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CP/M Box by Habi Soft, an Amstrad PCW emulator, is available in version 1.10.0 : corrections and ameliorations, dark theme, speed controk, predefined sizes, EMR MIDI, reconfigurable keyboard.

Alexandre Nauguet just made another new loading screens for Amstrad CPC games, this time for Ghostbusters 1 and 2. First the original loading screens :

Then the new ones :

A new article by No Recess about this year 2024 is a recommended reading.

The last version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CPCEC by César Nicolas Gonzalez, was released yesterday on the 24th December 2024.

ConvGeneric by Roudoudou is a command line utility (windows, MacOS) to convert PNG to Amstrad CPC formats like sprites, tiles, complete screens... :

• Multimode support
• Software sprite conversion
• Tile extraction
• Tiled screens mode
• Metatile mode
• Screen conversion
• Hardware sprite extraction

Beware this utility can't reduce the number of colors, if you need this then use :

• Martine
• ConvImgCpc

Crystal Place is an Amstrad CPC reflexion game by Francesc ALCAUCER written 100% in Locomotive basic. He wrote four others games : CPC Invaders, Wrecking Ball, Tiny Deathmatch et Tetrid dotBAS.

I invite you once again to go listen to E-dredon's music for Amstrad CPC who write it for the Playcity (3 AY soundchip for 9 channels) or the Play2CPC.

The Play2CPC is an evolution of the Plus2CPC who let using CPC+ cartridges on an plain Amstrad CPC but with additional features :

• Extra audio capabilities (Yamaha YMF288 OPN3 soundchip)
• Sound mix into the CPC speaker or stereo audio jack
• Full Amstrad Plus ROM decoding
• Extra on-board V-ROM (512K RAM expansion mapped as ROM) for amazing new AAA games
• General purpose programmable raster interrupt
• Compatible with standard Amstrad cartridges and new extended formats
• 100% compatible with C4CPC
• Support for RW cartridges to save/update games, scores and settings
• Boot switch and reset button commodities

He wrote his Rasters music (1xYM2203, 3xOPs et 3xPSG) with the tracker Furnace (github) written by Tildearrow.

To make so beautiful Amstrad CPC loading screens like Eric Cubizolle (Titan), it's easy, you just need to use the same painting program : Multipaint by Tero Heikkinen AKA Dr. Terrorz, and maybe a bit of talent and mostly a lot of work.

Titan is describing Multipaint as a mmix of OCP Art Studio and Deluxe Paint for windows which offers the possibility of using the resolutions and palettes of a whole bunch of old computers including the Amstrad CPC (mode 0 and 1, overscan possible in mode 0).

I wish you a merry christmas and what better way to wish it than to present the last demo by Roudoudou (code), Pulsophonic (music) and TITAN (graphics with MultiPaint).