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Important events related to the Amstrad CPC.
==People==
*1947-03-24: [[Alan M. Sugar]]'s birthday
==Companies==
*1968: [[Amstrad]] gets founded
*2007-07: Amstraf taken over by BSkyB
*2008-07: Alan Sugar steps down as chairman of Amstrad
==Hardware==
*1984: [[CPC464]] introduced
*1985: [[CPC664]] introduced
*1985: [[CPC6128]] introduced
*1990: [[464plus]] and [[6128plus]] introduced
*1990: [[GX4000]] introduced
==Operating systems and programming languages==
*1984: [[Locomotive BASIC]] 1.0
*1985: [[Locomotive BASIC]] 1.1
==Software: Famous games==
*1986: [[Gauntlet]] released; well-known arcade conversion
*1986: [[Spindizzy]] released; isometric action/puzzle game
*1986: [[Elite]] released; sci-fi trading game
*1987: [[Gryzor]] released; side-scroller known for its nice graphics
*1990: [[Rick Dangerous 2]] released; platformer with comic-style graphics
*1991: [[Turrican 2]] released; run-and-gun with impressive graphics, mainly known as an [[Amiga]] game
==Software: Other==
*1985: [[MAXAM]]
==Scene==
TBD
==Note==
''This page should probably use the Mediawiki timeline extension eventually, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Timeline_History_of_Computing like this].''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Timeline}}
[[Category:CPC History]]
==People==
*1947-03-24: [[Alan M. Sugar]]'s birthday
==Companies==
*1968: [[Amstrad]] gets founded
*2007-07: Amstraf taken over by BSkyB
*2008-07: Alan Sugar steps down as chairman of Amstrad
==Hardware==
*1984: [[CPC464]] introduced
*1985: [[CPC664]] introduced
*1985: [[CPC6128]] introduced
*1990: [[464plus]] and [[6128plus]] introduced
*1990: [[GX4000]] introduced
==Operating systems and programming languages==
*1984: [[Locomotive BASIC]] 1.0
*1985: [[Locomotive BASIC]] 1.1
==Software: Famous games==
*1986: [[Gauntlet]] released; well-known arcade conversion
*1986: [[Spindizzy]] released; isometric action/puzzle game
*1986: [[Elite]] released; sci-fi trading game
*1987: [[Gryzor]] released; side-scroller known for its nice graphics
*1990: [[Rick Dangerous 2]] released; platformer with comic-style graphics
*1991: [[Turrican 2]] released; run-and-gun with impressive graphics, mainly known as an [[Amiga]] game
==Software: Other==
*1985: [[MAXAM]]
==Scene==
TBD
==Note==
''This page should probably use the Mediawiki timeline extension eventually, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Timeline_History_of_Computing like this].''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Timeline}}
[[Category:CPC History]]
