This page was last updated on the 4th May 2015.
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This is arguably one of the biggest selections of Amstrad CPC
links on the World Wide Web! If any of them aren't working, or the site has
moved, then please e-mail me at nich <AT> durge <DOT> org
so I can fix the incorrect URL. If you have a website which is relevant to the
Amstrad CPC and it is not listed here, then again, e-mail me.
Each website also has a rating out of five, shown using stars.
Websites with five stars are well worth checking out, and those with only one
star (or maybe two stars) are best left alone. I want to make this list of links
as complete as possible, which is why nearly all the Amstrad CPC websites I know
of are included here.
Finally, some websites may also have one or more flags next to
them. This indicates that the website is Available in that language. Websites
with no flag(s) next to them are written in English only.
Newsgroups
- comp.sys.amstrad.8bit
A newsgroup for CPC and PCW owners, which is rather quiet nowadays. The FAQ is
no longer posted to the group, but you can look at the
English and
French versions on the
Web.
- comp.os.cpm
A newsgroup about the CP/M operating system.
FTP & Download Sites
- ADATE
This is the Amstrad Disc and Tape Emporium, where you can download CDT images of
CPC cassette software, and DSK images of original (not cracked) disc software.
If you're looking for original cassette software, this is the place to go.
- Barnyard
David Cantrell's FTP server, containing mirrors of the NVG, LIP6 and ADATE FTP
sites, as well as most of the Robot PD catalogue and lots of CP/M software.
However, the mirrors aren't up to date, so don't rely on them for obtaining the
latest content!
- CNGSoft
CNGSoft's collection of cracked games, some of which include cheat options. Most
of them are compressed into a single file! Also, this site is usually only
online from 10:00am to midnight (GMT).
- Computer Emuzone
Almost every Spanish game ever released can be downloaded from this site, and
not just for the CPC, either. It also has reviews and solutions for many of
them, although it's in Spanish, of course.
- CPC
Crackers
An archive of CPC games and crack intros, categorised by the individual or
group that cracked them.
- CPC
Museum
A huge collection of unsorted software contributed by various people.
- Crackers Velus
A large collection of games that have been transferred to DSK files. Use the
'Download' option on the menu to search for a particular game and download it.
- Demon
A mirror of Demon's FTP archive of CP/M software, for those who like that sort
of thing (not me). Look in the amstrad directory for CPC stuff.
- LIP6
Concentrates mainly on utilities, fanzines and demos, but there are some games
as well. There is a mirror of this site in
the UK.
- NVG
The best known FTP site for CPC software, which I maintain. It's got a huge
collection of CPC games - over 3000 of them, in fact! There is a mirror of this
site in the UK.
- Urusergi
A vast amount of CPC software (both cassette and disc, in CDT and DSK formats)
can be found here. Most of it has been uploaded by Spanish contributors. To gain
access, enter "amstrad" (without quotes) as both the username and the
password.
Resources
- The Amstrad CPC Hardware Projects Page
Information, mostly scanned from various British CPC magazines, on how to build
your own specialised hardware for your CPC.
- amstradcpc.info
A gallery of photos from some meetings in France between 2003 and 2010, and a
few demos and utilities to download.
- Amstradeus
Lots of manuals in PDF format to download, interviews with well known figures at
Amstrad, games to download in MP3 format to play back on a real CPC, and much
more.
- The Basic Idea
A useful resource for more experienced BASIC programmers, written by Sean
McManus. Many of his programs can be downloaded here.
- CPC Museum
Some game inlays to look at and a huge amount of unsorted software to download.
You can also download more than 300 pieces of CPC music in YM format, which you
can listen to using STSound.
- CPCrulez
A huge collection of articles from French CPC magazines on demos, Z80 machine
code, hardware, utilities and games, as well as lots of software available for
downloading. There is also a news section which is updated very regularly. One
of the best CPC sites out there, although it can be difficult to find what
you're looking for.
- CPCWiki
A fantastic resource for CPC users, particularly if you're interested in
hardware or the CPC scene in general - and like most wikis, anyone can
contribute to it!
- Genesis8 Amstrad Page
The website for the LIP6 FTP server. This is another place to download new files
if they're not on LIP6, and you can also find the FAQ for the
comp.sys.amstrad.8bit newsgroup here.
- Octoate
CPC scene news, information on some specialised CPC hardware, and a gallery of
photos from some meetings in Germany.
