Robot PD

Robot PD was a long-running PD library run by Richard Fairhurst. It was the third CPC PD library to be established in the United Kingdom, after WACCI and DW Software.

Robot started off with cassette-only software, but soon moved to disc operation. Among its features were a wide range of software (AMSDOS-based and CP/M, UK and European), eventually numbering around 200 'sides' in total; many original programs, such as PowerPage; and sometimes appallingly slow delivery. Robot was often at the centre of the so-called 'PD wars', along with Scull PD.

Part of the revised (five-digit) Robot PD range can be downloaded from David Cantrell's site.

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Robot Software Catalogue

Catalogue Symbols

• XC: Ex-commercial software.
• *: Robot Recommended – the very best software.
• 128: 128k memory required.
• 18: Not for children.

Text Files

Discs usable on any Amstrad CPC or PCW.

Disc	Title	Description	Notes
00001	The Big Book Of Mischief	Anarchic text files detailing how to blow things up.	18
03000	Comms text files
03001	Comms text files
04000	Programming tutorials	Learn how to program your computer in BASIC or machine code.
04400	CPC Guide	Kevin Thacker's excellent and comprehensive guide to the CPC's internals.	*
04401	CRTC Source Code Collection	Z80 source for programs like PowerSpell, BTL intros, and Pro-Ext, plus subroutines for your own use.
06100	Tips for adventure games
06101	Tips for adventure games
09100	Nutworks	A comic look at computers from the early days of the Internet.

AMSDOS Software

For Amstrad CPC and Plus computers.

