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Welcome to the Amstrad CPC Wiki!


This site hopes to evolve into an encyclopaedia on all things Amstrad CPC related. There are now 4,788 articles around the CPC available.

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CPC Related News
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  • 06/02/12: R-Type remake released finally - and is awesome!
  • 26/12/11: Bubble Bobble remake released!!! Happy holidays!
  • 14/11/11: XNACPC, a CPC emulator for the Xbox 360, released!
  • 31/10/11: Lotharek, known as the supplier of the Jeff's HxC Floppy Emulators, has been interviewed on Push'N'Pop.
  • 23/10/11: Definite, CPCWiki version of Zynaps released by tastefulmrship!
  • 09/10/11: Hidden music from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ripped by SyX!
  • 01/10/11: NoRecess released v.2.3 of QuickCMD, now with command history support!
  • 22/09/11: NoRecess released v2.4 of his HxC Floppy Emulator Manager and TFM updated his ROManager, now both work with HxC set as drive B!
  • 18/09/11: NEW GAME!!! Edge Grinder by Paul Kooistra!
  • 17/09/11: QuickCMD 2.2 released - support for MegaFlash added!
  • 15/09/11: Call for a Megademo to celebrate the CPC's 30th anniversary!
  • 15/08/11: Benediction and Brainstorm's demo named Bloc Us! ranked 9th at the Evoke 2011 this week-end.
  • 15/08/11: JavaCPC Desktop 1.0 official release!
  • 06/08/11: Megaflash, the programmable 512kb ROMbox by Bryce finally begun production!
  • 05/08/11: PC-CPC, a lovely new emulator has been released by Demoniak!
  • 05/08/11: Winape at last updated to v2.0a18, too many changes to list here :)
  • 05/08/11: Caprice v28 and Copacabana v075 for PalmOS!
  • 05/08/11: Roland, the Javascript emulator, has been updated - now with a huge online games archive!



CPCWiki updates

  • 18/08/2011: Server move complete, hunting bugs down... Currently Uploads are not possible.
  • 05/08/2011: Sorry for the downtime - hardware failure on the host side!
  • 12/01/2011: 2010: An excellent year for the CPCWiki!!!
  • 22/09/2009: The CPCWIKI moves to new domain CPCWIKI.EU
  • 14/08/2009: The CPCWIKI moves (temporarily) to new domain CPC-WIKI.COM
  • 22/07/09: Wiki & Forum moved to a new server
  • 14/07/09: Forum updated to 2.0RC1-1, Wiki updated to 1.15.1!
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Become an Author!

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  • PDW (unknown what this article shall be about...) (Note: PDW is believed to be German group of programmers who wrote CPC Demos)



  1. Top 5 Contributors from the last 60 days:

Last 60 days (Top 5)
ScorePagesChangesUsername
120 56 1,082 Phi2x
62 57 63 Polluks
45 36 55 TFM
12 7 13 Jonathanen
10 5 11 Ickey

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

Donors

These people were kind enough to donate. All contributions went directly to our previous host, not our own pockets!

If you would like to donate us, please contact the admin-team in our forum. This will ensure the continuation of the project. Thank you!

2011: Bryce (€75)

2009: Prodatron (€1000)
Nurgle (€30)
Serge Querné (€30)
Roald Strauss (€50)

Donators from earlier years

Thanks so much guys!

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