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− | + | [[Category:Websites| ]][[Category:Network| ]][[Category:Scene group| ]][[Category:Wiki| ]][[Category:Hardware| ]][[Category:Software| ]][[Category:CPC History|**]] | |
− | + | ==== Collections ==== | |
− | + | ---- | |
+ | *[https://acpc.me/ ACPC.ME] Amstrad CPC Memory Engraved - Huge collection of documents, manuals, literature, magazines, marketing material and much more | ||
+ | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/ CPC-Power] collection of most of the software that was ever released. Also includes ROMs and patched versions for programs with bugs. | ||
+ | *[https://www.cpc-power.com/gamebasecpc/index.php?page=full Gamebase CPC] [https://gb64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2025&start=195] Amstrad CPC Gamebase by Loic Daneels containing 3300 softwares dumped only from originals and complete with scans, manuals, media, etc... | ||
+ | *[https://gb64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4233&start=90 Amstrad Mania] Amstrad CPC Gamebase by Mark (Sparky) Hardman containing 5782 softwares. Contains a selection of everything: original disk & tape dumps, hacks, cracks and trainers, homebrews | ||
+ | *[https://archive.org/details/GoodCPCV3.1415 GoodCPC] Downloadable archive of 27103 softwares for the CPC. Tons of duplicates though | ||
+ | *[https://archive.org/details/Amstrad_CPC_TOSEC_2012_04_23 Amstrad CPC TOSEC] Downloadable archive of 5575 softwares for the CPC. Dumps are of dubious quality | ||
+ | *[https://archive.org/download/mame-sl/mame-sl/cpc_flop.zip MAME CPC Floppies] [https://archive.org/download/mame-sl/mame-sl/cpc_cass.zip MAME CPC Tapes] [https://archive.org/details/mame-merged] MAME software archives for Amstrad CPC | ||
+ | *[https://archive.org/details/DemobaseAmstradCpc Demobase Amstrad CPC] [https://gb64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5053] Downloadable archive of demos from the CPC demoscene | ||
+ | *[https://cpcrulez.fr CPC Rulez (FR)] A great french site, updated frequently, with games, reviews, utilities, type-ins, demos, hardware info. A treasure and a must-visit - french pages can easily be translated with Google translate or similar tools). | ||
+ | *[http://www.cpcgamereviews.com/ CPC Game Reviews] - CPC Game Reviews is a website which, as its name suggests, contains reviews of games for the Amstrad CPC computer - hundreds of them, in fact. It also contains a collection of advertisements which have been scanned from Amstrad CPC magazines. | ||
+ | *[https://bzhgames.xyz/amstrad.php BZH Games] Collection of Amstrad games - can be played in the browser including ongoing highscore competition | ||
+ | '''(probably) Outdated / abandoned''' | ||
+ | *[http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/ The Amstrad Computer Game Resource] | ||
+ | *[http://cpcgamescd.amstrad.es/ CPCGamesCD homepage] | ||
− | + | ==== Technical Documentations ==== | |
+ | ---- | ||
+ | *[http://www.cpctech.org.uk/ Unofficial WWW Amstrad Resource] | ||
+ | *[https://www.grimware.org/doku.php/ Grimware Hacking Handbook] | ||
+ | *[http://logonsystem.fr/html/downloadlogon.htm CRTC Compendium] Everything about the CRTC - incl. examples | ||
− | |||
− | + | ==== Communities and boards ==== | |
+ | ---- | ||
− | + | *[https://cpcrulez.fr/forum/ CPCRulez forum] The most active French forum | |
− | + | *[https://amstradplus.forumforever.com/ AmstradPlus Forum Forever] French forum | |
+ | *[https://auamstrad.es/ Amigos y Usuarios Amstrad (ES)] News website that has lessons on software development and hardware restoration. It also has a forum, and reviews on software and hardware. | ||
+ | *[http://www.amstrad.es/ Amstrad (ES)] All about the Spanish software for CPC. RUA Magazine link. | ||
