Plus

• CPC+/GX4000
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  Spanish Amstrad CPC 6128 Plus

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  Airbrushed CPC 6128 plus

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  The Amstrad GX4000

The GX4000 Games Console

The GX4000 is a game console based on a CPC 464+ without a floppy controller or keyboard (although it is actually possible to modify one, add a floppy controller and a keyboard and use it as a CPC+). It was delivered with two game paddles (as the ones delivered with the CPC+ models) and Burning Rubber on cartidge (without basic).

The GX400 was Amstrad's attempt to gain some share in the home game console market, then dominated by the likes of Nintendo and Sega. Like others before it, and like others after it, it failed abysmally in its goal. Despite the fact that the hardware was decent (after all the CPC+ series were some of the very best 8-bit computers ever designed), it was a case of 'too little, too late'. Lack of CPC+ specific software, lack of marketing effort and bad timing meant that Amstrad's adventure in the home market was about to end.

Cartridges released for the GX4000

• Barbarian 2
• Batman The Movie
• Burnin' Rubber
• Chase HQ 2
• Copter 271
• Crazy Cars 2
• Dick Tracy
• Enforcer (With Phazer)
• Fire and Forget 2
• Gazza II
• Klax
• Mystical
• Navy Seals
• No Exit
• Operation Thunderbolt
• Pang
• Plotting
• Pro Tennis Tour
• Robocop 2
• Skeet Shoot (With Phazer)
• Super Pinball Magic
• Switchblade
• Tennis Cup 2
• Tintin On the Moon
• Wild Streets
• World Of Sports

Weblinks

• Listing and pictures of Amstrad GX4000 games
• Complete list of GX 4000 games

The CPC Plus

The CPC Plus can use the cartridges created for the GX4000 but specific software can be created using the extra feature without the need of hardware (contrary as it was claimed by Amstrad in 1991). The extra features were not locked by an hardware mechanism but only by a special 17 bytes-lenght sequence send to the CRTC

Specific Software for Cpc Plus

Game creators

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Graphic

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Graphic utilities

• Kit 4096
• Sprite Editor
• SymPlay (Prodatron)
• SymSee (Prodatron)

To complete... See Applications for exact words

Music software

To complete with software able to use dma sound playlist... See Applications for exact words

Other

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Graphical user interfaces / Shells

To complete See Programming software for exact words

Operating Systems

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Libraries

• B-ASIC (Logon System)

Demoes

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