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. |
CP/M Software
These discs are compatible with both Amstrad CPCs and PCWs. CP/M 2.2 (as supplied with 64k CPCs) may not be capable of running certain programs: a few are CPC-only or, rarely, CP/M 2.2-only.
| Disc | Title/Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 21100* | VDE – The commercial quality word-processor (file length up to 60k) in both its original and revised "ZDE" forms, plus a PD spell-checker. | * |
| 21101 | Express Writer and Bradford – two word-processors with high quality printout options. | |
| 21400* | Printmaster – Ingenious poster and card design package, with an integral font and clip art library. Easy to use and capable of superb results. | * |
| 21600 | GigaCAD – Graphical CAD system from Germany. | CP/M 2.2 only |
| 22000 | Miscellaneous utilities including date-stamping, print processing, and easy menu creation. | |
| 22100* | Filesweep utilities – A set of intuitive file utilities, including the classic Newsweep (NSWP) and enhancements such as Maxisweep. If you can use ParaDOS, you can use these. | * |
| 22101 | Sector editors and extended format utilities, including PC and PCW disc readers. | Not PCW |
| 22300 | File crunchers, providing a highly space-effective way of archiving your spare files. | |
| 22301 | File crunchers. | |
| 22400 | Two front-ends: the excellent GUI of Geno (CP/M 2.2 only) and the Unix-like command line of SUnix. | |
| 23100 | Comms terminal MEX, with several pre-defined system configurations. | |
| 23101* | ZMP – the only CPC/PCW terminal to support the efficient ZModem file transfer protocol, plus the customisable QTerm terminal program. | * |
| 23102 | The SmartModem terminal and CRR (CP/M Read and Reply off-line reader). | |
| 23103 | Kermit and UUCP file transfer, plus the CPC-Modem terminal program. | |
| 23205 | XRAS bulletin-board system. | |
| 24100* | ZBASIC and MBASIC – Two alternative versions of BASIC. ZBASIC is a cut-down version of a fast commercial BASIC compiler, while Microsoft's classic MBASIC is the program with which the manufacturers of Windows first made their name. | * |
| 24200 | XLisp | |
| 24300 | JRT Pascal disc 1 | |
| 24301 | JRT Pascal disc 2 – An interpreted version of the language with extensive documentation. | |
| 24302 | Small C | |
| 24303 | Small C source – Interprets a subset of the system programming language. | |
| 24400 | Z80dis – Flexible Z80 disassembler. | |
| 24401* | Dazzlestar – Arguably the most fully-featured disassembler available for Z80 systems, plus powerful assembler ZSM. | * |
| 26100* | The original adventure game (later dubbed "Classic Adventure"), a puzzler of renowned intensity, plus more recent adventures by Amstrad programmers. | * |
| 26101 | A selection of adventures including Ken Bond's famously tricky Base and Island. | |
| 26300 | Arcade games including Tetris clone Quatris, Pacman, Tornado, and Maze Chase. | Some not CP/M 2.2: Tornado CP/M 2.2 only |
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.