At the end of the Benediction Coding Meeting 4, someone had two science-fiction in her opened bag. As I am an avid reader, I did look at the cover, the title and ... the name of the writer : Philippe RIMAURO, who isn't exactly unknown on the Amstrad CPC scene. So Ann nonymous confirmed to me that these books were the start of a serie, with a third to be sold soon, and a fourth being W.I.P Ann did usher to me that the first was read very quickly so you could consider buying these two books (already done for me and I received them right today) on Amazon as they are printed on demande (the links are not sponsored) :

• la perle des confins
• la soeur égarée ou le râle du monde

You couldn't come to the Benediction Coding Party #4 meeting well organized as usual by Eliot (Bénédiction) ?

Thanks to our master cook Roudoudou who can master cooking as well as he can use a camera, you will feel you were there if you go look this video on Youtube (see below).

Da Boxon Team have released a new Amstrad CPC+ demo for the BND 4 that just took place this week-end : Recycled Bug (local download). The code is written by Nicky One and music by Giherem.

Pulpo Corrosivo have released a new Amstrad CPC demo for the BND 4 that just took place this week-end : Borderline (local download). The code is written by Toms, graphics by Beb and music by E-Dredon.

Kevin TOMS is the original author of the game of football management : Football Manager, edited by Addictive Games in 1982 on Amstrad CPC.

Since the 27th May 2024 you can buy the first part of his book about the creation of Football Manager (the link isn't sponsored).

Stephbb75 is making video on Youtube about Amstrad CPC cross development. There are already five videos :

• installing SDCC, a C compiler
• drawing
• using disks
• draw an image
• create a slideshow

Recalbox has done an interview of Patrick Hellio for his book Génération Amstrad CPC edited by Pix'n Love.

Bread80 has several projects at the moment, he is working recently on two interesting ones.

First project in two parts, the presentation of the Amstrad CPC Revision Zéro, yes the one base on a 6502 processor which was never finished. It was shown by Roland Perry at a spanish meeting, and Deepbf was able to take photos. So Bread80 did analyse in a first part the working of this prototype card which was clearly non functionnal. In the second part, he is starting to design a working 6502 Amstrad CPC (with a 2 Mhz model like the BBC computer).

Second project which is the following of the one started in 2020 by designing a new Gate Arry using a Rasperry Pi Pico 2040, but now that the new Pico model is out, he is starting using the Raspberry Pi Pico 2350 more powerful and which has more GPIO, in three technical parts (first part, second part, third part).

MERCS for Amstrad CPC is an action game by CAPCOM/U.S. Gold in 1991 (Amstrad CPC conversion by Chris SHAY).

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, he is doing a speedrun in 17 minutes and 40 seconds on MERCS.

Arkos Tracker v3 by Targhan is available on the new web site, the new site isn't complete but it holds already several tutorials. The last version available is v3.2.1 (21th October 2024). It's a beta version but totally usuable as stated by the Targhan, for windows, mac and linux (intel and ARM).

Dizark isn't anymore embedded in Arkos Tracker and has now its own web site. Disark is a Z80 disassembler, but it is more than that as it can be used to convert sources from an assembler to another.

Below you will find the content of the announcement of Arkos Tracker 3 on CPCWiki :

Arkos Traker 3! It is a 100% redesigned, recoded version of Arkos Tracker. Don't worry though :

• Compatibility with the previous versions of AT is ensured
• The players are unchanged, minus a few bugs (AKY users should re-encode their files though)

A few features :

• Open source
• A completely new instrument editor
• Simplified pattern management
• Undo/redo everywhere
• Theme-able