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Collections

• Amstrad CPC Memory Engraved Huge collection of documents, manuals, literature, magazines, marketing material and much more
• CPC Archives Collection of documents and tools related to the Amstrad CPC
• Amstrad CPC Manuals Manuals for the games released on the Amstrad CPC
• Amstrad Museum Covers Cover artworks for the games released on the Amstrad CPC
• CPC-Power Collection of most of the software that was ever released. Also includes ROMs and patched versions for programs with bugs.
• 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).
• Amstrad ESP (ES) Collection of CPC software downloadable individually with Spanish media and manual
• Crackers Velus (FR) Collection of thousands of CPC games downloadable individually
• CPC Crackers Downloads Collection of thousands of cracked CPC games, sorted by cracking group
• CPC Compactages by CNGsoft CPC softwares compressed in compact archives
• CPCGamesCD ISO containing a Windows launcher and 4429 CPC games included
• Abraxas CPC Collection 1800 titles in dsk and cdt formats on 2 DVDs
• Demobase Amstrad CPC [1] Downloadable archive of demos from the CPC demoscene
• Gamebase CPC [2] 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
• Clean CPC DB Based on tosec+cpcpower site. A database that has checked every game so that you don't have to
• MAME SL ROM Set (Merged) MAME software archives cpc_flop.zip and cpc_cass.zip for Amstrad CPC
• Amstrad CPC Game Collection Downloadable archive of 4242 game files by Ghostware. Lots of duplicates though
• Amstrad CPC ROM set Downloadable archive of 2416 game files by rfl0wpr with no duplicate
• Amstrad CPC cassette images Collection of over 3500 tape-images by VincentGR
• Juegos en MP3 Collection of tape-images in MP3 format
• M4backup by Mr.DVG Collection of 1300 games tested and working with M4 Board
• Epidemiom M4-HFE Collection of 900 games and programs in DSK and HFE for the M4 Board
• Converted GX4000 Software Collection of 1000+ games converted to standard Amstrad cartridges
• CPC Game Reviews Collection of 2400+ CPC games with review and download link. Also contains a collection of advertisements which have been scanned from Amstrad CPC magazines.
• Amstrad Zone Collection of 500+ CPC games with review and download link
• CPC History CPC database listing 3200+ titles
• Moby Games Games database listing 2300+ games for Amstrad CPC
• CPC Roms Collection of 16KB ROM games by VincentGR
• CPCWiki Snapshot Archive Collection of game snapshots
• CPC-Power SNR sessions Collection of 400+ SNR game sessions
• Humongous CP/M software archives Collection of the great CP/M repositories past and present

Game Launchers for mass-storage CPCs

• Amsteam Online service that is currently free of charge, but the creator has mentioned that some future games will require payment. To be used on specific Amsteam hardware
• RulezCharge Online service that is free of charge. To be used on M4 Board or CPC Booster. Note: "Charge" means "Load" in french, as in download. It does not mean charging money
• Amstrad M4 Navigation and execution of programs and games from a mobile Android device to an Amstrad CPC equipped with an M4 Board
• M4FE Front-end for the M4 Board available as a ROM
• M4 Explorer Another front-end for the M4 Board. It is not in ROM format. The files are installed on the root of the microSD card
• FileLauncher Front-end for the X-Mass or M4 Board available as a ROM
• LiliCPC Warehouse of thousands of loaders to run the games and applications, organized in intuitive navigation menus to be used on CPC with an ULIfAC or M4 Board
• UniLoad CPC Launcher with 1000+ games included to be used on CPC with any mass-storage expansion supported by UniDOS (M4 Board, X-Mass, Symbiface II, Albireo, etc...). A tool is also provided to create your own game database
• HxC Floppy Emulator Manager CPC front-end for the Gotek floppy drive with HxC or FlashFloppy
• CprSelect Front-end for the C4CPC

Online Emulators

• CrocoDS
• Tiny Emus
• WebGL 3d 8-bit
• 8bitworkshop IDE
• CPC BASIC
• BZH Games Includes ongoing highscore competition
• Amstrad ESP
• JuegoTk
• AmstradCPCgames.eu
• Online OldGames
• Emulators Full list of Amstrad CPC emulators

File servers

• NVG
• LIP6
• CPM - related Amstrad things
• CPC Szene
• Amstrad ServeFTP
• Amstrad Museum GoodCPC DSK full-set
• Two-Mag CPC games
• Amstrad Power folder on MEGA

Chat

• IRC channel #cpc-fr on Libera-chat network, french scene channel (replacing #cpc on freenode, #cpc on Neoxys and #cpc on Europnet)
• Newsgroup CSA8
• Amstrad BBS Telnet Bulletin Board System

