A new version of Xcpc, a portable Amstrad CPC emulator which is designed to run on any POSIX system, was released yesterday. The main changes are cleanups in the Z80 emulation and Z80 core reimplementation to provide better timing.
You can download it from the Xcpc’s official website.
Zx released a new version of his CPC emulator for the Sony PSP.
Here are the changes in the new version:
You can download the actual version here.
Ok, it’s a long time gone since the last update and the hack of my provider and so I missed some important news. So here they are: the the Burgparty in December, the Croco Chanel meeting in May next year and Prodatron working on a game.
| The Burgparty, organized by Dr. Zed, the creator of the Symbiface II, will be held in Kirchen/Siegen on 01.-03. December 2006. The meeting takes place in the Freusburg (have a look at the picture). More infos can be found in the CPC Wiki. |  |
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The Croco Chanel meeting No. 4, one of the biggest CPC scene parties in France, will take place from 4th-6th May 2007 near Paris in Laigneville (Oise). If you are interested to come, then have a look at the official meeting page. A list of people who want to come to the meeting can be found in the CPC WIki. |
| Prodatron stopped the development of the MSX port of SymbOS for a while to program a small Pacman clone for the CPC and the MSX. In the picture you can see a development screenshot of the game which is running on SymbOS on the CPC. |  |
Ok, you maybe noticed the downtime of my webpage and maybe you also were confused that you only were able to find my weblog on my homepage, but my ISP was hacked by a hacker group called “Spykids Group”. I spoke with Kangaroo today and he told me that the group hacked into their webservers by using a security hole in PHP. Because of that they reinstalled their servers with a newer version of Plesk and RedHat Enterprise Linux.
Well, after they had the hard work done, I had to have a look at all of my files on my webpage, because they replaced all index* and log* files with their own files. Because comparing all the files would take to long time I decided to reinstall the complete content management system with it’s plugins and this task is finished right now. Currently I am thinking on how to do a automatical backup of my homepage (e.g. via Cronjob with Linux), but I am not yet sure which is the best way to do that. Anyway, let’s hope that this will never happen again.
Btw, this is the index.html file which they placed in nearly every directory:
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Flynn (author of H.E.R.O. and WinCPC) is currently working on a labyrinth game for the CPC. At the moment it is possible to walk in the labyrinth, but there are no enemies and other objects yet.The game will use 128kb RAM, so you need at least a CPC6128 or a CPC with RAM expansion. You can see some more screenshots in the german CPC forever forum. |