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






New version of FutureOS, an OS for Amstrad CPC (10/2024) and the disc mag FutureView 5

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Last version of the FutureOS operating system by Gunhed for Amstrad CPC was released 4 days ago. So lets update your FutureOS installation to be able to read the disc mag FutureView 5 Halloween issue (if you don't update you risk to have difficulties to read it, if you want to use the ROMs do use the slots 10 to 13, otherwise you can use the DSK installation or the M4 files to put at the folder of the M4 SD card).



Amstrad.com is now a museum for all products made by Alan Michael Sugar's company

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You didnt visit Amstrad's web site since a few moment ? Then you should come back quickly as it is now a museum for all products made by Alan Michael Sugar's company. If you have a memory that you wish to share, then don't hesitate to click on the Contact Us link of the site as Alan Michael Sugar states on Twitter.




Fuzix (unix clone) for Amstrad CPC 6128 by ajcasado (original by Alan Cox)

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Fuzix by Alan Cox is an unix clone, its developpment did start in November 2024, now v0.4 for several 8bit platforms, including Amstrad PCW and Notepad NC100, NC200.

Today thanks to ajcasado, Fuzix is also available for Amstrad CPC 6128 (on github, it's a work in progress, like an incoming better support of memory banks.



Babaliba, an Amstrad CPC game by ESP Soft

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Babaliba by ESP Soft is available, it's a remake of the original game Babaliba by Dinamic Software on ZX Spectrum in 1984.

The history of the game it the following, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Babalas wars, the self-proclaimed new sultan of Turkey, Hosmimumarack, has begun to hoard all the treasures of the Middle East in his palace. Among them is a pendant found in a den of thieves in Arabia that grants the sultan almost unlimited supernatural power. With each passing day its power increases, threatening Western countries. The sultan's daughter, the result of a relationship with a queen from northern Europe, is in charge of guarding her father's pendant. For Hosmimumarack both are his most precious jewels. The British government, aware of the sultan's power, has sent several agents to the site with the aim of recovering the mysterious pendant. None have managed to return alive. Hosmimumarack Palace is an almost impregnable bastion. No one can enter or leave as an invisible force acts around the premises. But an agent has discovered a way to get in, notifying his superiors by radio and being taken prisoner shortly after. His last transmission turns out to be a mystery for the British secret service: "Johny, friend... I found it... spell... BABALIBA...".

So now Johny Jones, Saimazoom's explorer hero, returns in a new adventure full of challenges. This time the United States government, collaborating with the British government, entrusts him with a suicide mission : travel to the Hosmimumarack palace, rescue his companion who is imprisoned in the dungeons of the palace, kidnap the princess, daughter of the sultan. and bearer of the pendant, and recover the treasures looted during the Babalas wars. The palace consists of several rooms and several floors connected by stairs. In order to advance it is necessary to find a green key and a red key, located somewhere in the gardens, which open the access doors to other rooms of the palace, full of dangerous enemies and guards armed with scimitars. Be very careful with the wells or Johny will suffer an agonizing death in the jaws of the sultan's ferocious crocodiles. To succeed in his mission, Johny has 20 bombs and a limited time. Once you have achieved your goal, you must return to the gardens and orderly gather the letters that form the BABALIBA spell, with which you will be able to leave the palace. If you do not collect the letters in the correct order your mission will fail.



Xecutor, an Amstrad PCW shoot them up game ported from ZX Spectrum by Enrique G. Gálvez

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Xecutor is at the start a shoot them up on ZX Spectrum by Cybadyne in 1987. Today Enrique G. Gálvez has ported Xecutor on Amstrad PCW (available on PCWWiki. You can play it solo or with a friend, it supports joystick with the hardware expansion DK'Sound (by DK'Tronics) and as usual colour support with the CP/M Box emulator by HabiSoft.



Monster Mayhem, a shooter Amstrad CPC game by Mananuk

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Mananuk (on Twitter) has released his latest Amstrad CPC game for Halloween : Monster Mayhem (shooter) : monsters are invading your city and it's up to you to wipe them without shooting your own nice neighbours. The game is available as a disk image or as a cartridge for GX4000/CPC+.



New versions of RASM 2.2.9 and ACE-DL (10/26) by Roudoudou

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New versions by Roudoudou of his RASM Z80 assembler v2.2.9 and of his ACE-DL Amstrad CPC emulator (10/26/2024) :

  • Dandanator goes to Basic mode without cartridge to avoid side effects
  • new button in Machine configuration to reinit the entire machine (no plugin, no rom, no breakpoints)
  • import of natives ACE breakpoints from RASM symbol file
  • may click Timer in Trace to reset nop counter
  • may press F7,F8,F10 when trace mode but focused on another window
  • added HOME/END and Shift+HOME/END in memory explorer to navigate in memory and selection
  • more persistence for CRTC register value change
  • update also RASM to benefit direct import of native ACE breakpoints


Saboteur 2 on steroids thanks to theALFEST on Amstrad CPC

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Saboteur 1 and 2 are excellent Amstrad CPC games written by Clive Townsend, edited by Durell Software, which I play when I was young (a long time ago). Excellent but sprite animation was a bit slow. But today this slowness is no more thanks to theALFEST as shown on CPCWIKI, you can see it in this vidéo on Youtube of Saboteur 2 with about a 300% speed boost of the animation (see below).