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The Amstrad CPC has turned 40. If you were ‘there at the time’, we can only apologise for making you feel ancient. Or, you know, spend some time celebrating a British classic – the home micro that ...
Amstrad's hi-fis had no interconnecting wires, just a mains cable and sold in droves. Showing that consumers loved simplicity. Lord Sugar wanted the same for the CPC. "The audience was the lorry ...
The Amstrad CPC series of computers came with their own monitors that also had a built-in power supply, and featured built-in data recorders or disk drives as standard. Despite having a line of ...
If your parents bought you an Amstrad CPC as a 1980s teen, it wouldn’t have been this one, so they are considerably less common than their 64k brethren with the cassette deck. One has found its ...
The Amstrad CPC was often criticized for its games, but if you were to look past its many Spectrum ports, you’d discover there were plenty of fantastic gems for it. Join us as we celebrate the ...
I've actually been ripping off Amstrad Action. As everyone knows, the Amstrad CPC 464 was the true king of computers. The Spectrum and the Commodore were like Blur and Oasis - mainstream ...
The Amstrad was tidier, had an integrated tape deck for one thing, and had taken mere minutes to set up ready to be played. Another part of the box that housed my new CPC contained the familiar ...
Some of the screen formats supported are Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, Commodore Vic-20, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sinclair QL, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. Multipaint features common ...
How are you feeling this afternoon? Proudly old? Bored of the now? Then why not have a look at the Amstrad CPC - Arcade Conversions video roundup that our chums at Eurogamer:Retro have knocked ...