Disc	Title	Description	Notes
10000	The Plus Disc	Make the most of your CPC Plus! Sampled sound demos, colour editors, art package, games, and more. Includes B-ASIC for 4096 colours and hardware sprites.	XC, 128, Plus only, *
10001	Sean McManus Collection	Collected works from an AA Type-Ins regular, includes Easi-Sprite Driver, Further Adventures of Fred, and more.	*
10002	Robot PD Catalogue	The 1992 double-sided disc catalogue with descriptions of many PD programs.
10100	Educational programs	Educational programs for all ages.
10200	Artificial intelligence	AI programs, including several "Eliza" variants. Single-sided collection.
10300	Music by CRTC	Music by British coder CRTC (Richard Fairhurst).
10301	Jean-Michel Jarre Collection	Jean-Michel Jarre music and Acid Music Box 2.
10302	Music Pack 4	Hacked tunes, plus Epsilon's Anthology.
10304	Advanced Music System files	By Rob Baxter.
10305	Advanced Music System files	By Rob Baxter.
10306	Advanced Music System files	By Rob Baxter.
10307	Advanced Music System files	By Rob Baxter.
10308	Advanced Music System files	By Rob Baxter.
10310	Soundhakker music	Hacked music with player program.
10311	Soundhakker music	Hacked music with player program.
10314	Soundtrakker music	For use with Soundtrakker (see disc 11001).
10315	Soundtrakker music	For use with Soundtrakker (see disc 11001).
11000	Protracker	Music editor with real samples, imports MOD files from Amiga/PC.	128
11001	Soundtrackers	Four music editors: Digitrakker, Advanced Music Creator, BooTracker, and Soundtrakker 128, with example files.	XC, 128, *
11100	Word-processing	Domain Word, PowerSpell, I-Spell, and Citizen printers WP.	128
11200	Databases
11300	Spreadsheets	Includes PD Planner.
11400	PowerPage 64	Original version of CPC desktop publisher for editing A5 pages.
11401	PowerPage 128	Advanced desktop publishing system, used by fanzines and groups.	128, *
11402	Pagemaker DTP	Alan Scully's simple DTP program.
11500	The Artist	Art package GPaint, PC-CPC transfers, Smart II, and more.	*
12000	Hacking Disc	Game hacking utilities, tape-disc transfer programs.
12002	The Sentinel Collection	Two ex-commercial programs: TUSS and Pro-Ext for hackers and Protext enhancements.	XC, 128, *
12003	Print Enhancer	Printer font replacement package.
12004	Printer utilities	Screen dumps and more.
12005	Connectivity Disc	CPC/PC/Mac/Amiga file utilities, translators, FAQs.	Some 128
12100	International Collection	Disc utilities from all over Europe. Includes DMon and Crime.
12200	RSX-Lib	Programming utility from Smogware Systems.	XC
12201	Demo creators	NWC Demomaker, Vorspann utility, Ghoul’s Writer.	*
12202	Toolkits	Extra commands for BASIC.
12300	File crunchers	Disc space savers: Cheese, Columbia, SQ23, Turbo Imploder.
12400	Unix-like OS
12401	Front-ends	Desk, Worktop, DES; graphical front-ends for CPC.
13100	Terminal programs	ANSI-Term and more for modem users.	*
14400	Z80 Pack	Assemblers, monitors, disassemblers. Includes LARA monitor.
16000	Alan Scully Collection	Adventure/arcade games, history of Scull PD.
16001	POKEs and cheats	For commercial games.
16100	Eve of Shadows, Lost Phirious	Adventure games by Rob Buckley and Neil Scrimgeour.	XC, *
16101	Simon Avery Collection	Quilled text adventures.
16103	Edmund Spicer Collection	Adventures.
16104	Geno, Secrets of Ur, Blue Raider	Adventure games.
16105	Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Prague
16106	Hitch-Hiker's Guide to London	Humorous text adventures. Both discs required for London.
16200	Puzzle games	Mindbenders from MOPS group.
16201	Crossword Compiler	Crossword utility and word games.	128
16202	Tetris Games	Tetris clones and related games.	*
16203	Last Of The Smileys	Arcade puzzle, Cool World, and French games.	*
16300	Arcade demos	Zap't'Balls, Xyphoes Phantasy demos.
16301	The Radical Collection v1	Fluff (6128 Plus only), Ball Bearing, Masters of Space demo.	XC, *
16302	Arcade classics	Invaders, Croco Magneto, Dripzone, Cyberboy.	*
16303	The Vortex Collection	Vortex Software games: HATE, Deflektor, plus others.	XC, 128, *
16304	Incentive Demos	Total Eclipse, Megablasters, Space Froggy, Wipeout.
16307	Street Warriors	Street Fighter clone by Marcus Kasumba.
16308	The Radical Collection v2	Star Driver and Masters of Space by Radical Software.	XC, *
17000	An introduction to overscan graphics (full screen, no border).
17100*	Amiga Graphics	David Carter's famous compilation of pictures transferred from the Amiga. A slideshow of simply stunning quality.
17101*	Amiga Graphics 2	Volume two of the classic slideshow.
17102	Digital Demo 7
17103	Peter Campbell Collection	Showcasing the bizarre sense of humour of the Comsoft boss and self-proclaimed babe magnet.
17104	Rock Show	Pictures of '80s rock stars, digitised by Nullos Cracker.
17105	David Carter's Turtlemuck slideshow	The Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles as you've never seen them before, and scenes from Gone With The Wind.
17106	Miscellaneous slideshows (or 'Diashows') from Germany.
17107	Pictures produced by members of the British CPC club WACCI.
17108	More WACCI pictures.
17109	A high-quality slideshow of overscan (full screen) pictures.
17110	Stills from the Victor and Hugo cartoon and from the Schwarzenegger film Terminator II.
17111*	Beautiful hand-drawn overscan pictures by MaDe of Rebels	Regularly voted "best artist" in European fanzines' readers' polls, plus subtly drawn MODE 1 artwork which was used to demonstrate the CPC in its early days!
17112	Conspiracy Plus Slideshow	Digitised pictures in 16 shades of grey, for viewing on CPC Plus machines.	Plus only
17114	Digitised and hand-drawn pictures by David Carter.
17115	Digitised and hand-drawn pictures by David Carter and Mark Chater.
17200	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17201	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17202	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17203	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17204	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17205	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.	Includes a themed set of transport pictures.
17206	PowerPage clip art from the CPC SouthWest user group.
17207	Clip art for Stop Press and MicroDesign.
17208	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17209	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17210	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17211	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17212	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17213	Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage.
17300	Femmes Entre Elles and Lovepack	Two explicit slideshows for over-18s only.	18
