News about Amstrad CPC, PCW, Notepad NC100 NC150 NC200, PDA600 and also Amstrad PC






ZEsarUX v4.2, an Amstrad CPC 464 emulator (other computers like ZX Spectrum too)

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ZEsarUX v4.2 is a multi platform emulator, Amstrad CPC 464 included. You can compile the unix sources directly or get a binary for :

  • linux 32/64 bits
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
  • Raspberry pi (raspbian)


Saboteur's remake by Cliff Townsend on PC, MAC and android

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Cliff Townsend, the original author of Saboteur has written several months ago a remake of this game which impressed a lot of people at that time. It's one of the game I finished on my Amstrad CPC.

The free version (PC, MAC and Android) has limitations (time, no saving of scores and progression). The full version costs only 3,99 €.





Test of Motorbike Madness by ChinnyVision

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A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Motorbike Madness is available. The game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1988 by Mastertronic (ZX Spectrum version on the same tape). It's a 3D isometic moto game.

He also tests it on Amiga, ST, Sega Master System, Spectrum and C64.




Roland Radio, an Amstrad CPC radio internet now with an Android application

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Roland Radio is an internet radio, and its program should interest you : only Amstrad CPC music.

There is now an Android application for Roland Radio.




Phoenix arcade emulator by Norbert Kehrer

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Norbert Kehrer wrote an emulator/conversion, of the classic arcade game Phoenix from 1980 for the Amstrad CPC. The original arcade machine was made by the American company Amstar and had a 8085 CPU. So, the Amstrad CPC can directly run the original game program on its 8085-compatible Z80 CPU. In order to emulate the arcade machine's video and sound hardware on the Amstrad home computer, he wrote specific Z80 routines for that. These are still a little bit buggy now, and the sound is still bad.

He made two versions of the game. One with sixteen colors but lower resolution (file "phoenix"), and a second one with the original resolution but with only four colors (file "phoenixh").

You can download a disk image with both versions of the game from Norbert Kehrer's homepage.





Tower Toppler v1.1.6 for windows (2012), a Nebulus remake

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There is a new version of Tower Toppler since I wrote about this remake of Nebulus, with one more mission of several towers (tower toppler v1.1.6).



XY-MEM Flasher by Chany (Nul Part System), an Amstrad CPC 6128 utility

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XY-MEM Flasher by Chany (load screen by Kukukcan) is an Amstrad CPC 6128 utilkity to flash your ROMs on your X-MEM or Y-MEM both made by ToTO.

The Y-MEM expansion is also made by TotO. It's a similar expansion like the X-MEM. The difference is the addressing of RAM and ROM. While the X-MEM addresses the lower ROM, ROMs 0-6 and 8-31, the Y-MEM addresses the ROMs from 32 to 63. The X-MEM allows to access 512 KB RAM using the port &7Fxx. But the Y-MEM addresses another 512 KB using the port &7Exx. Using the X-MEM and the Y-MEM together provides 1 MB of expansion RAM and 1 MB of Flash-ROM for the CPC or Plus computers.

Click on the source link for downloading it.