News about Amstrad CPC, PCW, Notepad NC100 NC150 NC200, PDA600 and also Amstrad PC






The story of Dinamic Software

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Pixel Thing is talking about the spanish publishing house Dinamic Software on Youtube in english.





8BP v027, a RSX library to develop Amstrad CPC games in Basic

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Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has written a new version of 8BP v27 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library for writing Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.

This v27 version has 2 new features :

  • RINK RSX for ink animation
  • change state for sprites (badly translated from spanish)




CPCGamesCD updated by MiguelSky (December 2016)

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CPCGamesCD (created by MiguelSky) is an ISO image including several emulators (Amstrad CPC and PCW), and a frontend to launch the included games, which comes from the NVG FTP.



Dragon Attack by Bitplane Technomantes, fourth place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

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Bitplane Technomantes won the fourth place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game Dragon Attack. It's an arcade game (think galaxian). Your fighter can only be destroyed if its middle is touched, but the dragons are shooting everywhere on the screen ! And of course it's no less the future of the Earth which is on your shoulders...

Dragon attack is the collective work of :




VirusDog par CPC-Power, third place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

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CPC-Power won the third place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game VirusDog. It's a reflexion game where you must save the life of your dog by pairing the same virus near each of them.

VirusDog is the collective work of :

  • code and idea : Kukulcan
  • graphics : Kukulcan, CED
  • music : Tom and Jerry (GPA)
  • cover and manual : Ixien
  • tests : AST, Galamoth, Lone, Maxit, C. PETIT, Fredouille




Outlaws by Retrobytes Productions, first place at the CPCRetroDev 2016

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Retrobytes Productions won the first place at the CPCRetroDev 2016 with their game Outlaws, an arcade game with a cowboy in the wild wild west. It looks like Cabal or Operation Wolf. It's a nice game with good graphics.

Outlaws is their first Amstrad CPC game, but I invite you to check their previous games on ZX Spectrum on their homepage.

Outlaws is the collective work of :

  • code : Toni Ramírez
  • graphics : Alxinho
  • music and FX : José A. Martín
  • tests : Toni, Alxinho, José
  • traduction: Toni Ramírez




Samdisk v3.8.9 by Simon Owen, Amstrad CPC disks tranfers on PC

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SAMdisk v3.8.9 by Simon Owen is out since the 18th December.

The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.

Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.

  • fixed clipping extent of non-error sectors
  • fixed raw .2d file reading (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
  • fixed HD track error during 2DD to 2HD promotion (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
  • fixed use of scanning data rates not supported by FDC
  • fixed --offsets crash if 2 stored copies were present
  • changed gap indicator from g to +, added - for short sectors
  • added support for double-density MB-02+ disks (thanks Jan Kucera)
  • added --step-rate speed option (0=slow, 15=fast, 10=default)