Symamp by Prodatron is a musical player for SymbOS which let you play these formats :

• MOD (4 canals)
• SA2 (Surprise! Adlib Tracker 2)
• SKM (compiled Starkos modules)
• ST2 (Soundtrakker 128 modules)
• PT3 (ZX Spectrum Protracker/6channel Vortex Tracker)
• MP3

It supports the following sound cards/chips (all internal sound chips of course) :

• Dave soundchip of the Enterprise 64/128
• CPC Playcity expansion
• MSX Darky catridge
• Dk'tronics AY soundcard for the PCW
• any MP3MSX compatible MP3 decoder on any platform
• OPL4 (MoonSound, MonsterSound, OPL4 Shockwave, Dal So Ri)
• carte Willy de Pulkomandy

Zym by Prevtenets is an adventure game interpreter for Infocom like games using the Z-machine. It can play infocom games with using the format Z3, 4 5 and 8.

AmstradGGP has released a second teaser for its game Mighty Street Fighter.

Seen on Facebook, the issue 12 of RetroMagazine World by Francesco Fiorentini is released in english and italian.

And a web article about the correction of a basic (and asm) basic listing : Frotee which was in Amstrad Computer User issue 34 in September 1987.

Aquablue is a short demo for the Amstrad CPC by Cyrille GOURET. it's available on the Amstradiens Facebook group.

You can see a video in the Twitter link. The video below is related to Aquablue (video by Comsoft).

Basic Instinct CPC who is on Facebook is making streams about basic programmation on Amstrd CPC in basic on Twitch.

AST continues to work on SYSco which is a file manager compatible with many new DOS such as AlbiDos (usb/sd), Amsdos (Floppy A and B), iMPdos (X-Mass 128/512 partitionned) and probably the M4 board and Unidos later (if you use AlbiDos, you should move to Unidos btw).

The first project for remplacing the Gate Array did start in 2016. It is finished by Gerald, the author of the C4CPC used on CPC+. The difficulty is getting the components to build it...

The second fonctionnal project but still being worked is the one by Bread80, go see his videos on his Twitter account.

Third project more recent, the one by SerErris as a CPLD who was inspired by the thread of the first project.

The Gate Array has also being remade for emulations solutions using FGPA.

A new Gate Array would also mean to be able to add new features !

I am not alone to be interested by using MIDI on Amstrad CPC : blog Amstrad Noob did write about it some days ago : First looks at the Ultimate CPC MIDI Sound and MIDI Interface Card.

A video is now available.

Mananuk (on Twitter) who is already working on a Amstrad CPC port of Black Sea Treasure Hunters (ZX Spectrum), has just released the Mandarin.

It's a platform game using the MK1 engine by the Mojons Twins and the WYZ player/tracker) by Augusto Ruiz.

A video of the Mandarin was done by Xyphoe. Click on this link to start directly to the game.