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16 KBs ROM competition

16/12/13: Cyber Chicken released on disc. Only 111 unique boxes available.
06/12/13: Relentless now available on tape from Psytronik! Only 100 copies available.
05/12/13: Billy La Banlieue remake in the works. Amazing
23/11/13: PCW Wiki now open :)
20/10/13: Interview with developer Stephen N. Curtis (Chopper Squad,Into Oblivion,Nonterraqueous,Soul of a Robot,Terra Cognita) added!!!
27/09/13: Collaboration to convert CPC games to ROM, find all your favourites here:ROM Games
17/07/13: New CPCGamesCD version, with PCW support :)
01/07/13: 16KB ROM competition ended. Vote here!.
08/06/13: Phortem, the new Condense demo is here.

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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