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CPC related news

  • 24/08/2008: The CEZ GS Virtual shop is open, featuring several Amstrad CPC titles for sale, including El Paciente 106 and the CEZ Collection vol. 1 pack in physical 3" disk format.
  • 24/08/2008: StarSabre and Balloonacy released on tape from Cronosoft @ £2.99 each (£1 goes to the author)!
  • 22/07/2008: New demo release! :)
  • 21/07/2008: Devilmarkus released an AMAZING 3D model of a 464+monitor
  • 12/07/2008: Alan Sugar resigns as AMSTRAD chairman
  • 02/07/2008: dsktools 0.2.2 is out. Support writing to side B and retry when there is a read/write fail. [1]
  • 12/06/2008: New CPCGamesCD out. Now for Linux too!
  • 11/06/2008: The Amstrad Action tribute issue 118 has been released. Download here: AA118
  • 25/05/2008: SymStudio site updated, author seeking testers for version .99.
  • 15/05/2008: A new game release, Capers in Cityland!
  • 21/04/2008: CPCEmu 1.6b released!
  • 12/04/2008: Got a Nintendo DS? Make it play some real games with AmeDS 2.1!!!
  • 31/03/2008: CPCE 1.90 re-released, with even more bugfixes in the FDC emulation and LPTCPC's new ability to send extended disc images from a real CPC through the parallel cable.
  • 27/03/2008: JavaCPC updated to 3.9 and gone open source!
  • 23/02/2008: [hERMOL] has released a CPC conversion of [Street Fighter II]

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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 unsoldered 8K of RAM to circumvent the law that stipulated a spanish keyboard for all machines with up to 64KB memory
  • With a possible total amount of 768 x 270 pixel (540 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.

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  • All the issues of Amtix!, Amstrad Action and Amstrad Computer User have been uploaded and you can find them here!
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