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- ACPC.ME Amstrad CPC Memory Engraved - Huge collection of documents, manuals, literature, magazines, marketing material and much more
- CPC-Power Collection of most of the software that was ever released. Also includes ROMs and patched versions for programs with bugs.
- CPC Rulez (FR) A great french site, updated frequently, with games, reviews, utilities, type-ins, demos, hardware info. A treasure and a must-visit - french pages can easily be translated with Google translate or similar tools).
- Amstrad Zone Collection of 524 CPC games with review and download link
- Crackers Velus Collection of thousands of CPC games downloadable individually
- Demobase Amstrad CPC [1] Downloadable archive of demos from the CPC demoscene
- Gamebase CPC [2] Amstrad CPC Gamebase by Loic Daneels containing 3300 softwares dumped only from originals and complete with scans, manuals, media, etc...
- Amstrad Mania Amstrad CPC Gamebase by Mark (Sparky) Hardman containing 5782 softwares. Contains a selection of everything: original disk & tape dumps, hacks, cracks and trainers, homebrews
- GoodCPC Downloadable archive of 27103 softwares for the CPC. Tons of duplicates though
- Amstrad CPC TOSEC Downloadable archive of 5575 softwares for the CPC. Dumps are of dubious quality
- MAME CPC Floppies MAME CPC Tapes [3] MAME software archives for Amstrad CPC
- LiliCPC Collection of 8000 games to be used on CPC with USIfAC or M4 Board
- UniLOAD Launcher with 300+ games included to be used on CPC with a mass-storage expansion
- Converted GX4000 Software Collection of 700+ games converted to Amstrad cartridges
- CPC Game Reviews - CPC Game Reviews is a website which, as its name suggests, contains reviews of games for the Amstrad CPC computer - hundreds of them, in fact. It also contains a collection of advertisements which have been scanned from Amstrad CPC magazines.
- CPC History CPC database listing 3266 titles
- Moby Games Games database listing 2291 games for Amstrad CPC
- BZH Games Collection of Amstrad games - can be played in the browser including ongoing highscore competition
(probably) Outdated / abandoned
- The Amstrad Computer Game Resource
- CPCGamesCD homepage Windows launcher with 4429 CPC games included in the ISO
Technical Documentations
- Unofficial WWW Amstrad Resource
- Grimware is a really nice site with hardware info and hacks for the CPC machines... give it a try!
- CRTC Compendium Everything about the CRTC - incl. examples
Communities and boards
- CPCRulez forum The most active French forum
- AmstradPlus Forum Forever French forum
- Amstrad.eu forum French forum
- Gamopat Micro 8-bit (FR) 8-bit computers subsection of the huge Gamopat forum
- Amigos y Usuarios Amstrad (ES) News website that has lessons on software development and hardware restoration. It also has a forum, and reviews on software and hardware.
- Amstrad (ES) All about the Spanish software for CPC. RUA Magazine link.
- CPCWiki.de German forum
- Classic-Computing.de German board
- Amstrad Zone
Facebook Groups
- Amstrad CPC 464 - probably the biggest and most active english speaking group - not only for 464
- Amstrad CPC 6128
- AMSTRAD CPC CLASSIC GAMING AND DEMOS
- Amstrad For Everyone - not only CPC
- Amstrad Collective
- Amstrad GX4000/PLUS Users
- AMSTRAD CPC LATEST GAMES
- Amstrad.eu CPC 464 / 664 / 6128 Old & + / GX4000 - mostly French
- Amstrad CPC pour toujours and beyond
Shops / Groups to buy/sell hardware and games
- Hobbyretro.com Spanish shop
- CPCStore.co.uk UK shop
- Sell-My-Retro portal - some sellers including Zaxon sell through this shop
- Sintech some software, 6128/Plus keyboard membranes
- IcompPlus original new-old-stock Amstrad ICs
- Amstrad for sale Facebook group
- AMIBAY - Hardware For Sale
- AMIBAY - Wanted Hardware
Blogs/Websites of individuals and groups
- G.o.St.-SOFT's CPC-Hardwareführer at 8-Bit-Nirvana (German) - lots of tips and tricks, but no recent updates
- 8bit Projects for Everyone - Hardware updates for 8-bit computers, also for CPC.
- Amstrad Today (FR) - Many Tips for Amstrad CPC
- ESPsoft (ES) Blog on Spanish homebrews for the CPC.
- TheMojonTwins (ES) Homebrew developer group that focuses on creating games for retro systems, among which is the CPC.
- Usebox.net Homebrew studio that focuses on creating games for retro systems, among which is the CPC.
- 4MHz (ES) Homebrew developer group that focuses on creating games for retro systems that use the Z80 CPU.
- Prodatron's page (Prodatrons homepage includes info and downloads of his productions as well as a lot of downloads for CPC Digitracker modules (MDL), OCP Art Studio pictures and Scene demos)
- SymbOS Official homepage of the operating system SymbOS
- FutureOS homepage - Official homepage of the operating system FutureOS for the CPC6128 and CPCPlus.