+ | *[https://cpcwiki.de CPCWiki.de] German forum | ||
+ | *[https://forum.classic-computing.de/forum/index.php?board/65-amstrad-schneider-cpc/ Classic-Computing.de] German board | ||
+ | *[https://computeremuzone.com/amstrad/?l=en Amstrad Zone] | ||
− | + | ''' Facebook Groups ''' | |
− | + | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/5357712057 Amstrad CPC 464] - probably the biggest and most active english speaking group - not only for 464 | |
+ | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/298743294763933 Amstrad CPC 6128] | ||
+ | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/1066160190075999/ AMSTRAD CPC CLASSIC GAMING AND DEMOS] | ||
+ | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/1380187495418957/ Amstrad For Everyone] - not only CPC | ||
+ | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/168233427111563/ Amstrad Collective] | ||
+ | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/281939335598581/ Amstrad GX4000/PLUS Users] | ||
+ | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/354709275176426/ AMSTRAD CPC LATEST GAMES] | ||
+ | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/amstrad.eu/ Amstrad.eu CPC 464 / 664 / 6128 Old & + / GX4000] - mostly French | ||
+ | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/1120607071477318/ Amstrad CPC pour toujours and beyond] | ||
− | + | ==== Shops / Groups to buy/sell hardware and games ==== | |
+ | ---- | ||
− | + | *[https://hobbyretro.com/amstrad Hobbyretro.com] Spanish shop | |
+ | *[https://www.cpcstore.co.uk/ CPCStore.co.uk] UK shop | ||
+ | *[https://www.sellmyretro.com/category/Retro+Computers/Amstrad Sell-My-Retro] portal - some sellers including Zaxon sell through this shop | ||
+ | *[https://www.sintech-shop.de/retro-atari-commodore-sinclair-etc/amstrad-schneider Sintech] some software, 6128/Plus keyboard membranes | ||
+ | *[https://www.icompplus.com/ IcompPlus] original new-old-stock Amstrad ICs | ||
+ | *[https://www.facebook.com/groups/amstradforsale/ Amstrad for sale] Facebook group | ||
+ | *[http://www.amibay.com/forumdisplay.php?f=44 AMIBAY - Hardware For Sale] | ||
+ | *[http://www.amibay.com/forumdisplay.php?f=50 AMIBAY - Wanted Hardware] | ||
− | + | <br> | |
− | + | ||
− | + | ||
− | == | + | ==== Blogs/Websites of individuals and groups ==== |
+ | ---- | ||
− | + | ===== Software-related ===== | |
− | *[[ | + | *[https://memoryfull.net/index.php Memory Full] All about the CPC demoscene |
− | *[ | + | *[https://64nops.wordpress.com/ 64 NOPs] CPC demoscene tech blog |
− | * | + | *[http://cpc.sylvestre.org/index.html Les Sucres en morceaux] all the news relating to the productions of "Les Sucres en Morceaux" and many articles relating to the Amstrad CPC. |
− | *[ | + | *[https://espsoft.blogspot.com ESPsoft (ES)] Blog on Spanish homebrews for the CPC. |
− | *[ | + | *[http://www.mojontwins.com/ TheMojonTwins (ES)] Homebrew developer group that focuses on creating games for retro systems, among which is the CPC. |
− | * | + | *[https://www.4mhz.es 4MHz (ES)] Homebrew developer group that focuses on creating games for retro systems that use the Z80 CPU. |
− | * | + | *[http://norecess.cpcscene.net NoRecess/Condense] Homepage of an Amstrad CPC demoscene group. |
− | * | + | *[https://thecheshirec.at/ CheshireCat's basket] Blog of CPC demoscene member CheshireCat |
− | + | *[https://amstradmuseum.emu-france.info/ Amstrad Museum] Website of the CPC graphic artist Titan | |
− | *[[ | + | *[http://www.prodatron.net/ Prodatron's page] ([[Prodatron|Prodatrons]] homepage includes info and downloads of his productions as well as a lot of downloads for CPC Digitracker modules (MDL), OCP Art Studio pictures and Scene demos) |
− | * | + | *[http://arkos.cpcscene.com/ Arkos Demogroup] - The page of [[Arkos|Arkos]], with some great demos, diskmags, games and tools. |
