I invite you once again to go listen to E-dredon's music for Amstrad CPC who write it for the Playcity (3 AY soundchip for 9 channels) or the Play2CPC.

The Play2CPC is an evolution of the Plus2CPC who let using CPC+ cartridges on an plain Amstrad CPC but with additional features :

• Extra audio capabilities (Yamaha YMF288 OPN3 soundchip)
• Sound mix into the CPC speaker or stereo audio jack
• Full Amstrad Plus ROM decoding
• Extra on-board V-ROM (512K RAM expansion mapped as ROM) for amazing new AAA games
• General purpose programmable raster interrupt
• Compatible with standard Amstrad cartridges and new extended formats
• 100% compatible with C4CPC
• Support for RW cartridges to save/update games, scores and settings
• Boot switch and reset button commodities

He wrote his Rasters music (1xYM2203, 3xOPs et 3xPSG) with the tracker Furnace (github) written by Tildearrow.

To make so beautiful Amstrad CPC loading screens like Eric Cubizolle (Titan), it's easy, you just need to use the same painting program : Multipaint by Tero Heikkinen AKA Dr. Terrorz, and maybe a bit of talent and mostly a lot of work.

Titan is describing Multipaint as a mmix of OCP Art Studio and Deluxe Paint for windows which offers the possibility of using the resolutions and palettes of a whole bunch of old computers including the Amstrad CPC (mode 0 and 1, overscan possible in mode 0).

I wish you a merry christmas and what better way to wish it than to present the last demo by Roudoudou (code), Pulsophonic (music) and TITAN (graphics with MultiPaint).

Crazy Piri has released an Amstrad CPC game : Kolotoc inspired of a TV game where you have to find a word.

Martine v0.41.4 is a command line interface utility written by Impact for Linux, MacOS X and windows with the following features :

• conversion d'images JPG et PNG vers Amstrad CPC(+) au format fenêtré, normal (les deux peuvent être compressés) ou overscan (sans compression possible)
• nouveau mode tile map qui permets d'analyser une image d'un niveau de jeu et de créer des fichiers .IMP et .TIL utilisable avec le nouvel utilitaire de tile d'Impact
• création d'un .DSK ou .SNA si besoin, avec ou sans en-tête AMSDOS
• direct transfer if you have a wifi M4 Card

The files generated (.win, .scr, .ink) are compatible with OCP Art Studio and Impdraw V2 i2.

Don´t touch my eggs by Voxel Tower is an action game for Amstrad CPC, see the video by Voxel Tower, it is available since one hour !

Rick Dangerous 1 and 2 were written by : David K. PRIDMORE (code), Simon PHIPPS, Terry LLOYD (graphics).

Xyphoe interviews the graphist Simon PHIPPS to talk about the history and making of Rick Dangerous 1 and 2.

Retro Piano Guy plays on piano the music of retro games including Defender of the Crown.

Star Trip by Osmium Path is an Amstrad CPC demo about 3D, a return to the past after the Utimate Megademo by Face Hugger.

It is written by Optimus (code) and Ham (graphics and music). It got the 4th place at the demo compo at the Demosplash 2024 meeting in November 2024.

You can see a video of Optimus explaining the 3D engine made for this demo.

Génération Micros has done a video about the story of a failure : the Amstrad 464-6128 plus and GX 4000 (french inside).