RetroVirtualMachine v2.1.11 by Juan Carlos González Amestoy is available since a moment. It's an Amstrad CPC emulator for MacOS, Windows and Linux.
His author is showing us the use on an Apple Vision Pro which is very very interesting, I need one !
The version 1.01 of Mod Master XT by FreddyV is available as source code on github.
This msdos utility lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...
Amstrad Retro Geek is presenting an Exernal Gotek for Amstrad CPC 664 and 6128 with personalize USB key, 2 colors LCD screen, activity LED, rottary button to choose an image, buzzer for the drive sound, choice of drive A or B in a 3D printed box by Benemerit (Madrid, Espagne). The video is well done with integrated subtitles in french and english.
The PicoMEM 8bit ISA card by FreddyV has now its own Github with firmware updates, documentation and drivers. The last two features added are mouse support (put it on an alimented USB hub, not directly) and network.
Tube Time has done many things, you can follow him on Twitter or Mastodon, and his github is a gold mine, notably :
A video by Duke the author of the wifi M4 board for Amstrad CPC of an upgraded version of the ANSI Telnet client for M4 Board by Fergus Leen.
HxC Floppy Drive Emulator v2.15.1.2 is available on Github.
It's an utility to manage .HFE disk images to be used by the SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator, a replacement for the 3 inch disks drives of the Amstrad CPC.
There is a support forum for HxC products and also a facebook group.
mTCP NetDrive is a new utility by Michael B. Brutman which lets you connect under ms-dos a network drive which is in fact an image disk hosted on a windows or linux server (disk drive or hard disk image) for only 6 Kb of RAM (adds the RAM for the packet driver though). A mariage in heaven with the PicoMem card by FreddyV.
Noel Llopis presents in his new video how he goes from 64 Kb to 1 Mb of RAM on an Amstrad CPC 464.
The expansion card to be used should have been by Revaldino but some components being hard to get, it's finally the card by Rebobinando which has been used.
Schneider made the Amstrad CPC under licence in Germany. They also did create PC XT like the EuroPC (several models). Retro Erik is presenting an ISA bus extension which he saw in another Youtube video. At the end of the video he is announcing that he is working on an universal ISA bus extension with a friend of the Norway retro community.
mTCP v2023-03-31 by Michael B. Brutman is a set of TCP/IP applications for personal computers running PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, and other flavors of DOS. mTCP needs a 8088 processor (or +), 96 to 256 Kb of system memory depending on the application, ms-dos v2.1 (or +) and a network card (Ethernet adapter, or a device emulating Ethernet) that has a packet driver.
If you go on the mTCP web page, you must know that it's a 39 years old PC Jr which is running mTCP own http server.
Matronica wanted to load programs on his recently bought Amstrad CPC 464 (at the start of 2023). So he did create his ROM emulator using a Raspberry Pico which was announced in April 2023. In June 2023 he added on his card an USB port which let him use either the Albireo or Unidos ROM.
See the initial announcement on CPCWiki about his Amstrad CPC romboard using a Raspberry Pico, the sources are available on Github.
The small compatibility problems for this replacement chip for the Amstrad CPC sound chip have been corrected with more releaxed timings. Instead of buying an original sound chip for too much money, it is more interesting to buy this functional equivalent AY-3-8912 by vRetro.
RetroVirtualMachine v2.1.9 by Juan Carlos González Amestoy was released today. It's an Amstrad CPC emulator for MacOS, Windows and Linux. This version features bug fixes.
You can download 19 MIDI songs by Manfred GROSS which can be read by the Ultimate CPC MIDI Sound and MIDI Interface by LambadMikel for your Amstrad CPC.
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