The CPC464 sported a palette of 27 colours and three distinct resolutions: 160x200x16 colours (mode 0), 320x200x4 colours (mode 1) and 640x200x2 colours (mode 2, 80-column mode).
Because of its use of the Z80, which was also used in the Sinclair models, many of the games found on the CPC were direct ports of the Spectrum version. As a result, they failed to take advantage of the CPC's extra capabilities, leaving users and reviewers with a bad taste in their mouth, a situated that lasted for the entire life of the machines.
The CPC's operating system was called [[AMSDOS]] (Amstrad's Disk Operating System) and was included on a ROM chip of 48KB. Also in ROM there was the Locomotive BASIC interpreter which made the CPC very fast in BASIC operations, compared to other contemporary machines.
== The 472 ==
