gp2x - Amstrad Caprice / CPC emulation via capricegp2x v0.5

[GLICKTON]

classic! lol

[andyukmonkey]

They are very similar machines. A lot of games were nearly identical on both these machines.

[amiga2000]

Here's the ZX Spectrum which was later purchased by Amstrad (bleh!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=jitkOwH_SlQ

[andyukmonkey]

I can't wait until this gets to 100% speed.

I own an Amstrad and it gave my many years of fun.

As you can see, the Amstrad is more colourfull than the commodore 64, but suffered from no hardware sprites or scrolling and poor software support from some companies.

but Robocop is a good example of one of the better games.

[amiga2000]

I agree. The author wrote that this was a quick and dirty emulation. It lacks a virtual keyboard and is good enough only for demos like this video. A friend of mine from South Africa tells me that this was his first computer as it was more popular than the C64 there.

[forakiller]

batman the isometric game was amazing too and turrican ,dizzy. first game i ever played. i realy loved the amsoft games as well like that galaxians clone.

I remeber there being parallex scrolling on a couple of games

[ukmarkh]

The CPC used hardware for the scrolling, but relied on the CPU to move sprites. The CPC had better graphics than the Speccy, but several CPC games (Speccy ports) were directly derived from their ZX Spectrum counterparts, resulting in a number of low quality titles hurting the machine's reputation. The CPC lacks the colour clash of the ZX Spectrum and clever programming of the 6845 could produce overscan, with the same pixel density and smooth pixel scrolling.