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







Anthony Flack's interview by RetroManiac

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One more interview by Retro Maniac, this time of Anthony Flack. As always the interview is bilingual, first in spanish then in english. Anthony Flack wrote the remake of Bomb Jack released at the start of this year.




Phantomas Adventure Dracula's Castle, the PC remake of Phantomas 2 is available

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Phantomas 2 by Dinamic Software was released in 1986, in 2019 a new version for Amstrad cpc was out : Phantomas 2.0 by Jordi Sureda and Santiago Ontañon. Today it's a new version for windows and linux : Phantomas Adventure Dracula's Castle by Retro for Love.



Duke stops making the M4 board, but...

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Duke stops making the M4 wifi board after almost 1500 boards. He explains it on his web site. I want to thank him personnally as I am the happy owner of his board since years, it is still useful to me. Thanks for all these years of making board and supporting it with new firmwares and answering user on CPCWiki.

It could be an end but it is in fact a new start as Duke has released on Github all needed informations so at least for a start two people will make new boards :



Disk Image Manager v2.9.0 for windows by Damien Guard

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Disk Image Manager v2.9.0 by Damien Guard is an application for examining and manipulating disk images in the Standard and Extended DSK format used by many ZX Spectrum, Amstrad PCW and CPC emulators.




Amstrad Eterno X the 25th October 2025, next is BCP 5 !

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As usual a bit late announcing it but Amstrad Eterno X is an Amstrad CPC meetin which will take place at Barcelone (Spain) on the 25th October. Pour plus de détails allez lire leur compte Twitter et leur site web.

And 5 days later it will be Benediction Coding Party 5 (France) where I will go as usual with 42 other people and Eliot of course.



After the Aleste 520EX (a russian clone of the Amstrad CPC/MSX), the XiAleste by h2w

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The XiAleste by h2w is a recreation with modern components of an upgraded Amstrad CPC 6128 presented on Hackaday (the sound is upgraded notably). The PCB of the XiAleste is available as is the FGPA code source of the XiAleste both on Github. You can read informations on the XiAleste on CPC Wiki.

You will find below informations from 2019 about the Aleste 520EX which inspired the XiAleste.

The Aleste 520EX is a russian clone of the Amstrad CPC and the MSX. It works not with AMSDOS but with the MSX DOS (see this russian site in english). There was already a thread about the Aleste 520EX on CPCWiki, but this time Sebastian Blanco is talking about the Aleste kit he just bought. Finally he isnt the only one in the Amstrad CPC community to have one. If you are interesting it's seems to possible to buy one kit by writing to tetroid at inbox ru like Sebastian did.

You can see a youtube video of an Aleste 520EX running the Phortem demo by Condense (and MSX games at the start of the video).

A modified version of Caprice32 permits to emulate at least in part the Aleste 520EX.



ZEsarUX 12.1, an Amstrad CPC and PCW emulator (other computers too)

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ZEsarUX 12.1 is a multi platform emulator, Amstrad CPC and PCW (and many others). You can compile the unix sources directly or get a binary for :

  • linux 32/64 bits
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
  • Raspberry pi (raspbian)