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






Super Cableman, an Amstrad CPC game by Titan, Pulsophonic, Retropoke and Kukulcan

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Super Cableman is an Amstrad CPC action game by Titan (graphics and programmation), Pulsophonic (music), Retropoke (test) et Kukulcan (programmation). The game was at the start a 2 lines basic program, now a full game with several levels (last one is randomly created).


Youtube video




Netdrive and EtherSLIP (April 2026) by Michael B. Brutman

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Michael B. Brutman has released a new version of NetDrive which is driver to access a disk image (floppy or hard disk) located on another computer on the local network under windows (10 and 11), Linux (x86 or ARM) and MacOS.

He has also corrected a bug in EtherSLIP which allows Ethernet via a serial port. You can read how he has corrected this EtherSLIP bug.



PicoZ80 by Engineers@work targetting now the Amstrad PCW 9512.

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The PicoZ80 by Engineers@work is un replacement of the Z80 using a Raspberry Pico 2. It features a faster CPU, more memory (ROM/RAM banking), virtual devices, networking (WiFi, BT thanks to an ESP32), rapid application loading from SD card and WiFi management.

It is possible to configure the PicoZ80 with a .JSON file to adapt to the host machine, already working for the Sharp MZ-700 (and later for the MZ-80A, MZ-80B, MZ-800 and other Sharp computers) and the Amstrad PCW 9512 since yesterday (and certainly the other PCW models). I suppose it isn't impossible to target later the Amstrad CPC.



Sekai Tensei, a WIP shoot them up for Amstrad GX4000 and CPC+

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Sekai Tensei is a WIP shoot them up for Amstrad GX4000 and CPC+, the author is french (see video below) but his name is not showed in the Amstrad Power article.

Sekai Tensei will have 7 levels, 2 difficulty modes with a different end each. There will be two game modes : missile command and classic shoot them up latéral. His author is working on it since several months and the release date isn't yet announced. It will be out as cartridge format, a different cartridge depending of the targetted format : Amstrad GX4000 and CPC+.


Youtube video



RASM v3.2.5 (Atlas) by Roudoudou, a multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC

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The last version of the multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC RASM (v3.2.5) by Roudoudou is available today on Github.

This multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC (for linux, windows, and also MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC. It's recommended to use it with the new emulator also by Roudoudou : ACE-DL.




Frank CPC, an Amstrad CPC emulator by rh1tech for Raspberry Pico 2

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Frank CPC by rh1tech is an Amstrad CPC emulator for Raspberry Pico 2. It supports HDMI, VGA, and composite-TV output, SD card file browser. PS/2 keyboard, NES/SNES gamepads, optional USB HID (keyboard, gamepad, XInput). Disk (.DSK, .IPF), tape (.CDT), and cartridge (.CPR) loading, audio over HDMI, I2S, or PWM.

Check also at his OS for Pico 2 with a Windows 95 look.



Cadence v2.0 par Abalore, a multi platform Amstrad CPC emulator

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Cadence v2.0 by Abalore is out. It's a multi platform Amstrad CPC emulator for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It do not support CPC+ but can read .CPR cartridge and run Alcon 2020 for example.

The source code is on this Github depot while you will find the downloads on this other Github depot of Cadence.



Amspirit Lite Lite 1.10.7, an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator by Dmanu78 for Linux, Windows and MacOS

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Dmanu has just released a light version of his Amstrad CPC emulator Amspirit : Amspirit Lite in 64bit for Linux (soon Raspberry PI too), Windows and MacOS. Amspirit Lite is also available on his Github.