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Oi m8's, it's only 40 years since the CPC was born innit! I never had one but do have some fond memories of the CPC, a classic system. Say something nice about the Amstrad general.

>> No.10845971
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>> No.10845983

amstards trying to shit up /vr/ again

>> No.10846006

>>10845968
Had a 6128+ and spent a lot of time playing it with my brother's. Completed Robocop on it but Batman's batwing level kicked my arse.
Played the educational games on it quite a bit too.

>> No.10846115

I think it has the best version of Head over Heels. The Amiga/ST ports are based on the c64 port which has some different layout.

>> No.10846398

>>10845968
was a great machine except for the choice of disk drive.

>>10846115
>I think it has the best version of Head over Heels.
it's great, but ST version is the best. The Amiga version is just a port from the ST but it's not based on the c64 version at all. (c64 version sucked).

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>>10845983
>amstards

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>>10845968
Spindizzy was its best game for me. any Speccy isometric port was usually good too.

because it came with a monitor it was much clearer than my C64 and speccy on me telly

>> No.10846916

>>10845968
Where did the April date come from? The machine wasn't released until late June 1984.

>> No.10847936

>>10846913
Agree on this adding that colour enhances the visual effect.

>>10846916
From when it was released to the press.

>> No.10848027

>>10845968
My mate at primary school had a CPC. The only games I remember playing on it were Short Circuit and Howard the Duck.

>> No.10848083

My pal had a 6128 I would have loved one if I could have afforded it, it came with CPM and LOGO which I found really fascinating.

>> No.10848792

>>10845968
>a mugs eyeful: the microcomputer

>> No.10848806

>>10845968
I played one of these at school as a kid. When they upgraded to IBM pcs, my friend got one from the librarian. I think he got on the bus with the whole thing.

>> No.10848939

>>10846115
I agree. It had better music as I recall and some when you entered rooms that other versions didn’t have.
Shame about all the shitty direct from spectrum conversions.
>>10845971
Over £100 value
Grim

>> No.10849378

Cousin had one, nice colour palette but soundchip was trash and every game seems to run slow as shit. Couldn't hold a candle to my C64. For some reason the CPC was popular in France.

>> No.10849415

Oi mate, if you're lookin' to get your mitts on a proper Amstrad CPC emulator, you've gotta check out WinAPE, innit? It's the dog's bollocks – proper good, I tell ya. It's got all the bells and whistles: sound emulation, support for all them CPC models, and even a built-in debugger for the tech-savvy geezers.

You just download it, right, and you're off to the races. It's like havin' a chippy on your PC, but instead of fish and chips, you're munchin' on classic games and software from the good ol' days. And the best part? It's as free as the birds, no dosh needed!

So don't muck about, give WinAPE a go and relive the glory days of the Amstrad CPC. Bob's your uncle!

>> No.10849816

People always type fake britshit, but never type engrish for chinkshit threads or japthreads. This has been noted.

>> No.10849917

>>10849378
>every game seems to run slow as shit
z80 is not exactly a powerful cpu (slower than 6502 despite z80 running at 4mhz) and the graphics chip was designed for character displays.
>Couldn't hold a candle to my C64
VIC-II chip was just incredible for the time
>For some reason the CPC was popular in France.
only time i saw them were in schools in australia during the 1980s before they were all replaced with C64s.

>> No.10849926

>>10849816
OI BRUV, YOU GOTTA LOICENSE FOR AT NOTE??

>> No.10849981

>>10849926
This is a citation.

>> No.10850560

>>10849917
I liked c64 and Amstrad was still fairly popular here. Speccy flopped hard here though. :(

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I thought this game was the most amazing graphics I'd ever seen at the time.

>> No.10850737

>>10845968
It had one of the best colour palettes from all of those old micro computers. Second only to the C64.

>> No.10850741

>>10849415
Genuinely retroarch is better for emulating speccy and amstrad. It just works. And I hate retroarch normally too. This is one of the few reasons I tolerate having it on my PC.

>> No.10851349

You can't go past MiSTer for good Amstrad support today, really nailed it.