Eight Bit Magazine will print this Eight Bit Adventurer column by Stuart Williams about the adventure games on 8bit compouters. Stuart is already writing in Eight Bit Magazine about Apple computers, and an article the apple adventurer will be in the incoming issue 3. For more informations, go read Retro Computing News.

Issue 3 of Eight Bit Magazine can be pre-ordered.

One person created a collection of 30 Gb of Amstrad CPC files as a torrent file.

You will find PDF files of

• newspapers
• fanzines
• books
• ads
• user manual
• technic manuals
• cover tapes of games
• games manuals
• cover of tapes
• maps and levels of games

Eight bit Magazine isnt the only one to be on Kickstarter, there is also Colour Personal Computing Fanzine issue 2 by James Ford.

This issue has 40 pages of Amstrad CPC content :

• A feature on cart conversions for the GX4000 with C4CPC
• An in-depth look at the M4 board expansion
• An exclusive preview article from the forthcoming 8-bit Memoirs (thanks Mr_Lou!)
• Part two of our floppy emulation feature - adding an LCD display and buzzer to the GoTek
• A look at new website Everygamegoing Reviews of the latest CPC games including Magica, Imperial Mahjong, Adios a la casta and more!
• Part two of our exciting action/drama serial, The (Alex) Van Damm Chronicles

Eight Bit Magazine issue 3 will be this week-end on Kickstarter.

For the Eight Bit Magazine issue 2 it's here.

In the past CPCOxygen has written an online newspaper about Amstrad computers : CPC Oxygen.

Today he is doing the real thing, magazine on paper and Eight Bit Magazine issue 2 is available on Kickstater.

A new video by ChinnyVision, informations from the Alan Michael Sugar biography : Alan Sugar : The Amstrad story by David Thomas (I did read it and found it interesting).

Christophe Coupez put his son Stanislas in front of an Amstrad CPC 464, what should be the final verdict ?

Ces ordinateurs sont dangereux is a book written by François Quentin about the Amstrad CPC. Long lost, it is now available with the agreement of the author on Amstrad.eu's forum as PDF (Epub link, PDF link, as Amstrad.eu is not up atm). Happy reading ! Thanks to ced64k for his scanning work.

The 6 issues of the newspaper CPC Attack! are available on CPCWiki (in the forum, not in the CPC Attack! page of the site).

These issues went out from June to Novembre 1992, following the defunct Amstrad Computer Use newspaper, those first 14th issues were published directly by Amsoft.

The french newspaper Hebdogiciel published many computers listings, for all computers of the 80 era in this weekly newspaper by Shift Editions.

It was available between 1983 and 1987, and survived only with its sales, disallowing ads to stay independent.

Today, all its listing are available on Hebdogiciel.

After a first Alan Michael Sugar biography : Alan Sugar: The Amstrad Story by David Thomas. I did read it and found it interesting, another one is out since March 2009 : Sir Alan Sugar: The Biography by Charlie Burden. It will be again available in August 2010 in paperback I suppose.

Issue 14 of the online magazine for Amstrad CPC, PCW, NC and PC CPC Oxygen is out since January 2009. You will also be able to browse all 117 issues of the U.K. Amstrad CPC newspaper Amstrad Action.

From paper area to numeric Quasar is back ! Quasar the french fanzine is now available as a wiki.

You will find on le site des anciennes revues informatiques old french computer newspapers (including Amstrad CPC).