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CPC related news

• 24/08/2008: StarSabre and Balloonacy released on tape from Cronosoft @ £2.99 each (£1 goes to the author)!
• 22/07/2008: New demo release! :)
• 21/07/2008: Devilmarkus released an AMAZING 3D model of a 464+monitor
• 12/07/2008: Alan Sugar resigns as AMSTRAD chairman
• 02/07/2008: dsktools 0.2.2 is out. Support writing to side B and retry when there is a read/write fail. [1]
• 12/06/2008: New CPCGamesCD out. Now for Linux too!
• 11/06/2008: The Amstrad Action tribute issue 118 has been released. Download here: AA118
• 25/05/2008: SymStudio site updated, author seeking testers for version .99.
• 15/05/2008: A new game release, Capers in Cityland!
• 21/04/2008: CPCEmu 1.6b released!
• 12/04/2008: Got a Nintendo DS? Make it play some real games with AmeDS 2.1!!!
• 31/03/2008: CPCE 1.90 re-released, with even more bugfixes in the FDC emulation and LPTCPC's new ability to send extended disc images from a real CPC through the parallel cable.
• 27/03/2008: JavaCPC updated to 3.9 and gone open source!
• 23/02/2008: [hERMOL] has released a CPC conversion of [Street Fighter II]

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What is the Amstrad CPC about?

Did you know?

• 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 unsoldered 8K of RAM to circumvent the law that stipulated a spanish keyboard for all machines with up to 64KB memory
• With a possible total amount of 768 x 270 pixel (540 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.

CPCWiki updates

• 15/07/08: Upgrade to Mediawiki 1.13.0. Apologies for the short downtime. FCKeditor is incompatible, for now.
• 23/07/08: Cpanel and OS of the server upgraded, hopefully things will be stable now!
• There have been SSH attacks on the server, rendering it unapproachable. Proxy has been reconfigured and, hopefully, uptime will be better now...
• FCKEditor installed! Now you can easily edit pages. Please report any functionality issues. You can also deactivate it in your user preferences.
• VIDEO EMBEDDING enabled for the wiki! Woo-hoo!!!
• MULTIPLE FILE UPLOAD FORM installed. For the time being it doesn't work alright when put in the sidebar...
• All the issues of Amtix!, Amstrad Action and Amstrad Computer User have been uploaded and you can find them here!
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