CPCE is a freeware Amstrad CPC emulator for DOS, DPMI and Win32 platforms programmed in 100% assembly language (I286 for DOS and I386 for DPMI and Win32) by CNGSoft. It's intended to be small but rich and fast but powerful, and features reasonably accurate emulation of standard CPC hardware (Z80 CPU, ROM and RAM, video and audio output, tape deck and disk drives) and expansions (576 K RAM and 528 K ROM, printer, Dr.Zed's Symbiface 2), support of digital tape formats (WAV, VOC, CSW, TZX and CDT), rasters, many video effects, digital speech, integrated debugger, internal ZIP file handling, drag and drop, game recording and replaying, netplay, YMP (YM music player), CPC to PC (and viceversa) file transfer tools, etc.
The latest CPCE version is 1.80 and was released in March 10th 2007 during the retro computer event MadriSX 2007, and its major new feature is Dr.Zed's Symbiface 2 emulation (PS/2 mouse, realtime clock, two virtual hard disc drives and static RAM that can be mapped as ROM). It also supports the ERE disc protection, expands the ROM space (528 K instead of 272 K), fixes a tiny mistake in the AVI recording and other small bugs.
Web links
- http://cpce.emuunlim.com (official website)
- http://cngsoft.dyndns.org/cpce/ (website mirror)
- ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/cpc/emulator/msdos/cpce.zip (direct download from the emulator archive)