The Amstrad Expo - Final Exams meeting will take place in in Coutances (Normandy, France) at Espace Jeunes (F.J.T) from 25th to 27th June 2010. Organization by the tireless Eliot, meaning it will be a great one.
Events will be :
IMPORTANT : this year, the productions will be released as files, no special menu !
You will see at the metting :
Symbiface 2 + HD + Compact Flash
Virtual Net 96
SDisk Floppy Emulator
Already coming : Candy - Beb - Shap - Hicks - Kris - Papy CPC - Pulkomandy - Targhan - Tom et Jerry - Voxfreax - Kawickboy - Garett.
Food and drinks are included in the ticket (9 euros/day) for all students. Some bedroom will be available at the exams place.
For more informations, write to eliot(at)cpcscene(dot)com
Source : CPC Scene
AmeDS v4.0 is out, which let you download programs with wi-fi from CPC-Power. It features enhanced sound too.
Source : CPC Rulez's forum
Like on Twitter, all news will now also posted on the Genesis8 Amstrad Page Facebook group.
I am looking for someone to translate news in spanish, contact me on my gmail account (genesis8bit). See my message on Amstrad ESP forum for more informations.
I am also looking for a german translator.
You only have four days left to be able to order Orion Prime in a nice package in french, english or spanish. After this date you will only be able to download the game the 30th June 2010.
Have a look at Gavin Pugh twitter account about Roland in Time on Xbox360 with XNA.
This site is now on Facebook and Twitter.
You can download the latest version of the PC-CPC emulator by Ludovic Deplanque (Demoniak).
This version corrects bugs and adds choice for color and green monitor, an assembler, the start of the CPC+ asic emulation.
Source : CPC Rulez's forum
After a first Alan Michael Sugar biography : The Amstrad Story by David Thomas (I did read it and found it interesting), another is out since March 2009 : Sir Alan Sugar (the biography). It will be again available in August 2010 in paperback I suppose.
You can download the emulator MAC-CPC v0.9.2a for Mac OS X by Flynn. MacCPC is the C and Objective C port of his second Amstrad CPC emulator called WinCPC.
Source : CPC Rulez's forum
You can download Arkos Tracker v1.0 beta for PC by Targhan.
Source : CPC Rulez's forum
You can read the diskmag Hugi 36 for another report of the Break Point 2010 meeting and the article about the Amstrad demo scene in 2009 by Optimus.
Source : Octoate
You can download the latest version of ccz80 (v3.0.0). The ccz80 language has a syntax based on C language, to program for Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and MSX on a PC.
P.S. : see CCZ80++ now.
The final version of the Sorcery+ remake by Antibug for windows is available, with the original graphics.
If you have time, go see Pixels by Patrick Jean.
Source : CPC Rulez's forum
You will be able to read the Break Point 2010 report by Hicks on CPCScene. It's a demo meeting in Germany where the Amstrad CPC was present :
CPC Game Reviews has 3 new reviews. It also announce the availibity of Dead on Time as a tape package by Psytronik Software (Star Sabre 128 also available as a disc package).
You can download Soleil vert by Supersly (les sucres en morceaux), a graphic made for the Breakpoint 2010 meeting. By the way, Soleil vert is the french name of the science-fiction film Solyent Green with Charlton Heston in 1973. A very good film, I recommend seing it if you didnt yet.
This picture uses flipping to get 31 shades of green (CT65 monitor).
Be fast to get the C64 emulator for Iphone free for a short duration.
If you were late for last HxC pre-sale, here is another SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator pre-sale on Ebay. Price is 60 pounds sterlings plus shipping (about 78 €). The cards are made by Lotharek (Poland) with the permission of the HxC author.
Beware, you will also need the proper cable sold on Ebay :
And of course, you will also need a 5 volts alimentation for the HxC.
Source : CPC Rulez's forum
On Press Play Then Any Key, you will find the Amstrad CPC screenshot catalog and the Amtrad CPC load screen catalog by Lex Sparrow and ZX4Ever. But the link below will permit you to download latest version (v1.2).
Source : Amstrad ESP's forum