− | + | *[http://www.FutureOS.de/ FutureOS homepage] - Official homepage of the operating system [[FutureOS|FutureOS]] for the CPC6128 and CPCPlus. | |
− | *[[ | + | *[http://www.symbos.de SymbOS] |
− | * | + | *[http://www.cpcmania.com/news.htm CPC Mania] - some tools like CPR tools, CPCDiskXP, CPCTapeXP - plus some technical informations |
− | * | + | *[https://bread80.com/category/amstrad-cpc/ bread80.com] - some analysis of Firmware and BASIC logic (and also the video subsystem- hardware) |
− | * | + | *[http://schneidercpc.cf2.de/ Domes-DOS Schneider/Amstrad CPC dedication] - Domes-DOS's CPC website in the design of an GT65 green monitor (with download of his DART-logging tool and lots of infos about the CPC series) |
− | * | + | <br> |
− | [[ | + | ===== Hardware-related ===== |
+ | |||
+ | *[http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/D_CPCguide.HTML G.o.St.-SOFT's CPC-Hardwareführer at 8-Bit-Nirvana (German)] - lots of tips and tricks, but no recent updates | ||
+ | *[http://8bit.yarek.pl/index.html 8bit Projects for Everyone] - Hardware updates for 8-bit computers, also for CPC. | ||
+ | *[http://www.amstradtoday.com/ Amstrad Today (FR)] - Many Tips for Amstrad CPC | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Youtube ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[https://www.youtube.com/@NoelsRetroLab Noels Retro Lab] - lots of hardware related videos, especially repairs | ||
+ | *[https://www.youtube.com/@Xyphoe Xyphoe] - Gaming - almost every week a several hour long live stream | ||
+ | *[https://www.youtube.com/@Novabug Novabug] - many CPC games | ||
+ | *[https://www.youtube.com/@John_B_Gage John Gage] - lots of game reviews but a lot of swearing and sound driven heavily into saturation | ||
+ | *[https://www.youtube.com/@amstradmaniaque Amstrad Maniaque] Long Gameplays | ||
+ | *[https://www.youtube.com/@xenomorph50 XeNoMoRPH] Short Gameplays | ||
+ | |||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Emulators ==== | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[http://crocods.org/web/ CrocoDs] (online) | ||
+ | *[https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/ Tiny 8 Bit] (online) | ||
+ | *[https://benchmarko.github.io/CPCBasic/index.html?example=cpcbasic CPC BASIC] (online) | ||
+ | *[[Emulators]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ==== FTP and Newsgroups ==== | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/cpc/ NVG] | ||
+ | *[https://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/amstrad/ LIP6] | ||
+ | *[https://archives.scovetta.com/pub/mirrors/ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/cpm/ CPM] - related Amstrad things | ||
+ | *[news://comp.sys.amstrad.8bit CSA8] | ||
+ | *[ftp://ftp.cpcszene.de/ CPC Szene] | ||
+ | |||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Chat ==== | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[irc://irc.freenode.net/#cpc IRC-channel] #cpc on irc.freenode.net (a big IRC-network), one cpc-channel among many others out there on various networks. | ||
+ | *[irc://irc.freenode.net/#cpc-fr IRC-channel] #cpc-fr on irc.freenode.net, french scene channel (replacing #cpc on Neoxys and #cpc on Europnet) | ||
+ | *[irc://proxy.epiknet.org/#phenixinformatique IRC-channel] #phenixinformatique on proxy.epiknet.org, french channel. | ||
+ | *[http://cpc-live.com/chat Flash-chat] Browser chat in Flash. | ||
+ | *[https://discord.com/channels/1164242489637621933/1164837180598931456 Praline Discord server] | ||
+ | |||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Others ==== | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[http://thesnakebecomesthekey.wordpress.com The Snake Becomes the Key] is a very nicely-written blog with reviews and thoughts on various CPC games. Very well done but not updated any more. | ||
