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by s_gourichon 3096 days ago
For the Amstrad CPC too. There are a number of production and events every year.

The article mentions coding in C++ (which, except for the << operator, is actually C) and with a generic (and therefore a little clumsy) interface to assembly-level DPMI stuff.

64kB is enough to run non trivial programs written in modern C.

(Disclosure: I wrote it:) A cross-development environment with a thin and clean C API to the original assembly-level firmware interface of the Amstrad CPC.

https://github.com/cpcitor/cpc-dev-tool-chain and a puzzle game to exercise the whole thing https://github.com/cpcitor/color-flood-for-amstrad-cpc

Do git clone ; configure ; make run and it runs.