News about norecess464, first an interview done by Dr JVTek, second some news about Sonix GX for Amstrad GX 4000.

Sew Ready is an Ebay seller in the United Kingdom, which is selling covers for retro computers (and their monitors), including the Amstrad CPC range. You can also find Sew Ready on Twitter.

Gunhed TV (David Hecq) is a known french youtubber with some videos on Amstrad CPC.

But it's also the author of the book Marion et les crocodiles d'Amstrad : L'histoire d'Amstrad France recommended by Roudoudou on his Discord. I just received it and I will read it at the end of the week.

Olivier Poncet is the author of an Amstrad CPC emulator : Xcpc v0.52.0 for Linux, BSD and Unix. It doesn't emulate the + models though.

He is talking about how to write an emulator on his web site.

And also quite interesting, he has released last month AYM JS which is a sound chip emulator written in JavaScript emulating the AY-3-8910 PSG (Programmable Sound Generator) and the YM2149 SSG (Software-Controlled Sound Generator). You can test AYM JS here (press the Power button and the Play button). At the moment YM files must be converted to javascript (but the conversion tool isn't available yet), but direct support of YM files is on the way.

Alaiing présent on Itch.IO, Twitch and Twitter/X is the author of windows remakes of the following Amstrad CPC games using the MonoGame framework, and of games on other platforms) : Bomb Jack (three first levels), Arkanoid (three first levels) and Airwolf (first level).

SymbOSVM by Prodatron and Insane/Rabenauge is a virtual machine which goal is to run natively SymbOS on recent 32/64 bits processors.

SymCalc, a spreadsheet for SymbOS by Prodatron was first seen with screenshots in may 2024. Everything works in RAM, you need at least 192 Kb of RAM, with 126 lines and 64 columns (should be 250 lines later). An alpha version was released in June 2024.

Orgams is an assembler in ROM for Amstrad CPC, created by Madram, Drill and Hicks. A new version GG beta 6 is available (5th August 2024).

The documentation in french and english is available on Orgams' wiki.

Grazia Pizzuto has many videos of music of videos games played on piano and or organ, this first time enjoy Cauldron's music by Keith Miller on piano and organ. Organ is one of my favorite music intrument (saxophone also).

Coloco by Tuxedo Games already exists on ZX Spectrum and is now available on Amstrad CPC in tape, snapshot format (also in .DSK on CPCWiki's forum).

You can see a video of Coloco by Saberman on Youtube.