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16 KBs ROM competition

• 01/07/13: 16KB ROM competition ended. Vote here!.
• 08/06/13: Phortem, the new Condense demo is here.
• 31/03/13: Revision 2013: Still Rising, the Vanity's answer to Batman Forever.
• 07/01/13: Teodoro No Sabe Volar released!
• 01/01/13: Announcing the first Amstrad CPC 16KBs ROM Game Development Competition.
• 01/12/12: Major CPCWiki software upgrade; please report any bugs in the forum.
• 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.

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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 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