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21/03/15: C4CPC a cartridge replacement for the Amstrad Plus and the GX4000 was released
02/01/15: COSMOS v.22 (final version) has been released
14/12/14: X-MASS, Add a 128MB mass-storage to your CPC.
30/08/14: ROManager 1.8 released. Download
30/08/14: SymbOS 2.1 Final released
14/08/14: PlayCity, Add 6ch stereo audio, Z80 CTC... to your CPC.
22/04/14: X-MEM, Add up to 512K RAM/ROM on your 464/664/6128.
20/04/14: Breaking Baud, THE tape demo. 2nd place at Revision!
30/03/14: Superpix, a new Picross-style game was released.
24/03/14: SAMdisk 3.8.2 released.
23/03/14: PSX controller mod for Amstrad CPC by Forcy
11/03/14: CPCDiskXP 2.5.1 released - a nice update!
03/02/14: La Guerra de Gamber released by ESP Soft!

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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