17301	Electric Show and Nice Picture Show II	Two more collections of explicit pictures (green-screen only).	18
17401	Graphical Demos	Short graphical demos, including a well-drawn collection of flags by Stuart Gascoigne and Andre Coutanche.
17500*	Font Pack	A superbly varied pack of fonts, in PowerPage, MicroDesign, Advanced Art Studio, and 8x8 screen formats. Whether you're laying out a fanzine or coding a scrolltext, there's sure to be a font for you here.
18100	Simple demos by LDC	aka David Long of Demon PD.
18101	British demos.
18102	CRTC Collection	Demos by CRTC (Richard Fairhurst), including 1992's Inspiration demo and the MacBugs meeting demo.
18103	British demos.
18104	Demoware	Excruciating demo by the Bitmap Vandals, plus previews of the follow-up, recently unearthed by Matthew Breckon.
18105*	British Demos Collection	Four excellent British demos: Wulf 3 (with truly beautiful graphics), Conspiracy TV, Atlantic Coding's Chill, and Frequency's Soundtrakker demo.
18106	Martin Young's 4-bit samples and Blip!	Impressive 4-bit samples, and Palm Coding's superlative Blip! Music compilation.
18108*	Audio Illusions	A huge collection of music penned by Frequency of Systeme D, complete with interesting graphic effects and quality pictures by the Doodler.
18200	Terrific Demo	A classic megademo by Weee! and Thriller (Cadjo Clan), with some of the best music around.	128
18201*	The Demo	As definitive as the title suggests, this is Logon System's meisterwerk. Seven parts forming the best examples of demo coding you'll ever find, and a revolution on its release in 1992. If you only ever see one demo, make sure it's this one.	128
18202	Logon System Collection 1	Early demos by the founders of CPC demo coding, including the Malibu/Logon collaboration, Amazing Demo.
18203*	Logon System Collection 2	The final releases by Logon System, including Overflow's breath-taking third demo, F--ing Exams, and the Euromeeting Demo.	128
18204	Paradise Demo	An accomplished, if predictable, megademo from Paradox.
18205	French Classics 1	A selection of the best releases from the heyday of French demo coding. Includes work by Fefesse and the Malibu Crackers.
18206	French Classics 2	More examples of Gallic genius, including Malibu's head-spinning farewell, the Intox demo.
18207	Continental Classics	A snapshot of the demo scene in Germany and elsewhere, c. 1990. Best of all is KKB's imaginative First Demo.
18212	Voyage 1993	Formulaic megademo by Prodatron and Alien of BENG!.	128
18213	Prodatron Megademo
18214	NWC Collection	The innovative work of Danish demo coder Peter Sorensen, whose most recent release is entitled Unique (18218).
18215*	Ultimate Megademo	Thought by many to rival The Demo, Face Hugger's imaginative demo introduced a new talent to the CPC coding world and started a craze for 3D effects. Also includes Elmar Krieger's spectacular Chain Demo.	128
18216*	Divine Megademo disc 1
18217*	Divine Megademo disc 2	The enormous new demo by three of Europe's premier coding talents - Antoine Pitrou, Mage, and Odiesoft. Not as slick as you might hope, but contains some of the best CPC coding ever. Both discs needed.	128
18218	Unique	The long-awaited megademo by NWC of Unix, with new effects including an enormous sine scroll and starfield loader.	128
18300	Pleasure Zone	A slideshow of sexually explicit animations.	18
18303	Germaine, Fire Engine, and more	More animations of a dubious nature, including the infamous Germaine demos and the Fire Engine animation.	18
18400	Miscellaneous Animations	Animations of bouncing balls, violin players, Dr Spock, and many more.
18401	Vector Animations by David Carter	Vector animations produced by David Carter with Discovery's Animator package. Very smooth.	128
19100	S.E.X. 1	English-language fanzine from Greece.	18
19101	C.E.F. 4/Fanzam 5	Unpretentious and little-known British disc fanzine.
19102	Donut Mag 1, Otto 1	The first issues of Tom Dean's lively disczine and Nicholas Campbell's more po-faced production.
19103	S.E.X. 2	The latest issue of the Greek fanzine.
19104	Amstrad User 6
19105	Amstrad User 7	Fanzine from Ireland.	128
19106	Donut Mag 2	Controversial but very enjoyable second issue of the Donut System fanzine.
19107	Otto 4
19108	Otto 3	Nicholas Campbell's fanzine, now incorporating Jonty Jones's After Dark.
19109	Ovation 2, CPC Telegramm 17	Worthy but dull Greek fanzine coupled with the latest issue of Germany's excellent dual-language newszine.
19110	Otto 5	The final issue.
19111*	BTL 1
19112*	BTL 2
19113*	BTL 3
19114*	BTL 4	The inimitable British disc fanzine, produced by leading lights of the STS and Systeme D groups, and with more libel than you would have thought could be packed into one 360k disc.
19121	EuroWACCI 1	A selection of classic articles from the WACCI paperzine in a freely distributable form for the European market.
19122	EuroWACCI 2
19125	ATM 1
19126	ATM 2
19127*	ATM 3	Amstrad Technical Mag: an intriguing mixture of gossip and hardware tips from Roy Everett and Nigel Callcutt.
19128*	Digital Press 3 disc 1
19129*	Digital Press 3 disc 2	Informative and expansive French-German co-production.	128
19130	Impact 3, Otto 2	Fanzines by Tom Dean and Nicholas Campbell.
19131	Another World 1 & 2
19132	Another World 3 & 4	Richard Avery's simple disc fanzine.
19200	Disc Full 5
19201	Disc Full 6
19202	Disc Full 7	Beautifully produced French-language disczine. Compatible with 6128 only.
19203	Ams'Dem 1
19204	Ams'Dem 3
19205	Z80 4
19206	Micro-Mag 5
19207	The Addams Fanz 1
19208	Disc Full 8
19209	Crack'n'Rom 7
19210	Micro-Mag/Press Fire 7
19211	Disc Full 10	French-language disczines.
19212	Dracula Fanz 4
19213	Demoniak 4
19214	Dracula Fanz 5 disc 1
19215	Dracula Fanz 5 disc 2	Some of the latest French-language disczines, with presentation more akin to that of a demo. A visual feast even for those who don't speak the language.
19300	Amsmail 1	A vintage German-language disczine.
19301	CPC Fastloader 4, Bad Mag 1	An issue of Prodatron's German-language fanzine plus the debut of notorious bilingual fanzine Bad Mag.
19302	CPC Fastloader 6
19303	Xtreme 1	The final issue of Prodatron's original disczine and the first fruit of his collaboration with Hypnomega. Mostly German-language.
19304	CPC Challenge 12
19305	Bad Mag 2	The second and final issue of the virulent Bad Mag.
19306*	Xtreme 2	Probably the best of the "big name" fanzines, with flawless presentation and well-informed (bilingual) content.
19307	Xtreme 3, CPC Challenge 17
19309	Disc Mac Challenge 19/20	Hypnomega's popular document of German scene culture.
19310	Tribal Mag 7 disc 1
19311	Tribal Mag 7 disc 2, Disc Mac Challenge 21	The most recent issue of Juggler's mammoth German/English fanzine: varied and interesting content. Also the latest CPC Challenge.

