CeD a gagné la première place pour un graphique lors d'un concours sur un groupe Facebook : Amstrad CPC pour toujours and beyond !.

Roudoudou did two videos about the creation of his non official invitro on Amstrad GX4000 and CPC+ for the demo party Alchimie 13 where Amstrad users will be present :

• first video
• second video

Alchimie 13 will take place on the 1st to 3rd November 2019. Roudoudou has written a small Amstrad GX4000 and CPC+ invitro not official Rouleau de printemps for this demo party where Amstrad users will be present.

Octopus Pocus by Pulpo Corrosivo has been released at the Revision 2019 for the oldskool contest where it got the 6th place. It needs 128 Kb, a CRTC 0 or 1. The code was written by Toms, music by Targhan, graphics by Rexbeng, Beb and Barjack, with help by Hicks (link on Pouet).

The third Kind by Vanity has been released at the Revision 2019 for the 4k intro where it got the 3rd place (link on Pouet). The code is written by Hicks, graphics by Beb and music by Targhan

Gloire à Piou by Overlanders has been released at the Revision 2019 for the oldskool contest where it got the 11th place. The demo was programmed entirerly on an Amstrad CPC first with DAMS then with Dorgams. The music is written by Jess with Starkos.

There are two versions of the demo :

• Gloire à Piou, version shown at the Revision 2019 (1. DSK)
• Gloire à Piou, finale version (1 .HFE)

Post Scriptum is an Amstrad CPC demo done by an unknow person from nowhere, with art created by Hwikaa.

It needs additionnal RAM with a X-Mem or using an emulator like Sugarbox which knows to emulate the X-Mem RAM/ROM expansion.

Results of the oldskool demo compo at Révision 2019 are out. There are two Amstrad CPC demos, one at the 3rd place, see below :

• The Seniors - Rivalry - C64 new SID (In the "Commodore audience", this wins!)
• Hooy-Program - The Brexecutable Music Compo Is Over - ZX Spectrum (2nd place!)
• Overlanders - Gloire a Piou! - CPC-6128 (3rd place!)
• Pulpo Corrosivo - Octopus Pocus - CPC-6128
• Fenarinarsa - Latecomer - Apple ][
• ZOO - We are the Chimpions - C64 new SID
• Moods Plateau - Twenty - KC 85/4
• Chemtrailer Boys - Edison 2019 Invitation - C64 new SID
• The Pets Mode - ROBOTTO - MSX1
• Desire - 1E78 - Atari 7800
• BinaryCounter - Hello - SNES
• resource+singular - The 21st - C64 new SID
• TRSI - TRSI 4 Nordlicht - Atari 2600
• Molive - SNES-NICCC 2000 - SNES
• Titan - MD-NICCC - Sega Megadrive

You can see all the démos/musics on Twitch.

Lissajous curve is a curve easily found if you use an oscilloscope.

ComSoft6128 has modified the original program found on CPC-Power, you can download the new version right here or just look at the nice youtube video.

Too busy each start of September, I missed Still Scrolling 4k, an Amstrad CPC intro in 4 Kb by Siko and Barjack.

Sylvestre wrote a new article, this time about how to get a better flipping of an image to get a much nicer look starting with an image of a 15 years old demo : a step beyond (Dirty Minds in 2003).

Memory Full got a few days ago the authorization to put some content of the defunct site Push'n Pop on theirs.

It means for example interviews (No Recess, Voxfreax, Batman Forever team, Fano, Lotharek and Jeff, Wake Up! team, Ronaldo) and technical stuff (Zoom initiation, La genèse du Starkos).

Renaud Helias is programming an Amstrad CPC core for the FGPA MiST board, but he is also working on MK2 (Mortal Kombat 2) :

• preview version (mode 2)
• normal version (mode 2), see the bottom of the page for a more recent version in mode 1

iMPdos Public Edition v1.17 by AST/iMPACT is available, a ROM for using the X-Mass extension card made by Toto. It must be installed as ROM 1 to 6, before the ROM 7 ! When the ROM is installed, iMPdos detects the X-Mass and format it. Dont forget to use the |hlp command for documentation.

The Amstrad CPC demo phX by Condense has been released a few days ago and now its source code is available.