CubeIOS is out, but AST is still working on his ACMEDOS replacement : IMPDOS for the mass storage extension card XMASS.

A new version of YANCC (Yet Another Norton Command Clone) is available (130318b). It's a text interface to manage your files on the X-Mass and the AcmeDOS ROM with an interface which looks like norton commander or midnight commander).

• Fixed Unwanted starts of YANCC during Warm-Reset (e. g. Monty on the Run)
• In rare circumstances, some files are copied empty.
• In rare circumstances, the ROM-Init of YANCC makes nonsense... (e.g. in "12 Lost Souls")
• CubeIOS bugfix

It's this new version which is needed if you want to use the new ROM CubeIOS which replaces ACMEDOS.

The XMASS mass storage extension card can now be used with another ROM, that is CubeIOS :

• Detect (nearly) all Fat16+Fat32-Partitions on your CF-Card, DOM, etc. (1st Partition please). Prefered is Fat32 (should be faster with Save-Commands). You can format the media with e.g. Windows and fill it with data.
• Partial longnames.
• the usual RSX like |MD, |RD, |REN,....
• |DIR + |CD accepts wildcards
• Compatibility should be high (i hope so ;) ) - but i'm playing around with a lower-rom-patch to increase compatibility.

The ROM must be placed below AMSDOS and (if used) M4DOS, PARADOS. It's not compatible with ACMEDOS at the same time. YANCC-User should be update to the latest version.

The last version of RASM is v0.77 (31th March 2018) :

- even faster expression calculation
- maxam and AS80 comparison operators are back

After chess, the wifi M4 Board has another use : connecting to internet with the telnet protocol (beware, it's not secured) thanks to Duke who programmed it for his wifi M4 Board.

The wifi M4 Board has a new use : playing chess online thanks to Joseman who programmed CPChessNet.

After Oldschool is beautiful and his video serie about programmation, Zisquier is doing the same thing (french inside).

The 11th video by Keith56, author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 et 2) which is about Z80 programmation on Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX is this time the 8th part about Z80 assembler (Unwrapped Loops, Stack Misuse for speed & rarer Z80 commands).

The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.5 beta 1 :

Fix CPC+ cartridge issue with demos Eerie Forest & CRTC3 (and maybe others)

The M4 Board which let you add wifi on your Amstrad CPC just got another firmware v2.0.4 beta 10 :

WiFi: Fix WiFi connect issue after upgrade (clear some data and set proper RF cal data).
WiFi: Fix GD25Q32C ESP8266 spi flashchip to work in Quad IO mode.
DSK: Do not show files with system attribute set. (makes better catart too)
DSK: Show '*' after file with "Read Only" attribute set.
DSK: Do not reject strange sector numbers (like AMSOFT disk protection)