Changes
ANT
,''The CPC that never was.''
'''Richard Clayton''' and '''Roland Perry''' reveal details on the computer that never made it to market.
Recently the unreleased CP/M-68k appeared finished (will it be works with some not hardware dependent PCW programs?).
'''GEM''' gui was shared with Amstrad PC. But incompatible coded apps cause diferent 16bit CPUs
*Amstrad closed Sinclair projects QL and '''Loki'''.
[[File:Sinclair Loki similar project than Amstrad ANT.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Sinclair Loki ¿same as ANT ?]]
*Amstrad abandoned the 3" FDD drive in the latest [[PCW]]/PCW16 models.
*Users scene placed 3.5" drives in CPC.
*[[B-ASIC]] for CPC+ appeared. Amstrad should do at the beginning of the machine.
*Some utils read/write MS-DOS format in CPC with 3,5" drive.
*Similar case in '''CPC+''' design and ST.
*Would we consider the Atari ST as the ANT that never came out? (Similar features but with diferent coding 16bit CPU).(Not so powerful to replicate/emulate CPC/PCW?).(is needed hardware like in Aleste machine VDP?)[plain Amiga could move CPC emulator?]
*CPC and ST shared some third party game software development teams and projects. The music coding is almost direct and the graphics is somekind of CPC+
*A software library very close to the ST/CPC would have been possible on a color PCW16? (16Mhz CPU)([[Habisoft]] did Knight Lore and Total Eclipse ports)
*The CPC+ and '''PCW16''' machines share internal parts with the ANT.
*Iñigo Ayo and Team made amazing '''Spec256''' that use parallel Z80 speccy code with pseudo 64bit Z80 [x8 z80] graphic code process to increase ZX games as Atari ST or Amiga like. Suported by '''Habisoft´s Espectrum''', '''emuZwin''' and '''ZXpoly''' emulators.
*'''ZX Next''' brought us what ANT and Loki promised?
*During 2025 finally PCW users scene fix the name '''[[PCW Plus]]''' for PCW with colour and AY sound add-ons . PCWclassic with Habisoft's ColorIn board or Czarnikjak's Color board with RaspberryPico and dk'tronics AY board . Is that the closest system to ANT ?
*[[PCW Plus]] library : around 10 games (Colour & Sound) by Habisoft and KachorroSoft : KnightLore ; Head Over Heels enhanced edition ; Mad Mix Game ; AMC ; Phantis ; Hundra ; Coliseum ; Xecutor ; Batman plus edition ...
*John Elliot's PCW Joyce emulator supports colour with JOYCE 800x600 driver
*ZEsarUX & CP/M Box emulators and FPGA core synthesis (Mister ; NeptUNO+ ; SIDI ; Calypso ; Poseidon ...) supports PCWplus