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







mTCP v20250110 by Michael B. Brutman, TCP/IP for Ms-Dos and NetDrive's source code

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mTCP v2023-01-10 by Michael B. Brutman is a set of TCP/IP applications for personal computers running PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, and other flavors of DOS. mTCP needs a 8088 processor (or +), 96 to 256 Kb of system memory depending on the application, ms-dos v2.1 (or +) and a network card (Ethernet adapter, or a device emulating Ethernet) that has a packet driver.

The source code of NetDrive is available on mTCP's web page. It's a Ms-Dos driver to access a disk image (floppy or hard disk) which on another computer on the local network under windows (10 and 11), Linux (x86 or ARM) and MacOS.

If you go on the mTCP web page, you must know that it's a 41 years old PC Jr which is running mTCP own http server.





C3 support for the expansion card PicoCPC by Rodrik Studio and FreddyV

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Modification of this news, contrary as to I wrote first, as Prodatron stated on CPCWiki, SymbOS doesn't need C3 memory mode support to work. But C3 memory support on the PicoCPC card is still an excellent thing.

A second video of the PicoCPC card by Rodrik Studio and FreddyV is presenting some news since the first one, one very interesting feature being that the PicoCPC is the first ever Plug and Play card on Amstrad CPC !


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A book about the Amstrad history in Spain by Jesús Martínez del Vas now as an ebook

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The 8th November 2019 a book has been released about the Amstrad history in Spain, written by Jesús Martínez del Vas : Queremos Su Dinero (we want your money). You will learn more about Indescomp, Amstrad Spain and José Luis Domínguez (founder of Indescomp in 1982).

Personnally I bought the book in 2019 but I still have to read it... It is now available as an ebook on Amazon : Lo Increíble: El vendedor de libros puerta a puerta que transformó con Amstrad la informática en España.

For more informations (from 2019) :



Mighty Street fighter by AmstradGGP v1.1 is available for Amstrad CPC

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Mighty Street Fighter v1.1 by AmstradGGP is available for Amstrad CPC, it features :

  • Implementation of a 2-speed Turbo mode that can be combined with all current difficulty levels
  • Simplification of the buttons (controllers) by removing the charge function. From now on, all special moves are performed diagonally down, right, or left, depending on the direction of the NPC. This makes combat more dynamic
  • Speeded up the selection cursor in the menu
  • Offset of the difficulty indicator stick figure because it was difficult to see on some CRT screens
  • Revision of Vlad's spinning special move
  • Reed, Vlad, Bud may have some non-blocking visual issues on an exceptional basis. A review will come later.
  • All characters enlarged by +/-10%
  • Changed Vlad's clothing colors from Red to Blue
  • The scenery has been reworked, limiting the use of hatching. The combat zone has been brightened and redone. The sky is now based on the same pattern for all levels

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The last oath by Narkhos, a graphical adventure game for Amstrad CPC in english

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Le Dernier Serment par Narkhos is a french graphical adventure game for Amstrad CPC released in 2024. This year it's the english version the Last Oath which is available.

Seing the posts on CPCWiki, it is appreciated. But if you are loading too many ROMs, it can be a problem as the program is using a lot of RAM.

The video of the french version Le Dernier Serment is made by Xenomorph.


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WIP Micro Machines on SymbOS + V9990 by Trebmint and Prodatron

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Micro Machines for SymbOS and V9990 graphical card by Trebmint and Prodatron is an hommage to the game made by Codemasters. The game is work in progress but it is shaping quite nicely as you will see in the video below.


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