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






Benediction Coding Party #6 organized by Eliot

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The Benediction Coding Party #6 meeting organized by Eliot will take place from the Thursday 29th October (10h00) to Sunday 1st november (18h00) at the community hall, 2 impasse des Quatre Chemins (50450 Lengronne). You can arrive by train at two train stations, either Villedieu-Les-Poêles or Folligny where we can take you to the meeting (only 15 mn to the meeting by car). Price will be 16 euros each day except 10 euros for Sunday (drinks and food included). Please register early to help Eliot. For more informations click on the link above.



The new PicoMEM2 8bit ISA card by FreddyV

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FreddyV has release his upgrade of the PicoMEM card : the PicoMEM2 ! More power means that you can use all sound cards at the same moment (how about Sound Blaster and Gravis Ultra Sound at the same time), DMA support, RTC, serial and LED expansion, I2C Qwiic connectors, front panel connector, thanks to the Pico 2 using the RP2350.

You can buy the PicoMEM2 at :



Return Home by WacKEDmaN, an Amstrad CPC shoot them up

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Return Home by WacKEDmaN is a new Amstrad CPC shoot them up game.

It is written in Z80 asm with the help of the AI Claude code, and the RASM assembler written by Roudoudou. It plays in mode 0 (6 coulors), your ship is at the right of the screen and the ennemies comes from the left. You can play with keyboard or joystick.


Youtube video



1984 v0.4.11, an Amstrad CPC emulator by salvogendut (and more)

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The Amstrad CPC emulator 1984 by Salvogendut is available as version 0.4.11.

But it's not the only program he worked on for Amstrad CPC :

  • N4CEWENTERM, an ANSI Telnet Client for Amstrad CPC
  • symcmd-settime : uan utility to set time with http under SymbOS
  • conv2SGX : an utility to convert pictures to the SGX format used by SymbOS


Marmelade (is a masquerade), a french graphical adventure game for Amstrad CPC

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Seen on Roudoudou's Youtube channel, Marmelade written by Stephane MERLO-UYTTENDAELE and Frederic SOL (édited by MBC Informatique) is graphical adventure game for Amstrad CPC released in 1987.

But it's in fact an non official french remake of an Apple 2 adventure game Masquerade written in 1983 by Dale JOHNSON (code) and Rick INCROCCI (graphics). A very difficult game with an official contest with a winning price of 1000 dollars, which was finally won.

This Amstrad CPC version of Masquerade was corrected in 2020 by The Crackers Velus, otherwise you can't finish the game. You can download this corrected version of Marmelade on CPC-Power. The longplay video of the finished game below is by Roudoudou.


Youtube video





Time Bomb GX by ShaCPC, a remake of the 1985 game by Chris TURNER

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Time Bomb is an Amstrad CPC reflexion game written in 1985 by Chris TURNER. Today ShaCPC is presenting his Amstrad CPC(+)/GX4000 remake : Time Bomb GX as a .CPR cartridge file. You will need a M4 addon to load the .CPR with a plain Amstrad CPC.


Youtube video




El Caldero Mágico GX by ShaCPC, a remake of the 1986 game by Angel GARCIA DELGADO

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El Caldero Mágico is an Amstrad CPC platform game written in 1986 by Angel GARCIA DELGADO (AGD). Today ShaCPC is presenting his Amstrad CPC(+)/GX4000 remake : El Caldero Mágico GX as a .CPR cartridge file. You will need a M4 addon to load the .CPR with a plain Amstrad CPC.