The Amstrad CPC meeting ReSeT #30 will take place at Coutances from friday 29th June (12am) to sunday 1st July (6pm) 2018 in Normandy (Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs, 162 rue Régis Messac, Coutances).

This meeting is organized by Eliot (Benediction). It's a success each year since 2000.

Whatever your interest in Amstrad CPC, you will be welcome. It will be the occasion to see previews of incoming programs and to meet other CPCists.

As usual there will be a contest.

More informations on ReSeT's site.

After a remake of Saboteur 1 and 2 for PC and MAC, and Saboteur! for Android (which takes place between Saboteur 1 and 2), Clive Townsend, the original author of Saboteur is working on Saboteur 3.

The free version of Saboteur 1 and 2 (PC, MAC) has limitations (time, no saving of scores and progression). The full version costs only 2,99 €.

Arcade Game Designer v0.7 is a windows x64 utility by Jonathan Cauldwell to write games for Timex/Next, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation. It also exist directly on these platforms.

This new version adds : extra functionality, new tools, more commands, numerous bug fixes, improved editors, updated documentation and more.

There is a forum about AGD.

Donkey Kong and Renegade are out this month on the Nintendo Switch (see the announce in french by MO5).

Released in April 2016, iMPdraw v1.2 is the last version of this Amstrad CPC painting program by AsT.

The version 2 will be showed at the meeting Reset #30 with fullscreen mode and Amstrad CPC+ support.

Other painting program exists : GOS (CPC+ only) and Claudia (CPC and CPC+).

The video game console Colecovision was released in August 1982, versus the challenger : the Atari VCS 2600 released in September 1977.

Risky Risk by ArcadeVision has been released just this month on the Colecovision. I already wanted to buy a Colecovision to go with my Atari VCS 5200, one more reason to do it.

Four physical editions of the game are still available.

An information three months old, to play more easily to Operation Thunderbolt with the laser sight always active (modification found by Urusergi), where it is normally a bonus you must get. It exists a CPR version for Amstrad CPC+ or GX4000 and for DSK version for plain Amstrad CPC.

There are already 8 people at the Reset 30 meeting, eleven other people will arrive later. And we have a guest from Germany : Kangaroo, already arrived (see the right of the photo).

Keith56, author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 et 2), will be starting a 7 day programming marathon next week, remaking the msdos game 'Grime' on ELEVEN Z80 machines : CPC, ZxSpectrum, EP128, SamCoupe, Ti83, MSX2, Sega Mastersystem, Game Gear,Gameboy,Gameboy Color and also MSX1.

Three interesting videos by RetroManCave : restoring an Amstrad CPC 6128 :

• First part
• Second part
• Third part

You are a good programmer (or not), you got an Amstrad CPC and a portable Nintendo 3DS console ?

Then you really need SmileBASIC by SmileBoom (japanese studio) to program Amstrad CPC games on the Nintendo 3DS for the price of 9,50 €.

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has written a new version of 8BP v33 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.

This new version of 8bpbrings 4 new features, including flipping and pseudo-3D.

No holds barred is a new WIP Amstrad CPC game (like Renegade) written by sigh. A video is available and Sigh just finished drawing the background of the second level with its female boss.

Arkalys Project is a french blog about the french computer RPG (1980 till today). It already featured about Mandragore, Tyrann and Citadelle who did exist on Amstrad CPC.

After his first set of video about C programmation for the Amstrad CPC (first video), here is a new set of videos about Amstrad GX4000 games which starts with Barbarian 2 and Batman.

I won't write eight different news, so head to OverClocked ReMix to listen to eight remix of Amstrad CPC musics : Robocop, Ghosts'n Goblins, Space Harrier, Cauldron 2, Arkanoid (2 remixes), Dizzy the adventurer and Lemmings.

The original music of the Amstrad CPC game Thrust is written by Rob Hubbard, and it is played on a synthetizer by CPC Moments.

Sadly, it is the last video by CPC moments, which are all from two years ago.

The original music of the Amstrad CPC game Prohibition is written by Charles Callet, and it is played on a synthetizer by CPC Moments.

The original music of the Amstrad CPC game Platoon is written by David Whittaker, and it is played on a synthetizer by CPC Moments.

3D Fight is a shoot them up in 3D on Amstrad CPC by Vincent Baillet (code) and Michel WINOGRADOFF (music). It's a great classic that I finished if my memory is good. You can find an interview in french in the issue 19 of Pix'n Love.

You can see two videos :

• 3D fight longplay by Amstrad Maniaque
• 3D Fight music played on a synthetizer by CPC moments

Pink Pills - Manic Moritz and the Meds for ZX Spectrum is a work in progress for Amstrad CPC by Sebastian Braunert and Uwe Geiken, with music by The Shining. AGD by Jonathan Cauldwell is used for writing the game.

As stated yesterday, Cliff Townsend, the original author of Saboteur is working on Saboteur 3.

But, between 2010 and 2012 a french wrote as an hommage a Saboteur 3 in GFA basic on Atari ST. The program and the sources are available on official site of this unofficial game.

You can read an interview of Prodatron about SymbOS in three different languages by Entebras :

• english version
• spanish version
• hungarian version

Entebras did create an official cover for SymbOS.

To load an Amstrad CPC tape (or a ZX Spectrum one), you can use :

• a tape drive
• an Android phone with the tapDancer Virtual Datasette application
• the TZX Duino

In november 2017, a new version of the TZX duino was released with a percentage counter and a timer counter have been added to all screens, and in March 2018 the possiblity to do some firmare editing (type of screen, logo...).

You can buy the TZXduino in the author's shop.

ZEsarUX v7.0 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)

Andre Weissflog has written an Amstrad CPC emulator (and he wrote other such emulator on his web site). The source of this emulator is available, there is no tape or disk emulation, audio is emulated but no output at the moment.

An interesting information, a japanese engineer built a hand-made MSX computer, not with FPGA but with hard wired general chips, with several main board each one having the role of a fonctionnality of the MSX (one mainboard for video for example).

For more informations, go read MSX.org and the web site of the engineer.