Documentations

“This is what it is and how it works. Now it's up to you to figure out what you can do with it.”

Just a little note: I call an Amstrad CPC an Amstrad CPC (or CPC for short) and an Amstrad Plus an Amstrad Plus (or Plus for short). No “CPC old” or “CPC+” here.

» Overview of the Amstrad CPC range.

» Overview of the Amstrad Plus range.

• Z80 – 8bit CPU by Zilog. draft
• I/O Devices – CPU I/O with the other chips. almost complete
  • CRTC 6845 – CRT Controler by Motorola, controls frame timings and VRAM display pointer. draft
  • Gate Array/PAL – Amstrad custom chips. Controls the video mode, colors, interrupts & ROM/RAM mapping. almost complete
  • PPI 8255 – Programable Peripheral Interface by Intel. todo
  • FDC 765 – Floppy Disc Drive controller by NEC. draft
• AY3 8912 – Soundchip by General Instruments. almost publishable
• ASIC – Amstrad Plus custom chip. draft

• Multiface Two by Romantic Robot Ltd. Missing memory layout, schematics, snapshot file format.
• RAM-Card by Ram7.
• CPC Booster by Antitec/Dirty Minds.

The firmware is the native Operating System of the Amstrad CPC/Plus. Reading these documents is highly recommanded.

• SOFT968 by Locomotive Software Ltd. and Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc, 1986.
• The Amstrad CPC Firmware Guide by Bob Taylor and Thomas Defoe, 1992.
  • Memory usage.
  • Jumpblock.

• Locomotive BASIC by Locomotive Software Ltd., 1984-1985. Missing Data structures.
  • Keywords
  • Error codes
  • Data structures

• AMSDOS by Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc, 1985.
• PARADOS by Richard Wilson, 1993. The best AMSDOS alternative that fully support 3.5' drive.

• DAMS manual (french) by Micro Application, 1985. bulky

• STarKos by Arkos, 2004-2009. need wikidesign & update to 1.2
• Soundtrakker by BSC, 1992-1993. formatting 1.1 manual, searching for ST128 stuff

• WinAPE's Maxam Assembler by Arnor, 1988 and extended by Richard Wilson. work in progress
• SjASMPlus – (Multiplatform)
• BRASS v3 – (Win32)
• Pasmo – (Win32)

• Grafx2 an open source pixelart-oriented painting program. – (Multiplatform)

• Arkos Tracker by Arkos, 2010.
• Vortex Tracker II by Sergey Bulba. A PT3-editor (Originally a Speccy chiptune format) – (Win32)
• Modplug tracker. A simple module tracker – (Win32)

• CPCSDK Open source CPC-SDK – (Linux)
• Targhan's crossdev kit – (Win32)