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This site hopes to evolve into an encyclopaedia on all things Amstrad CPC related. There are now 4,788 articles around the CPC available.

CPC Related News

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30/03/14: A new Picross-style game, Superpix was released.
24/03/14: SAMdisk 3.8.2 released.
23/03/14: PSX controller mod for Amstrad CPC by Forcy
11/03/14: CPCDiskXP 2.5.1 released - a nice update!
03/02/14: La Guerra de Gamber released by ESP Soft!
30/01/14: A CPC homebrew dedicated website is born: Homebrew.AT
16/12/13: Cyber Chicken released on disc. Only 111 unique boxes available.
06/12/13: Relentless now available on tape from Psytronik! 100 copies available.
05/12/13: Billy La Banlieue remake in the works. Amazing
23/11/13: PCW Wiki now open :)

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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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 *24/03/14: '''SAMdisk''' 3.8.2 [http://simonowen.com/samdisk/ released].
 *23/03/14: [[PSX controller mod for Amstrad CPC]] by [[User:Forcy|Forcy]]
-*11/0314: '''CPCDiskXP ''' 2.5.1 [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/news-events/cpcdiskxp-v2-1-released/msg76939/#msg76939 released] - a nice update!
+*11/03/14: '''CPCDiskXP ''' 2.5.1 [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/news-events/cpcdiskxp-v2-1-released/msg76939/#msg76939 released] - a nice update!
 *03/02/14: '''La Guerra de Gamber''' [http://www.amstrad.es/juegosamstrad/decargajuegos/la-guerra-de-gamber.php released] by ESP Soft!
 *30/01/14: A CPC homebrew dedicated website is born: [http://homebrew.amstradtoday.com/index_uk.htm Homebrew.AT]