- Phenix Informatique
One of the best sites to visit if you're a French CPC user, with general news
about the CPC scene, a discussion forum, game reviews, samples of music from
dozens of games, interviews, and a few articles and listings... excellent!
- Pouët
Although this site covers the demo scene on a variety of computers, there is an
Amstrad CPC section with a (non-exhaustive) list of demos, intros and disc
fanzines released for the CPC over the years, complete with screenshots and
comments from other demo fans.
- The
Ring of CPCs
A webring linking together CPC websites, most of which are shown here.
- Die
Schneider-CPC Home Page
An emulator for Linux users, and some software for you to download, complete
with screenshots.
- The Trailing Edge of
Technology
Including an on-line version of the Amstrad firmware guide, and documentation
for the RAMDOS and ROMDOS disc operating systems.
- The Unofficial Amstrad
WWW Resource
More CPC stuff than you can shake a stick at!
Emulators
NOTE: The ratings given for these emulators relate to the quality of
their websites, and not to the emulators themselves. (Most people
recommend CaPriCe32, CPCE and WinAPE as the best
emulator(s).)
- AMI-CPC
A CPC emulator for the Amiga. There are also some raytraced images to look at -
although they weren't drawn on a CPC!
- Arnimedes
A new emulator on the scene, with both MS-DOS and Windows versions available.
However, it's still very much in development, so don't expect much of it.
- Arnold
An emulator for Windows which is still in development. It emulates the CPC and
Plus machines quite accurately, but it requires quite a fast PC.
Macintosh and
Linux versions are also
available.
- CaPriCe32
One of the best CPC emulators. Originally only available for MS-DOS, Windows
versions are also available. The emulator is now open source, but not much has
happened since the source code was made available.
- CoPaCabana
Another fairly new emulator for Windows, which again is still very much in
development. A PalmOS port has also recently been released.
- CPC++
An emulator which runs under MacOS and various flavours of Unix. It used to be
shareware for a long time but the author has now made it open source.
- CPCAlive
A CPC emulator for MS-DOS, aimed mainly at programmers instead of game players.
- CPCE
Another CPC emulator that was originally only available for MS-DOS, but now
exists for Windows as well. It's still being developed and is now very good
indeed.
- CPC-em
An emulator for MS-DOS and Windows, which appears to be no longer in
development.
- CPCemu
One of the very first (if not the first) CPC emulators, originally only
available for MS-DOS, has been updated, with Windows and Linux versions also
available. However, it's still nowhere near as advanced as most other emulators.
- CPC4x
One of the few CPC emulators which works with Linux systems.
- CPC Loader
Not actually an emulator, but a frontend which is supposed to make using
emulators easier and more user-friendly. It also allows you to browse through a
collection of CPC games and display information about them.
- NO$CPC
A nice emulator for MS-DOS which runs very well on slower PCs (it emulates Plus
machines as well), although it's not as good as many other MS-DOS CPC emulators
and appears to be no longer in development. A version for Windows is also
available.
- S60-CPC
An emulator for Symbian S60 mobile phones.
- WinAPE
An absolutely brilliant emulator for Windows, which emulates the 6128 Plus
(although it can be made to emulate a CPC6128 with a little know-how!). This one
is arguably the best CPC emulator of all, and it's the one I use all the time.
- WinCPC
A new emulator for Windows by Philippe Widmer which comes with lots of features,
including a built-in assembler. It seems to be very accurate as well, although
you will need a fairly hefty PC to run it properly. Note that this emulator is
not to be confused with another emulator by Ludovic Déplanque that is also
called WinCPC.
- XCPC
An emulator for Unix/Linux.
Companies
User Groups
- The Addams Fanz
A French disc fanzine. Its creators also wrote a few demos and slideshows.
You can download all of their productions from their site.
- Arkos
A French coding group who have written many demos, as well as the excellent
STarKos and Arkos Tracker utilities and the Demoniak
fanzine.
- Bad European News Gang
Remember the coding group BENG! from the early 90s? This is their website, but
there's little to see and it's been left abandoned for many years.
- Futurs' Freeware Diffusion
Another French coding group, with downloads of their productions and
comprehensive details of their future releases.
- Paradox
CMP, one of the members of this demo group, presents a few machine code routines
showing you how to create overscan and rasters on the CPC.
- Vanity
A French demo group, who have programmed some very impressive demos indeed.
