Oh no, the last one in the series? I hope you find other topics for your videos. They are very enjoyable.

Thanks Tezza for another wonderful video. Your channel is an invaluable place of computer history. You need a Tandy 1000 in your collection sir!

I have enjoyed your series very much and look forward to more videos if and when you make them but you have left a good legacy of entertaining, informative videos behind and that is an achievement.

Unfortunately, I never had the chance to use a CPC in the US. However, given its design and capability I think it was a pretty nice machine for the money at the time. I had the commodore 64 and enjoyed that but I appreciate what Amstrad did with 80 columns and using more commodity hardware like the Z80, 6845, and 8255 which were readily available. I also like the clean and straight forward motherboard design. Very nicely done. The monitor is nice and would have to be to display 80 columns properly. I can see why it sold millions in the UK and in Europe. Well designed, good software (including Basic) and availability (later) of CP/M operating system and applications. It was a versatile Z80 based home computer.

OMG......My first ever computer I ever got,  this is the reason I'm in I.T,  Network Admin, Cisco, programming ect.....
good memory's too   lol

Tezza, this series has been incredibly informative and entertaining. Your narrative style is really excellent and I have to say i have watched many of these videos more than once. Hope to see more videos about this challenging and fulfilling hobby! Keep up the good work.

Extremely sharp colours on the Amstrad compared to the rather bleak C64 colours.

Another great video Terry.
The Amstrads are an interesting machine, one that I have not had that much experience with.  I am lucky to have both a 464 and 6128, that I did not know whether they worked for a very long time, until I got the right cable set from Retro Computer Shack in the UK.  As I have never had a monitor for them.
I haven't forgotten about the TI games either, they will still make their way to you :)

I really enjoyed this video. Thank you, Terry!

Wow just as i remember it my favorite games were harrier attack oh mummy Roland on the ropes and kick start thanks for uploading brings back memories

Waoo, good to see my first computer bought in mid 80s

I've recently become a CPC convert, first through buying the German Schneider CPC and then picking up a sold as seen untested Amstrad version for a mere £20. Both work beautifully and were bargains for the relatively small outlay. It's a decent retro system that is a tad underrated and it's well worth picking one up for some retro action!
Tezza's videos as ever are fantastic with all these vintage systems.

Great video! My son’s favourite 8-bit computer. It’s great and plays some great games.

I had this one with green screen mum bought at dixons in Fulham lol

This was my first upgrade from a zx spectrum. I can tell nobody played Daley Thompson's decathlon on your machine.

Hm, interesting that not only did you get a computer, but someone you knew had a monitor. Was the system officially released in New Zealand?

What happend to you? Why no update for 11 months?

omg your so pro !! so many classic computer u have

I never owned the Amstrad CPC 464, but it was the first computer I got to consistently interact with on a regular basis. My friend got the CPC for Christmas, probably close to its expiration date in retrospect. He only ever had Amstrad's green screen monitor, so I never realised just how colourful this machines graphics were. Cheers Tezza!

The Amstrad CPC 6128 is the first computer I ever owned. I learned a lot on that baby. I've really enjoyed watching all of your videos - they are great. I've seen most of them in real life (I grew up around that time), but some of them like the Ohio Scientific, I'd never even heard of. I hope you find more things soon, and so thanks for all the great videos so far.

thanks for another great vid!

Thanks for another great video! When I was still in Europe, I never saw one of these. Those graphics are pretty impressive for what seems to be a simple system. The magic must be in the PLA.
I hope you'll get some more vintage computers in the future, I'll definitely keep watching!

And what of Amstrad now, they only make satellite receivers for sky

Get rid of IBM PCs and "rewind" to CPCs (Press PLAY then any Key:)
Hello from Thessaloniki, Greece!

I had a CPC 464 with 2 external disc drives, a light pen and even a whole office table made especially for the CPC, meaning it had a piece in front of where you place the computer with exactly the same height as the computer, so you could easily place your hands on the table and the computer without twisting your wrists.

I had green screen...lol

excellent video! thanks for sharing this and so many other great videos.

In Germany, Switzerland, and Austria the computer was sold by the company “Schneider” and had the official name “Schneider CPC”.

