An interesting information, a japanese engineer built a hand-made MSX computer, not with FPGA but with hard wired general chips, with several main board each one having the role of a fonctionnality of the MSX (one mainboard for video for example).

For more informations, go read MSX.org and the web site of the engineer.

After a remake of Saboteur 1 and 2 for PC and MAC, and Saboteur! for Android (which takes place between Saboteur 1 and 2), Clive Townsend, the original author of Saboteur is working on Saboteur 3.

The free version of Saboteur 1 and 2 (PC, MAC) has limitations (time, no saving of scores and progression). The full version costs only 2,99 €.

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.

Donkey Kong and Renegade are out this month on the Nintendo Switch (see the announce in french by MO5).

Released in April 2016, iMPdraw v1.2 is the last version of this Amstrad CPC painting program by AsT.

The version 2 will be showed at the meeting Reset #30 with fullscreen mode and Amstrad CPC+ support.

Other painting program exists : GOS (CPC+ only) and Claudia (CPC and CPC+).

The video game console Colecovision was released in August 1982, versus the challenger : the Atari VCS 2600 released in September 1977.

Risky Risk by ArcadeVision has been released just this month on the Colecovision. I already wanted to buy a Colecovision to go with my Atari VCS 5200, one more reason to do it.

Four physical editions of the game are still available.

An information three months old, to play more easily to Operation Thunderbolt with the laser sight always active (modification found by Urusergi), where it is normally a bonus you must get. It exists a CPR version for Amstrad CPC+ or GX4000 and for DSK version for plain Amstrad CPC.

There are already 8 people at the Reset 30 meeting, eleven other people will arrive later. And we have a guest from Germany : Kangaroo, already arrived (see the right of the photo).

Keith56, author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 et 2), will be starting a 7 day programming marathon next week, remaking the msdos game 'Grime' on ELEVEN Z80 machines : CPC, ZxSpectrum, EP128, SamCoupe, Ti83, MSX2, Sega Mastersystem, Game Gear,Gameboy,Gameboy Color and also MSX1.

Three interesting videos by RetroManCave : restoring an Amstrad CPC 6128 :

• First part
• Second part
• Third part