A new version (v1.3) of the CDT2WAV utility (windows/linux/mac) by DevilMarkus.

It let you use resulting .WAV on a real CPC with a tape drive or a MP3 player.

For Linux and Mac users, launch the cdt2wav.jar with the following parameters : cdt2wav.jar -Xms512m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m (or set all to 256 if you want only 256 Mb max. ram usage).

You have still 3 days to be able to buy Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams on Humble Bundle (weekly). Nine dollars will be enough to get it, and money goes to charities.

Nice music by the way.

If you already follow Krakout's twitter account (aka Themis Papassilekas), also the webmaster of the excellent CPCWiki, you were maybe aware of his nature wallpaper.

With his agreement, you can now get if if you want to have a beautiful computer.

Breaking Baud is an Amstad CPC demo made by the groups CRTC and 3LN, which was showed at the Revision demo party 2014.

Code is written by Doz, graphism by Rexbeng and music by McKlain.

This tape demo use a turbo loader to run while it loads (and also to speed up its loading).

A new release candidate of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v3.4.0 is available for download.

Olivier Gout aka Overflow du groupe Logon System has been interviewed by No Recess.

He is the author of Amstrad CPC demos like S&KOH (1991), Backtro (2001) and Yet Another Plasma! (2012).

Two online Amstrad CPC emulators have been updated with bugs corrections and new features :

• Sugarbox : loading of snapshots (.SNA)
• JavaCPC : you can load your own disks images files (.DSK), some important keys are F1 - Show some info, F12 - Reset CPC, F2 - Load medium (CDT, DSK, even SNA is possible), F10 - Boot DSK in DF0, F9 - Toggle turbo mode and ALT + Enter - Toggle fullscreen)

SAMdisk v3.8 by Simon Owen is out since the 9th March 2014.

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.

Version 3.8, last updated 9th March 2014
- Added support for SuperCard Pro .scp flux disk images (MFM+FM)
- Added --pll option to control PLL method with flux image scanning
- Fixed --head giving ambiguous option error due to typo
- Fixed KBI-19 format slightly overhanging track wrap
- Improved EOT handling of flux images containing just one revolution
- Changed --slow-step to --old-drive to better match usage

A new Bolloware game : Sven.

Phactory (a development environment targetting Amstrad CPC)and Phortem's (demo) code source are available on NoRecess web site.