Fantastic video Terry. Informative, entertaining and very much enjoyable

Wow - that was my first computer too. Great video, even so many years on :)

Thanks Terry for the video.
I sold my moped in 1985 to buy an Amstrad CPC 464 monochrome. It brought me into the IT world, where I am educated and have worked as a programmer for 35 years, 20 years as an independent, with my own software house.
So I am grateful to Alan Sugar ;)

This seems like a great machine for the time--they were rarely seen in the US.

Amstrad/Schneider was great on paper and dissapointment in flesh. Keyboard was dissapointment. Grapphics was not enough aboove spectrum's to be useable for real applications and not fast enought for games of the day and sound was patched up to catch with Commodore etc.


Same for both monitors - mono and colour. Nothing special.

The Amstrad CPC line was popular here in Australia too but played second fiddle to the c64 of course.

For some strange reason I always had to hold down key 9 to get sound and music if I didn’t hold 9 all I got was interference,
Did anyone else have this issue?

Hi there i had one as a kid and use the book there some good code games in there if you have the time look for games from Mastertronic and it also came with a pack of 12 games as well when you bought the computer I can only remember fruit machine Roland on the ropes ATF fighter Kronos and a few others they were some of the games I had myself for the computer as a kid if thats any help

I used to repair these monitors

The labels are probably still there because the owner was like me. Too poor to afford the floppy disk and printer. Was lucky that mum and dad were able to buy it in the first place. I loved programming on that thing. Good times.

CPC464 and CPC6128 were the staple computers of the late 80s in France, really a bestseller... Still enjoys some nice homebrew games and Demoscene life these days.

I had one of the first CPC464s and loved it. Excellent basic, excellent graphics and sound, and had a reasonably good dedicated monitor. The downside was that I had bought a lot of the early games for the ZX Spectrum which I already had. The "Roland" series were just ported version of other 8 bit games, renamed.
I did love the disk version of JetSet Willy, and "Get Dexter" was an excellent game, one of very few 8-bit games I have been able to complete. "Rebelstar Raiders" was a turn based strategy game which had a two-player version on side 2 of the tape. If you loaded the single player game, then loaded the two-player game as well, you used to get some odd but interesting effects on the gameplay.
My original intention was to use it for word processing, as it had a dedicated disk drive (eventually), and printer. The intention failed in the long run because I could hold only around 5 A4 pages in the memory at one time. Not much use for a novelist, and I could not afford a PC.
Eventually I made a choice between an Amiga, which had excellent games, and upgrade potential for expansion of ram and second disk drive, and the Amstrad word processors which had drive, monitor and printer. The games gave the advantage to the Amiga and my next couple of novels were written on one.
I still have very fond memories of the CPC464, especially playing Elite until the early hours, but never found disk version much better than tape with a couple of exceptions.
If I'd had the space and money I would have kept it, but I had to sell it to partly fund the cost of the Amiga.
Thanks for the video.

nice video, i'm searching for a cpc to buy, in my oppinion you should present some new operating systems developed for the amstrad cpc series, like the Symbios Z80 www.symbos.de download, install and have fun with the multitasking operating system for the amstrad CPC

This is going to sound really amateurish, but is it possible to run on crt without the rf modulator? It is nearly impossible to find a amstrad monitor these days, but the main unit , while rare , seems readily available.

More videos please Terry!

The isometric view in Dexter reminds me very much of Mystic Towers, which was an MS-DOS game that I really like. Sadly I've not used a CPC 464, I don't know how popular or otherwise it was here in Australia, though I do believe I knew someone who had one, they tried to show me a game on it, but they couldn't get it to work.

I used to own one of these. my 1st ever computer. had hundreds of games. when clearing out the shed I put it in the bin . now there worth abit as there retro. what was I thinking.

great video, thanks!
what is that cassette with lead connected to the PC called? Can you still buy them?

everything that is 12 volt is made so u can use in ur car I thought everybody knew that

Is it a good quality display that comes with the Amstrad? Does it give a sharp image?

best 8 bit computer ever. graphics wise it walked all over the other computers. for artwork that is. when i drew a line. it never bled its colours like it would on the spectrum and com64 :)

The prices asked for broken retro computers being sold on EBAY, nowadays, is ridiculous.

