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






RASM v2.1.6 by Roudoudou, a multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC, integrated with ACE-DL

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The last version of multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC RASM (v2.1.6) was released two weeks ago on Github.

This multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC (for linux, windows, and also for MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC. It's recommended to use it with the new emulator also by Roudoudou : ACE-DL released today, to get symbols and breakpoints importation and much more.



Reading ebooks on Amstrad CPC with SymbOS par Prevtenet

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Prevtenet is the author of Zym an interpret of Infocom adventure games using the Z-machine for SymbOS. He has converted public domaine books (including the bible in different languages) to the .HLP format of SymbOS.



Prospector by AMCGames, a ZX Spectrum game ported to CPC by Ayor61

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Prospector is a ZX Spectrum game by AMCGames using the AGDx engine. It has been ported on Amstrad CPC by Ayor61. It's a platform game with 30 levels where you have to save a team who went into a mine, but its local inhabitants are maybe not so peaceful... Video below by Xenomorph.




ACE v1.26, an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator for MorphOS/Haiku by Philippe Rimauro (Offset)

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ACE v1.26 by Offset is available. It is available in french, english, german and spanish (thanks to the translators).



Would you want an Apple 2 or 286 in your ISA Card PC (and still more)

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Tube Time has done many things, you can follow him on Twitter or Mastodon, and his github is a gold mine, notably :



A1RL0CK, an adventure game by Marco Innocenti for Amstrad CPC and PCW

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Recommended by Stefan Vogt, A1RL0CK by Marco Innocenti is a science-fiction text adventure for Amstrad CPC, PCW and many other computers. You have to play it before The Ruin of Ocenaus Pr1me which I wrote about 4 days ago.




Speed up DIRectory listings in DOS v4.0+ with FREESP by ChartreuseK

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Retro Erick presents in video the FreeSP utility by ChartreuseK (link to github or local download) which is useful to accelerate disk reading (with the DIR command) under FAT16 with msdos 4.0 and more. It's not useful with a FAT12 disk and/or msdos 3.x as DIR then doesnt calculate free space and msdos 3 keeps more informations in memory). But with FAT16 disks the DIR commandand (msdos or 4dos) is slowly calculating the free space, so the two following utilities will do the trick :

  • freesp (not TSR : Terminate and Stay Resident) : put the command freesp c: (drive A to Z) in your autoexec.bat and forget it (one disk only)
  • freespt (TSR) : it intercepts msdos interruptions msdos 21h/36h and can manage up to 18 disks, put the command freesp cdef in your autoexec.bat to manage drives C, D E and F (in my case the C: disk by the PicoMem and my ZIP drive as D:)


The Ruin of Oceanus Pr1me, an adventure game by Marco Innocenti for Amstrad CPC and PCW

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Recommended by Stefan Vogt, The Ruin of Oceanus Pr1me by Marco Innocenti is a science-fiction text adventure for Amstrad CPC, PCW and many other computers.