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This site hopes to evolve into an encyclopaedia on all things Amstrad CPC related. There are now 4,789 articles around the CPC available.

CPC Related News

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28/10/12: Update available of FutureOS!
03/10/12: Australian magazines ('89 & '91) here & New Zealand ones (Bits & Bytes) here!
27/04/12: Interview with Marc Maulin, co-author of legendary Discology!
07/04/12: Wake Up! by Benediction (and associates) reached the 3rd place in Olschool demo compo at the Revision Party 2012 in Germany.
01/04/12: Pac-Man Emulator released!
18/03/12: Wolfenstrad demo released!
15/03/12: New version of Basic released for the Amstrad CPC. Check it out here: CPC Basic 3
08/02/12: dsktools 0.2.3 can copy R-Type!
06/02/12: R-Type remake released finally - and is awesome!
26/12/11: Bubble Bobble remake released!!! Happy holidays!

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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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 *28/10/12: [http://www.futureos.de Update] available of '''[[FutureOS]]'''!
 *03/10/12: '''Australian magazines''' ('89 & '91) [http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/The_Amstrad_User here] & '''New Zealand''' ones ('''Bits & Bytes''') [http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Bits_and_Bytes here]!