Amstrad CPC

This is an emulator for the Amstrad CPC (Colour Personal Computer),a Z80 4Mhz based 8 bit computer that has hi-res graphics and a disk drive. It emulates upto 128Kb RAM, 2 disk drives and different formats and supports full sound emulation. This emulator is multi-tasking (see screenshot below), and is a very nice emulation system. With the code not being pre-assembled, it also makes an interesting programming study.

CPCXtract is provided as an extra program to enable the user to get images from there old CPC (if it has a 3.5" disk drive) onto their acorn.

Thanks go to Adam Hay for informing me that this emulator works at a reasonable speed, even on his A3010 with 2Mb of RAM. I have tested it on my A5000, and it works fine here also.

This emulator is written by Andras Stroiczek.

Andreas Stroiczek
Zum Kindergarten 5
32427 Minden
Germany

There is also a freeware emulator, that was originally shareware, written by Mark Rison. The current version is 1996-07-28, but it looks like development of this emulator may be coming to an end as a result of Mark getting a job at Acorn. Still, this emulator appears to be pretty good, but unfortunately takes a little putting together. Mark is looking for an enthusiastic programmer to take over his project, and develop it further. Try it out from his page.

Stroiczek's Speed Rating: ARM 250 - Perfect, ARM 3 - Perfect
Rison's Speed Rating: ARM 3 Perfect

Emulators:
CPC emulator v1.10 (293Kb)
Mark Rison's CPC emulator page

Software:
Various CPC software
ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/cpc

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