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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.
• 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(probably) Outdated / abandoned

• The Amstrad Computer Game Resource
• CPCGamesCD homepage

Technical Documentations

• Unofficial WWW Amstrad Resource
• Grimware Hacking Handbook
• CRTC Compendium Everything about the CRTC - incl. examples

Communities and boards

• 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
• Amsdtrad for sale Fqacebook group
• AMIBAY - Hardware For Sale
• AMIBAY - Wanted Hardware

Blogs/Websites of individuals and groups

Software-related

• 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.
• 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
• [1] - some analysis of Firmware and BASIC logic (and also the video subsystem- hardware)

Hardware-related

• 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

Emulators

• CrocoDs (online)
• Tiny 8 Bit (online)
• CPC BASIC (online)
• Emulators

FTP and Newsgroupd

• NVG
• CPM - related Amstrad things
• CSA8

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.

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.
• 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!