+ | *[http://genesis8.free.fr/index.php Genesis 8] - Genesis 8 is a spartan, but often-updated Amstrad-related news site. | ||
+ | *[https://amsnews.be/ AMSnews] CPC-related news site. | ||
+ | *[https://amstrad.eu/ Amstrad.eu] French CPC-related site previously known as phenixinformatique.com | ||
+ | *[http://cpccrackers.free.fr CPCCRACKERS] - French site about crackers for the CPC. | ||
+ | *[http://www.octoate.de Octoate.de] - English site which features news, some articles and meeting pictures. | ||
+ | *[http://turpas3.angelfire.com Programming Turbo Pascal on a CPC!] - A collection of Turbo Pascal programs with some CPC Specific programs. | ||
+ | *[http://www.oldschool-gaming.com/view_index.php?4mat=9 Oldschool gaming] - Games reviews of recent games for the CPC! | ||
+ | *[http://gx4000.co.uk GX4000.co.uk], a new site devoted to the hardware and software of the oft-neglected games console. | ||
+ | *[https://rolandradio.net Roland Radio] CPC Amstrad chiptune streaming 24/7 | ||
+ | *[http://www.bitstream.uk Bitstream] Podcast on chiptune and the demoscene. Includes CPC Amstrad | ||
+ | *[http://www.cepeceros.com Cepeceros (ES)] Podcast | ||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== DEAD ==== | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | *[http://www.cepece.info/ CePeCe (ES)] Spanish CPC portal and web-hosting facilities for your CPC webpage. | ||
+ | *[http://amstrad.cpc.free.fr Amstradeus (FR)] Lots of interviews, manuals for download and much more. | ||
+ | *[http://optimus.demoscene.gr/cpcscene/ The CPC Demoscene] Optimus website about the CPC demoscene with a list of some of the best CPC demos with reviews and screenshots. | ||
+ | *[http://www.cpczone.net CPC Zone] Home of the Gamebase, the ultimate collection of information (with screenshots, cover scans, reviews etc) on all games CPC. Also home of the Zone Forum. | ||
+ | *[http://www.cpc-hardware.com/ CPC Hardware (FR)] Forum, nice downloads, hardware projects; also an online store for hardware stuff like [[RS232|RS232]] interfaces etc. | ||
+ | *[http://www.cpczone.net/boards CPC Zone Forum (FR)] One of the most popular and active forum on the net. | ||
+ | *[http://www.cpc-forum.de CPC-Forum (DE)] The new most important discussion forum for the German-speaking part of the CPC scene. | ||
+ | *[http://www.cpc6128.eu CPC 6128 Europe] European portal | ||
+ | *[http://cpcoxygen.fxwebdevelopment.com/ CPC Oxygen] Home of the same-name great fanzine and AA scan repository. Not updated in a long time. | ||
+ | *[http://www.terra.es/personal/diegovp Various Amstrad stuff] Including instructions on how to fit or connect a 3.5" drive, hot to connect your CPC to your PC and how to transfer files, among others. | ||
+ | *[http://www.pushnpop.net Push'n'Pop] Amstrad Demoscene. | ||
+ | *[http://www.cpcscene.com/ CPC Scene] - Various stuff. Of much interest: The [http://radio.cpcscene.com/ CPC online radio station]! | ||
+ | *[http://www.khisanth.com/podcast The Kilobyes Podcast] Home of the Kilobytes Podcast. Dedicated to playing chip tunes and covering the retro computing scene in general | ||
+ | *[http://www.frappr.com/cpcscene/ CPC scene map] | ||
+ | *[http://grimware.org/doku.php Grimware] is a really nice site with hardware info and hacks for the CPC machines... give it a try! | ||
+ | <br> |
Revision as of 02:48, 5 December 2023
Contents
Collections
- ACPC.ME Amstrad CPC Memory Engraved - Huge collection of documents, manuals, literature, magazines, marketing material and much more
- CPC-Power collection of most of the software that was ever released. Also includes ROMs and patched versions for programs with bugs.
