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Revision as of 06:14, 4 March 2010
Please try to keep things in alphabetical order.
Contents
Built-in Peripherals
Built-in Chipset
- 765 FDC - Floppy Disc Controller
- 8255 - PIO - I/O controller
- Arnold V Specs Revised - Arnold V (CPC+) Technical Specification
- AY-3-8912 - Sound chip / keyboard controller
- CRTC - Video chip
- Gate Array - Custom chip (frequency generation, colors, bank switching)
- Power Supply for CPC and CPC plus
- Printer Port
Built-in connectors: pinout
- 2nd disc drive (CPC664, CPC6128, CPC6128+)
- Analogue joystick (CPC Plus only)
- Aux socket (CPC Plus only) (Lightgun)
- Cartridge Slot (CPC Plus only)
- Cassette recorder
- Digital joystick
- Expansion port
- Monitor
- Printer port
- Stereo sound
Built-in Firmware
- BIOS Functions
- Locomotive BASIC (reference for BASIC commands, functions and error messages)
- Technical information about Locomotive BASIC (encoding of BASIC programs in memory)
Data transfer
Modems
- Commstar v21/23 modem (Pace)
- Digitelec DTL 2000/2100 Modem
- MicroLink Dual-Speed Modem (MicroLink)
- MicroLink Multi-Speed Modem (MicroLink)
- Mini-Max Modem (KDS_Electronics)
Serial Interfaces
- Aleste 520EX (a CPC clone with built-in RS232, intended for serial mouse)
- AMSSIO (RS232 interface) (DIY)
- Amstrad Serial Interface (Amstrad)
- Cirkit serial interface (Cirkit)
- CPCI RS232 Interface (DIY)
- KDS Serial Interface (KDS Electronics)
- SCA CPC Prolink (SCA)
- RS-232 para Amstrad (MHT Ingenieros)
- Simple RS232 for Printer usage (DIY) (one-directional, transmit only)
- Spectre Comms Serial Interface (Spectre Communications)
- Schneider RS232 Interface (Schneider)
- Dual RS232 (Timatic Systems)
Teletext
- Loritel (teletel/modem or so) (Loriciels)
- Schneider BTX Modul
- Teletext adaptor by Microtext Ltd.
- Volex TTX 2000a
- Wiedmann BTX Modul
Others
Digitizer / Scanner
- ARA digitizer
- Electric Studio C6 (Electric Studio)
- Dart Scanner (Dart Electronics)
- VIDI digitizer (Rombo Productions)
Drives
Disc Drives
- 3½" & 5¼" Disk Drives
- Amstrad DDI-1 / FD-1 Disk Drive
- Cumana 3" Disk Drive
- Data Media Disc System
- Jasmin AM5D 5 "1/4 floppy drive
- KDS 5¼" Disc Drive (KDS Electronics)
- TIMDISC 5¼" 2nd Disc Drive (Timatic Systems)
- Vortex Disc Drives (Vortex)
Exotic Drives
- Codemasters CD (loads games from Audio CD via joystick port)
Hard Disc Drives
- CPC-IDE (modern) (discontinued prototype)
- Dobbertin Harddisc (Dobbertin)
- IDE8255 internal/extrernal IDE/CF interface
- SYMBiFACE II (modern) (IDE and various other features)
- Vortex Winchester Drive (Vortex)
Drive Emulators
Hardware debuggers/Hacking devices
- Action Replay (Datel Electronics)
- Disc Wizard (Evesham Micros)
- Draysoft Doubler
- Hackit / Le Hacker (Siren Software)
- Mirage Imager (Mirage Microcomputer Limited)
- Multiface II (Romantic Robot)
- RAM7 Cartridge Hacker (for CPC+/GX4000 cartridges)
- Transtape (Hard Micro)
Input devices
Joysticks
Light-Guns
- Gunstick (MHT Ingenieros)
- Magnum Light Phaser (Amstrad)
- Trojan Light Phazer (Trojan) (CPC+)
- West Phaser (Loriciel)
Light-Pens
- Amstrad LP-1 light pen (Amstrad/Amsoft/Trojan) aka Trojan CAD-Master Lightpen (Trojan)
- ASS Light-Pen (ASS)
- Dk'tronics Light Pen (Dk'tronics)
- Happy Computer Light Pen (DIY from german magazine)
- Light Pen Professional / Mark II (Electric Studio)
- Lindy Light Pen (Lindy)
Mouse
- AMX Mouse (Advanced Memory Systems)
- Atari-ST mouse adapter (DIY)
- Dk'tronics Mouse Interface (Dk'tronics)
- CPC-Mousepack 2.0 (Gerdes/Centaur/Reis-ware/ASS)
- Electric Studio Mouse
- GEOS mouse (C64)
- Kempston Mouse
- Marconi trackball
- Serial RS232 Mouse
- PS/2 mouse of SYMBiFACE II
- Wireless mouse (DIY)
Others
Memory expansions / ROM boxes
Memory Expansions / RAM box
- (Standard Memory Expansions)
- CPC4MB - 4 MB memory expansion
- Data Media SP64
- Dk'tronics Memory Expansion and Silicon Disc (Dk'tronics)
- Dobbertin Memory Expansion (Dobbertin)
- Inicron RAM-Box (Inicron)
- Otten & Fecht 1 MB RAM-Disc
- Phoenix M64
- RAM BOX 512Kb memory expansion [does that lowercase "b" mean bits, not bytes???]
