What country has brought the finest out of the Amstrad?

[TFM]

6,1% USA

That's me   


But you bring up an good idea. We also could take a look at the CPCWiki members and the origin of their IP addresses. But I guess some admin can do that only.

[TFM]

The C64 scene is still very active in the U.S. Maybe they are watching your videos to see what games with more colours than brown look like?

Bryce.

Be fair, they got some shady grey too. 

[TotO]

That's me   

6.1% in Germany too... It's you again? XD

[Cholo]

The C64 scene is still very active in the U.S. Maybe they are watching your videos to see what games with more colours than brown look like?

Bryce.

True that may explain it, there is a lot of comparing videos as well and the "who is best" is clearly still importent.

[TFM]

6.1% in Germany too... It's you again? XD

No that's Octoate 

[AMSDOS]

6,1% USA

I don't understand how USA could have more interest when Amstrad's weren't even sold there. Australia on the other hand was (excluding the 464/6128 Plus & GX4000 Console), and I've seen more people from Australia come here Vs. Yeeh-ha A-merry-cans. 

[TotO]

French peoples that leave the "old country" for the USA... 

[steve]

I don't understand how USA could have more interest when Amstrad's weren't even sold there. Australia on the other hand was (excluding the 464/6128 Plus & GX4000 Console), and I've seen more people from Australia come here Vs. Yeeh-ha A-merry-cans. 

Amstrad launched the 6128 in the USA didn't they? if so they must have sold a few.

[fgbrain]

I think its doesnt make sense to speak of countries.
Best CPC games for me were made by EGS from Austria but released by Titus who is from France..
Which one counts?

[McKlain]

Amstrad launched the 6128 in the USA didn't they? if so they must have sold a few.

Probably 2 or 3.

[TFM]

Amstrad launched the 6128 in the USA didn't they? if so they must have sold a few.

Yepp. There was a reason for the 60 Hz mode 




BTW: Neither 6128 Plus nor GX4000 have been launched in Germany, nevertheless sceners managed to get them. And they are still in use.

[Devilmarkus]

To be serious:
Germany is out. They only made things for the Schneider CPC...

So, my list:
- UK (because most software companies were settled there)
- Spain (because Indescomp or later Dinamic and Opera Soft)
- France (because very nice demos)
- Greece (because Gryzor) 

[TFM]

Austria really should be considered too - and some other countries too. 

[tastefulmrship]

- France (because very nice demos)

You say that, but there were some really impressive French games back in the day released outside France; PURPLE SATURN DAY, CAPTAIN BLOOD, MACH 3, etc. PSD, for example, was the first CPC game I played that looked and played like a fat-pixeled 16-bit game.
Therefore, I think France needs to be considered higher than UK (even though UK did give us Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard & DAVE "THE GOD" ROGERS)





* Martin Galway was born in NORTHERN IRELAND... so he is "British".

[AMSDOS]

Amstrad launched the 6128 in the USA didn't they? if so they must have sold a few.

Ok, this is what I found:

The CPC6128 was released in August 1985 and initially only sold in the USA. Imported and distributed by Indescomp, Inc. of Chicago, it was the first Amstrad product to be sold in the United States, a market that at the time was traditionally hostile towards European computer manufacturers.[nb]Amstrad Computer User. August 1985. P. 7[/nb]

I still think they would of sold more here in Australia given they were selling 464s,664s & 6128s, we even had our own Australian Magazine(s) dedicated to those machines. Wikipedia failed to mention the launch of the machines here in Australia even though it mentions the Australian Magazine TAU.

[TFM]

Well, one issue of CPC Schneider International brought a report about the release of the 6128 in the USA back the day. Your information is correct. :-D

[Border_7]

Ok, this is what I found:

I still think they would of sold more here in Australia given they were selling 464s,664s & 6128s, we even had our own Australian Magazine(s) dedicated to those machines. Wikipedia failed to mention the launch of the machines here in Australia even though it mentions the Australian Magazine TAU.

Yeah - the Main Wikipedia can be a bit light on facts sometimes  . Amstrad was big here (as well as New Zealand! Don't forget about New Zealand!). Remember - Amstrads were launched here by AWA-Thorn (and had AWA Microcomputer instead of Amstrad Microcomputer). Yep - we had 2 mags - TAU and CWTA-AU - but I don't think we are known big time as having/ producing big time software houses and/or games. Barrier Reef by Melbourne House comes to mind. So do a few cricket related games...  Of course - thinking about NZ, there's also 'The New Zealand Story' not made by anyone in New Zealand!