- Gamebase CPC [1] Amstrad CPC Gamebase by Loic Daneels containing 3300 softwares dumped only from originals and complete with scans, manuals, media, etc...
- Amstrad Mania Amstrad CPC Gamebase by Mark (Sparky) Hardman containing 5782 softwares. Contains a selection of everything: original disk & tape dumps, hacks, cracks and trainers, homebrews
- GoodCPC Downloadable archive of 27103 softwares for the CPC. Tons of duplicates though
- Amstrad CPC TOSEC Downloadable archive of 5575 softwares for the CPC. Dumps are of dubious quality
- MAME CPC Floppies MAME CPC Tapes [2] MAME software archives for Amstrad CPC
- Demobase Amstrad CPC [3] Downloadable archive of demos from the CPC demoscene
- CPC Rulez (FR) A great french site, updated frequently, with games, reviews, utilities, type-ins, demos, hardware info. A treasure and a must-visit - french pages can easily be translated with Google translate or similar tools).
- CPC Game Reviews - CPC Game Reviews is a website which, as its name suggests, contains reviews of games for the Amstrad CPC computer - hundreds of them, in fact. It also contains a collection of advertisements which have been scanned from Amstrad CPC magazines.
- BZH Games Collection of Amstrad games - can be played in the browser including ongoing highscore competition
(probably) Outdated / abandoned
Technical Documentations
- Unofficial WWW Amstrad Resource
- Grimware Hacking Handbook
- CRTC Compendium Everything about the CRTC - incl. examples
Communities and boards
- CPCRulez forum The most active French forum
- AmstradPlus Forum Forever French forum
- Amigos y Usuarios Amstrad (ES) News website that has lessons on software development and hardware restoration. It also has a forum, and reviews on software and hardware.
- Amstrad (ES) All about the Spanish software for CPC. RUA Magazine link.
- CPCWiki.de German forum
- Classic-Computing.de German board
- Amstrad Zone
Facebook Groups
- Amstrad CPC 464 - probably the biggest and most active english speaking group - not only for 464
- Amstrad CPC 6128
- AMSTRAD CPC CLASSIC GAMING AND DEMOS
- Amstrad For Everyone - not only CPC
- Amstrad Collective
- Amstrad GX4000/PLUS Users
- AMSTRAD CPC LATEST GAMES
- Amstrad.eu CPC 464 / 664 / 6128 Old & + / GX4000 - mostly French
- Amstrad CPC pour toujours and beyond
Shops / Groups to buy/sell hardware and games
- Hobbyretro.com Spanish shop
- CPCStore.co.uk UK shop
- Sell-My-Retro portal - some sellers including Zaxon sell through this shop
- Sintech some software, 6128/Plus keyboard membranes
- IcompPlus original new-old-stock Amstrad ICs
- Amstrad for sale Facebook group
- AMIBAY - Hardware For Sale
- AMIBAY - Wanted Hardware
Blogs/Websites of individuals and groups
- Memory Full All about the CPC demoscene
- 64 NOPs CPC demoscene tech blog
- Les Sucres en morceaux all the news relating to the productions of "Les Sucres en Morceaux" and many articles relating to the Amstrad CPC.
- ESPsoft (ES) Blog on Spanish homebrews for the CPC.
- TheMojonTwins (ES) Homebrew developer group that focuses on creating games for retro systems, among which is the CPC.
- 4MHz (ES) Homebrew developer group that focuses on creating games for retro systems that use the Z80 CPU.
- NoRecess/Condense Homepage of an Amstrad CPC demoscene group.
- CheshireCat's basket Blog of CPC demoscene member CheshireCat
- Amstrad Museum Website of the CPC graphic artist Titan
- Prodatron's page (Prodatrons homepage includes info and downloads of his productions as well as a lot of downloads for CPC Digitracker modules (MDL), OCP Art Studio pictures and Scene demos)
- Arkos Demogroup - The page of Arkos, with some great demos, diskmags, games and tools.
- FutureOS homepage - Official homepage of the operating system FutureOS for the CPC6128 and CPCPlus.
