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There was one At 1993, a company located at Omsk (Siberia) desighed and manufactured a clone of CPC maden in Russia at 1994CPC6128 computer. Its The name was of computer "Aleste 520EX". The coputer works with Amstrad CPM and MSXDOS as well. Thats because Aleste computer have two modes one is Amstrad mode, but second MSX mode have different memory management and additional graphics modes. == AMSTRAD MODE ==

Technical specs: [[Z80]], 8MHz, 512KB, [[RTC]], 320x200x16 and 640x200x4 colors Computer have no any differences with 512 palette, mouse, expansion slot, DMA. It was an all-in-CPC6128 instead of one-box machine addtional register with an external 3.5" disk drive. It also sported an external 4-channel, 8-bits per channel sound card which plays s3m and stm fileslet switch to MSX mode.

This == MSX MODE == At this mode computer have different memory manager. The manager seems same like MSX mapper and could swicth ON any 16KB page of whole memroy at the any of 16KB page of CPU memory. The mode have different color coding system. It has the color lookup table (CLUT) or another name pallette. That is dual port memory one prot for coversion pixel's color number to RGB levels. But second for CPU acccess. There is 2 bits for each channel at the pallette present, then it lets to have 64 colors. The mode have two-faced machine runs all original CPC software additional modes with 32KB of video memory. Pixel encoding the same as at Amstrad mode but each line has twice more bytes (CPC+ too?and pixels) . Two 16KB pages transfer to output, one buffer for odd and second even lines of screen. The computer have also MSXDOS whith command line toolsRTC and 8251 mosue port.  Aleste ROM is 64KB, C compiller additional page have BIOS SETUP and several windowed toolsMSXDOS Boot Loader. The BIOS SETUP lets control over: text-editordate and time, debuggerboot drive, RAM disk-editor, screen mode and style, printer, serial port, and mouse. The computer  At the boot time coputer loads BIOS and MSXBDOS (BIOS for Disc Controlles) from a bood disc. After that COMMAND.COM (MSXDOS). == MAGIC SOUND == Additional sound board MagicSound is a four channels smapler. Each channel has software 8 bit per sample and 6 bits of volume per channel. Computer uses the board for playing STM (Scream Tracker) files. The sample's data containg at the Aleste's memory, that is possible because Aleste have support DMA access from external board to whole Aleste's memory. == VDP EMULATOR == Computer have "GameBios" with is emulator of [[MSX]]2 video controller and runs VDP9938. it was sufficiently - to replace the first several [[kilos-byte of game and MSX2 game worked. Certainly, video processor MSX]]2 is by apparatus sharpened for the games, but they worked sufficiently rapidly to 8MGts of game on "alesta" in order in them to play. Game "FireBird" typical"vertical scroller" worked very well. == FOTON == Another additional board FOTON is a "Light Processor". The clone used by [[MSX]] users board have D54 interface and homebrewersAleste with special FX application conrol over club's light. == Technical specs ==  * CPU: Z80 * Clock: 8MHz * Memory manager: msx-mapper * Memory: 512КБ (up to 2МБ) * Audio: AY8910 * Graphics: o 256x212:16 colors o 512x212:4 colors o 320x200:16 colirs o 640x200:4 colors o 640x400:4 colors interleaved o Palette 64 colors o Hardware scroll * Floppy disk 3.5" * Mouse * RTC * Expansion slot o 19 address lines o DMA to whole memory o External board MagicSound + 4 channels + 8 bits per channel + Stereo output * Touch screen (only prototype) * Light-Processor with D54 == SOFTWARE ==  * MSXDOS * С compiler * GUI Debugger * GameBIOS with VDP emulator * Text editor PowerEdit * Text files converter TRC. Convert between MSX, Aleste, and DOS * Disk Fixer (ported) * Disk Edit (ported) * Image viewer * Player of S3M, STM files * Editor of S3M, STM files * Games ported from MSX2 o VampireKiller o KingValery 2 o FireBird o MetalGear