I wish you all a happy christmas.

Photos of the The Amstrad CPC meeting Castelleum Secretum are on FTP of CPCscene. Check upper left screen on how to connect on the FTP site.

As usual, vous will find Amstrad CPC programs as MP3 files on Amstradeus. Last games to appear on the site are Combat lynx, Critical mass, Confuzion, Contraption, the Covenant, Costa Capers, Chickin case, Chimera, Chuckie Egg, City slicker, Challenge of the gobots and Chessmater 2000.

CPC Game Reviews has 8 new reviews.

The Forever meeting will take place in slovakia from 17th to 19th march 2006. There will be an Amstrad CPC competition

A new version of ConvImgCpc by Ludovic Deplanque is out. It's a windows xp utility to convert PC images to Amstrad CPC. This version supports overscan and features an editor to modify the image before writing it.

A new version of CPCDiskXP is available on CPC Mania. It's a .DSK file manager for windows XP (v1.4).

The Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.1.9 by John Elliott already available for unix and windows, and now also on MacOS.

Dr Zed has given informations about the Symbiface II status. Bugs were discovered at the Castlemeeting 2006. He is now only waiting for PCB he ordered (3 weeks) to start really the production.

A new beta 3 of SymbOS, the Amstrad CPC multitasking operating system can be downloaded now.

César Nicolas Gonzales just wrote a new version of its Amstrad CPC emulator CPCE (v1.54).

This new version corrects some bugs (sound, crash).

A new version of ConvImgCpc by Ludovic Deplanque is out.

It's a windows xp utility to convert PC images to Amstrad CPC. This version supports the 4096 colors of the Amstrad CPC+.

CPCGamesCD has been updated :

• Includes frontend, CPC Loader 1.6 by Troels K.
• NVG games update 3rd January 2006
• Includes Snap-Pack by MiguelSky (2700 images)
• Includes new version of CPCE and WinCPC emulators

CPCPSP v0.1 by Nige is a port of the Caprice32 emulator for the Sony PSP.

ManageDSK v0.14c by Ludovic Deplanque is out. It's a minor update of its windows utility to manage Amstrad CPC disks images (.DSK).