- CPC Freak Homepage of Kevin Thacker's CPC productions
- CPC Mania - some tools like CPR tools, CPCDiskXP, CPCTapeXP - plus some technical informations
- bread80.com - some analysis of Firmware and BASIC logic (and also the video subsystem- hardware)
- Domes-DOS Schneider/Amstrad CPC dedication - Domes-DOS's CPC website in the design of an GT65 green monitor (with download of his DART-logging tool and lots of infos about the CPC series)
Demoscene
- Memory Full All about the CPC demoscene
- 64 NOPs CPC demoscene tech blog
- Les Sucres en morceaux all the news relating to the productions of "Les Sucres en Morceaux" and many articles relating to the Amstrad CPC.
- Amstrad Museum Website of the CPC graphic artist Titan
- Batman Group (ES) Twitter of the Amstrad and Amiga Demogroup Batman Group
- NoRecess/Condense Homepage of an Amstrad CPC demoscene group.
- Tom&Jerry GPA The page of GPA Demogroup
- AST Impact The page of Impact Demogroup
- Arkos Demogroup - The page of Arkos, with some great demos, diskmags, games and tools.
- Futurs' The page of Futurs' Demogroup
- Praline The page of Praline Demogroup
- Logon System The page of Logon System Demogroup
- Benediction The page of Benediction Demogroup
- Vanity The page of Vanity Demogroup
- Shinra The page of Shinra Demogroup
Youtube and Twitch
- Noels Retro Lab - lots of hardware related videos, especially repairs
- Amstrad ESP El Amstrad CPC en España
- Novabug - many CPC games
- John Gage - lots of game reviews but a lot of swearing and sound driven heavily into saturation
- Temps Nyx (FR) CPC game reviews
- Amstrad Maniaque Long Gameplays
- Amstrad CPC World Long Gameplays
- XeNoMoRPH Short Gameplays
- Eric Boulat (FR) Programming channel
- Roudoudou (FR) Programming channel
- Xyphoe - Gaming - almost every week a several hour long live stream on YouTube
- Amstariga (FR) Lives
- JB le Daron (FR) Lives
Radios and Podcasts
- YM!Rulez Radio Tunes recorded on real CPC hardware
- CPC Scene Radio Succeeding to Roland Radio
- Bitstream Podcast on chiptune and the demoscene. Includes CPC Amstrad
- Cepeceros (ES) Tu Podcast sobre juegos de Amstrad CPC
- PODCAmSTrad (ES) El podcast del Amstrad CPC
Emulators
- CrocoDs (online)
- Tiny 8 Bit (online)
- CPC BASIC (online)
- Emulators
FTP and Newsgroups
- NVG
- LIP6
- CPM - related Amstrad things
- CSA8
- CPC Szene
- FTP Amstrad.eu
- Amstrad Power MEGA folder
Chat
- IRC-channel #cpc-fr on Libera-chat network, french scene channel (replacing #cpc on freenode, #cpc on Neoxys and #cpc on Europnet)
- Praline Discord server
Others
- #CPCRetroDev Annual Amstrad CPC game development contest
- Apprenez l'assembleur (FR) Learn how to code with Z80 Assembler on Amstrad CPC
- The Snake Becomes the Key is a very nicely-written blog with reviews and thoughts on various CPC games. Very well done but not updated any more.
- Amstrad Power Spanish CPC-related news site.
- Genesis 8 - Genesis 8 is a spartan, but often-updated Amstrad-related news site.
- AMSnews CPC-related news site in French.
- Amstrad.eu French CPC-related site previously known as phenixinformatique.com
- CPCCRACKERS - French site about crackers for the CPC.
- Border 0 French site about CPC games
- Octoate.de - English site which features news, some articles and meeting pictures.
- Programming Turbo Pascal on a CPC! - A collection of Turbo Pascal programs with some CPC Specific programs.
- Oldschool gaming - Games reviews of recent games for the CPC!
- Amstrad Today Homebrew Website dedicated to homebrews for the CPC
- GX4000.co.uk, a new site devoted to the hardware and software of the oft-neglected games console.
DEAD
- Roland Radio CPC Amstrad chiptune streaming 24/7
- CePeCe (ES) Spanish CPC portal and web-hosting facilities for your CPC webpage.
- Amstradeus (FR) Lots of interviews, manuals for download and much more.
- CPC Museum (FR) Website dedicated to the Amstrad CPC. Last updated in 2003
- The CPC Demoscene Optimus website about the CPC demoscene with a list of some of the best CPC demos with reviews and screenshots.
- CPC Zone Home of the Gamebase, the ultimate collection of information (with screenshots, cover scans, reviews etc) on all games CPC. Also home of the Zone Forum.
- CPC Hardware (FR) Forum, nice downloads, hardware projects; also an online store for hardware stuff like RS232 interfaces etc.
- CPC Zone Forum (FR) One of the most popular and active forum on the net.
- CPC-Forum (DE) The new most important discussion forum for the German-speaking part of the CPC scene.
- CPC 6128 Europe European portal
- CPC Oxygen Home of the same-name great fanzine and AA scan repository. Not updated in a long time.
- Various Amstrad stuff Including instructions on how to fit or connect a 3.5" drive, hot to connect your CPC to your PC and how to transfer files, among others.
- Push'n'Pop Amstrad Demoscene.
- CPC Scene - Various stuff.
- The Kilobyes Podcast Home of the Kilobytes Podcast. Dedicated to playing chip tunes and covering the retro computing scene in general
- CPC scene map