Los Elfos de Maroland is now also available in english. It's a graphic adventure game written by Dwalin for Amstrad CPC and PCW, msdos, C64, MSX1 and MSX2, Amiga and Atari ST. It's a conversion with DAAD of its game previously written with PAWS in 1993.

CP/Mish by David Given has been updated, last version is from the 7th January 2024.

All CP/MIsh sources are on Github for Linux.

The available memory is 60 Kb by using all the memory available (128 Kb) but please check the NC200 readme for more informations especially the warnings about files in RAM (lost after notepad is off), the disk cache (chance disk only at CP/M prompt, and switch off the notepad only at prompt or you may loose write disk accesses).

DarkSteph has programmed with Unity for windows, macos and linux a remake of airwolf : Airwolf 2024, code by DarkSteph and graphics by Vynz Retro who is already known on Amstrad CPC. The game will be released on the 30th March 2024.

You can already download a WIP version of the action game Papy Commando by Studio Vetea, Fano and Shiningbzh. The video below of Papy Commando is by Xenomorph.

The other productions of Studio Vetea are on their Itch.io page.

Retro Erick is presenting in video the a new CGA card wi tested with the MCE2HDMI. This card is able to do CGA composite and can be bought on Aliexpress. The MCE2HDMI can be bought on Serdashop (where I bought several things, including a few weeks ago two waveblasters card to get MIDI on my PPC 640 without connecting my Roland expander). You can see another Retro Erik video presenting the test of the MCE2HDMI.

You must know that the MCE2HDMI is none other than the RGBtoHDMI by Hoglet67 which exists for many others computers (8 and 16bit), not only for PC with Hercules/MDA/CGA/EGA, but also the Amstrad CPC and CPC+. A list of vendors of the many RGBtoHDMI is available.

Sadly it doesnt run correctly with CPCBasicTS to be able to play online, so I removed it. I will see with Marco Vieth if we can correct this.

Released at the end of 2023, Gold Maze by VynZ-prog is a puzzle/adventure amstrad CPC game written in pure basic v1.1, you can see Gold Maze in a Youtube video. A version in basic 1.0 for Amstrad CPC 464 was released in January 2024.

On the left you can see the three treasures that you can recover with four marbles indicating when they will disappear. It's better to collect treasure as soon as possible. Below the three treasures is the player's box that you will have to position on the map in the first round. Then each turn you must rotate a box (or a row ?) and move your character.

The last version of the C compilator for PC and MacOS targeting Amstrad CPC, notepad NC100/150/200 and PCW z88dk v2.3 is out since December 2023, more details here.

Z88dk supports many more platforms.

The issue 21 of RetroMagazine World by Francesco Fiorentini is released in english.

During the LoveByte Party which took hold on the 11th Fébruary 2024, Overflow has released two 256 bytes intros for Amstrad CPC :

• Logonite on Youtube with the Logonite's making-of and the local download
• Plasmine on Youtube (see below) with the Plasmine's making-of and the local download

Replay : Mémoires d'une famille is the history of Jordan Mechner, hist family and the programming of the mythic game Prince of Persia on Apple 2 as a comic.

I was able to buy it directly from Jordan Mechner and I did read voraciously, and I did loan to my mother and other people, all loved it. It's a dive into the history of 20th century in Europe with the Mechner family. The first reading can be difficult because the reading is not linear in time, you jump from one era to another but you really have to hang on because it is simply an extraordinary reading, 320 pages of pure joy, I wished there were more. I rediscovered historical facts through reading it, in addition to discovering the genesis of the Prince of Persia game. And I'll read it again as soon as I get it back from the last person I lent it to.

It is now available in english : Replay, memoir of an uprooted family. Buy it, read it !