Being former British crown colonies (and still constitutional monarchies) , I think we will just piggy back on the mother country.


God bless the Queen ("Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith")


(and all our former and future Kings).

[ivarf]

Do not forget the great games from Egypt! 
How many were there?

[Axelay]

but I don't think we are known big time as having/ producing big time software houses and/or games. Barrier Reef by Melbourne House comes to mind. So do a few cricket related games...

I thought Melbourne House/Beam were supposed to be fairly well known in the early days at least for The Hobbit & The Way of the Exploding Fist?  But perhaps the local connection made them seem more significant than they might have actually been at the time. 

[AMSDOS]

Yeah - the Main Wikipedia can be a bit light on facts sometimes  . Amstrad was big here (as well as New Zealand! Don't forget about New Zealand!). Remember - Amstrads were launched here by AWA-Thorn (and had AWA Microcomputer instead of Amstrad Microcomputer). Yep - we had 2 mags - TAU and CWTA-AU - but I don't think we are known big time as having/ producing big time software houses and/or games. Barrier Reef by Melbourne House comes to mind. So do a few cricket related games...  Of course - thinking about NZ, there's also 'The New Zealand Story' not made by anyone in New Zealand!

I'm not fussy, if the Kiwi's wanna nominate themselves, they can go right ahead. 

When it comes to programs, I think Aust are more caught up in Text Adventures. TAU probably started that with Lengthy Type-Ins, though there was an Adventure game developed here which was sold for a price. I think it was called "Ice Warrior" or something along those lines, though I wasn't into Adventure games, so never really checked it out properly. It was in a scan from The PC Mag though, which just had a page about it.

[arnoldemu]

This may sound crazy, but from my point of view I never linked "Melbourne House" with Australia. To me it appeared as if it was another UK publishing company. I don't remember anywhere in the magazines it ever pointed out that it was software from Australia.

The magazines made us fully aware that Dinamic was a Spanish publisher, Loriciels and Titus were French. We didn't hear so much from the other French companies, perhaps they didn't distribute so much into the UK. It wasn't clear about Rainbow Arts, in the UK or.. although I was aware that Turrican was a German made game originally on c64.

There was nothing so clear in the UK magazines that said "this is a German games company"... so that is why in the early years there was less info from Germany.

So, CPCs in other countries other than France, Germany, Spain were almost a suprise. I knew of users in Switzerland and Austria when I swapped games and demos but this was later.

I think the UK magazines didn't give us an insight into the rest of the world.

So, perhaps this is why it was not so obvious there was a big following in Australia.

So I ask, was there much Amstrad software from Australia other than Melbourne House?

[AMSDOS]

So I ask, was there much Amstrad software from Australia other than Melbourne House?

It's a good question and sadly I cannot find any definitive answer to highlight has been made in Australia. I found out though that Melbourne House was really two companies, Melbourne House was the UK division, in Australia they were known as Beam Software (which has been documented on this Wiki).

Wikipedia seems to have the only clues from a List of Amstrad CPC games with corresponding publishers and the countries they came from, though it sadly doesn't group them together from the countries they came from. 

[MacDeath]

Was this really Australian ?

http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=330






French companies had good and less good stuffs anyway.


Loriciel : great company. started on ORIC but went to Amstrad because Amstrad took all the market.
ORIC as in lORICiel... ORIC sold very well for its time in France. was the ProtoCPC of a sort.

UBIsoft : still exist, nice adventure games and a few great action games.

Infograme : became "Atari"... yeah. Lots of "comics" related adventure games if I remember well.

Titus : lots of good looking shits. used to develop for others as well.

ERE informatique : was great be early era of the CPC. went into EXXOS. Ulrich was a great "father" of the French video game industry. Really endearing company.

Silmarils : late company, did only 3 games but they are actully quite impressive IMO.

Microïds : I think they were french. Good stuff as well, great graphics anyway.


There may be others of course.

France games often had interesting graphics and sometimes strange sort of games.

[Puresox]

Some great info there! Didn't Realize the link with Oric.
Loriciels
Ubisoft
Ere
Infograme
Microids
Silmarils
Titus- Sort of
All have some classic games in their arsenal. Inventive and thought provoking.

[Axelay]

So I ask, was there much Amstrad software from Australia other than Melbourne House?

Not that I was aware of, except for the educational software I think was produced by the SA state govt, I think under the name Satchel Software.  Ah, looks like it.