- RAM7 2MB memory expansion
- SYMBiFACE II - contains (among others) 512K RAM
- Vortex Expansions RAM card (Vortex)
ROM Box / ROM Board
- ACU Romboard (DIY)
- AMRAM (Silicon Systems)
- AMRAM2 (Silicon Systems)
- Amstrad ROM Expander (Simon Dean - DIY)
- Britannia ROM Board (Britannia)
- Honeysoft ROM Board (HoneySoft)
- Cirkit HX-RX1 Rom Expansion Card
- Inicron ROM-RAM-Box (Inicron)
- CPC.Flash internal/external 4MB ROM upgrade
- CPC GX4000-Multi EPROM Cartridge Use a GX cartidge for modified ROM software
- Dobbertin EPROM 224 (Dobbertin)
- Fleet EPROM Programmer
- KDS ROM Board (KDS Electronics)
- Maplin ROM Box (Maplin)
- Microgenic ROM Board (Microgenic)
- Microstyle RAMROM (Microstyle)
- Microstyle ROM Board Xtra (Microstyle)
- Micro Power ROM Box
- POKROM
- Ramcard 128 (a ROM emulator) (RAM7)
- Rombo Rombox (Rombo Productions)
- Universeller EPROM Programmer 4004 (Dobbertin)
- X-ROM Eprom programmer and ROM Board (Timatic Systems)
Monitors
- Computers compatible with Amstrad Monitors
- Amstrad CM14 Colour Monitor
- Amstrad CTM640/CTM644 Color Monitor
- Amstrad GT64/GT65 Green Monitor
- Amstrad MM12 Monochrome Monitor
- Amstrad MP1/MP2 modulator
- Amstrad MPV 001 modulator
- CPCAI HF-modulator (CPC Schneider International 11/1986, Page 78ff. Someone please scan it, my issue lacks those pages!)
- Amstrad MP-2F Scart Adapter
- Amstrad MP-3 TV modulator for CTM 64x
- TV SCART cable (DIY)
- LCD And Plasma TV Solution (DIY)
Multi function expansions
- CPC Booster/CPC Booster+
- SYMBiFACE II
- CPCMax!
- CPCISA by Yarek
- CPCX
- Full Expandable Interface (Timatic Systems)
Printers
- (8bit Printer Ports)
- Amstrad DMP1 printer
- Amstrad/Schneider DMP2000 Printer
- Amstrad/Schneider DMP2100 Printer
- Amstrad DMP2160 printer
- Amstrad DMP3000 printer
- Amstrad DMP3160 printer
- Amstrad DMP3250 printer
- Amstrad DMP4000 printer
- EuroPrint FT80X
- Präsident 6320
- Robotron 6313
- Schneider NLQ401
- Star Printers
Real Time Clocks
- ACU Real Time Clock (DIY) (without year counter)
- Aleste 520EX (a CPC clone with built-in RTC)
- CPCI Real Time Clock (DIY)
- Dk'tronics Real Time Clock (Dk'tronics)
- Dobbertin Smart Watch (the RTC itself is inserted like a ROM)
- Realtime Clock of SYMBiFACE_II (modern RTC with bugged century counter)
- Amdrum (Playback) (Cheetah)
- Amstrad SSA-1 Speech Synthesizer (Speech) (Amstrad)
- Digiblaster (Playback) (DIY) (8bit DAC on printer port)
- Digivox sampler
- Dk'tronics Speech Synthesizer (Speech) (Dk'tronics)
- DHCP MIDI Interface (DHCP Electronics)
- EMR MIDI Interface (MIDI) (ElectroMusic Research)
- FuturePlayer (modern MP3 playback, max 128kbps) (Dr.Zed)
- Maestro (Amplifier/Speakers) (Vanguard Leisure Ltd.)
- Magic Sound Board for Aleste 520EX (four channel DMA playback) (Patisonic)
- Music Machine (Sampling/Playback/MIDI) (RAM Electronics)
- MHT Speech Synthesizer (Speech) (MHT Ingenieros)
- Silicon Systems MIDI Interface
- Sound Blaster (Amplifier/Speakers) (Siren Software)
- TMPI speech synthesizer (Speech) (TechniMusique)
Miscellaneous
- 8-bit I/O (Maplin) - appeared in Project book 20
- 64 Kb Printer Buffer (DIY)
- Ambug Robot (DIY)
- Amstrad Expansion System (Maplin) - appeared in Project book 19
- Amstrad CT-1 Radio/Alarm-Clock
- CPCISA
- Dk'tronics Utopia OS
- Dust Covers
- FO-Dos card
- Fischertechnik robot
- HDCPC
- KDS Power Controller (KDS Electronics)
- Kersten PC Emulator
- Northern Computers Amstore
- Peripheral Soft Reset (System BIOS Feature for Peripherals)
- Cheetah Marketing Split Extension Connector
