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







Ninth Amstrad CPC score contest on Relentless organized by Border 0

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Border 0 organizes his ninth score contest on the game Relentless (shoot them up by Axelay, Rexbeng and Tom&Jerry) till the 31st Novembre 2023. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.



Help Frédéric BELLEC (ACME) and participate for buying an A3 scanner

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If there is someone who did a lot for the Amstrad computers, it's Frédéric BELLEC whose web site ACME is a reference.

Todays he is needing our help to replace his A4 scanner which is not well suited for scanning items bigger than A4. He wants to buy an A3 scanner whose model he choosed and you can participate to buy it on Leetchi (63 days left to participate).



WIP Mighty Castle Adventure by Yogtze for Amstrad CPC

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As usual I am late as Mighty Castle Adventure by Yogtze has been announced in January 2023 on CPCWiki and certainly also on Facebook. Yogtze is on CPCWiki and Twitter.

You should really read the thread on CPCWiki which is interesting and has several nice videos. The game has been showed at the Benediction Coding Party and it's really superb. To follow closely till the release.



Tenebra 2 by Haplo, an Amstrad CPC reflexion game (and other computers)

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After Tenebra which I highly recommend, Haplo offer us his latest game Tenebra 2 of course still a reflexion/puzzle game. You move in a roguelike environment with an important detail : you can only move in a zone where there is light. The big twist in this second game is that you arent anymore alone during 35 levels. Use run"t2 to launch the game.

loading screen of Tenebra 2 by Haplo instructions of Tenebra 2 by Haplo screenshot of Tenebra 2 by Haplo




mTCP v20230331 by Michael B. Brutman, TCP/IP for Ms-Dos

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mTCP v2023-03-31 by Michael B. Brutman is a set of TCP/IP applications for personal computers running PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, and other flavors of DOS. mTCP needs a 8088 processor (or +), 96 to 256 Kb of system memory depending on the application, ms-dos v2.1 (or +) and a network card (Ethernet adapter, or a device emulating Ethernet) that has a packet driver.

If you go on the mTCP web page, you must know that it's a 39 years old PC Jr which is running mTCP own http server.



The Amstrad CPC romboard using a raspberry Pico by Matronica now adds Albireo support

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Matronica wanted to load programs on his recently bought Amstrad CPC 464 (at the start of 2023). So he did create his ROM emulator using a Raspberry Pico which was announced in April 2023. In June 2023 he added on his card an USB port which let him use either the Albireo or Unidos ROM.

See the initial announcement on CPCWiki about his Amstrad CPC romboard using a Raspberry Pico, the sources are available on Github.



CPCBasicTS Unchained v0.1.1, run Amstrad CPC basic programs in a browser by Marco Vieth

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In 2019, Marco Vieth the author of the first Amstrad CPC forr msdos (now maintained by Rainer Lortiz) did release CPCBasic unchained which is converting a Locomotive Basic program of an Amstrad CPC in javascript to use it on a web site.

This version only receive bugs fixes, it's now CPCBasicTS unchained (TS for TypeScript) which is developped, and a new version 0.1.1 was released two weeks ago.