One or two ears, one brain at least ? Then you are ready to listen to the lastest chiptune compilation by McKlain : Press Play Then Any Key (ok, but where is the damned Any key on a qwerty keyboard ?).

Longshot has released version 1.6 of the Amstrad CPC CRTC Compendium (July 2023) which is a documentation about the CRTC 6845 (and some others circuits). Note that the CRTC is a generic component used in several computers including the IBM PC.

It is possible to check if an emulator is good with the SHAKER tests by Longshot. SHAKER is a program designed to run on CPC machines produced by AMSTRAD in the 80s-90s. The objective of this program is to carry out extensive tests on the video circuits of this machine. These video circuits are the GATE ARRAY and the CRTC 6845. AMSTRAD produced several series of GATE ARRAY and used CRTC models produced by different manufacturers (HITACHI, MOTOROLA, UMC, AMSTRAD). This has been causing compatibility problems on operations that exceed the functional specifications of these circuits. The identified CRTCs are numbered from 0 to 4.

Informations about the availability (24th September 2023) of Memory Full, history of Amstrad CPC demo scene by Hicks : all the work will be sent to the printer this week, and you will received a message as soon as the shipping delay will be known. Then 80 kilogrammes will need to be shipped by the post office.

Locus Eremus is a new action game for Amstrad CPC by Antero Martinez.

The game is made in basic 1.0 with assembler parts, with 5 levels and an end. It is available as WAV, CDT and DSK.

Mimo's Quest by Christ PERVER is an adventure game released in 2020 and last updated in August 2023.

Génération Micros made three videos about the history of the Amstrad CPC (french) :

• Part 1 : HIFI to familial computer : Amstrad CPC 464
• Part 2 : release of the 664 and 6128 till 21th
• Part 3 : life and death of Amsoft (1984 - 1989)

Other videos are about individuals games, I invite you to check them too.

Looking at videos on Youtube, I stumbled on the New Retro Show and two of his series of videos :

• new games for DOS part 15 (see below)
• new games for Amstrad CPC part 12

One nice game in the video is Cara Grabs Antimatter which is playable on the page (finished it in 11:22 with some time off keyboard). The game is using CGALIB by Cyningstan, a library for Open Watcom C.

A good part of the DOs games showed will work on CGA and 8086 processor.

Lee Smiths Workshop has done a video to use a retro keyboard (including an Amstrad CPC 464) as an USB Keyboard thanks to a Raspberry Pico. The code is available on this Github.

Last time I announced a new version of FutureOS for Amstrad CPC was in 2018..., even if there were several new versions since. So this version is written by Gunhed (5-6 years ago by TFM).

The most important feature of this new version is the support for the excellent M4 board expansion by Duke.

Under the download links, you will find a link named M4-Folder which seems to be very useful if you have a M4 Board.

The video below (french) is one year old and is presenting FutureOS, done by Eric BOULAT.

Doh sorry for tonight but copy/paste the french text (hit the french flag up there to the right) in google translate if the photo below make you drool. Will try to translate it myself tomorrow, sorry.

To make it short, there are 7 models of the protection :

• french, english and spanish CPC 464 (472 for the spanish one)
• french and english CPC 664 (there is no Azerty 664, so the difference is just on the disk drive, both keyboards are Qwerty)
• french and english CPC 6128

Price is 17 &euros; including shipping for France and 20 &euros; for Spain (shipping included too). For any other international shipping, contact him first.

Included in the packaging :

• protection folded in its sealed cellophane
• documentation for washing and ironing
• protective bubble envelope
• shipping with tracking number
• a small gift to boost your happiness

For ordering, you must :

1) payment with Paypal of the good amount (number of order x price : 17 or 20) to fredisland at acpc dot me. You cant ask to reserve for later.

2) at the same time you pay on Papyal, you can leave a message, it's really important as you must leave your postal address, which protection you want and how many, or send these informations as a private message on Facebook or by email.

Frédéric will confirm your order (by PM or email) that your order will be processed (well if you leaved all the needed informations). As his original message was in August and as he has now the protections in stock, shipping should be quick but don't forget he is a one man show not Amazon, sometimes humans needs to eat, sleep, work too (Genesis8bit opinion, not a translation of Frédéric's words).