Peripherals

• I/O Port Summary

Please try to keep things in alphabetical order.

Built-in Chipset

• 765 FDC - Floppy Disc Controller
• 8255 - PIO - I/O controller
• Arnold V Specs Revised - Arnold V (CPC+) Technical Specification
• AY-3-8912 - Sound chip / keyboard controller
• CRTC - Video chip
• Gate Array - Custom chip (frequency generation, colors, bank switching)
• Power Supply for CPC and CPC plus
• Printer Port

Built-in connectors: pinout

• 2nd disc drive (CPC664, CPC6128, CPC6128+)
• Analogue joystick (CPC Plus only)
• Aux socket (CPC Plus only) (Lightgun)
• Cartridge Slot (CPC Plus only)
• Cassette recorder
• Digital joystick
• Expansion port
• Monitor
• Printer port
• Stereo sound

Built-in Firmware

• BIOS Functions
• Locomotive BASIC (reference for BASIC commands, functions and error messages)
• Technical information about Locomotive BASIC (encoding of BASIC programs in memory)

Modems

• Commstar v21/23 modem (Pace)
• Digitelec DTL 2000/2100 Modem
• MicroLink Dual-Speed Modem (MicroLink)
• MicroLink Multi-Speed Modem (MicroLink)
• Mini-Max Modem (KDS_Electronics)

Serial Interfaces

• Aleste 520EX (a CPC clone with built-in RS232, intended for serial mouse)
• AMSSIO (RS232 interface) (DIY)
• Amstrad Serial Interface (Amstrad)
• Cirkit serial interface (Cirkit)
• CPCI RS232 Interface (DIY)
• KDS Serial Interface (KDS Electronics)
• SCA CPC Prolink (SCA)
• RS-232 para Amstrad (MHT Ingenieros)
• Simple RS232 for Printer usage (DIY) (one-directional, transmit only)
• Spectre Comms Serial Interface (Spectre Communications)
• Schneider RS232 Interface (Schneider)
• Dual RS232 (Timatic Systems)

Teletext

• Loritel (teletel/modem or so) (Loriciels)
• Schneider BTX Modul
• Teletext adaptor by Microtext Ltd.
• Volex TTX 2000a
• Wiedmann BTX Modul

Others

• CPC Booster/CPC Booster+
• Virtual Net 96 (Wizcat)
• Red Box (GIS)

• ARA digitizer
• Electric Studio C6 (Electric Studio)
• Dart Scanner (Dart Electronics)
• VIDI digitizer (Rombo Productions)

Disc Drives

• 3½" & 5¼" Disk Drives
• Amstrad DDI-1 / FD-1 Disk Drive
• Cumana 3" Disk Drive
• Data Media Disc System
• Jasmin AM5D 5 "1/4 floppy drive
• KDS 5¼" Disc Drive (KDS Electronics)
• TIMDISC 5¼" 2nd Disc Drive (Timatic Systems)
• Vortex Disc Drives (Vortex)

Exotic Drives

• Codemasters CD (loads games from Audio CD via joystick port)

Hard Disc Drives

• CPC-IDE (modern) (discontinued prototype)
• Dobbertin Harddisc (Dobbertin)
• IDE8255 internal/extrernal IDE/CF interface
• SYMBiFACE II (modern) (IDE and various other features)
• Vortex Winchester Drive (Vortex)

Drive Emulators

• HxC Floppy Emulator
• SDiskEmul
• TFE Floppy Emulator
• VDrive

• Action Replay (Datel Electronics)
• Disc Wizard (Evesham Micros)
• Draysoft Doubler
• Hackit / Le Hacker (Siren Software)
• Mirage Imager (Mirage Microcomputer Limited)
• Multiface II (Romantic Robot)
• RAM7 Cartridge Hacker (for CPC+/GX4000 cartridges)
• Transtape (Hard Micro)

Joysticks

• Analog Joysticks (CPC Plus only)
• Digital Joysticks
• Amstrad JY-1/JY-2 joysticks
• Joystick Y-cables

Light-Guns

• Gunstick (MHT Ingenieros)
• Magnum Light Phaser (Amstrad)
• Trojan Light Phazer (Trojan) (CPC+)
• West Phaser (Loriciel)

Light-Pens

• Amstrad LP-1 light pen (Amstrad/Amsoft/Trojan) aka Trojan CAD-Master Lightpen (Trojan)
• ASS Light-Pen
• Dk'tronics Light Pen (Dk'tronics)
• Light Pen Professional / Mark II (Electric Studio)
• DIY Lightpens (should be released in various mags?)

