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






Joyce v2.5.5 by John Elliott, an Amstrad PCW emulator

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The Amstrad PCW emulator Joyce v2.5.5 by John Elliott is available for unix, windows and MacOS.

In this new version (26th March 2026), Dot-matrix and daisywheel printer can now output to PDF files. GSX drivers added for direct output to PNG and PDF files, and accelerated output to the PCW mono display. Fixed an issue with bidirectional matrix printer output going out of alignment.




A speedrun of Chiller by Kukulcan on Amstrad CPC

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Chiller for Amstrad CPC is a platform game written by Ed HICKMAN in 1985 and edited by Mastertronic.

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is doing a speedrun on Chiller after correcting bugs preventing finishing the game.


Youtube video



Super Cableman, an Amstrad CPC game by Titan, Pulsophonic, Retropoke and Kukulcan

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Super Cableman is an Amstrad CPC action game by Titan (graphics and programmation), Pulsophonic (music), Retropoke (test) et Kukulcan (programmation). The game was at the start a 2 lines basic program, now a full game with several levels (last one is randomly created).


Youtube video




Netdrive and EtherSLIP (April 2026) by Michael B. Brutman

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Michael B. Brutman has released a new version of NetDrive which is driver to access a disk image (floppy or hard disk) located on another computer on the local network under windows (10 and 11), Linux (x86 or ARM) and MacOS.

He has also corrected a bug in EtherSLIP which allows Ethernet via a serial port. You can read how he has corrected this EtherSLIP bug.



PicoZ80 by Engineers@work targetting now the Amstrad PCW 9512.

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The PicoZ80 by Engineers@work is un replacement of the Z80 using a Raspberry Pico 2. It features a faster CPU, more memory (ROM/RAM banking), virtual devices, networking (WiFi, BT thanks to an ESP32), rapid application loading from SD card and WiFi management.

It is possible to configure the PicoZ80 with a .JSON file to adapt to the host machine, already working for the Sharp MZ-700 (and later for the MZ-80A, MZ-80B, MZ-800 and other Sharp computers) and the Amstrad PCW 9512 since yesterday (and certainly the other PCW models). I suppose it isn't impossible to target later the Amstrad CPC.



Sekai Tensei, a WIP shoot them up for Amstrad GX4000 and CPC+

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Sekai Tensei is a WIP shoot them up for Amstrad GX4000 and CPC+, the author is french (see video below) but his name is not showed in the Amstrad Power article.

Sekai Tensei will have 7 levels, 2 difficulty modes with a different end each. There will be two game modes : missile command and classic shoot them up latéral. His author is working on it since several months and the release date isn't yet announced. It will be out as cartridge format, a different cartridge depending of the targetted format : Amstrad GX4000 and CPC+.


Youtube video



RASM v3.2.5 (Atlas) by Roudoudou, a multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC

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The last version of the multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC RASM (v3.2.5) by Roudoudou is available today on Github.

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