Amstrad GX4000

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[betterwatchit]

What music is that from 0:12 to 4:26?

[retrozoneorg]

It's a piece of music I made myself. I have a Roland JV-1080 which is where the synth sound comes from. The rest of the instruments and strings comes from my Korg NS5R. The drums are from an Alesis SR-16.

Song was composed in MIDI in about an hour. I used some royalty free sound samples for the voices.

You like it?

[hm995]

Amstrad did actually release other, far more popular consoles in the UK, I believe. It was a compititor of the overwhelmingly popular Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

[retrozoneorg]

The GX4000 was the only "Console" released by Amstrad (although the 464 & 6128 plus machines did have a cartridge slot.) The other machines - mainly the CPC 464 and CPC 6128 were marketed as "Complete Home Computer" packages and not games machines (although the 464 was mainly used for games.)

[Kousaburo]

"On par with the SNES" Oh Lord Sugar, pride comes before a fall.

[NWNisFUN]

That is cool . It's nearly mint condition!

[zigazig1980]

lol i remember my mate got this i remember being shocked because we both had had the 464 or 6128 and when this came along i did not have a clue what to think of it, i remember playing burnin rubber alot but thought it was pretty crappy

[Misel982001]

How many pieces did this machine sell?

[mintkendishin]

wow this is super rare....i wonder how much a complete would cost?

[cant1rac]

the tech they were trying to flog was seriously out off date, 32 bit was know at the time just about to be released (towns and amigacd 32 in 1991) 16bit had firmly established it self over 5 years with the atari st and amiga and the megadrive had been out for 2 years. to not be upgrading with a 32bit or 16 bit at the time, was suicide.

and to ask amstrad owners never mind anyone else to buy into a stripped down cpc 464 was insulting

what they shifted was xmas pressies by non knowledgable parents

[cant1rac]

really this and the c64 games machine and to a lesser extent the amiga cd32

was seen at the time as a huge rip off scam by manufacturers. resell a stripped down out off date tech of an existing product. i mean its a less powerful 464 plus sold at an extrodinary price. 8 bit tech being sold in 1990 when 16 bit started hitting the market in the mid 80's. a massive rip off effort and it failed spectacularly essentially signaling the death of commadore and amstrad as main stream computer vendors

[TheStalker1979]

Rien que pour Burnin Rubber ça valait le coup XXL 5 *****

[tsuihark]

Wow, the text to speech thingy actually fooled me for a while!

[Scopie33]

my god, Rurning Rubber looks about as fast as an asmatic ant with a heavy load of shopping and what's with that sound chip.....