How is the Idea to get kolibri os for Z80?
With vibe coding? All in Assembler

Today is all about car launches... ;-)

Noticed that the cassette has a best before date on it. Best check to avoid crisis!

Sun out, retro rigs on! We caught up with the Amiga faithful at the October 2026 Kickstart gathering in Ottershaw, where Michael dropped jaws with two new versions of the Gotek Touch Interface (GTI) (works on Amstrad!)—taking touch-screen disk loading to a whole new level.

We also dived into tabletop gaming with Sam Byford and tackled a touching community mission: building a network to preserve and re-home retro computers when their owners pass on. Wrapping up, I dropped the details on Retronauts Assemble, our big community meet happening in Surbiton on Saturday, October 31st—grab your tickets, and we’ll see you there!

For me it had to be Sorcery. The graphics and the music were amazing. It wasn't particularly hard or long (oh Matron!) but I replayed it many times.

My retrospective game review of all the versions of DARKMAN from Ocean Software. Anybody else remember playing these games? Did you think that the levels were repetitive, difficult, bland with wonky controls? Interested in your thoughts and memories to see if was close to the general consensus. 😉

My retrospective video review of the Thundercats games from Elite released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and Atari ST. Who remembers or played this game and what’s your thoughts?

This is a simple 4X game heavily inspired by Ascendancy, an MS-DOS game from 1995 that i loved very much in spite of its flaws. It works fine in Retro Virtual Machine and AceDL. And, of course, on a real CPC. It requires 128k of RAM and features multicolored mode 1 graphics, using rasters. And it's free, so you can just give it a try...

Hi
I have a gotek on a cpc 6128 with flashfloppy 4.7a and jumper s1 on
When it’s not connected, the internal floppy drive works fine on drive A
When I connect it to the cpc, the gotek takes over drives a and b
I’m looking for a way to have the gotek seen as drive B only so I can copy files from/to real floppy disks
Any advice on the connector and configuration file ?

My retrospective game review of Gremlins 2: The New Batch for all the home computer and console versions. Some of these games a quite difficult to complete but I did smile at the little Gremlins bouncing about in the games. Have you played any of these versions?

My retrospective game review of Rambo First Blood Part II. I spent many hours playing Rambo II back in the day. Totally loved this game. How do you rate this game?

I’ve just finished building my own Amstrad CPC 6128 Mini.

The idea started after I made a little Commodore screen for my A500 Mini. I thought a miniature CPC 6128 could be a fun project too — especially since there was never an official CPC Mini.

So I spent the last two months designing, 3D printing and assembling everything. There’s a small working screen inside, along with all the electronics needed to bring it to life.

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original 6128, while making everything small enough to fit on a desk like other machines like The C64 mini, Amiga a500 mini ou The Spectrum.

I made a video showing the whole process, from the first 3D models to the finished machine.

I’d really like to know what you think. And if someone wanted to take the idea further, what would you change or add to the project?

I have one of these machines in my loft along with possibly the dos 6.11 and windows 3.11 discs

My updated version of all the Airwolf games. Those first games from Elite are brutal. Certainly one of the harder games to play. Loved the Mega Drive game. Anybody played any of these games?

My retrospective game review of The Spy Who loved me on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and Atari ST. Have you played this game? Was it good or was it a bucket of Jobbies like the earlier Domark Bond games?

My retrospective game review of V: The computer Game from Ocean Software released on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Have you played this game and how would you rate it?

My retrospective game review of the first Blade Runner game released on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Have you played this game and did you think it was any good? Or was it not very good?

I’m looking for footage of a game called "Panic" from 1984. My mother used to play it with friends on a TK 2000 Color, but I can't find any videos or images of it online, even though I’ve seen people talking about the game. It was a chase game: there was a sort of monster that looked like an asterisk that chased you. The hole game was about climbing ladders and dropping through trapdoors to survive as long as possible.

Blimey who remembers Sabrina Debora Salerno? Most teenagers back in 1987 will certainly remember her one hit song “Boys (Summertime Love)” and her provocative video.
However, what most people probably didn’t know was that there was an actual game released on the MSX, ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC.
Wow. Anybody else heard or played this game? Hope you like my video.

Hi guys, I have an Amstrad 6128 and I have 2 questions that I’m hoping someone can help signpost me in the right direction.

1. The game disc labels/stickers are 40yrs old and disgustingly dirty. I managed to find the right sized blank stickers to replace them but would really like the original wording/pictures etc to print onto the new blank stickers but wouldn’t know where to start looking for that? Or pay someone to do them and post?

2. I have some of the 464cpc tapes and would like to play them but don’t have a tape player. Is it a very specific Amstrad tape player I need to hunt for or will any tape player that has the correct pins to plug into the computer be ok?

Thank you for anyone willing to help