CPC timeline

Important events related to the Amstrad CPC.

People

• 1947-03-24: Alan M. Sugar's birthday

Companies

• 1968: Amstrad gets founded
• 2007-07: Amstraf taken over by BSkyB
• 2008-07: Alan Sugar steps down as chairman of Amstrad

Hardware

• 1984: CPC464 introduced
• 1985: CPC664 introduced
• 1985: CPC6128 introduced
• 1990: 464plus and 6128plus introduced
• 1990: GX4000 introduced

Operating systems and programming languages

• 1984: Locomotive BASIC 1.0
• 1985: Locomotive BASIC 1.1

Software: Famous games (both CPC-only and ports)

• 1986: Gauntlet released; well-known arcade conversion
• 1986: Spindizzy released; isometric action/puzzle game
• 1986: Elite released; sci-fi trading game where you can freely roam the universe
• 1987: Gryzor released; side-scroller known for its nice graphics
• 1987: Pirates! released; like Elite, it's set in a dynamic world where you can go where you want and become who you want to be
• 1990: Rick Dangerous 2 released; platformer with comic-style graphics
• 1991: Turrican 2 released; run-and-gun with impressive graphics, mainly known as an Amiga game
• 1992: Mega Blasters released; extremely popular game from the demo scene

Software: Other

• 1985: MAXAM

Scene

TBD

Note

This page should probably use the Mediawiki timeline extension eventually, like this.