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

You will also find various programming tutorials, especially tutorials about using C compilers like Z88dk and SDCC, or assembler compiler like Pasmo.

Last week-end at Revision demoparty, demosceners have pushed further the limits of what can be done in a single 64kb executable file. Using extensive procedural techniques and compression : see Gaia Machina on Youtube.

Waiting for the same thing to happen on Amstrad CPC !

Wake up is the latest Amstrad CPC demo by Benediction and Sector One.

It was written by :

• DMA-SC/Sector One (sfx)
• Eliot/Benediction (code)
• Exin/Benediction (gfx)
• Krusty/Benediction (code)
• McKlain (sfx)
• Supersly/Les sucres en morceaux (cat art)
• Voxfreax/Benediction (gfx)

Impossible Mission is an Amstrad CPC platform game published by Epyx in 1986.

It was initially created on C64, programmed by Dennis Caswell and published by Epyx in 1984.

This C64 version was known for the use of digitized speech, which is lacking in the Amstrad CPC version.

You can see a video of this test and longplay of Impossible Mission on Youtube by Axelino.

SAMdisk v3.2 by Simon Owen is out.

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.

Version 3.2 (2012-04-08)
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- Added general support for 1Mbps data rate, used by ED disks
- Added 1Mbps support to IMD images, using new track modes 6+7
- Added --tty option to output console messages to non-console streams
- Fixed crash reading gap data from oversized sectors (thanks Philippe!)
- Fixed crash using --verify when writing non-simple images
- Fixed gap data trimming when writing FDI+IMD images

Skweek is back on Facebook, we just dont know yet on which platform it will be available.

The Iphone/Ipad port of Lords of Midnight by Chris Wild is still on the way. You can see a video of the game running on Youtube.

While waiting for this precious gem, you can either play the original Lords of Midnight game with an emulator, or with one of the various following ports :

• Icemark
• Midnight/MU (online multi-player)
• War of the solstice
• Midnight Flyer
• LoM and DDR for GameBoy Advance

GrafX2 is a bitmap paint program inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Specialized in 256-color drawing, it includes a very large number of tools and effects that make it particularly suitable for pixel art, game graphics, and generally any detailed graphics painted with a mouse. The program is mostly developed on Linux and Windows, but is also portable on many other platforms.

GrafX2 v2.3 has been released in April 2011. It can of course be used to draw Amstrad CPC screens.

Well they do it already on a MSX, and the electronic plan is available.

Two MSX games were adapted to run using the Nunchuck controller. The games are Konami's Road Fighter and Ping Pong. The machine used is a Brazilian HOT BIT with a do-it-yourself Assembler cartridge. A Basic program loads the game and the nunchuck driver and then applies the patch. The driver can detect a Nunchuck in either joystick port and reverts to the standard port when no nunchuck answers.

Lemmings is a classic, a puzzle/platform game developped by DMA design and published by Psygnosis in 1991 on PC et Commodore Amiga, then in 1992 on Amstrad CPC.

You can see a video of this test and longplay of Lemmings on Youtube by Xyphoe.