Links
From CPCWiki - THE Amstrad CPC encyclopedia!
Contents
- CPC Zone ***NOW DEAD*** Home of the Gamebase, the ultimate collection of information (with screenshots, coverscans, reviews etc) on all games CPC. Also home of the Zone Forum.
- PhenixInformatique French forum and much more(French)
- CPC-Power, a great French site with links and info on all your favorite games - and many more besides :)
- The Amstrad Computer Game Resource
- Amstrad ESP (ES) All about the Spanish software for CPC. RUA Magazine and ESP Soft links.
- 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.
- Amstrad Zone
- Prodatron's page (Prodatrons homepage includes the infos and downloads of his productions as well as a lot of downloads for CPC Digitracker modules (MDL), OCP Art Studio pictures and Scene demos)
- Best of CPC (ES)
- Arkos Demogroup - The page of Arkos, with some great demos, diskmags, games and tools.
- CPC Hardware - (F) Forum, nice downloads, hardware projects; also an online store for hardware stuff like RS232 interfaces etc.
- FutureOS homepage - Official homepage of the operating system FutureOS for the CPC6128 and CPCPlus.
- CPCGamesCD homepage
- The CPC Demoscene Optimus website about the CPC demoscene with a list of some of the best CPC demos with reviews and screenshots.
- Amstradeus Lots of interviews, manuals for download and much more. (French)
- SymbOS (includes the website of the two new hardware projects SYMBiFACE II and CPC TREX)
- 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.
- CPC Hardware - (F) Forum, nice downloads, hardware projects; also an online store for hardware stuff like RS232 interfaces etc.
- G.o.St.-SOFT's CPC-Hardwareführer at 8-Bit-Nirvana (German)
- 8bit Projects for Everyone - Hardware updates for 8-bit computers, also for CPC.
- Amstrad Today - Many Tips for Amstrad CPC
Document resources
FTP sites
Commercial sites
User Groups
- CSA8
- CPC Zone Forum: ***NOW DEAD*** The most popular and active (? maybe some french forum is more active) forum on the net.
- CPC-Forum.de: The new most important discussion forum for the German-speaking part of the CPC scene.
- WACCI (Worldwide Amstrad Computer Club Incorporated) - WACCI was a UK based user group that supported the Amstrad CPC computer. It was a subscription-only, printed English magazine published bi-monthly and available throughout the world. The current issues of the magazine are now reproduced on this website.
Chat
- IRC-channel #cpc on irc.freenode.net (a big IRC-network), one cpc-channel among many others out there on various networks.
- IRC-channel #cpc on irc.neoxys.org, IRC-channel of cpcscene.com
- IRC-channel #phenixinformatique on proxy.epiknet.org, french channel.
- Flash-chat Browser chat in Flash.
Emulators
- Arnold (WIN | MAC | LINUX)
- ArnoldX (XBOX)
- Caprice (WIN)
- CoPaCabana (WIN | PALM)
- CPCEmu
- CPC4X
- CPCE
- CPC++
- JavaCPC Amstrad CPC Emulator in Java by Devilmarkus (based on JEMU)
- JEMU (Multi-System Java)
- PC-CPC by Ludovic Deplanque(Demoniak)
- WinApe
- WinCPC
Others
- 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.
- CPC Oxygen - home of the same-name great fanzine and AA scan repository. Not updated in a long time.
- Genesis 8 - Genesis 8 is a spartan, but often-updated Amstrad-related news site.
- CPC Scene - Various stuff. Of much interest: The CPC online radio station!
- CPC Rulez (Alternative Link) (FR) A great french site, updated frequently, with software reviews, utilities, games, demos, hardware info. A treasure and a must-visit if you speak french (though not necessarily so).
- CPC scene map
- CePeCe.info (ES) - Spanish CPC portal and web-hosting facilities for your CPC webpage.
- CPCCRACKERS - French site about crackers for the CPC.
- CPC 6128 Europe - European portal. - DEAD
- 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. -DEAD
- Oldschool gaming - Games reviews of recent games for the CPC!
- GX4000.co.uk, a new site devoted to the hardware and software of the oft-neglected games console.
- Grimware is a really nice site with hardware info and hacks for the CPC machines... give it a try!
- The Kilobyes Podcast Home of the Kilobytes Podcast. Dedicated to playing chip tunes and covering the retro computing scene in general