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CP/M Software

These discs are compatible with Amstrad CPCs and PCWs. Some require CP/M 2.2 or are CPC-only.

Disc	Title	Description	Notes
21100	VDE	Commercial-quality word processor ("ZDE" forms), plus PD spell-checker.	*
21101	Express Writer & Bradford	Word processors with high quality printout.
21400	Printmaster	Poster and card design package with font and clip art.	*
21600	GigaCAD	Graphical CAD system.	CP/M 2.2 only
22000	Misc utilities	Date-stamping, print processing, menu creation.
22100	Filesweep utilities	File utilities including Newsweep (NSWP) and Maxisweep.	*
22101	Sector editors	Extended format utilities, PC/PCW disc readers.	Not PCW
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ROM Software

16k ROMs for any standard CPC or Plus ROM-board.

Disc	Title	Description	Notes
90000	Auntie John's ROM	Invaders, Pacman, extra commands for programmers/printers.	*
92000	Hacker's BASIC	Hacking suite in ROM format by David Wild.
92001	Amstradxtra	Extra commands for programmers, by Dave Gorski.
92002	ANSI Terminal & PC Disc Tools	ANSI terminal emulator and PC disc tools by Paul Martin.
92100	S-DOS 2	Large-format DOS with many features; basis for ParaDOS.	XC, *
92101	AMSDOC	Patched AMSDOS with sub-directory support.
92102	MS800	ROM version of 800k DOS.	XC, 6128 only
93100	Charley's Comms ROM	Advanced comms system with YModem support and RSXs.	XC, *

Notes

• Some entries are abbreviated here for clarity; see the full catalogue for a comprehensive listing.
• For over-18 material (noted as "18"), please order by cheque.

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