Ikonsgr has released new firmware for his expansion cards USIfAC II and ULIfAC . THe ULIFAC is the last iteration of his card which started with the USIfAC 1.

The 4th version of the HxC Floppy Emulator Manager is available.

It features :

• User can now edit up to 20 slots (previous version: 15 slots was the max.)
• New UI, removed the old "demomaker style" presentation, now displaying more files on screen (with longer filenames)
• DEL key added to move back to parent folder while navigating
• The manager now skips DSK files when using a HxC SD/Slim device
• The Help page now reports the firmware version + build date of the Manager
• Switched compilation to SDCC 4.2.0 (resulting better Z80 implementation)
• Now compiled using RASM from roudoudou (previous version: Pasmo)
• Now compressed using ZX0 packer (previous version: the good old Bitbuster)
• Smaller binary (11KB) resulting a faster load from BASIC prompt (previous version: 16KB)

It remains compatible with the 64KB RAM-based machines, and the ROM version is sdirectly available into the AUTOBOOT.HFE file.

A new version of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v4.3.0 is available since the 7th June 2023 for windows, linux and MacOS.

Anthony Flack is working on a remake of Bomb Jack for Amstrad CPC with the aim of bring faithful with the arcade version. Don't hesitate to check his videos on his Youtube channel.

A video by Rodrik Studio where he explains how he has coded the Bad Apple demo on an Amstrad PC 1512. At the start of the video you will be able to hear the music played with traditionnal music instruments.

Rodolfo Skylarriente, the Archeologist is a graphic adventure game on Amstrad CPC by Sakis Kaffesakis, Manossg (music), Brundij (digitized screens) and MiguelSky (traduction), available in english, french, greek and spanish.

A video of the solution in english is available.

The Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.4.2 by John Elliott already available for unix, windows and MacOS.

There is also a development version 2.5.1 (February 2023)

Sugarbox v2.01, the Amstrad CPC(+) emulator is available.

Rodrik Studio has done another video, the second about using an Amstrad PC 1512 without its original monitor (WIP), following the first video where he was using a breadboard.

Blocktris by Under4Mhz is a new reflexion/puzzle game for Amstrad CPC, based on a ms-dos game.

It's a Tetris clone with some nice background images.