Rupert Murdoch owner of the U.K. media group BskyB has launched an amical OPA on Amstrad for 185 millions €, it will permit to BskyB to lower its costs, as it was buying satellit numerical video decoders from Amstrad. Alan Michael Sugar will stil be the manager at Amstrad, and will still keep 28% Amstrad actions d'Amstrad after selling a part of his actions for 34,5 millions of pounds. Alan Michael Sugar is now 60 years old.

Elite was one of the best Amstrad CPC games, and Elite II on PC was a good game too. Frontier 1337 is a port for Sony PSP of Elite II, which I couldnt try at the moment though.

Groops is an Amstrad CPC reflexion game by Binaries Sciences, and a nice one. A new version without non important bugs will be out soon.

SymStudio is the development tool for SymbOS, with bugs corrections and some new features (graphic). The web site has a lot of informations and guides. about SymStudio.

SymZilla is a browser for SymbOS, it let you read HTML files. Beware it needs 192 Ko of memory, so on a CPC you need a RAM extension.

Sappy is a french Amstrad CPC+ demo by the Semilanceata group released in January 2007.

You can see a video of Sappy on Youtube.

After CrocoDS, AmeDS is another Amstrad CPC emulator for the Nintendo DS.

I wish you all a happy new year 2007, and good health too.

CPC Game Reviews has converted another ZX Spectrum game on Amstrad CPC : Area 51 by Jonathan Cauldwell, a platform game.

CrocoDS is an Amstrad CPC emulator for the Nintendo DS. But it needs a linker to permit launching homebrew on a Nintendo DS.