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== Welcome to the Amstrad CPC Wiki!  ==
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<br><center>This site hopes to evolve into an encyclopaedia on all things [[Amstrad|Amstrad]] [[CPC|CPC]] related. There are now '''[[Special:Allpages|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles]]''' around the CPC available.<br><br>'''[[Special:Random|Random Page]] | [[#Become an Author!|Contribute]] | [[Help:Editing|Editing help]] | [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum Forum]'''<br>[[CPCWiki:Portal|CPCWiki Portal]] · [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum Forum] · [[Photo Gallery]] · [[About|About]] · [[Special:Statistics|Statistics]] · [[CPCWiki:General disclaimer|Disclaimer]]</center><br>
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<center> '''CPC Related News''' </center>
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*26/12/11: '''Bubble Bobble''' remake [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/games/bubble-bobble-remake-(bb4cpc)/msg36311/#msg36311 released]!!! Happy holidays!
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*14/11/11: '''[http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/news/xnacpc-xbox-360-amstrad-cpc-emulator-released?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed XNACPC]''', a CPC emulator for the Xbox 360, released!
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*31/10/11: [http://lotharek.pl/ '''Lotharek'''], known as the supplier of the Jeff's HxC Floppy Emulators, has been interviewed on [http://pushnpop.net/articles-66.html '''Push'N'Pop'''].
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*23/10/11: Definite, CPCWiki version of '''Zynaps''' [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2821.msg32849#msg32849 released] by '''tastefulmrship'''!
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*09/10/11: Hidden music from '''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''' [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2685.msg31741#msg31741 ripped] by '''SyX'''!
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*01/10/11: '''NoRecess''' [http://www.norecess.net/3/post/2011/09/quickcmd-v23-released.html released v.2.3] of '''QuickCMD''', now with command history support!
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*22/09/11: '''NoRecess''' released v2.4 of his '''[http://www.norecess.net/hxc-floppy-emulator-manager.html HxC Floppy Emulator Manager]''' and '''TFM''' updated his '''[http://www.colorado-boys-muenchen.de/users/futureos/ ROManager]''', now both work with HxC set as drive B!
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*18/09/11: NEW GAME!!! '''[http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2724.0 Edge Grinder]''' by '''Paul Kooistra'''!
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*17/09/11: '''[http://www.norecess.net/3/post/2011/09/quickcmd-v22-released.html QuickCMD 2.2]''' released - support for '''[[MegaFlash]] added!
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*15/09/11: [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2714.msg27881;topicseen#new Call] for a Megademo to celebrate the CPC's '''30th anniversary'''!
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*15/08/11: Benediction and Brainstorm's demo named '''[http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=57525 Bloc Us!]''' ranked 9th at the Evoke 2011 this week-end.
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*15/08/11: '''[http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2572.new#new JavaCPC Desktop]''' 1.0 official release!
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*06/08/11: '''[http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2527.0 Megaflash]''', the programmable 512kb ROMbox by '''Bryce''' finally begun production!
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*05/08/11: '''[http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2522.0 PC-CPC]''', a lovely new emulator has been released by '''Demoniak'''!
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*05/08/11: '''[http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2514 Winape]''' at last updated to v2.0a18, too many changes to list here :)
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*05/08/11: '''[http://genesis8.free.fr/index.php#caprice-v28-and-copacabana-v075-for-palm-os Caprice v28 and Copacabana v075]''' for PalmOS!
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*05/08/11: '''[http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2243 Roland]''', the Javascript emulator, has been updated - now with a huge online games archive!
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Image:Bb4cpc3.png|Bubble Bobble 4CPC
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Image:Edge_grinder_cpc.png|Edge Grinder
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Image:Megaflash.png|First Megaflash off the production line! :)
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Image:NTWICCT01.jpg|Now That's What I Call Chip Tunes
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Image:Arquimedes.png|Arquimedes XXI
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Image:Hora bruja.jpg|Hora Bruja
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Image:BatmanForever.png|Batman Forever
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Image:Subhunter2.png|SubHunter
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Image:Uwol2b.png|Uwol 2
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Image:xmas_2010_demo_screenshot.png|Xmas 2010 Demo
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Image:MegaROM.png|MegaROM
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Image:Ilogical.png|Ilogical
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<div align=right>...[[OldNews|Older News]]...</div>
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=== CPCWiki updates  ===
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*18/08/2011: Server move complete, hunting bugs down... Currently Uploads are not possible.
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*05/08/2011: Sorry for the downtime - hardware failure on the host side!
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*12/01/2011: 2010: An '''[http://cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php/topic,1865.0.html excellent year]''' for the CPCWiki!!!
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*22/09/2009: The CPCWIKI moves to new domain [http://cpcwiki.eu CPCWIKI.EU]
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*14/08/2009: The CPCWIKI moves (temporarily) to new domain [http://cpc-wiki.com CPC-WIKI.COM]
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*22/07/09: Wiki & Forum moved to a new server
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*14/07/09: Forum updated to 2.0RC1-1, Wiki updated to 1.15.1!
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*Add the CPCWiki to '''your Homepage'''. Check out [[About#Wiki-Napping|About#Wiki-Napping]] and start napping this Wiki.
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=== Become an Author!  ===
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* [[PDW|PDW]] (unknown what this article shall be about...) (Note: PDW is believed to be German group of programmers who wrote CPC Demos)
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=== Did you know?  ===
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*When the 664 was being developed, Sugar was already looking (and hinting publicly!) at the 6128
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*The [[472|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.
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*With a possible total amount of '''832 x 288 pixel''' (576 interlaced) the [[CPC|CPC]] was the 8 bit homecomputer with the highest screen resolution ever.
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*'''OpenOffice''' for Windows/Linux is a direct descendant of [[Star-Division|StarWriter]] for the CPC.
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*The transfer speed of the [[CPC Booster|CPC Booster +]] serial interface is faster than a standard '''DSL connection'''.
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*[[SymbOS|SymbOS]] can handle more than '''50 times''' bigger hard discs than MS Windows 95A.
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*[[FutureOS|FutureOS]] can load 178 KB in '''9 seconds''' from floppy disc and manages up to '''4 MB''' of RAM
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'''If you would like to donate us, please contact the admin-team in our forum. This will ensure the continuation of the project.'''
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'''2011:''' [[User:Bryce|Bryce]] (€75)<br>
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'''2009:''' Prodatron (€1000)<br>Nurgle (€30)<br>Serge Querné (€30)<br>Roald Strauss (€50)<br>
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*Bert Post Uiterweer, [[Rex|Rex]] of [[BENG!|BENG!]], [[Robcfg|Robcfg]], [[Prodatron|Prodatron]], [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]], [[User:Ervin|Ervin]]
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=== Where are CPC users from?  ===
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