Lexi Forge is the first Amstrad CPC of this 2026 year, written by the Team Galaxy (Edouard BERGE, Eric CUBIZOLLE, Pulsophonic). You like words, scrabble ? Then this reflexion game is made for you.

The issues 24 et 25 of RetroMagazine World by Francesco Fiorentini are released in english. There are articles about Amstrad CPC.

Christ Perver is currently working on an Amstrad CPC+/GX4000 port of the Q*Bert arcade game released in 1982 by Gottlieb. He wants the Amstrad CPC+ version to be as close to the original as possible. It will be available of course, as a cartridge version (joystick support for GX4000), but also on floppy disk and cassette. I encourage you to visit Chris Perver's website and read his PDF explaining the game's development.

Arkos Tracker v3.5.1 by Targhan is available on his web site. The site has many tutorials. This version is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Intel and ARM).

This v3.5.1 corrects a few bugs and brings a few optimizations.

ImageMode0 by CheapeeSoft for windows converts images to screen mode 0 Amstrad CPC format (160x200px 16colours). It features :

• Open images and resize them to 160x200px
• Apply nearest palette colours to image (16 colours)
• Change palette using full Amstrad palette (27 colours)
• Load/Save current palette
• Save final image in PNG format (160x200px 16colours)
• Save screen file for Amstrad CPC machine
• Save basic code to update palette

You will find on Tronic's web site (GPA) various utilities for use on or for the Amstrad CPC, several about YM music but also GPArt Studio v1.3 which can converts and modify Amstrad CPC screens.

Reginald and the She Vampires v1.1.1 par David Moore (reboot/sequel of the original game The Astonishing Adventures of Mr Weems And The She Vampires) is available. Changes in this version :

• Increased Damage from Monsters
• Instructions Screen now returnable early by a keypress
• increased display duration of all intermediate screens (due to timing issues with some CRTCs sometimes these screens disappeared too quickly on a real CPC)
• If enabled, Game hints are displayed for longer and no longer can be dismissed by a keypress

Code source of Reginald and the She Vampires is available on Github.

He is also writing a remake of the great classic Wizardry 1 (originally on Apple 2).

Start the year nicely with the newspaper 64 NOPS whose three first issues are available as download. There are still four copies left of the issue 3 of 64 NOPS.

You can order the issue 4 in english of the newspaper 64 NOPS on Ulule. It's a project by Hicks/Vanity and Toms/Pulpo Corrosivo, the cover is made by Beb, 64 pages A4 and delivery will be in February 2026.

One more year, this year it will be the 26th year of the web site which started in 1999.

I wish you all a good 2026 year, my best wishes of happyness, health and success for you and all the people who are important for you (and for all the others too). Well, if we could have some more peace on earth it would be also a good thing.

Pixsaur v1.7 by Gurneyh is an online utility to convert pictures to the Amstrad CPC format, but also for windows, MacOS and Linux on Github.