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Welcome to the Amstrad CPC Wiki!

This site hopes to evolve into an encyclopaedia on all things Amstrad CPC related. There are now 4,758 articles around the CPC available. Feel free to contribute or post your suggestions in the Forum!

NOTE!!!!
Since the sad demise of the CPCZone boards, we have expanded our Forum to cover all Amstrad-related topics. We hope we can keep the discussion and the english-speaking scene going...


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CPC related news

  • 05/05/2009: Cpctro, a demo for the CPC made by ZX Spectrum guys released :)
  • 21/04/2009: New CPCGamesCD release
  • 27/03/2009: The Mojontwins are back have released another game:Nanako Descends to Hell
    Nanako Descends to Hell
  • 20/03/2009: WYZTracker released!
  • 11/03/2009: Yet another new game released: Phantomas Tales #1: Marsport
    Marsport
  • 10/03/2009: Eternal Light released!
    Eternal Light
  • 07/03/2009: Star Sabre 128k enhanced version now available!
  • 27/02/2009: CPCZone is down due to extreme spamming. Read about it here!
  • 24/02/2009: Bubble Bobble 4 non-playable demo released, a must-see...
  • 19/02/2009: Betiled released for the CPC and looking great!
  • 22/01/2009: CPCDiskXP updated to v.2.0 with an impressive change log
  • 13/01/2009: New game released: Sort'em!
  • 12/01/2009: Gelide, the Linux emu front-end now supports the GX4000 :)
  • 23/12/2008: The CPC-Klassentreffen 2009 (CPC_Reunion_2009) will take place from 29.05.2009 to 31.05.2009 in Erlangen, Germany! Join us!
  • 09/12/2008: New Arnold/Linux version released.
  • 28/11/2008: new CPCAlive version out, 1.09c
  • 05/11/2008: New PSPCap32 version, with cheat support and memory monitor!
  • 23/09/2008: New PSPCap32 version!
  • 07/09/2008: Woo-hoo! CPC Sudoku released!!!


CPCWiki updates

  • 01/03/09: Forum completely overhauled.
  • 26/07/08: Edit new pages: FIXED; big file upload: FIXED; multiple file upload: REENABLED; rich text editor: REENABLED; video embedding: REENABLED! All problems fixed? :)
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Did you know?

  • 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 the law that stipulated a spanish keyboard for all 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 supports up to 4 MB of RAM

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2009:
Kangaroo MusiQue (720,00 Euro)
Serge Querné (30,00 Euro)
Roald Strauss (50,00 Euro)

Donators from earlier years

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