Bitplane Technomantes won the fourth place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game Dragon Attack. It's an arcade game (think galaxian). Your fighter can only be destroyed if its middle is touched, but the dragons are shooting everywhere on the screen ! And of course it's no less the future of the Earth which is on your shoulders...

Dragon attack is the collective work of :

• code : Axelay (Paul Kooistra)
• graphisme : Rex (Harris Kladis)
• musique : Tom and Jerry (GPA)

CPC-Power won the third place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game VirusDog. It's a reflexion game where you must save the life of your dog by pairing the same virus near each of them.

VirusDog is the collective work of :

• code and idea : Kukulcan
• graphics : Kukulcan, CED
• music : Tom and Jerry (GPA)
• cover and manual : Ixien
• tests : AST, Galamoth, Lone, Maxit, C. PETIT, Fredouille

Retrobytes Productions won the first place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game Outlaws, an arcade game with a cowboy in the wild wild west. It looks like Cabal or Operation Wolf. It's a nice game with good graphics.

Outlaws is their first Amstrad CPC game, but I invite you to check their previous games on ZX Spectrum on their homepage.

Outlaws is the collective work of :

• code : Toni Ramírez
• graphics : Alxinho
• music and FX : José A. Martín
• tests : Toni, Alxinho, José
• traduction: Toni Ramírez

SAMdisk v3.8.9 by Simon Owen is out since the 18th December.

The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.

Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.

• fixed clipping extent of non-error sectors
• fixed raw .2d file reading (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
• fixed HD track error during 2DD to 2HD promotion (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
• fixed use of scanning data rates not supported by FDC
• fixed --offsets crash if 2 stored copies were present
• changed gap indicator from g to +, added - for short sectors
• added support for double-density MB-02+ disks (thanks Jan Kucera)
• added --step-rate speed option (0=slow, 15=fast, 10=default)

Street Fight II CPC is still being developped by Augusto Ruiz (programmation), DaDMaN (graphics) and McKlain (sound). Here is a new video of Street Fight II CPC below, after the two of 2013 :

• SFII CPC - Work in progress - 20130613 sur Youtube
• Street Fighter II CPC - The Real Edition sur Youtube

Dont expect a final version in 2016, but a beta is possible. The target is an Amstrad CPC 6128 with 128 Kb, sorry no CPC 464.

ZEsarUX v4.2 is a multi platform emulator, Amstrad CPC 464 included. You can compile the unix sources directly or get a binary for :

• linux 32/64 bits
• Mac OS X
• Windows
• Raspberry pi (raspbian)

Cliff Townsend, the original author of Saboteur has written several months ago a remake of this game which impressed a lot of people at that time. It's one of the game I finished on my Amstrad CPC.

The free version (PC, MAC and Android) has limitations (time, no saving of scores and progression). The full version costs only 3,99 €.

Chibi Akuma (episode 1 : Invasion) is an Amstrad CPC 6128(+) shooter game whose character is an unhappy vampire woman. The game is written by Keith56 (Twitter). Check CPCWiki for pictures.

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Motorbike Madness is available. The game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1988 by Mastertronic (ZX Spectrum version on the same tape). It's a 3D isometic moto game.

He also tests it on Amiga, ST, Sega Master System, Spectrum and C64.

Roland Radio is an internet radio, and its program should interest you : only Amstrad CPC music.

There is now an Android application for Roland Radio.