ChatGPT

• Amstrad CPC Engineer (by Fergus Leen) Specialised in Z80 Assembly for the Amstrad CPC
• CPC Z80 Assembly Engineer (by Vassilis N. Perantzakis) Formal, beginner-friendly Z80 assembly guide
• AmstradGpt Get your Amstrad CPC to talk to ChatGPT via a USB to RS232 serial cable

Discord Servers

• Amstrad CPC Community
• Amstrad.eu (FR)
• NoixDeCroco (FR)
• ASMtrad CPC (FR)
• Orgams
• Praline
• Xyphoe
• SymbOS & Quigs

Telegram Groups

• Amstrad Eterno
• Amstrad Power
• Ensamblador Z80 (ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX y más)
• CPCtelera
• LiliCPC

Facebook Groups

• Amstrad CPC 464 - probably the biggest and most active english speaking group - not only for 464
• Amstrad CPC 472 - Spanish group
• Amstrad CPC 6128
• AMSTRAD CPC CLASSIC GAMING AND DEMOS
• AMSTRAD CPC LATEST GAMES
• Amstrad 4Ever
• Amstrad For Everyone - not only CPC
• Amstrad 8bit computers
• Amstrad Collective
• Amstrad CPC User - Italian group
• Amstrad GX4000/PLUS Users
• Amstrad Belgique
• Amstrad.eu CPC 464 / 664 / 6128 Old & + / GX4000 - mostly French
• Amstrad CPC pour toujours and beyond
• Amstrad CPC Mémoire Ecrite
• 100% Amstrad CPC
• Amstradiens

Web Forums

• CPCwiki forum
• CPCRulez forum (FR)
• AmstradPlus Forum Forever (FR)
• Amstrad.eu (FR) Old website
• Amstrad CPC mforos (ES)
• Amstrad ESP forum (ES)
• CPCwiki.de forum (DE)
• Classic-Computing (DE)
• Amstrad Zone Subsection of computeremuzone.com
• Yaronet Amstrad CPC (FR) Subsection of Yaronet
• MySilicium (FR) Amstrad subsection

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
• Lotharek's Lair Retro hardware manufacturer
• IcompPlus original new-old-stock Amstrad ICs
• Amstrad for sale Facebook group
• AMIBAY - Hardware For Sale
• AMIBAY - Wanted Hardware
• Amstrad and Co
• Rodrik cartridges Game cartridges 100% compatible with the original

Blogs/Websites of individuals and groups

Hardware-related

• G.o.St.-SOFT's CPC-Hardwareführer at 8-Bit-Nirvana (DE) - lots of tips and tricks, but no recent updates
• Virtual Net 96 - Amstrad CPC local network protocol
• Siou's projects - CPCISA and Video digitizer
• bread80.com - some analysis of Firmware and BASIC logic (and also the video subsystem- hardware)
• Amstrad Today (FR) - Many Tips for Amstrad CPC
• Cent Pour Cent TotO's MX4 hardware expansions
• PulkoTronics PulkoMandy's hardware expansions
• TMTLogic CPC and MSX hardware expansions
• Spinpoint Duke's M4 Board and Imperium Solo hardware
• ikonsgr 80's Home Micros WorkBench CPC, Spectrum, Amiga hardware projects

Software-related

• ESPsoft (ES) Blog on Spanish homebrews for the CPC.
• Play on retro Homebrew retro games editor
• The Mojon Twins (ES) Homebrew developer group that focuses on creating games for retro systems, among which is the CPC.
• 4MHz Homebrew developer group that focuses on creating games for retro systems that use the Z80 CPU.
• RetroWorks Z80 homebrew games developer
• Altanerus Dog (ES) CPC and PC homebrew games developer
• Usebox.net Homebrew studio that focuses on creating games for retro systems, among which is the CPC.
• Mananuk Homebrew game developer for retro systems, including the CPC
• AmstradGGP Twitter account of this CPC homebrew games developer group
• Zisquier games CPC homebrew games developer
• 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)
• SymbOS Official homepage of the operating system SymbOS
• FutureOS - Official homepage of the operating system FutureOS for the CPC6128 and CPCPlus.
• CPC Freak Homepage of Kevin (arnoldemu) Thacker's CPC productions
• CPC Mania - some tools like CPR tools, CPCDiskXP, CPCTapeXP - plus some technical informations
• 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)

