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






VirusDog par CPC-Power, third place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

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CPC-Power won the third place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game VirusDog. It's a reflexion game where you must save the life of your dog by pairing the same virus near each of them.

VirusDog is the collective work of :

  • code and idea : Kukulcan
  • graphics : Kukulcan, CED
  • music : Tom and Jerry (GPA)
  • cover and manual : Ixien
  • tests : AST, Galamoth, Lone, Maxit, C. PETIT, Fredouille


Outlaws by Retrobytes Productions, first place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

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Retrobytes Productions won the first place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game Outlaws, an arcade game with a cowboy in the wild wild west. It looks like Cabal or Operation Wolf. It's a nice game with good graphics.

Outlaws is their first Amstrad CPC game, but I invite you to check their previous games on ZX Spectrum on their homepage.

Outlaws is the collective work of :

  • code : Toni Ramírez
  • graphics : Alxinho
  • music and FX : José A. Martín
  • tests : Toni, Alxinho, José
  • traduction: Toni Ramírez


Samdisk v3.8.9 by Simon Owen, Amstrad CPC disks tranfers on PC

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SAMdisk v3.8.9 by Simon Owen is out since the 18th December.

The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.

Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.

  • fixed clipping extent of non-error sectors
  • fixed raw .2d file reading (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
  • fixed HD track error during 2DD to 2HD promotion (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
  • fixed use of scanning data rates not supported by FDC
  • fixed --offsets crash if 2 stored copies were present
  • changed gap indicator from g to +, added - for short sectors
  • added support for double-density MB-02+ disks (thanks Jan Kucera)
  • added --step-rate speed option (0=slow, 15=fast, 10=default)


Street Fighter II CPC still being developped

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Street Fight II CPC is still being developped by Augusto Ruiz (programmation), DaDMaN (graphics) and McKlain (sound). Here is a new video of Street Fight II CPC below, after the two of 2013 :

Dont expect a final version in 2016, but a beta is possible. The target is an Amstrad CPC 6128 with 128 Kb, sorry no CPC 464.



ZEsarUX v4.2, an Amstrad CPC 464 emulator (other computers like ZX Spectrum too)

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ZEsarUX v4.2 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)


Saboteur's remake by Cliff Townsend on PC, MAC and android

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Cliff Townsend, the original author of Saboteur has written several months ago a remake of this game which impressed a lot of people at that time. It's one of the game I finished on my Amstrad CPC.

The free version (PC, MAC and Android) has limitations (time, no saving of scores and progression). The full version costs only 3,99 €.




Test of Motorbike Madness by ChinnyVision

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A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Motorbike Madness is available. The game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1988 by Mastertronic (ZX Spectrum version on the same tape). It's a 3D isometic moto game.

He also tests it on Amiga, ST, Sega Master System, Spectrum and C64.



Roland Radio, an Amstrad CPC radio internet now with an Android application

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Roland Radio is an internet radio, and its program should interest you : only Amstrad CPC music.

There is now an Android application for Roland Radio.