Freedos v1.4 with FAT32 support for 8086 Amstrad PC
-Freedos v1.4 is available and there is a version for 8086 with a FAT32 feature! So it should be usable on an Amstrad PC.
Latest Youtube Videos :
Phantomas en el Museo
Master Piece
Micro Machines (SymbOS)
Street Fighter 2 CPC
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Impossamal
Don Juan
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Freedos v1.4 is available and there is a version for 8086 with a FAT32 feature! So it should be usable on an Amstrad PC.
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.
Phantomas en el Museum by the Mojon Twins is their latest platform game for Amstrad CPC, it was released just today.
Grazia Pizzuto has many videos of music of videos games played on piano, this time it's a video of Bruce Lee on piano.
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 !
I let you discover this video by Luis Pazos which is showing which USB keys he is using on his Amstrad CPC with an external Gotek.
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 v1.1 by AmstradGGP is available for Amstrad CPC, it features :
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.
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.