Merry Christmas 2023, have a nice diner and night with the people you are caring for.

Reidrac (Juan Martinez) is actually working on the Heart of Salamanderland, a platform game for the Amstrad CPC, which you can follow the development on his Mastodon account or on CPCWiki. A short video is available on Mastodon.

HxC Floppy Drive Emulator v2.15.1.2 is available on Github.

It's an utility to manage .HFE disk images to be used by the SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator, a replacement for the 3 inch disks drives of the Amstrad CPC.

There is a support forum for HxC products and also a facebook group.

Booty the remake first released on ZX Spectrum in 2019 by Salvador Cantero is a remake of the original game still for ZX Spectrum in 1984 by Firebird Software and in 1986 on Amstrad CPC. This remake is now released on Amstrad CPC and is available on the github page or Itch.io page.

It is programmed with the collaboration of Beyker, Brundij and Atila Merino. Short video of the game Booty the remake by Xenomorph.

New 17th December 2023 version by Roudoudou of his ACE-DL Amstrad CPC emulator.

After downloading the emulator, you can also get a SymbOS disk image or OPL3 music to be used with the Willy OPL3 plugin.

See the video below with the english subtitles for the new features of this version.

Christmas demo 2023 is an Amstrad CPC demo by Kukulcan (code) and Titan (graphics), also available on Pouet.

musik200 xmas 2023 xmas edition by BSC is a music disk using his sound engine presented in his demo Musik100 by BSC about which you will find more details on CPCWiki.

You can see and listen to this demo on Youtube (video by Xenomorph).

You can check his Soundcloud page.

Seen on CPCWiki, Xmas2023 by Impact is their latest production, an Amstrad CPC+ demo that you can download download here.

The demo has been written by :

• Demoniak (code)
• Kris (graphics)

Shadow Maze CR is an enhanced version of Shadow Maze by Rayon Studio which was initially presented for the CPCRetroDev 2023 contest. It's a game that I personnally appreciate, you can see it in this video by Saberman.

This new version features :

• News and more Mazes ( 6 in total )
• Graphics diversity
• New enemies to avoid in the maze ! ( Giant Spider & bottomless Pit )
• More challenging and more skills needed
• Unique Time counter for all mazes
• Light stones time credits
• Some smooth glitches corrections
• Intro Screens for the game story
• Final screen for the End game

PunyInform v5.3 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson is a library written in Inform 6 to create adventure game (pure text, no graphic support contrary to DAAD) using the Z-machine virtual machine which will run on 8bit computers (or more recent computers too). PunyInform has a parser, knowing of common verbs and a framework to write adventure games.

PunyInform is based on the Inform 6 library written by Graham Nelson. Its goal is to make easily adventure games in Inform 6, with a manual describing the differences between the official library and PunyInform..

Games using PunyInform can be compiled in z3, z5 and z8 format (z3 being the best format for 8bit computers, other formats have more features). Compared to the Inform 6 library, it means that there is no support for the Glulx virtual machine but z3 format is important as Inform 6 doesnt support it.

To compile games written with PunyInform, you should use the Inform 6 compiler maintained by David Kinder. Binaries are available on if-archive. PunyInform needs Inform v6.35 (or more).

They are tutorials to write adventure game with PunyInform (end of the page) and all the documentation including a 8 page cheat sheet (quick reference)..

To try your game after compilation, you can use WinFrotz by David Kinder, to create map easily you can use Trizbort.

And finally, to create an Amstrad CPC and PCW disk image, you will have to use the Puddle BuildTools which works under linux, windows 1x with WSL2 or MacOS with Intel processor and OrbStack.