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








Classic Adventurer issue 12 is out by Mark Hardisty, about adventure games

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Classic Adventurer is a newspaper about adventure games by Mark Hardisty. Last issue number 12 just got released. As usual you can buy it printed or download it for free in PDF format..



The flamboyant fiasco of the Amstrad GX4000 by David Hecq

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Gunhed TV (David Hecq) is a known french youtubber with some videos on Amstrad CPC.

His last video 5 days ago is about the flamboyant fiasco of the Amstrad GX4000, to be compared to the video on the same subject : Histoire d'un Flop : les Amstrad 6128 plus, 464 Plus, et la GX 4000 by Générations Micro in December 2024.

David HECQ is also the author of the book Marion et les crocodiles d'Amstrad : L'histoire d'Amstrad France recommended by Roudoudou on his Discord. I did read it and it's a good one.




CPC Analyzer, a reverse engineering tool for Amstrad CPC programs by Crabfists

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CPC Analyzer (for windows, can be compiled on MacOS and Linux) by Crabfists is an utility to reverse engineering Amstrad CPC programs : it's a combination of an emulator, debugger & interactive disassembler. Programs are loaded and run in the emulator and their state can be inspected using the tools provided. It's a port of Spectrum Analyzer by Mark Craig. The current features of CPC Analyzer are :

  • Disassembler
  • Debugger
  • Graphics viewer
  • Character map viewer
  • Lua Custom viewers
  • Frame trace
  • Memory diff
  • IO analyser
  • Amstrad CPC 464 and CPC 6128 support
  • Lua scripting



CPCESP v0.85, an Amstrad CPC emulator for ilygo's TTGo VGA32 and Olimex's ESP32-SBC-FabGL

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ESPectrum is a ZX Spectrum emulator for the boards Ilygo TTGo VGA32 and Olimex ESP32-SBC-FabGL. There is now also an Amstrad CPC emulator named CPCESP, with a 3D printed packaging by Jose Lopez (other photos). CPCESP v0.85 is available on Github. You can also find CPCESP on :




RetroVirtualMachine v2.1.20, an Amstrad CPC emulator

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RetroVirtualMachine v2.1.20 by Juan Carlos González Amestoy is available since the 14th June. It's an Amstrad CPC emulator (also ZX Spectrum, MSX-1, SG-1000 and Sega Master System) for MacOS, Windows and Linux (including Raspberry PI).