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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 unaccessible 8 KB of RAM to circumvent a spanish tax that was charged on imported machines with up to 64 KB memory.

With a possible total amount of 832 x 288 pixel (576 interlaced) the CPC was the 8 bit homecomputer with the highest screen resolution ever.

OpenOffice for Windows/Linux is a direct descendant of StarWriter for the CPC.
The transfer speed of the CPC Booster + serial interface is faster than a standard DSL connection.

SymbOS can handle more than 50 times bigger hard discs than MS Windows 95A.
FutureOS can load 178 KB in 9 seconds from floppy disc and manages up to 4 MB of RAM

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 *30/01/14: A CPC homebrew dedicated website is born: [http://homebrew.amstradtoday.com/index_uk.htm Homebrew.AT]
 *16/12/13: [[Cyber Huhn|Cyber Chicken]] released on disc. Only 111 unique boxes available.
-*06/12/13: '''Relentless''' now [http://www.binaryzone.org/retrostore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=87_99&products_id=622&zenid=aocogo14j25nkoh191et40mqv7 available on tape] from Psytronik! 100 copies available.
+*06/12/13: '''Relentless''' released on [http://www.binaryzone.org/retrostore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=87_99&products_id=622&zenid=aocogo14j25nkoh191et40mqv7 tape] by Psytronik! 100 copies available.
 *05/12/13: '''Billy La Banlieue''' remake [http://www.billy-la-banlieue.com/index.html in the works]. Amazing
 *23/11/13: '''[http://pcwwiki.amstrad.es/doku.php?id=en:start PCW Wiki]''' now open :)