Game Back has made an interview of Luis Ángel Alda who worked for the spanish game studio Zigurat and later Gaelco.

The Key episode 2 is an Amstrad CPC graphical adventure game with a point and click interface, using the Paket engine released in 2019 for the demo Escape the ROM game , written by Jordi Sureda (graphics) and Santi Ontañón (code).

You can download the episode 2 of The Key after solving an easy puzzle (much more than the one for the first episode, small hint : use upper case and not lower case like me at the first try). The game is available in spanish and english.

A physical edtion of The Key Episode 2 is available as a tape, with a secret puzzle and a reversible cover. There a a limited number of tapes, so be quick.

One more interview by Retro Maniac, this time of Rolf Lakämper. As always the interview is bilingual, first in spanish then in english. Rolf Lakämper wrote six games on Amstrad CPC games including Mission Elevator.

Hostias Como Panes by Ivan AVILA (21Bloques) is his last game for Amstrad CPC, a beat them all.

The lastest Amstrad CPC game by Snauts is a platform game : MoonRN. It's a one button parkour platformer. Jump and double jump over platforms formed by moonlight. Reach right most edge of the raft to stop and advance level.

Check his other Amstrad CPC games on his Itch.IO page.

Hervé LANGE wrote several games on Amstrad CPC : B.A.T., Fer and Flamme, l'anneau de Zengara and le bagne de Nepharia. You can see an interview of Hervé LANGE on Youtube par RGCA in 2019.

The Saboteur 2 mod by theALFEST is available as v1.0.2 on Itch.IO. It adds game map (shift+m ingame) for 128 kb computers.

After three years of work, SymbOS v4 by Prodatron is available. It's a GUI OS for Amstrad CPC, PCW and Notepad 100/150/200, MSX, Elan Enterprise, ZX Spectrum Next, SymbOSVM.

The Desktop Manager has received new controls, such as one for drawing large grids and the long-missing fully functional tree view with collapsible nodes. Lists, trees and pulldown menus can now contain icons thanks to the new inline support of the Advanced Text Control.

The Sound Daemon provides platform-independent sound services for multiple programs. With Arkos Tracker-based PSG and MOD-based Wavetable support, users can enjoy high-quality sound effects and music in apps and games. GUI events can be assigned to system sound effects, improving the interactive experience.

The Printer Daemon acts as a spooler for multiple print jobs and supports unified formatting codes and network TCP/IP printing. It ensures seamless printing from different applications using a printer-specific driver.

SymbOS C Compiler (SCC) is the new ultimate developer kit for building SymbOS applications using the C programming language. Based on the Fuzix compiler, it features a proper libc port for plug-and-play compilation of existing code, extensive (Posix) wrappers and helper functions for SymbOS system calls, detailed documentation to help you get started with SymbOS programming, multithreading, graphics and sound support, and a complete sample application for reference. It can run on Windows as well as directly on SymbOS !

SymbOS 4.0 supports kernel-level data compression to save disk space. Transparent file management allows compression of existing file formats, data blocks can be decompressed up to 63 KB at a time.

Many other improvements have been added, such as the famous Alt+Tab task switcher, Usifac II/Ulifac support, Nova RTC support and countless more things.

Three new supported platforms have been added to the SymbOS family, including Amstrad NC100/150/200, ZX Spectrum Next, and SymbOSVM, which allows SymbOS to run almost natively on modern 32- and 64-bit platforms.

The last version of multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC RASM (v2.3.3) was released five days ago on Github.

• ability to remap any UTF8 char when using inline struct and parameter overload
• Rasm MSDOS version is back ^_^

This multi platform assembler for Amstrad CPC (for linux, windows, and also for MorphOS on Amiga) let you program for Amstrad CPC. It's recommended to use it with the new emulator also by Roudoudou : ACE-DL released today, to get symbols and breakpoints importation and much more.

Erinia a spanish text adventure game by DaReInt is now also désormais also available in english (4 euros). Written with DAAD, this game is available for other computers. Don't hesitate to go to his Itch.IO page (link above), as he has written other adventure games.