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| − | == Welcome to the Amstrad CPC Wiki! == | + | == Welcome to the Amstrad CPC Wiki! == |
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| − | <div style="margin-top:32px; | + | This site hopes to evolve into an encyclopaedia on all things [[Amstrad|Amstrad]] [[CPC|CPC]] related. There are now '''[[Special:Allpages|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles]]''' around the CPC available. Feel free to [[Help:Editing|contribute]] or post your suggestions in the [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum Forum]! |
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| − | === CPC related news === | + | === CPC related news === |
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| − | + | *17/09/2008: New [http://cpcgamescd.amstrad.es CPCGamesCD] release.. | |
| + | *07/09/2008: Woo-hoo! CPC Sudoku [http://www.kjthacker.f2s.com/games/index.html released]!!! | ||
| + | *01/09/2008: [http://www.winape.net/ Winape 2.0b17] released! | ||
| + | *24/08/2008: The [http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/?id=shop&l=en CEZ GS Virtual shop] is open, featuring several Amstrad CPC titles for sale, including [http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/ficha.php?id=17&l=en El Paciente 106] and the CEZ Collection vol. 1 pack in physical 3" disk format. | ||
| + | *24/08/2008: StarSabre and Balloonacy released on tape from [http://www.cronos.toucansurf.com/ Cronosoft] @ £2.99 each (£1 goes to the author)! | ||
| + | *22/07/2008: [http://www.cpcscene.com/?search=PHAT%20(Condense).zip New demo] release! :) | ||
| + | *21/07/2008: Devilmarkus released an AMAZING [http://cpc-live.com/download.php?view.2 3D model] of a 464+monitor | ||
| + | *12/07/2008: [http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Sir-Alan-quits-as-chairman.4244035.jp Alan Sugar resigns as AMSTRAD chairman] | ||
| + | *02/07/2008: [[Dsktools|dsktools]] 0.2.2 is out. Support writing to side B and retry when there is a read/write fail. [http://dsktools.berlios.de] | ||
| + | *12/06/2008: New [http://cpcgamescd.amstrad.es CPCGamesCD] out. Now for Linux too! | ||
| + | *11/06/2008: The [[Amstrad Action|Amstrad Action]] tribute issue 118 has been released. Download here: [http://www.lulu.com/content/2685625 AA118] | ||
| + | *25/05/2008: [[SymStudio|SymStudio]] [http://www.dread-donkey.com/symstudio/ site] updated, [[Trebmint|author]] seeking testers for version .99. | ||
| + | *15/05/2008: A new game release, [http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/ficha.php?id=711&l=en# Capers in Cityland!] | ||
| + | *21/04/2008: [http://www.cpc-emu.org/news.html CPCEmu] 1.6b released! | ||
| + | *12/04/2008: Got a Nintendo DS? Make it play some real games with [http://www.portabledev.com/pages/ds/jeuxdev.-perso/ameds.php AmeDS 2.1]!!! | ||
| + | *31/03/2008: [http://cpce.emuunlim.com CPCE] 1.90 re-released, with even more bugfixes in the FDC emulation and LPTCPC's new ability to send extended disc images from a real CPC through the parallel cable. | ||
| + | *27/03/2008: [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=222642 JavaCPC] updated to 3.9 and gone open source! | ||
| + | *23/02/2008: [[http://CPCrulez.free.fr/ hERMOL]] has released a CPC conversion of [[http://cpcrulez.free.fr/GamesDL_hack/index.php?list=S Street Fighter II]] | ||
| + | <div><small>'''All [[News and Projects|CPC news]]'''</small></div></div><div style="border-right: #eadcc5 1px solid; padding-right: 1em; border-top: #eadcc5 1px solid; padding-left: 1em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; border-left: #eadcc5 1px solid; padding-top: 0.5em; border-bottom: #eadcc5 1px solid; background-color: #ffffcc"> | ||
| + | === Become an Author! === | ||
| − | + | We are searching for authors of the following articles: | |
| − | + | *[[Pride Utilities|Pride Utilities]] | |
| − | + | *[[Grim|Grim]] | |
| − | * [[Pride Utilities]] | + | *[[PDW|PDW]] |
| − | * [[Grim]] | + | *[[Kevin Thacker|Kevin Thacker]] |
| − | * [[PDW]] | + | *[[Hisoft|Hisoft]] |
| − | * [[Kevin Thacker]] | + | *[[Catloc|Catloc]] |
| − | * [[Hisoft]] | + | <div style="text-align: right"><small>'''All [[Special:Wantedpages|wanted articles]]''' | [[:Category:Stub|Extendable Stubs]]<br>'''[[List of most active contributors|List of most active contributors]]'''</small></div></div><div style="border-right: #eadcc5 1px solid; padding-right: 1em; border-top: #eadcc5 1px solid; padding-left: 1em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; border-left: #eadcc5 1px solid; padding-top: 0.5em; border-bottom: #eadcc5 1px solid; background-color: #ccffcc"> |
| − | * [[Catloc]] | + | === What is the Amstrad CPC about? === |
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| + | === Did you know? === | ||
| − | | | + | *When the 664 was being developed, Sugar was already looking (and hinting publicly!) at the 6128 |
| + | *The CPC 472 was a model released in Spain with an extra unsoldered 8K of RAM to circumvent the law that stipulated a spanish keyboard for all machines with up to 64KB memory | ||
| + | *With a possible total amount of '''768 x 270 pixel''' (540 interlaced) the [[CPC|CPC]] was the 8 bit homecomputer with the highest screen resolution ever. | ||
| + | *'''OpenOffice''' for Windows/Linux is a direct descendant of [[Star-Division|StarWriter]] for the CPC. | ||
| + | *The transfer speed of the [[CPC Booster|CPC Booster +]] serial interface is faster than a standard '''DSL connection'''. | ||
| + | *[[SymbOS|SymbOS]] can handle more than '''50 times''' bigger hard discs than MS Windows 95A. | ||
| + | *[[FutureOS|FutureOS]] can load 178 KB in 9 seconds from floppy disc. | ||
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| + | === CPCWiki updates === | ||
| − | <div style=" | + | *26/07/08: Edit new pages: FIXED; big file upload: FIXED; multiple file upload: REENABLED; rich text editor: REENABLED; video embedding: REENABLED! All problems fixed? :) |
| + | *15/07/08: Upgrade to Mediawiki 1.13.0. Apologies for the short downtime. FCKeditor is incompatible, for now. | ||
| + | *23/07/08: Cpanel and OS of the server upgraded, hopefully things will be stable now! | ||
| + | *There have been SSH attacks on the server, rendering it unapproachable. Proxy has been reconfigured and, hopefully, uptime will be better now... | ||
| + | *'''FCKEditor''' installed! Now you can easily edit pages. Please report any functionality issues. You can also ''deactivate it in your user preferences.'' | ||
| + | *'''[[VideoUpload|VIDEO EMBEDDING]] enabled for the wiki! Woo-hoo!!!''' | ||
| + | *'''[[Special:MultipleUpload|MULTIPLE FILE UPLOAD FORM]] installed. For the time being it doesn't work alright when put in the sidebar...''' | ||
| + | *All the issues of ''Amtix!'', ''Amstrad Action'' and ''Amstrad Computer User'' have been uploaded and you can find them [[Mags|here]]! | ||
| + | *Add the CPCWiki to '''your Homepage'''. Check out [[About#Wiki-Napping|About#Wiki-Napping]] and start napping this Wiki. | ||
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