Mouse

• AMX Mouse (Advanced Memory Systems)
• Atari-ST mouse adapter (DIY)
• Dk'tronics Mouse Interface (Dk'tronics)
• CPC-Mousepack 2.0 (Gerdes/Centaur/Reis-ware/ASS)
• Electric Studio Mouse
• GEOS mouse (C64)
• Kempston Mouse
• Marconi trackball
• Serial RS232 Mouse
• PS/2 mouse of SYMBiFACE II
• Wireless mouse (DIY)

Others

• Attaching an AT keyboard to the CPC
• Grafpad II
• Keyboard Repair/Replacement

Memory Expansions / RAM box

• (Standard Memory Expansions)
• CPC4MB - 4 MB memory expansion
• Data Media SP64
• Dk'tronics Memory Expansion and Silicon Disc (Dk'tronics)
• Dobbertin Memory Expansion (Dobbertin)
• Inicron RAM-Box (Inicron)
• Otten & Fecht 1 MB RAM-Disc
• Phoenix M64
• RAM BOX 512Kb memory expansion [does that lowercase "b" mean bits, not bytes???]
• RAM7 2MB memory expansion
• SYMBiFACE II - contains (among others) 512K RAM
• Vortex Expansions RAM card (Vortex)

ROM Box / ROM Board

• ACU Romboard (DIY)
• AMRAM (Silicon Systems)
• AMRAM2 (Silicon Systems)
• Amstrad ROM Expander (Simon Dean - DIY)
• Britannia ROM Board (Britannia)
• Honeysoft ROM Board (HoneySoft)
• Cirkit HX-RX1 Rom Expansion Card
• Inicron ROM-RAM-Box (Inicron)
• CPC.Flash internal/external 4MB ROM upgrade
• CPC GX4000-Multi EPROM Cartridge Use a GX cartidge for modified ROM software
• Dobbertin EPROM 224 (Dobbertin)
• Fleet EPROM Programmer
• KDS ROM Board (KDS Electronics)
• Maplin ROM Box (Maplin)
• Microgenic ROM Board (Microgenic)
• Microstyle RAMROM (Microstyle)
• Microstyle ROM Board Xtra (Microstyle)
• Micro Power ROM Box
• Ramcard 128 (a ROM emulator) (RAM7)
• Rombo Rombox (Rombo Productions)
• Universeller EPROM Programmer 4004 (Dobbertin)
• X-ROM Eprom programmer and ROM Board (Timatic Systems)

• Computers compatible with Amstrad Monitors
• Amstrad CM14 Colour Monitor
• Amstrad CTM640/CTM644 Color Monitor
• Amstrad GT64/GT65 Green Monitor
• Amstrad MM12 Monochrome Monitor
• Amstrad MP1/MP2 modulator
• Amstrad MPV 001 modulator
• CPCAI HF-modulator (CPC Schneider International 11/1986, Page 78ff. Someone please scan it, my issue lacks those pages!)
• Amstrad MP-2F Scart Adapter
• Amstrad MP-3 TV modulator for CTM 64x
• TV SCART cable (DIY)
• LCD And Plasma TV Solution (DIY)

• CPC Booster/CPC Booster+
• SYMBiFACE II
• CPCMax!
• CPCISA by Yarek
• CPCX
• Full Expandable Interface (Timatic Systems)

• (8bit Printer Ports)
• Amstrad DMP1 printer
• Amstrad/Schneider DMP2000 Printer
• Amstrad/Schneider DMP2100 Printer
• Amstrad DMP2160 printer
• Amstrad DMP3000 printer
• Amstrad DMP3160 printer
• Amstrad DMP3250 printer
• Amstrad DMP4000 printer
• EuroPrint FT80X
• Präsident 6320
• Robotron 6313
• Schneider NLQ401
• Star Printers

• ACU Real Time Clock (DIY) (without year counter)
• Aleste 520EX (a CPC clone with built-in RTC)
• CPCI Real Time Clock (DIY)
• Dk'tronics Real Time Clock (Dk'tronics)
• Dobbertin Real Time Clock -- aka Dobbertin Smart Watch (the RTC itself is inserted like a ROM)
• Realtime Clock of SYMBiFACE_II (modern RTC with bugged century counter)

• Amdrum (Playback) (Cheetah)
• Amstrad SSA-1 Speech Synthesizer (Speech) (Amstrad)
• Digiblaster (Playback) (DIY) (8bit DAC on printer port)
• Digivox sampler
• Dk'tronics Speech Synthesizer (Speech) (Dk'tronics)
• DHCP MIDI Interface (DHCP Electronics)
• EMR MIDI Interface (MIDI) (ElectroMusic Research)
• FuturePlayer (modern MP3 playback, max 128kbps) (Dr.Zed)
• Maestro (Amplifier/Speakers) (Vanguard Leisure Ltd.)
• Magic Sound Board for Aleste 520EX (four channel DMA playback) (Patisonic)
• Music Machine (Sampling/Playback/MIDI) (RAM Electronics)
• MHT Speech Synthesizer (Speech) (MHT Ingenieros)
• Silicon Systems MIDI Interface
• Sound Blaster (Amplifier/Speakers) (Siren Software)
• TMPI speech synthesizer (Speech) (TechniMusique)

• 64 Kb Printer Buffer (DIY)
• Ambug Robot (DIY)
• Amstrad CT-1 Radio/Alarm-Clock
• CPCISA
• Dk'tronics Utopia OS
• Dust Covers
• FO-Dos card
• Fischertechnik robot
• Graphiscop II
• HDCPC
• KDS Power Controller (KDS Electronics)
• Kersten PC Emulator
• Northern Computers Amstore
• Peripheral Soft Reset (System BIOS Feature for Peripherals)
• Cheetah Marketing Split Extension Connector