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ReSeT is an Amstrad CPC demo party taking place at Coutances from friday 28th june (10 am) to sunday 30th june (6 pm) in Normandy.

Named before Amstrad Expo, this party organized by Eliot (Benediction), is a success each year since 2000.

Whatever your interest in Amstrad CPC, you will be welcomed. It will be the occasion to see previews of incoming programs and to meet other CPCists..

As usual there will be a contest.

More informations on ReSeT's site.

JavaCPC émulates since a moment also the CPC+. You can check CPC+ demos on this site with the emulator.

Have a great holiday and let's hope Santa Claus will bring you a lot of things.

Check Slashdot for more informations.

Ici Londres, les français parlent aux français, I repeat, les sucres en morceaux didnt melt yet inside the café.

In fact the web site les sucres en morceaux just got a lifting with a new menu and many corrections/updates to its content.

Beware, too much sugar in your café will ruin it though...

NoRecess has done a new interview : Toto - Easter Egg, on of the authors of the upgraded version of R-Type.

CPC Génération is a nice video (no need to understand french) by Tau Ceti about Amstrad CPC. I invite you to see it. The video is quite dark, the effect is intented.

The music of CPC Génération is available on SoundCloud.

Since several years this site was on genesis8.free.fr with the domain www.genesis8bit.com being a redirection on the free address.

Now you can forget both addresses, and change your bookmark/favorite to www.genesis8bit.fr. The new site is faster, using PHP 5 instead of PHP 4 on free. I can use sub-domains, so if you want faster web site loading, you can use the mobile version of www.genesis8bit.fr (no youtube video). A domain for loading pictures will soon make loading a bit more faster.

And to make this page loading even faster, I am looking at the Zend Framework with zend cache, db and paginator.

Due to a bug in its CMS Xoops, Phenix Informatique (Amstrad.eu) is closing for an unkwown duration.

Sad news, lets hope that it will rise again from its ashes like it already did several times in the past.

UPDATE : well finally it wasnt a CMS bug, but a problem of the web hosting service. So the web site is working fine once again, pfiou. For once I was too quick to write a news.

You will find on Phenix Informatique an interview of Alain Massoumipour (alias Poum) who wrote for the french Amstrad CPC magazine Amstrad 100%.

If you throwed all your issues of Amstrad 100%, you will find them on le site des anciennes revues informatiques.

Happy new year 2012, I wish you a good health too and also to all you love.

I wish you all a happy Christmas 2011.

What about an Odiesoft interview as a starter, then an update of ManageDSK and SDCC2Pasmo for the main dish and dessert on NoRecess ?

I only discovered that Alan Michael Sugar is on Facebook and Twitter.

By the way his autobiography is available in paperback since the 1st August. I already read his previous biographies, one more to go !

Below you will find an extract of the excellent french site Dans Ton Chat (some IRC chat goodies).

Couchax: Shit, my sister has a new boyfriend, an older man (older than mathusalem), about 10 years older than her ! What a pity ! She bringed him back to the house just yesterday... I am quite ashamed !

Adrien: What's the problem ? It's not you who is dating him, so what... If your sister is feeling well with him, it's what is important ?

Couchax: I dont care about this, I am telling you that I am really ashamed...

Adrien: Why o.O ?

Couchax: I was very badly beaten to Super Street Fighter 4, never has been beaten like that before...

Adrien: What a shame, being beaten by the Amstrad generation...

Couchax: Yes...(-_-)'

Doh, I am feeling 10 years older now in the space of just a few seconds... :-)

CPCWiki is now back online ! In case you see the old server, wait till the DNS record is propagated or visit http://188.40.138.119.

You can read the history about The Oliver Twins on their web site, they are the authors of the Dizzy games (and many others).

EDIT : CPCWiki is moving to a new server, and not available yet on the new one.

CPCWiki is back after a few hardware problems, you can download on it the lastest beta version of the PC-CPC emulator by Ludovic Deplanque (Demoniak).

NoRecess {the website} is a nice recent web site by NoRecess (since January 2011). He is the author of the Phat, Phat 2,Pheelone and Phreaks demos. But he also wrote PhrozenC, a K&R C compiler for Amstrad CPC and the HxC Software Emulator Manager for Amstrad CPC. He is writing Phactory, a PC utility which is a complete development editor targeting the Amstrad CPC platform. It features : code editor, bitmap converter, big file maker, dsk file manager, packer, hex editor... SDCC C compiler is also fully integrated, and inlined assembly code is compatible with Maxam syntax.

There is an interesting article about state of the Amstrad CPC community in 2011 (with informations from Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Denmark, Spain, South Australia and France), and last article is an interview of Axelay, author of Star Sabre, Dead On Time and Sub Hunter, and many more interesting things to read.

CPC Game Reviews has many new reviews since January 2011.

CPC Power is holding 4 contests : coding, GFX, music and logo GFX.

I wish you a happy new year 2011, and a lot of Amstrad CPC meetings

Merry Christmas 2010

CPC Scene moves to http://pushnpop.net/, update your bookmarks.

Need some Amstrad CPC parts ? Well time to go on Eliot's shop !

Rules of this useful shop :

- parts are aimed to be used in the CPC community or any other 8bits friendly community,
- some parts are rare so please order only what you really need,
- please do not resell parts you got from the site.

Bad news, GamebaseCPC will stop to share its work.

Good news, dumps of programs will still be available on CPC-POWER.

Like on Twitter, all news will now also posted on the Genesis8 Amstrad Page Facebook group.

I am looking for someone to translate news in spanish, contact me on my gmail account (genesis8bit). See my message on Amstrad ESP forum for more informations.

I am also looking for a german translator.

GameBase CPC v14 is out.

This site is now on Facebook and Twitter.

The online magazine for Amstrad CPC, PCW, NC and PC CPC Oxygen is still available at its old address. You can find on it all issues of the english Amstrad CPC newspaper Amstrad Action.

But as announced here in August 2009, there is a second and new CPC Oxygen site, which is now available, using Wordpress. Wordpress allows you to write directly and add content to the site.

CPC Scene got also a relooking, with now news, forums and articles.

I wish you all a happy new year 2010, good health, and long life to our Amstrad CPC.

I wish you all a happy christmas 2009 with nice gifts. There were less news these past weeks, because I am working behind the stage on new features, which I hope will be ready soon.

Phenix Informatique got a lifting (french site only), go see it if you didnt check it lately.

CPC Wiki is moving to a faster server.

CPC-Topsites is back, you can vote again for Amstrad CPC sites.

ESP Soft's blog is open since the 14th July 2009. It's mostly about programmation for Amstrad CPC, how to use the CCZ80 compiler by Emilio Guerrero, with code source of the Xilen war game.

google translation of the ESP Soft blog

CPC Wiki has moved, dont forget to change your bookmark. Beware, you cant edit the wiki at the moment.

Moving from a html table to CSS for the Amstrad games database, I also added links to Wikipedia, World of Spectrum and Dailymotion for even more videos of games. Try Bruce Lee for example :

Bruce Lee

Click here to browse the database.

Layout of the page is still quite ugly (less than before I hope), as I type all the html + css code directly with an editor(pspad), and I am still learning CSS. If you think you can help me getting more sexier pages, hit Contact on the menu to email me.

I just added a new feature for the Amstrad CPC games database, you can now see video game footage from Youtube on each game page, see for yourself just below (javascript needed) :

Batman the movie

Or just browse the database for more game memories.