History of video games/Platforms/Amstrad CPC

History

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The Amstrad CPC 464 was launched on April 12, 1984.^[1]

CPC is short for Colour Personal Computer.^[1]

Over two million CPC computers were sold, with high popularity in continental western Europe.^[2]^[3]

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The CPC 464 is powered by an 8-bit Zilog Z80 processor clocked at four megahertz.^[4]

The system has 64 kilobytes of RAM, with 42 kilobytes being available to the user.^[5]

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↑ Smith, Tony. "You're NOT fired: The story of Amstrad's amazing CPC 464". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 28 November 2020.