Hi guys!

[Quickie]

Hello everyone,


Just joined the CPC Forum as I've recently bought a CPC464 and will like to squeeze its capabilities as much as I can   
I've loved 8bit computers since childhood, but the CPC was a system that I havent used much (until now ) as I was a Speccy user.


This forum rocks! I saw Duke's M4 development and certainly has my respect. I wish I can join soon the list of owners.
Same for SymbOS, which is an incredible piece of OS.


Well I hope to have some good time around here 

[keith56]

I was the opposite of you, I had the 464, and am now moving out into the Speccy!

The M4 is certainly a great 'all round' device, as it offers disk emulation and more, and its very cost effective... You may want to consider a memory upgrade in the future too, as many games require 128k, but a ram upgrade will easily solve that.

if do you want to consider ram upgrade try looking at this:
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cpc-hardware/z-mem-and-d-rom/

If you really want to try to get something new out of the old systems, you may want to look at software development, I never did any ASM back in the day, but with the great tools, emulators and documentation around now, it's a lot easier than it was, and it's a lot of fun making these old machines do what you want!

[Quickie]

I was the opposite of you, I had the 464, and am now moving out into the Speccy!

The M4 is certainly a great 'all round' device, as it offers disk emulation and more, and its very cost effective... You may want to consider a memory upgrade in the future too, as many games require 128k, but a ram upgrade will easily solve that.

if do you want to consider ram upgrade try looking at this:
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cpc-hardware/z-mem-and-d-rom/

If you really want to try to get something new out of the old systems, you may want to look at software development, I never did any ASM back in the day, but with the great tools, emulators and documentation around now, it's a lot easier than it was, and it's a lot of fun making these old machines do what you want!

Thanks for the warm welcome and the suggested memory expansion. You certainly did read my mind!
I don't know however if this expansion is open source and can be home-made, but looks like the perfect complement for the M4!

[Gryzor]

Welcome mate, and please do come back

[CPC_Fan]

Hello and welcome to the forum Quickie.

[VincentGR]

Welcome!!!