Demoscene

• Memory Full All about the CPC demoscene
• 64 NOPs CPC demoscene tech blog
• Les Sucres en morceaux (FR) all the news relating to the productions of "Les Sucres en Morceaux" and many articles relating to the Amstrad CPC.
• Amstrad Museum (FR) Website of the CPC graphic artist Titan
• Barjack (FR) Website of the CPC graphic artist Barjack / Praline
• Batman Group (ES) Twitter account of the Amstrad and Amiga Demogroup Batman Group
• Tom&Jerry GPA (FR) The page of GPA Demogroup
• AST Impact (FR) The page of Impact Demogroup
• Arkos Demogroup - The page of Arkos, with some great demos, diskmags, games and tools.
• Futurs' The page of Futurs' Demogroup
• Logon System The page of Logon System Demogroup
• Benediction The page of Benediction Demogroup
• Vanity The page of Vanity Demogroup
• Shinra The page of Shinra Demogroup
• TAF The page of TAF Demogroup

Blogs

• NoRecess Blog of NoRecess
• Logon System (FR) Blog of Longshot
• Overflow's RAndom Memory Blog of Overflow
• Mucky Paws The Argonaut blog
• Rétro Poke (FR) Philippe Moulin's CPC programming blog
• Sikorama (FR) Stéphane Sikora's CPC programming blog
• Amstrad Sakis Blog of Sakis
• My Ketchup Is Dead (FR) Blog of RedBug
• Retroblog de BDCIron (FR) Blog of BDCIron
• CheshireCat's basket (FR) Blog of CheshireCat

Youtube and Twitch

• Noels Retro Lab - lots of hardware related videos, especially repairs
• Amstrad ESP El Amstrad CPC en España
• Novabug - many CPC games
• John Gage - lots of game reviews but a lot of swearing and sound driven heavily into saturation
• Temps Nyx (FR) CPC game reviews
• OursoN Retrogames (FR) CPC game reviews
• Amaury Durand BDCIron's CPC demoscene channel
• Thomas Naslin Oneman's CPC demoscene channel
• Edouard Bergé Roudoudou's channel, including CPC demoscene and long gameplays of adventure games
• Amstrad Maniaque Long Gameplays
• Amstrad CPC World Long Gameplays
• XeNoMoRPH Short Gameplays
• Amstrad Man Short Gameplays
• Orko Ready (FR) Amstrad CPC channel
• DarkArcade (FR) DarkSteph's channel
• Eric Boulat (FR) Ldir Hector's BASIC programming channel
• Nemo 59 (FR) CPC Turbo Pascal programming channel
• Profesor Retroman (ES) CPC GameDev con C y Z80 ensemblador
• Amstradiens Amstrad CPC Channel for Amstrad Fans
• Xyphoe - Gaming - almost every week a several hour long live stream on YouTube
• Zisquier (Amstariga) (FR) Lives
• Khomenor (FR) Lives
• JB le Daron (FR) Lives
• Geekorex (FR) Lives
• NoixDeCroco (FR) Lives

Radios and Podcasts

• Roland Radio Icecast2 status Plays 24h the finest Amstrad CPC sounds
• CPC Scene Radio Robust alternative to Roland Radio
• Audiothèque Amstrad Museum CPC tunes in MP3 format
• YM!Rulez Radio Tunes recorded on real CPC hardware
• Amstrad Music Tunes recorded on emulator
• Cepeceros (ES) Tu Podcast sobre juegos de Amstrad CPC
• PODCAmSTrad (ES) El podcast del Amstrad CPC

Fanzines

• Amtix! CPC Fusion CPC
• Colour Personal Computing
• ACUC - Amstrad CPC User Club magazine
• Amstrad Addict
• Amstrad Action
• 64 NOPs
• CPCRulez Scene Papermags Archive
• Crack'n Rom (FR) CPC Fanz Bzh (FR) Le Canard Déchainé (FR) Webzine (FR)
• Quasar CPC (FR)
• ùCPM (FR) Disc Missing (FR)
• CPC-Anachronie (FR) Fanzine GX (FR)
• Amstrad Cent Pour Cent (FR)
• Presse Amstrad (FR) Commercial-era Amstrad magazines
• Eight Bit All 8-bit computers, not only Amstrad

Fanbooks

• Ces ordinateurs sont dangereux - L'aventure Amstrad (1993) (FR) Written by an employee of Amstrad France
• Marion et les crocodiles d'Amstrad (2024) (FR) The surprising and little-known story of Amstrad France by Gunhed TV
• Memory Full - Une histoire de la demoscene Amstrad CPC (2023) (FR) 180-pages hardcover book
• Les pubs de jeux Amstrad (2022) (FR) 160-pages hardcover book
• Nos années Amstrad (2023) (FR) 136-pages book
• Génération Amstrad CPC (2024) (FR) 536-pages hardcover book
• Amstrad CPC Forever (2023) (ES) 250-pages hardcover book
• Alan Sugar - The Amstrad story (1990) Written by David Thomas
• Sir Alan Sugar - The Biography (2009) Written by Charlie Burden
• Books written by Alan Sugar Autobiographies
• The story of Ocean (2017) 268-pages book
• The story of US Gold (2017) 236-pages book
• Ubisoft, 30 ans de création (2016) (FR) 224-pages hardcover book

