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11/01/22: FutureOS first update 2022 is released.
30/12/21: SymbOS 3.1, with a lot of new hardware support and applications is released.
12/11/21: Josh, new game by RetroPoke is released.
02/11/21: Shovel Adventure, new game by Pat Morita Team is released.
23/10/21: Puzzle Bobble, new game by Crazy Piri is released.
12/04/21: Oil Panic, another game by Crazy Piri is released. CPC port of the well known Game & Watch game.
07/01/21: CPCemu has been released as version 2.0 after 11 years.
23/12/20: Ninja Carnage, new adventure by Resistance, has been released
15/10/20: Crazy Blaster, an action game by Misfit
13/10/20: Preview of Corsair Trainer, shoot'em up by Bitplane Technomantes
08/10/20: Preview of Atic Atac, CPC port by John Ward
10/09/20: CPC Soccer, Kick Off like game published by Bitmap Soft
12/07/20: Mimo's Quest, a new game by Chris Perver, is under development
29/04/20: Dirk Headstrong and the Martian Madness, a new game by Zoë Robinson, is released
16/04/20: Kitsune's Curse, new game by usebox.net

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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 × 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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+*11/01/22: '''[[FutureOS]]''' first update 2022 [http://www.FutureOS.de is released].
 *30/12/21: '''''[[SymbOS]] 3.1''''', with a lot of new hardware support and applications [http://www.symbos.org/download.htm is released].
 *12/11/21: '''''Josh''''',  new game by [http://retropoke.canalblog.com/archives/2021/10/30/39170787.html RetroPoke] is released.
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 *07/01/21: '''[[CPCemu]]''' has been released as [https://cpc-emu.org/news.html version 2.0] after 11 years.
 *23/12/20: '''''[[Ninja Carnage]]''''', new adventure by [http://games.resistance.no/ninjac/ Resistance], has been released
-*10/11/20: '''[[FutureOS]]''' update
 *15/10/20: '''''Crazy Blaster''''', an action game by [https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/cas011.html Misfit]
 *13/10/20: Preview of '''''[https://media.assembly.org/gamedev/2020/CORSAIR_TRAINER.zip Corsair Trainer]''''', shoot'em up by Bitplane Technomantes