You really have to love your Amstrad CPC to pay 180 € for the issue 1 of the french magazine Amstar and 159 € for the issue 3 of the same Amstar.

200 € for an Amstrad CPC 664 without its screen on Ebay, it's another nice sum of money.

Be original, for the 2012 St Valentin, offer an Amstrad CPC to the person you love, seing the current price, it seems to be a beautiful gift that make her jump into your arms for a lovely ambrace (or not, just try it and let me know if it works. I wont reimburse you if the gift isnt appreciated).

For the end, a special prize : the Amstrad CPC game Meurtre en série by Cobra Soft again on Ebay for 329 €, with its physical clues).

Here is a new HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Thunder Blade edited by US Gold in 1988.

César Nicolas Gonzales did update BB4CPC (v3) : correction of bugs and improvements.

The next edition of the ReSeT meeting is on the way, organized as usual by Eliot.

There will be 4 compétitions :

• demo : runnable on CPC6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension
• 256 bytes, 1 or 4 Ko intro : runnable on CPC6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension.
• graphics : all formats/modes are allowed. The entry must be submitted with its viewer program runnable on CPC or Plus
• music : any executable music on CPC or Plus. The entry must be submitted with its player. No size limit

The ReSeT Party will take place from Friday 22th (10:00) to Sunday 24th of June 2012 (18:00) at Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs in Coutances (162 rue Régis Messac). The price is 10 euros per day for the entrance, drinks and food. You can book a double room at the party place for 20 euros per night.

Go to the web site for more informations

Alpiso strikes again ! A new musical remake is available on youtube : Saboteur II.

Devilmarkus is working on a Prohibition remake in Java.

ManageDSK v0.20g by Ludovic Deplanque is out. Its interface is available in english, french and spanish. It features :

• create an empty .DSK file,
• add files in a .DSK file,
• extract files from an .DSK file,
• rename files in a .DSK file
• delete files in a .DSK file,

a new teaser video is available on the Easter egg's R-type remake site, also news musics and background pictures.

To write a single DSK image file you can either use :

• ManageDSK by Demoniak (windows)
• iDSK by Sid (it's an unix/macos port of ManageDsk, it seems that you will need the dsktools by Andreas Micklei)
• WriteDSK by Targhan (on Amstrad CPC only)
• CPCDiskXP by Mochilote (windows)

Beware, WriteDSK works on the CPC (you must have a PC 3,5" with the .DSK which will be copied on the same 3,5" drive or another 3" drive). It supports the CPC Booster by Antitec.

But if you want to write a double sided DSK, you will have to use CPCDiskXP by Mochilote for the moment.

P.S. : from the WriteDSK documentation, it should support double side DSK.

In 1991, Barrie M. Eaton wrote an adventure game Moon Base III.

21 years later, his son couldnt find an adventure game on Android, so he ported this game, using Android features (speech synthesis for example). Moon Base III is available as a demo version (20% of the game), or in full version for 1,60 € on the Android market.