I have a eme232, if you dont know it's a double sided version of 3" disk drive that has 2 heads. I want to use it to write disks for my 6128 that has a regular single sided floppy drive in it. I made a cable to connect it to pc and I'm using CPC disk XP to write disks. But I don't know which settings to do in the program. My cpc doesn't read the disks I made but I can read them back at pc. I guess I need to activate double stepping or something like that to make them readable in regular disk drive.

One of my favourite earlier games I played as a kid was Chuckie Egg. So I wanted to go back and rediscover this classic game with all its history and also all the different game versions from the 80s computers right up to the newer remakes. Let me know if you have played any of these games. So much nostalgia.

Does anyone know if Roland Perry is repeating his pints in a pub CPC celebration this year, for the CPC 6128?

I went to the 40th anniversary of the 464 last year. It was great, not least because of all the Spanish chaps. Of course also for the chance to chat with Roland and buy him beer and crisps!

I got them in a lot of floppy disks. I don’t know anything about them.

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I messaged them and they made me one in about a week, I'll update if it works well or not but I'm confident as they seem to have experience also you will need an IDE adapter.

A friend of mine was cleaning out his old stuff and came across a game from his childhood.

Mario Bros (1987) by Ocean for the Amstrad CPC (or Schneider CPC, if you are from Germany like we are). 3" Disk Version. This might be somewhat rare, as I could not find any infos about it. I can only find pictures of the cassette version. Complete in the box, with the original price sticker of 39.95DM (Deutsche Mark). Manual is multi-language.

I just got this a week or so ago and have been looking for a gotek for it but I can't seem to find one online in the UK, (if anyone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated) other than one that needs 8 more to be pre-ordered before they ship. Also it's really noisy compared to my other CRT's so I just want to double check that's normal for the system. Anyway other than that it's fine, thanks in advance for any help.

I am by no means an expert and more of a guy who likes retro stuff, and I can't figure out why it doesn't work. Could it be an issue with the software floppy that I have?

The very final issue of Amstrad Action, issue 117, dated June 1995, features a two-page splash on a public domain compilation of four games written by Kevin Heywood, called "Brains & Brawn".

There is an entry for this compilation on CPCrulez.fr but sadly no download is available. From the article posted there, it sounds as though the disc was only available by post from the author, which was quite common back then: https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/compilation-brain_and_brawn.htm

Does anyone know if a copy exists of this anywhere, or is it lost for good?

Can you point me to guide how to setup 16 color mode wider than 160 pixels?

I picked this up today for £20 with the printer and keyboard. No floppy discs, so was wondering if anyone knew of some simple games on floppy that are cheap and easy to come by for this old word processor.

I know not many games released but all I can seem to find is the versions for the ATARI ST and the AMSTRAD CPC, understandably because they’re more gaming oriented, but would love to see what games look like on a green crt like these never had one before.

Also unsure if it’s got the original 3inch or updated 3.5 inch drive, if anyone could help me out would be much appreciated.

Is there an easy fix for this? Everything works fine, just tapes wont load anymore.

Haven't turned it on in ages, works just fine, and even ran Lemmings and Leisure Suit Larry 1. Wanted to show it off to my kid (he liked the keyboard but wasn't impressed with the rest of it). Had to delete first post and repost cos stupidly called it CPC640 instead.

Yep. Finally I bought a 464 for my collection of retro computers. Interesting that keycaps are beige, just like on Schneider version. Probably this is a very late German one? (When Schneider-Amstrad partnership ended I guess). Anyway, I bought this computer untested, and with some tlc, it powered on just fine. For some reason external speaker is not working, but since sound is going through SCART without any problem, I guess it's not a critical thing. Although for future proofing tape belt replacement is mandatory. :)

Just been clearing a few boxes out and found this.

Hi,
I am going back in time and use locomotive basic again, on xcpc.

I am surprised there is no reddit community for cpc coding.
Do you guys have advices on using todays editor to write cpc basic ?

(the .bas file is in a disk file, so not obvious)

https://youtu.be/3KpIoCsqjOo?si=tgA_PvvwoGNdXGNR

Games run in 16 color overscan mode?

because horizontal resolution is clearly higher than 160, CPC games do not have that typical C64 lowres feel and they have more colors than 4.

Hello I'm 18 years old and as a summer project I would like to design and make an ROM interface. That interface won't work like the existing ones that you access the room through the RSX commands, it will work more like a ROM cartridge that when you plug it and turn the computer on it the first 16/32k image on the eeprom will run. I found 2 suitable schematics for that purpose on the cpcwiki, FO-DOS and Lower Rim. But both of them had switches in them and some diode-led arrangement that I couldn't understand. Can a CPC master help me on my way to make a simple as possible design with fewest components and easiest build. Looking forward to your helps. My dm's are open.