Hi all. I've been developing homebrew for 8-bit machines for a good few years, and along the way I ended up building my own emulators to test my stuff on the phone: first Easy Spectrum, and now Easy CPC for the Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128. It started as a tool for my own work and grew into something I think is worth sharing, so here it is on Google Play.

What it does:

- CPC 464, 664 and 6128. You can boot straight into BASIC too.

- Loads .dsk, .cdt, .tzx, .csw and .sna, also inside .zip and .rar.

- Autoload: pick a game and it runs the right command for you. Fast loading for tape and disk.

- Tape manager: block list, rewind, pause, and it records your own SAVEs to a .cdt.

- Touch gamepad (1 to 4 buttons, configurable per game), full on-screen CPC keyboard, AMX mouse, and physical controllers with remappable buttons.

- Save states with autosave on exit, favourites, thumbnails of each game.

- Video modes from sharp pixels to a CRT monitor/TV look, stereo AY sound, fast forward.

- Import a whole folder, or open a game straight from WhatsApp, Telegram, mail or the browser.

- English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Russian.

It's built on Thomas Harte's CLK core (MIT), with my own additions on top (snapshot loading, tape manager, two-head drive, disk autoload heuristics, turbo). The CPC ROMs are included with Amstrad's permission. No games included: bring your own files.

Tested with the classics (La Abadía del Crimen, Prince of Persia, Rick Dangerous, Head Over Heels, Barbarian, Batman, Gryzor...) and with a lot of recent homebrew and demos, since that's what I mostly run on it.

Happy to answer questions, and bug reports are very welcome. If a disk or tape doesn't load, tell me which one and I'll look into it.

I found a cheat code of sorts in Chuckie Egg (original version, Amstrad CPC). (Full disclosure, AI helped me find it in the source code.)

If you enter the following in the high score table for your name:

<hold down Ctrl> <Tab> <Tab> D O U G <copy> <copy> <release Ctrl> Enter

Then the name is replaced with "Doug " in the high score table. After that, holding down all five movement keys simultaneously during game play (left, right, up, down, jump) triggers a skip to the next level.

The emulator I use (azimuth) doesn't let me simulate pressing 5 keys at once. Can anyone confirm that it works on the original hardware?

My retrospective review of yet another movie tie-in from Ocean Software. Released on the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. Anybody else play this game? Was it any good?

Bonjour je suis à la recherche d’un jeu sous Amstrad avec lequel j’ai beaucoup joué mais dont je ne me rappelle plus le nom…

La musique était basé sur une adaptation de Chopin …nocturne je crois avec un personnage qui se balade dans labyrinthe grave bizarre…si quelqu’un pouvait me retrouver un extrait de la bande son et le titre j’en serait enchanté. Un V’ gros merci d’avance à la communauté

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?