A new Amstrad CPC firmware is available, written by Syx and TotO.

This Firmware was designed to get a better support of RAM and ROM expansions. Looking the future, not the past.

It don't work with BASIC 1.0 and no more support Tape by default. (need a ROM to manage it, that allow to improve it as new storages too).

So, the actual target is all CPC with BASIC 1.1 and floppy or HxC drives.

New features are :

• Display RAM (up to 576K)
• Display CRTC version
• Initialize up to 32 ROM
• Boot with [ESC] initialize only ROM 0 & 7
• Mouse support under BASIC (see the previous FW test)
• Fix the FR chars table, so all keys are properly displayed
• CTRL+keys give usefull chars

Beware, you must use the 16 Ko files with an emulator. 32 Ko ROMs are to be used with a real Amstrad CPC.

Youtube account user Nemo Kantio is working on a pseudo 3D racer on Amstrad CPC using SDCC. Look at the youtube video of this future game.

You will find several interviews on Classic Replay:

• Georg Odentahl (Odiesoft - Radical Software)
• Kevin Toms (Football Manager)
• Rod Lawton (editor of Amstrad Action at Future Publishing)
• Bill Harbison (Ocean Sofware)

Bruce Lee 2 by Bruno R. Marcos for windows is available. It's a sequel of the classic Bruce lee. Graphics comes in 2 versions : CPC or C64.

The last version of the CPCDiskXP utility is available on CPCMania.

• DSKEditor - Small changes to fix problems with PCW. Single side dsk's seem to work perfectly in the editor and the emulator.
• GENERAL - Sometimes the main interface buttons are cut off and can not be pressed (as shown in the image above), usually in Vista and W7 if you increase the default font size, is finally solved.

Cesar Nicolas Gonzales did update BB4CPC (v8) on the 27th March 2013.

You will find on CPC-Live a windows remake of Cauldron by Devilmarkus. There are 3 version (english, french and german : Hexenküche).

Viridis Cosmos Games released in 2012 a windows remake of Target Renegade with joystick support (2 persons) and 8bit or updated graphics.

ACE v1.5 by Philippe Rimauro is an Amstrad CPC emulator for MorphOS. This last version now emulates the CPC+.

Bruno R. Marcos wrote Arcade Game Studio for windows. This utility let you write arcade game. He is currently working on a free Bruce Lee 2 game.

You can check the state of this game on his twitter account.