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CPC Related News

08/06/13: Phortem, the new Condense demo is here!
31/03/13: Revision 2013: Still Rising, the Vanity's answer to Batman Forever!
07/01/13: Teodoro No Sabe Volar released!
01/01/13: Announcing the first Amstrad CPC 16KBs ROM Game Development Competition!
01/12/12: Major CPCWiki software upgrade; please report any bugs in the forum!
28/10/12: Update available of FutureOS!
03/10/12: Australian magazines ('89 & '91) here & New Zealand ones (Bits & Bytes) here!
27/04/12: Interview with Marc Maulin, co-author of legendary Discology!
07/04/12: Wake Up! by Benediction (and associates) reached the 3rd place in Olschool demo compo at the Revision Party 2012 in Germany.

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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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 *01/04/12: '''[http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/news-events/april-fool/ Pac-Man Emulator]''' released!
 *18/03/12: '''[[Wolfenstrad]]''' demo released!
-*15/03/12: New version of [[BASIC|Basic]] released for the Amstrad CPC. Check it out here: [[CPC Basic 3]]
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 Image:Rtype.jpg|[http://cpc.rtype.fr/ R-Type] remake
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