My RetroChallenge 2021/10 Project – Amstrad CPC Firmware
My entry for RetroChallenge 2021/10 is to publish reverse engineered versions of the Amstrad CPC firmware ROMs which can be modified and assembled. In this post I want to explain why why I’m doing this. The first reason is a personal one: I have several projects on the go which would benefit from this. The …. Read More
Understanding the Amstrad CPC Video, RAM and Gate Array Subsystem
The Amstrad CPC is my favourite 8-bit home computer system – I still have my childhood CPC464. There are a number of things I love about it’s design, including the video system, which offers higher resolution and a larger colour palette than most of it’s siblings. Recently I’ve put some effort into understanding how the …. Read More