- SymbOS
- CPC Mania - some tools like CPR tools, CPCDiskXP, CPCTapeXP - plus some technical informations
- bread80.com - some analysis of Firmware and BASIC logic (and also the video subsystem- hardware)
- Domes-DOS Schneider/Amstrad CPC dedication - Domes-DOS's CPC website in the design of an GT65 green monitor (with download of his DART-logging tool and lots of infos about the CPC series)
- G.o.St.-SOFT's CPC-Hardwareführer at 8-Bit-Nirvana (German) - lots of tips and tricks, but no recent updates
- 8bit Projects for Everyone - Hardware updates for 8-bit computers, also for CPC.
- Amstrad Today (FR) - Many Tips for Amstrad CPC
Youtube
- Noels Retro Lab - lots of hardware related videos, especially repairs
- Xyphoe - Gaming - almost every week a several hour long live stream
- Novabug - many CPC games
- John Gage - lots of game reviews but a lot of swearing and sound driven heavily into saturation
- Amstrad Maniaque Long Gameplays
- XeNoMoRPH Short Gameplays
Emulators
- CrocoDs (online)
- Tiny 8 Bit (online)
- CPC BASIC (online)
- Emulators
FTP and Newsgroups
Chat
- IRC-channel #cpc on irc.freenode.net (a big IRC-network), one cpc-channel among many others out there on various networks.
- IRC-channel #cpc-fr on irc.freenode.net, french scene channel (replacing #cpc on Neoxys and #cpc on Europnet)
- IRC-channel #phenixinformatique on proxy.epiknet.org, french channel.
- Flash-chat Browser chat in Flash.
- Praline Discord server
Others
- The Snake Becomes the Key is a very nicely-written blog with reviews and thoughts on various CPC games. Very well done but not updated any more.
- Genesis 8 - Genesis 8 is a spartan, but often-updated Amstrad-related news site.
- AMSnews CPC-related news site.
- Amstrad.eu French CPC-related site previously known as phenixinformatique.com
- CPCCRACKERS - French site about crackers for the CPC.
- Octoate.de - English site which features news, some articles and meeting pictures.
- Programming Turbo Pascal on a CPC! - A collection of Turbo Pascal programs with some CPC Specific programs.
- Oldschool gaming - Games reviews of recent games for the CPC!
- GX4000.co.uk, a new site devoted to the hardware and software of the oft-neglected games console.
- Roland Radio CPC Amstrad chiptune streaming 24/7
- Bitstream Podcast on chiptune and the demoscene. Includes CPC Amstrad
- Cepeceros (ES) Podcast
DEAD
- CePeCe (ES) Spanish CPC portal and web-hosting facilities for your CPC webpage.
- Amstradeus (FR) Lots of interviews, manuals for download and much more.
- The CPC Demoscene Optimus website about the CPC demoscene with a list of some of the best CPC demos with reviews and screenshots.
- CPC Zone Home of the Gamebase, the ultimate collection of information (with screenshots, cover scans, reviews etc) on all games CPC. Also home of the Zone Forum.
- CPC Hardware (FR) Forum, nice downloads, hardware projects; also an online store for hardware stuff like RS232 interfaces etc.
- CPC Zone Forum (FR) One of the most popular and active forum on the net.
- CPC-Forum (DE) The new most important discussion forum for the German-speaking part of the CPC scene.
- CPC 6128 Europe European portal
- CPC Oxygen Home of the same-name great fanzine and AA scan repository. Not updated in a long time.
- Various Amstrad stuff Including instructions on how to fit or connect a 3.5" drive, hot to connect your CPC to your PC and how to transfer files, among others.
- Push'n'Pop Amstrad Demoscene.
- CPC Scene - Various stuff. Of much interest: The CPC online radio station!
- The Kilobyes Podcast Home of the Kilobytes Podcast. Dedicated to playing chip tunes and covering the retro computing scene in general
- CPC scene map
- Grimware is a really nice site with hardware info and hacks for the CPC machines... give it a try!