While reading Scali's blog, I saw this demo by the finnish group Alumni written by Terwiz : Three shades of Grey (local download) which is using the Hercules video mode which isnt often used (see video below using an Amstrad PC 1640). I invite you to see their other productions including Wild Scene which is an humorous video. I don't know but I feel I like this person, but why ?

I wish you all a happy new year 2024, health and success, for you and those who count in your heart (other also). And of course a lot of new Amstrad CPC programs, new hardware expansions and why not a CPCNext like the Zx Spectrum Next or a CPC-X64 which we are lacking news since a moment.

Personnally I am for a CPCNext which would incorporate all hardware expansions which exists already with an HDMI output for a simple reason, our Amstrad CPC won't last forest. Giving them a new corporal enveloppe will ensure a longer life (well till our own end at least :-). And no need to extract components from existing CPC, there are already replacements for the gate array and the AY-3-8912 sound chip, other will come certainly later.

Mananuk (on Twitter) is working on a next episode of the Mandarin : the Mandarin 2 which you can see some screenshots on CPCWiki.

An information that I missed in April 2023, the release by Impact ofEGX Martine's slideshow for Amstrad CPC+ available on Pouet and here on Genesis8bit.

You can see EGX Martine's slideshow on Youtube in a by Xenomorph.

Martine v0.39 is an utility written by the Impact group :

• converting JPG and PNG images to Overscan screen or window for Amstrad CPC (and Plus series)
• new tile map mode, which allow to analyze an image of a level game, and produce .imp and .til readable by tile tool from Impact

This version was released the 28th August 2023. It is available for Windows, MacOS, ARM64 and linux.

Little Winter Demo by Leosoft is an Amstrad CPC demo in 3D for the end of the year, nice. You can download it on CPCWiki or here on Genesis8bit.

You can see Little Winter Demo thanks to Xenomorph on Youtube (see below).

Still the one by Impact is their latest Amstrad CPC demo for a CRTC 1 and 512 Kb of RAM, available on Pouet. Also available here on Genesis8bit.

The demo was made by :

• AST (code, graphics)
• Hwikaa (graphics)
• Kris (graphicse)
• Tomchi (music)

Merry Christmas 2023, have a nice diner and night with the people you are caring for.

Reidrac (Juan Martinez) is actually working on the Heart of Salamanderland, a platform game for the Amstrad CPC, which you can follow the development on his Mastodon account or on CPCWiki. A short video is available on Mastodon.

HxC Floppy Drive Emulator v2.15.1.2 is available on Github.

It's an utility to manage .HFE disk images to be used by the SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator, a replacement for the 3 inch disks drives of the Amstrad CPC.

There is a support forum for HxC products and also a facebook group.