And here we go again for a new tool release ! This time it's QuickCMD that got updated to version 2.3.
This adds support for a new command history to be used through UP and DOWN keys (was requested by many of you !). Also, a critical crash has been fixed with ROMS command when listing ROMs having corrupted names. Another critical problem (involving stability) has been fixed with direct drive parsing. And finally, the RSX got renamed to |Q for even faster switching from BASIC to QuickCMD.
As usual, if you experience problems or whatever, feel free to contact me. Last version can be downloaded here (also available in Productions section).

Thanks to Gryzor, CanonMan and Terje_Norway from CPCWiki that reported the issue, there is now a new released version of the HxC Floppy Emulator Manager. Only one change : it adds auto-detection of the HxC Floppy Emulator device when configured as drive B. You can download it here (also available in the Productions section).

Version 2.3 of HxC Floppy Emulator Manager just got released here. It's now faster to launch, spaces in directory names can now be used, and the user interface is now using the default system font with new color scheme (aligned to ParaDOS and QuickCMD's ones). As previous releases, ROM version is also available. If you experience issues with the software, please report them on the cpcwiki's dedicated thread. Your feedback is important to us ! :)

A new version of QuickCMD, a shell-like user interface for disc-based Amstrad CPC computers, is available here.

These are the changes:
- Added support for Bryce's MegaFlash
- Renamed RO and RW commands to READONLY and READWRITE
- Removed CRTC command
- Reset screen to QuickCMD’s default if external RSX changed video mode
- DELROM now clears a rom with &FF value (was using &00)
- Fixed: was overwriting first byte after HIMEM
- Fixed: not assuming anymore than Amsdos area is always at &A700

If you want more information about QuickCMD (a documentation is also available as a .PDF file), feel free to read its dedicated webpage.

Octoate sent me words about the updated project template he did for Code::Blocks IDE (which is a free and powerful source-code editor). Sample project allows to compile SDCC Tutorial Part 3 ("Hello World"). An archive is provided with step-by-step description.

Update includes the following :
- added SDCC2Pasmo v1.5
- added ManageDSK v0.20
- added defines.h to show definition of multi-line assembler definitions
- added example BREAKPOINT (for WinApe breakpoints) and MODE definitions

You can get more information about this update here. Many thanks to you Octoate !

Georg Odenthal, better known under the name of Odiesoft, was a very productive programmer back in the early nineties.  He produced one major game - Megablasters - as also many innovative visual effects for the time (especially since everybody was still having fun with raster bars). I was curious to know more about him... and he kindly accepted to answer my questions ! Thank you Georg ! Read the interview here (also available in Articles section).

I decided to push back the News section of the site. It was actually useful to hear about software updates and more.