintained by Kevin Thacker. But he is also the author of the Audio Overload utility which lets you play VGM music files, including .AY and .YM Amstrad music files. This utility runs on MacOS, Windows and Linux.

Crosslib by Fabrizio Caruso is a retro-hardware abstraction layer library to program on retro computers without bothering about the particular hardware. You can program on many many platforms including the Amstrad CPC, and also it seems (by reading the release/tags) the Amstrad Notepad NC100 !

He wrote two gamse with this library as examples :

• Cross Chase (2017), stated as slow
• Cross Shoot (2020)

I tried Cross Shoot and after several attempts I was able to finish level 1. Well please read the rules of the game to avoid wasting time like me : the goal is to kill all common enemies or kill all 4 "skulls". Common enemies can be killed quickly if pushed against the walls by shooting at them. The "skulls" and the boss cannot be pushed and are harder to kill. You have to avoid all enemies, all walls, rockets and chasing missiles. All flashing items have positive effects and can grant you special powers. Your bullets have a limited power that can be improved by catching the multiple times special fire power item. You can also fetch the mine item that grants you 3 powerful mines to use against all your enemies. Discover the 11 items. Some items are secret. In total the game has 12 secrets. You can unlock the 12 secrets by shooting at the skulls and at the missile and rocket bases in different ways. The game has 16 different levels including 2 boss levels.

Caprice Forever v2020-7 by Frédéric Coste is a modified version of the Caprice emulator (by Ulrich Doewich) for windows (32/64 bit).

• Patch Pasmo assembler to accept « EX HL,DE »
• Allow up to 32 upper roms
• Add Memory Editor differences highlighting
• Allow unlimited breakpoints
• Fix crash at joystick removal
• Fix FDC head position after stepping
• Detect AMSDOS header when loading ROM
• Support X-MEM memory expansion
• Fix minor bugs

John Ward is working on a version of Atic Atac for Amstrad CPC (CPCWiki).

A second video of Atic Atac is available on John Ward's Youtube channel.

The french Facebook group Amstradiens has done two videos on its Youtube channel about the Dandanator mini :

• its features and use
• using the Rom Generator software

There is an interview (spanish) by El Confidencial of Jose Luis Dominguez, the man who introduced the Amstrad CPC in Spain.