The latest Amstrad CPC artwork by Colin Thomson is a dragon with hell fire.

The latest Amstrad CPC artwork by Colin Thomson is a Pumpkin Teddy.

At the end of the Benediction Coding Meeting 4, someone had two science-fiction in her opened bag. As I am an avid reader, I did look at the cover, the title and ... the name of the writer : Philippe RIMAURO, who isn't exactly unknown on the Amstrad CPC scene. So Ann nonymous confirmed to me that these books were the start of a serie, with a third to be sold soon, and a fourth being W.I.P Ann did usher to me that the first was read very quickly so you could consider buying these two books (already done for me and I received them right today) on Amazon as they are printed on demande (the links are not sponsored) :

• la perle des confins
• la soeur égarée ou le râle du monde

You couldn't come to the Benediction Coding Party #4 meeting well organized as usual by Eliot (Bénédiction) ?

Thanks to our master cook Roudoudou who can master cooking as well as he can use a camera, you will feel you were there if you go look this video on Youtube (see below).

Manuel3D is the author of 3 Amstrad CPC programs, two utilities : New font for Amstrad CPC and Draw a star, and also a game : the hangman.

On his Youtube channel, his latest video is one about a case for an Amstrad CPC 464, but I dont know if he is the author of the 3D model.

Sew Ready is an Ebay seller in the United Kingdom, which is selling covers for retro computers (and their monitors), including the Amstrad CPC range. You can also find Sew Ready on Twitter.

The latest Amstrad CPC artwork by Colin Thomson is a pirate ship. You can also see his two others Amstrad CPC drawing :

• Amstrad Drawing (Bob Ross style, american artist)
• Drawing a Parrot

A suggestion by Youtube and I stumbled on Colin Thomson's channel where you can see two gorgeous Amstrad CPC screens being drawn :

• Amstrad Drawing (Bob Ross style, american artist), see below
• Drawing a Parrot (Amstrad 8bit Pixel Drawing)

Prevtenet is the author of Zym an interpret of Infocom adventure games using the Z-machine for SymbOS. He has converted public domaine books (including the bible in different languages) to the .HLP format of SymbOS.

Doh sorry for tonight but copy/paste the french text (hit the french flag up there to the right) in google translate if the photo below make you drool. Will try to translate it myself tomorrow, sorry.

To make it short, there are 7 models of the protection :

• french, english and spanish CPC 464 (472 for the spanish one)
• french and english CPC 664 (there is no Azerty 664, so the difference is just on the disk drive, both keyboards are Qwerty)
• french and english CPC 6128

Price is 17 &euros; including shipping for France and 20 &euros; for Spain (shipping included too). For any other international shipping, contact him first.

Included in the packaging :

• protection folded in its sealed cellophane
• documentation for washing and ironing
• protective bubble envelope
• shipping with tracking number
• a small gift to boost your happiness

For ordering, you must :

1) payment with Paypal of the good amount (number of order x price : 17 or 20) to fredisland at acpc dot me. You cant ask to reserve for later.

2) at the same time you pay on Papyal, you can leave a message, it's really important as you must leave your postal address, which protection you want and how many, or send these informations as a private message on Facebook or by email.

Frédéric will confirm your order (by PM or email) that your order will be processed (well if you leaved all the needed informations). As his original message was in August and as he has now the protections in stock, shipping should be quick but don't forget he is a one man show not Amazon, sometimes humans needs to eat, sleep, work too (Genesis8bit opinion, not a translation of Frédéric's words).

Pulkomandy has released a new version v1.4 of his fork of Contiki v1.x for Amstrad CPC. More informations on his Contiki page (with the download).

Contiki is a small operating system for embedded devices. While version 2 of the system is designed to run on embedded devices and has an IP and IPv6 stack as the main feature, the 1.x version of the system is better known for being ported to several 8-bit and 16-bit home computers.

You certainly know Eric Cubizolle (Titan) for his marvelous Amstrad CPC loading screens remakes.

But did you know that he is as good with 3D printing models ? I let you see his 3D models including the one for the Octopus game in video.

In 2001 a limited licence for using CP/M was given to Tim Olstead (The Unofficial CP/M Web site) by Bryan Sparks who was (and still is) CEO of Lineo (successor of Caldera).

This licence has been clarified by Brian Sparks, CP/M is now clearly under an open source licence.

Source code of CP/M (different versions) is available, also their respective manuals.

You will find more informations about CP/M on John Elliott's web page.

Two very recent videos in french about the history of Amstrad :

• by le Joueur du Grenier (a little on on the information side)
• by Generations Micros (done more seriously than the first video)

You are so used to it, but the cover of your Amstrad CPC disk drive has some informations. Why not getting an upgrade of these informations by getting the one made by Frédéric Bellec (ACME web site) ? It's available in azerty and qwerty, and in english.