Tronic, Siko and Longshot are presenting today a new audio file format called AYT (AY Turbo).

It is a compact and simple format usable by any program requiring high CPU performance and cycle-accurate constant-time operation, it is available on Pouet.

This format is intended for all platforms using an AY-3-8910/AY-3-8912 (General Instrument) sound processor or a compatible chip (YM-2149 from Yamaha). Several authoring tools and players have been developed and tested for the following platforms: Amstrad CPC and CPC+, MSX, ZX Spectrum 128, VG5000 (with VG5210 soundcard). AYT files are produced from YM files.

Many tools have been created around this format (windows, linux), some of which can be used directly online (e.g., YM->AYT converter, YM/AYT player, YM sequencer, AYT Jukebox).

Z80A players have been created on several old-school platforms, such as the Amstrad CPC and Plus, MSX, ZX Spectrum 128 and VG 5000 (with the VG 5210 sound card). These players have the particularity of occupying little memory space, being very (very) fast, and operating in constant cycles. More information is available (guides, sources, executable, benchmarks, ...) on Github, on AYT Web Tools and on AYT Player – AY/YM Emulator (WIP).

Ivan AVILA (21Bloques) is actually working on an Amstrad CPC version of the great classic Pitfall 2 the lost caverns first out on the Atari VCS 2600 console in 1984. I am waiting for it impatiently.

You can see a video of Pitfall 2 in action. Also Titan proposed to Ivan a loading screen for Pitall 2.

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.

Pixsaur by Gurneyh is an online tool to convert pictures to the Amstrad CPC format. It was announced in May 2025 on CPCWiki and is updated since its beginging.

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 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 :

• AnakinTF
• The Equalizor for U.K.

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.

Ivan AVILA (21Bloques) is actually working on an Amstrad CPC version of the great classic Pitfall 2 the lost caverns first out on the Atari VCS 2600 console in 1984. I am waiting for it impatiently.

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.

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.