- WACCI
A fanzine and user group for more serious users which is sadly no more. However,
the site contains all the articles from issues 136 to 140 of their fanzine.
Fanzines
- Amstar
A French CPC magazine which was published from 1986 to 1991 and concentrated
mostly on games. Nearly every issue can be downloaded from this site.
- Amstrad Cent
Pour Cent
A French CPC magazine which ran from 1988 to 1993. Every one of the 49 issues
can be downloaded from this site.
- Bonsoir la
Planète
Another French fanzine which has been going since 1992. The site was last
updated in mid-1998, though.
- CPC Oxygen
An online fanzine, which as its name suggests, attempts to breathe life back
into the CPC, although after 14 issues, it seems to have stopped. You can also
browse through the majority of issues of Amstrad Action as well, which
have been scanned by various contributors.
- WACCI
A fanzine and user group for more serious users which is sadly no more. However,
the site contains all the articles from issues 136 to 140 of their fanzine.
Games
- The Amstrad CPC Games Resource
This used to be the ultimate CPC games site, with links to all of the software
on NVG, loading screens, reviews of CPC games, interviews with ex-CPC
programmers, music to download, and a database of game reviews from CPC
magazines like Amstrad Action and AMTIX! However, it hasn't been
updated since January 2006.
- Amstrad CPC Nostalgia
A few games to download, and documentation on how to connect a 3½" drive
to your CPC.
- Amstrad CPC
Multiface Cheats Index
A large index of Multiface cheats for tape and disc games, including
instructions on how to use a Multiface II. You might be able to use these cheats
on a few emulators as well.
- Amstrad.ESP
A catalogue of almost every Spanish game ever released on the CPC, with
screenshots, downloads, music and advertisements. There are also lots of
articles about Spanish software houses, a selection of cheats for some games,
and an active discussion forum.
- The
Balrog
Hints, solutions and reviews for most adventure games.
- Computer Emuzone
Almost every Spanish game ever released can be downloaded from this site, and
not just for the CPC, either. It also has reviews and solutions for many of
them, although it's in Spanish, of course.
- CPC Aventure
A site to accompany CPC Aventure, an enormous point-and-click adventure
that was released in 2005. There is a complete guide to playing and solving the
game, and an in-depth look at how the game was developed.
- CPC Crackers
A site devoted to the many crackers on the CPC, with summaries, intro screens,
and a huge archive of games categorised by who cracked them.
- CPC Game Reviews
Reviews, screenshots, ratings and advertisements for more than 1000 games. Oh,
and I'm responsible for it, too... There is also a
mirror site.
(BIASED!!!)
- CPCGAMES
A very comprehensive database containing information about nearly CPC game ever
released, with screenshots, downloads, cover scans, advertisements, manuals,
maps and music.
- CPCGamesCD
A CD image containing every game on the NVG archive, several emulators, and the
CPC Loader frontend to make things more user-friendly for beginners.
- CPC Games Page
Screenshots and downloads of a few CPC games, listed by category. The site looks
nice, but there's not much else to see.
- Cronosoft
A software house which has released several games for 8-bit computers, including
the Amstrad CPC.
- Megablasters
Everything you ever wanted to know about Odiesoft's Bomberman clone -
how it was produced, a list of enemies, end-of-world guardians, objects and
secrets, and a complete solution.
- Los Mejores Juegos del Amstrad CPC
Lots of screenshots and downloads of the best CPC games (in the opinion of the
author of the website, of course), organised into categories. There's also a
gallery of the best loading screens, as well as the sexiest - which a lot of
Spanish companies were well known for...
- Notices
Amstrad
Scanned instructions of lots of games, although as this is a French site, all of
them are in French.
- Planet Omega - CPC
Games
Reviews of some games (about a dozen), with four screenshots for each one.
- Red 5
Software
Screenshots and information on Jason Davis' text adventures which were
originally released between 1990 and 1993 and are being re-released by
Cronosoft.
- Tolkien
computer games for the Amstrad CPC
A list of CPC adventure games based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, with
screenshots, covers, and cross-references galore.
Utilities
- ADLAN
Download the source code and the user manual for this ROM-based adventure game
creator.
- CPC/IP
An implementation of various Internet protocols (eg. IP, TCP, ping, finger,
telnet) - apparently a first for the CPC. It's too technical for me, anyway.
- FutureOS
An alternative ROM-based operating system.
