Arcade Game Designer v0.7.3 is a Windows (32/64) utility by Jonathan Cauldwell to write games for Timex/Next, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Acorn Electron, Dragon/Coco and Enterprise, without any knowing of programmation.

This new version adds : Windows 32 bit version, option to import AGD/AGDX games from TAP files, new options in the script generator, new tool to check for mistakes, 2 default fonts, numerous bug fixes, support for Acorn Electron, Dragon/Coco and Enterprise, updated documentation.

There is a forum about AGD.

Slap Fight (A.L.C.O.N.) is a shoot them up already existing on Amstrad CPC since 1987. Abalore started to work on a remake in 2016 and today a second video of this remake is available with the first level of the game.

Abalore accepts every help possible to make this new remake.

The last version of RASM is v0.110 (27th February 2019). This multi platform assembler (linux, windows, but not only like MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC.

The online documentation is available.

update v0.109
- bugfix crash when trying to save with a negative size
- bugfix crash case with macro and wrong parameter number
- bugfix EDSK update
- IFDEF/IFNDEF now scans for macro names
- TZX/CDT output support (not working)
- RUN directive may use unknown var as parameter
- embedded Rasm may return info struct about errors and symbols

There is more different files to download:
- msdos version
- windows 32bits executable
- windows 64bits executable (20% faster than 32bits version)
- sources

update v0.110
- allow numeric expression beginning with +
- bugfix uninitialized memory reads and memory leaks with embedded Rasm

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has released a new version of 8BP v36 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has released a new version of 8BP v35 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda has written a new Amstrad CPC game, Space Phantom, with his RSX Library 8BP (with the not yet released v35), which allows to write games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download Space Phantom on github.

A new release candidate of the ANSI-C compiler SDCC v3.8.0 is available for download.

Jarlac by Jose A. Martin is an incoming Amstrad CPC game written for the CPCRetroDev competition, you can :

• see a trailer
• listen to the main theme
• see the loading screen

Jose Javier Garcia Aranda will release in a few days a new version of 8BP v34 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max). You can download 8bp on github.

Quigs by Trebmint is a replacement for Symstudio, an IDE to write programs for SymbOS. It's a Windows program, but it works with Wine.

Boris (Boris360 on Twitter) is working on a Cauldron 1 remake on MAC (eventually also on Android and iOS as he is using Xamarin Forms).

Dorgams is an assembler in ROM for Amstrad CPC, created by Madram, Drill and Hicks. A new version is available.

The documentation in french and english is available on Dorgams' wiki.

• Download HFE
• Download HFE + DSK + ROM

TMTLOGIC gave informations in April 2018 about the developpement of the Symbiface III card (see CPCWiki source too) :

• USB mass storage device FAT32, tested with an speed of 700Kb/sec, seen as drive D
• USB wireless mouse
• 512 KB RAM
• RTC (not compatible with the SF2 RTC) and a battery
• OLED display

The final choice of the features isnt frozen, you can propose other features on CPCWiki.

You can read an interview of Prodatron about SymbOS in three different languages by Entebras :

• english version
• spanish version
• hungarian version

Entebras did create an official cover for SymbOS.

Arcade Game Designer v0.7 is a windows x64 utility by Jonathan Cauldwell to write games for Timex/Next, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation. It also exist directly on these platforms.

This new version adds : extra functionality, new tools, more commands, numerous bug fixes, improved editors, updated documentation and more.

There is a forum about AGD.