Arkos Tracker v3 by Targhan is available on the new web site, the new site isn't complete but it holds already several tutorials. The last version available is v3.2.1 (21th October 2024). It's a beta version but totally usuable as stated by the Targhan, for windows, mac and linux (intel and ARM).

Dizark isn't anymore embedded in Arkos Tracker and has now its own web site. Disark is a Z80 disassembler, but it is more than that as it can be used to convert sources from an assembler to another.

Below you will find the content of the announcement of Arkos Tracker 3 on CPCWiki :

Arkos Traker 3! It is a 100% redesigned, recoded version of Arkos Tracker. Don't worry though :

• Compatibility with the previous versions of AT is ensured
• The players are unchanged, minus a few bugs (AKY users should re-encode their files though)

A few features :

• Open source
• A completely new instrument editor
• Simplified pattern management
• Undo/redo everywhere
• Theme-able

Allister Brimble is a british composer of music for video games, who worked for example for Team 17. He did release in 2015 The Spectrum Works which is a compilation of remake of Amstrad CPC games music.

Even if you see 3 inc disks on this tweet by Kevin Edwards, they were used on a Tatung Einstein TC-01 computer. But they hold the development archives of the brothers Tim and Geoff Follin (with their agreement of course) for C64 but also for Amstrad CPC and ZX Spextrum.

On this github page, you will be able of course to download the content of the disks (music and player code source) but also an historic of the preservation of these data which were done in two steps first by Dean Belfield then by Kevin Edwards. Sadly Geoff Follin leaved us in May 2024 due to a cancer.

Olivier Poncet is the author of an Amstrad CPC emulator : Xcpc v0.52.0 for Linux, BSD and Unix. It doesn't emulate the + models though.

He is talking about how to write an emulator on his web site.

And also quite interesting, he has released last month AYM JS which is a sound chip emulator written in JavaScript emulating the AY-3-8910 PSG (Programmable Sound Generator) and the YM2149 SSG (Software-Controlled Sound Generator). You can test AYM JS here (press the Power button and the Play button). At the moment YM files must be converted to javascript (but the conversion tool isn't available yet), but direct support of YM files is on the way.

Grazia Pizzuto has many videos of music of videos games played on piano and or organ, this first time enjoy Cauldron's music by Keith Miller on piano and organ. Organ is one of my favorite music intrument (saxophone also).

space_debris.mod in a well known musical file for PC, to be read with Mod Master for example.

BSC did port Space Debris on Amstrad CPC and it's simply wonderful ! Well in fact this video is one year old, too bad I missed it before.

You can check his Soundcloud page.

Another nice music remix of the Warhawk game by Proteus Developments (code by Paul JOHNSON and music by Ron HUBBARD) has been made by O2, on the AmigaMuseum's Youtube channel.

A very nice music remake of the Saboteur 2 game by Clive Townsend has been made by Marcel DONNE. The new loading screen is done by Titan.

Ian Scott has released a new firmware v1.20 for his ISA card PicoGUS which supports the sound card Gravis Ultra Sound (and much more). This firmware replaces the Adlib mode with a SoundBlaster 2.0 mode where Adlib support is better, and also a fix for the MPU-401 emulation mode. The new firmware can be downloaded on Ian Scott's Github.

The version 1.01 of Mod Master XT by FreddyV is available as source code on github.

This msdos utility lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...

In 2019, Marco Vieth the author of the first Amstrad CPC forr msdos (now maintained by Rainer Lortiz) did release CPCBasic unchained which is converting a Locomotive Basic program of an Amstrad CPC in javascript to use it on a web site.

This version only receive bugs fixes, it's now CPCBasicTS unchained (TS for TypeScript) which is developped, and a new version 0.1.1 was released two weeks ago.

At least I have installed CPCBasicTS and the first exeample will be one of the best Locomotive basic program which will feel you good : sound of waves and gulls by D. CARDON which came from a french magazine. Modify the number at the end of line 30 if you want to hear less gulls, and click on the Run button to launch the program.

As announced on Twitter by Cepeceros Podcast, thanks to Syx you can download a version of Nebulus where you can choose your level instead of playing linearly.

Also the remake Toppler has changed its web address and is now version 1.3.

And to finish, two music remix of Nebulus :

• by shrekmeuse
• by Alpisofr (see below)

musik200 xmas 2023 xmas edition by BSC is a music disk using his sound engine presented in his demo Musik100 by BSC about which you will find more details on CPCWiki.

You can see and listen to this demo on Youtube (video by Xenomorph).

You can check his Soundcloud page.

Targhan has created CPC Scene Radio as Roland Radio has some problems since a few months.

Also, I just saw that there is now a version of Arkos Tracker v2.0.1 for Raspberry PI (also on linux, windows and mac).

The small compatibility problems for this replacement chip for the Amstrad CPC sound chip have been corrected with more releaxed timings. Instead of buying an original sound chip for too much money, it is more interesting to buy this functional equivalent AY-3-8912 by vRetro.