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






Disk Image Manager v2.8.1 for windows by Damien Guard

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Disk Image Manager v2.8.1 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.



New version of the Amstrad CPC(+) emulator ACE-DL (24/12) by Roudoudou

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New version by Roudoudou of his ACE-DL Amstrad CPC emulator (12/24/2024) :

  • spanish translations for the GUI (see flags with F12)
  • ability to use (L)abels to jump in memory from Graphics Explorer
  • augmenter ou diminuer le son avec les touches +/- du clavier numérique



CP/M Box v1.10.0 by Habi Soft, an Amstrad PCW emulator

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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.



New loading screens for Ghostbusters 1-2 by Alexandre Nauguet

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

original loading screen for Ghostsbusters 1

original loading screen for Ghostsbusters 2

Then the new ones :

new loading screen for  Ghostsbusters 1 by Alexandre Nauguet

new loading screen for Ghostsbusters 2 by Alexandre Nauguet





ConvGeneric by Roudoudou, a graphical conversion utility (sprites, tiles...)

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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 :



Crystal Place by Francesc ALCAUCER for Amstrad CPC

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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.


Youtube video



When E-dredon pulls the blanket, he's not joking, listen to his music

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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.