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CPC timeline

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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

1986: Gauntlet released; well-known arcade conversion
1986: Spindizzy released; isometric action/puzzle game
1986: Elite released; sci-fi trading game
1987: Gryzor released; side-scroller known for its nice graphics
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

Software: Other

1985: MAXAM

Scene

TBD

Note

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