- PJA/Projet Jeux d'Aventures pour
CPC
A Windows-based utility that allows you to create your own icon-driven
adventures on a CPC. It is currently still being developed and looks very
promising indeed.
- SymbOS
A Windows-like system for the CPC which has been in development for several
years and is very impressive indeed!
Music
- Roland Radio
An online radio station that plays Amstrad CPC tunes 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week.
- StSound
A program that lets you play tunes from the CPC (as well as other computers).
It's also available as a plugin so that website authors can play tunes within a
browser.
Personal Pages
British CPC Users
- Simon Avery
Famous for writing numerous text adventures such as Adult 2,
Boredom and Danger! Adventurer at Work for the CPC in the late 80s
and early 90s.
- Richard Brooksby
The creator of ADLAN wants to share some of his thoughts with you.
- David Cantrell
Hosts the UK mirrors of NVG, ADATE and LIP6, as well as lots of other CPC
goodies. There's more to him than meets the eye!
- John Girvin
If you read the Hairy Hacker column in Amstrad Computer User, you'll
remember this bloke. It features John's recollections of his CPC days, and
includes an excellent section devoted to the Hairy Hacker, with scans of most of
his columns in ACU.
- Andrew Lawston
A Dr. Who fan, who's also designed a Doom II WAD featuring some well
known CPC characters. There's also a walkthrough for the Level 9 game
Scapeghost. This site hasn't been updated for a long time.
- Sean McManus
Author of scores of BASIC type-ins from Amstrad Action and Amstrad
Computer User, as well as a BASIC tutorial, The Basic Idea.
- Stuart Whyte
Otherwise known as The Balrog, Amstrad Action's former adventure
columnist.
French CPC Users
- Downwater
A French CPC user with a nice-looking site, with lots of hardware and firmware
documentation in French.
- Christophe Dupas
A French CPC user and former demo coder, who has also written a text adventure
and a utility to convert PC screens to CPC format. There's also an article on
developing CPC programs with Windows programs.
- Fenyx Kell
Lots of interesting stuff to see here - PC and CPC games (which are worth
downloading), line drawings, harmonica music, and some mysterious magic. The
site looks really nice, too.
- Laurent Massicot
A French guy who creates all sorts of amazing hardware for the CPC, such as a
device to let you use a Microsoft mouse.
- Ramlaid
A French demo coder who has written several small PC utilities to make
development of CPC software on a PC easier. There is also a gallery of demos
that he has contributed to.
- Tom et Jerry
A French CPC user, formerly a cracker, demo writer and member of the group GPA,
who is still writing new software for the CPC. There's a full list of GPA's
productions, all of which can be downloaded, and a history of GPA and several
other documents are also on the site.
German CPC Users
- Amstrad CPC Imperium
The Pentagon shows off his extensive collection of Amsoft and Schneider
software.
- Bollaware
Author of some great CPC games such as Bo!, Frestris, and more
recently, Black Land and Fres Fighter II Turbo, as well as a few
utilities and demos. All of them can be downloaded from this site.
- Kangaroo Musique
The German musician's enormous collection of Soundtrakker tunes is all
here, and you can even download them all in MP3 format, too.
- Jörn Mika
Also known as Prodatron, this guy wrote lots of great demos, as well as the
music utility Digitracker. You can download them, and hundreds of
Digitracker modules, as well. He is currently developing a Windows-like
system for the CPC called SymbOS, and it looks very impressive indeed!
- Odiesoft
The author of the excellent game Megablasters and many demos, most of
which were considered revolutionary at the time of their release. He's got a
list of all of his games and demos, including screenshots and full technical
details for every one of them.
- Markus Weis
Another German CPC fan who has cleverly designed his site to give it a green
screen CPC feel. There is a list of his favourite games for various computers,
complete with screenshots, and you can also look at and download some of his
work for the CPC.
Other CPC Users
- Julian Cassin
An Australian CPC and Amiga user. He's got a great selection of photos that have
been converted to the CPC. Most of them are intended to be viewed on a green
screen, but they still look fantastic!
- Ian Dowse
I think this guy is the brother of Malcolm Dowse (also known as Malfunction)?
Although there's not much of interest on his site, he has a very impressively
upgraded CPC and a lot of photos of it to look at - look in the 'Projects'
section.
- Joseman
Another tribute page containing a history and technical specifications of the
CPC, and comments and downloads of a few games, demos and emulators. There's
lots of stuff to read and look at, but of course, you'll need to be able to
understand Spanish.