Technical Documentation

• CPCWiki (20230926) CPCWiki - THE Amstrad CPC encyclopedia! dumped with wikiteam3 tools
• CPC Books Books and writings about the Amstrad CPC family of computers
• Libros y Manuales (ES) Technical CPC books in Spanish
• User Manual Official Amstrad user manuals
• Soft968: CPC 464/664/6128 Firmware Official developer documentation
• Classeurs Weka (FR) The 1220-pages french reference for CPC developers
• Unofficial WWW Amstrad Resource
• Learn Assembly Programming with ChibiAkumas Multi-platform Z80 tutorial
• ASMtrad CPC (FR) Learn how to code with Z80 Assembler on Amstrad CPC with BDCIron
• Wanna learn assembly? (FR) Learn how to code with Z80 Assembler on Amstrad CPC with Roudoudou
• Amstrad push'n'pop (FR) Referencing articles about Z80 Assembler on Amstrad CPC
• CRTC Compendium Everything about the CRTC - incl. examples
• Grimware is a really nice site with hardware info and hacks for the CPC machines... give it a try!
• Amstrad Firmware reference Built-in firmware functions explained
• Locomotive BASIC reference Built-in functions and keywords explained
• The Basic Idea Amstrad Basic tutorial by Campursoft

News websites

• Genesis 8 - Genesis 8 is a spartan, but often-updated Amstrad-related news site.
• Crack'n Rom news (FR) News archive from CNR webzine
• Indie Retro News Amstrad CPC news filtering
• 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 Power Spanish CPC-related news site.

Events

• #CPCRetroDev Annual Amstrad CPC game development contest organised by Universidad de Alicante
• The Sugars Annual Amstrad video game awards show by Xyphoe
• Benediction Coding Party Annual Amstrad demoparty organised by Eliot / Benediction
• Amstrad CPC demoparties Listing of demoscene events
• Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge Annual size coding challenge for retro machines including CPC by Logiker
• AMSCII Compo Annual Amstrad ASCII competition by Logiker
• Border 0: Run" CPC high-score gaming competition organised periodically by Jerres12
• CrocoFest Annual gathering of Amstradists and other retro computer users. No game console allowed except the GX4000
• Amstrad Eterno The first Amstrad fair in Spain. Includes the Amstrad Eterno awards ceremony for the best games of the year
• Amstrad Mania Exposition, talks and repair workshop

Others

• Amstrad.com Official Amstrad website
• Amstrad Digital Current marketing agency founded by Alan Sugar and led by his grandson
• Amstrad India Official Amstrad franchise, that became independent
• Amstrad Gamebox New Amstrad handheld game console sold in French retail shops (maybe counterfeit as it is not mentioned in any of the Amstrad websites above)
• GitHub #amstrad-cpc GitHub topic filter
• 8 bits de poder (ES) Programación del Amstrad CPC usando la libreria 8BP desde BASIC
• CPCCRACKERS - French site about crackers for the CPC.
• Two-Mag The page of Two-Mag CPC cracker
• Border 0 French site about CPC games
• 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!
• Amstrad Today Homebrew Website dedicated to homebrews for the CPC
• GX4000.co.uk Website devoted to the hardware and software of the oft-neglected games console.
• GX4000.net French website dedicated to the GX4000
• CPCwiki.de German CPCwiki
• PcwWiki Amstrad PCW / Schneider Joyce wiki
• Micro Men (2009) BBC movie about the rivalry between Sinclair and Acorn in the early 80's

Outdated / abandoned

• Octoate.de - CPC news website in English. Last updated in 2019
• The Amstrad Computer Game Resource Last updated in 2006
• The Snake Becomes the Key is a very nicely-written blog with reviews and thoughts on various CPC games. Last updated in 2007
• CPC Museum (FR) Website dedicated to the Amstrad CPC. Last updated in 2003

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.
• 8bit Projects for Everyone - Hardware updates for 8-bit computers, also for CPC
• CPC Hardware (FR) Forum, nice downloads, hardware projects; also an online store for hardware stuff like RS232 interfaces etc.
• 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.
• 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.
• CPC scene map