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CPC Related News

12/07/20: Mimo's Quest, a new game by Chris Perver, is under development
29/04/20: Dirk Headstrong and the Martian Madness, a new game by Zoë Robinson, is released
16/04/20: Kitsune's Curse, new game by usebox.net
03/02/20: Issue 1 of the relaunched Block 9 fanzine is now available!
25/01/20: The Queen's Footsteps, new adventure by Davide Bucci
06/01/20: Roland Goes Rescuing, a new game by Zoë Robinson, is released
01/10/19: Pinball Dreams, new game by the Batman Group
07/08/19: FutureOS, Apps and Wallpaper update
09/06/19: The Arbiter: Episode 1, a new text adventure coded live on YouTube, has been released!
01/05/19: Uploaded Amstrad CPC 664 Floppy Disc Drive Plate (SVG, PDF and PNG formats)
13/04/19: Imperium Solo released!
01/03/19: Operation Alexandra released!
26/01/19: Text adventure The Quest For The CPCine Disk of Power! released!

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When the 664 was being developed, Sugar was already looking (and hinting publicly!) at the 6128
The CPC 472 was a model released in Spain with an extra unaccessible 8 KB of RAM to circumvent a spanish tax that was charged on imported machines with up to 64 KB memory.

With a possible total amount of 832 x 288 pixel (576 interlaced) the CPC was the 8 bit homecomputer with the highest screen resolution ever.

OpenOffice for Windows/Linux is a direct descendant of StarWriter for the CPC.
The transfer speed of the CPC Booster + serial interface is faster than a standard DSL connection.

SymbOS can handle more than 50 times bigger hard discs than MS Windows 95A.
FutureOS can load 178 KB in 9 seconds from floppy disc and manages up to 4 MB of RAM

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+*12/07/20: '''''[[Mimo's Quest]]''''', a new game by [[:User:Evenmore|Chris Perver]], is under development
 *29/04/20: '''''[[Dirk Headstrong and the Martian Madness]]''''', a new game by [[:User:ZoeRobinson|Zoë Robinson]], is released
 *16/04/20: '''''Kitsune's Curse''''', new game by [https://www.usebox.net/jjm/kitsunes-curse/ usebox.net]