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ANT
,The STEs DMA sound is not similar to the Amstrad Plus DMA sound. It's a totally different concept.
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'''Richard Clayton'''. July 2003
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'''Vik Olliver'''
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'''John Elliot''' . June 2016.
" Internally, the PCW design was based on ANT [Arnold Number Two], which would have been another computer for the CPC niche.The PCW hardware has some implemented-but-unused features from the ANT, such as joystick support in the keyboard controller, and a CPC-compatible memory paging mode."
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[[File:PCW10 keyboard CPC+.png|200px|thumb|center|PCW10 keyboard desing reminds CPC+ style. Cool and Modern as our long-awaited ANT]]
*Finally, in April 1985, the '''[[Atari ST]]''' appeared with similar features to the ANT but with a [[68000]] CPU instead of an accelerated Z80.
The resolution in 320x200 16 colours shares a little with CPC/CPC+ ; and the same sound chip. Its STE version has DMA sound like CPC+(8 Bit PCW, stereo, up to 50kHz) and graphic Blitter.
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 ?]]
https://sinclairuser.com/051/loki.htm
*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+
*John Elliot's PCW Joyce emulator supports colour with JOYCE 800x600 driver
*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)
https://habisoft.com/pcw16/en.htm#Media
*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. [[File:Zxspec256.jpg|200px|thumb|center|are you afraid about enhanced 8bit systems?]]
*'''ZX Next''' brought us what ANT and Loki promised?
[[File:20250523 194636.jpg|200px|thumb|center|ZX Loki ? Raiders of the Lost ANT Ark]]
*ZEsarUX & CP/M Box emulators and FPGA core synthesis (Mister ; NeptUNO+ ; SIDI ; Calypso ; Poseidon ...) supports PCWplus
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