Crazy Piri has released on the last day of 2024 an Amstrad CPC game : Pepper Buster, a remake of the classic Pac Man, but with a good dose of pepper to add some twists with power-up for example, video below by Saberman.

Disk Image Manager v2.8.1 by Damien Guard is an application for examining and manipulating disk images in the Standard and Extended DSK format used by many ZX Spectrum, Amstrad PCW and CPC emulators.

New version by Roudoudou of his ACE-DL Amstrad CPC emulator (12/24/2024) :

• spanish translations for the GUI (see flags with F12)
• ability to use (L)abels to jump in memory from Graphics Explorer
• augmenter ou diminuer le son avec les touches +/- du clavier numérique

RetroGamerDiaries presents the complete history of the gaming company Durell Software LTD.

CP/M Box by Habi Soft, an Amstrad PCW emulator, is available in version 1.10.0 : corrections and ameliorations, dark theme, speed controk, predefined sizes, EMR MIDI, reconfigurable keyboard.

Alexandre Nauguet just made another new loading screens for Amstrad CPC games, this time for Ghostbusters 1 and 2. First the original loading screens :

Then the new ones :

A new article by No Recess about this year 2024 is a recommended reading.

The last version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CPCEC by César Nicolas Gonzalez, was released yesterday on the 24th December 2024.

ConvGeneric by Roudoudou is a command line utility (windows, MacOS) to convert PNG to Amstrad CPC formats like sprites, tiles, complete screens... :

• Multimode support
• Software sprite conversion
• Tile extraction
• Tiled screens mode
• Metatile mode
• Screen conversion
• Hardware sprite extraction

Beware this utility can't reduce the number of colors, if you need this then use :

• Martine
• ConvImgCpc

Crystal Place is an Amstrad CPC reflexion game by Francesc ALCAUCER written 100% in Locomotive basic. He wrote four others games : CPC Invaders, Wrecking Ball, Tiny Deathmatch et Tetrid dotBAS.