SAMdisk v3.1 by Simon Owen is out.

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.

Changelog:

Version 3.1 (2012-03-18)
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- Added --repair option to help combine damaged image dumps
- Added write support for D88 images
- Added support for IMD mixed sector sizes
- Added record name from source basename, if no label available
- Added more file sizes for raw image recognition
- Added verbose track output for floppy->image dumping
- Fixed IMD creation using 500Kbps instead of 250Kbps
- Fixed bit alignment during IPF track wrapping
- Fixed converting images to BDOS format when setting label
- Increased --rescan matching distance from 32 to 64 bytes
- Updated to zlib 1.2.5, using zlibwapi.dll instead of zlib1.dll

Yie Ar Kung fu was edited by Imagine in 1985, based on an arcade game by Konami.

You can see the video of this test of Yie Ar Kung Fu on Youtube by Xyphoe.

Unless you are a hermit or someone very busy like me, I hope you are informed that the new version of R-Type by Easter Egg is available since the start of February.

A new Amstrad CPC demo by the Dirty Minds group : Wolfenstrad, written by Optimus, graphics by Voxfreax and music by Sice.

You can download the Wolfenstrad demo here or on Pouet. You can watch it on Youtube.

This demo was shown at the FOReVER XIII demo competition. It uses a wolfenstein 3D like motor, already shown more than one year ago on Youtube.

It was prgrammed in C with SDCC but also in Z80 assembly.

The music of the Amstrad CPC game Teenage mutant hero turtles 2 has been found on the original support.

You can download a .DSK image with the music on CPCWiki.

And now a youtube video of the game by Xyphoe, music included.

You really have to love your Amstrad CPC to pay 180 € for the issue 1 of the french magazine Amstar and 159 € for the issue 3 of the same Amstar.

200 € for an Amstrad CPC 664 without its screen on Ebay, it's another nice sum of money.

Be original, for the 2012 St Valentin, offer an Amstrad CPC to the person you love, seing the current price, it seems to be a beautiful gift that make her jump into your arms for a lovely ambrace (or not, just try it and let me know if it works. I wont reimburse you if the gift isnt appreciated).

For the end, a special prize : the Amstrad CPC game Meurtre en série by Cobra Soft again on Ebay for 329 €, with its physical clues).

Here is a new HD video by Metr81 of the Amstrad CPC game Thunder Blade edited by US Gold in 1988.

César Nicolas Gonzales did update BB4CPC (v3) : correction of bugs and improvements.

The next edition of the ReSeT meeting is on the way, organized as usual by Eliot.

There will be 4 compétitions :

• demo : runnable on CPC6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension
• 256 bytes, 1 or 4 Ko intro : runnable on CPC6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension.
• graphics : all formats/modes are allowed. The entry must be submitted with its viewer program runnable on CPC or Plus
• music : any executable music on CPC or Plus. The entry must be submitted with its player. No size limit

The ReSeT Party will take place from Friday 22th (10:00) to Sunday 24th of June 2012 (18:00) at Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs in Coutances (162 rue Régis Messac). The price is 10 euros per day for the entrance, drinks and food. You can book a double room at the party place for 20 euros per night.

Go to the web site for more informations

Alpiso strikes again ! A new musical remake is available on youtube : Saboteur II.