I use to own one in 1986 bought for $800 from Chandlers

finally finished all your videos, that was very entertaining and informative. I may grab a few old computers, i'm interested in getting an Apple II, an IBM PC 51XX, and a Commodore 64.

Amstrad CPC 464 with colour monitor was my first ever computer back in 1985 for my 11th birthday. Brilliant! :-)

wow cpc464, thank you. memories

Very like the AMSTRAD (tm)(r) PC1512 with 512KB of RAM with a Intel 8086 process, the PC1512 came with MSDOS 3.2 and GEM DESKTOP it also had Locomotive BASIC which turned out to be a little buggy why got patched via a program written in Locomotive BASIC, I don't know why the programs were ported when the both machines used the same CPU a ZILOG Z80A they would have to just sort out the Display and IO that is it, SPY CHASER is hidden in EXCEL 2000 and when you boot EXCEL you save as web page with interactivity you shut down EXCEL and fire up IE EXPLORER then load-up the file you just saved then goto WC2000 while holding CTRL+ALT double click the Microsoft Office logo at the top left of the screen and you get SPY CHASER.

My dad used to play a game an awful lot called Sorcerer's lord that you had to use the numeric keypad to move your cursor around. That's just about the only time we ever used it on our Amstrad.

the sounds when you load games will stay with me til I die so many memories

I certainly remember these. I'm sure I've seen them for sale, but never actually used one. Clearly taking on Sinclair.

Thank you very much for the marvelous presentation! Your channel is indeed a treasure pile!

I loved loved that machine, memories.

As the same desk is used in all the videos and there are always boxes about, I'm guessing these machines are only out long enough to be reviewed. Where do you put them when they are back in hibernation?

good old times!
thumbsup

The 664 definitely looked the best, and the design has aged really well. I had the 6128 when I was a kid, but I only had it for the disk drive, I don't think I ever ran anything that used the full 128k in the 3 or 4 years that I used it. I probably would have gone for the 664 instead but it wasn't available.

like it very much

Great work again Terry, as you have reached the latter stages of your vintage computing videos how about focussing on some of the key games and peripherals for these machines? It would be great to see more videos by your goodself on these themes.

Hi Terry, love your show, were you part of the Auckland BBS scene in 1990 ? I have some memorabilia you might be interested in

Hi, there Tezza are you going to do a review on the Amstrad CPC 128 computer in the near future?

Hi, there Terry I have been following all your computer reviews, I love your You Tube Channel. Terry are you going to do a video review of the Amstrad CPC 128? As It sounds like a good computer to do a review on, Terry what to you think about this?

Hi, there again Terry, will do be doing a review in the near future, of the Amstrad CPC 128 computer? As I love all your review videos, keep up the good work mate.

my first computer was amstrad cpc 6128, can you make a video for it?

Excellent collection!!!  but I'm still waiting IMSAI 8080 (David's computer from the movie "WarGames")

The Amstrad CPC 464 , Love this one http://www.worldofspectrum.org/utilities.html :) QC

Hi Terry What is your next computer on  your hit list to buy and do a review on?

One cool feature with this computer (or it may be others in the line) is the 256 color mode. Most of the machines of the day were 16 colors with a lot of limitations and generally were not ever true 16 color machines (there were lots of 'rules' like any 8x8 square can only have 3 colors plus background). The recently released bombjack shows this nicely as does Rainbow Islands. In the right hands, very good arcade ports could be done because of the 256 colors. I have really enjoyed your collection series, they really are the best out there, maybe tied with LGR (who I am sure you know). Thanks for posting them!

June 1984!

This was my first computer inherited from my late brother in early 1990s. Some very good memories of playing games like Oh Mummy, Roland In Time, Postman Pat and The Werewolves Of London! My only criticism of the machine is the loading time of the games from casette was painfully long, and the audio was only able to come through the internal speaker. It would have been better if it had audio coming through the TV like on the Commodore 64, but other than that great machine with some nice colourful buttons :)

I have two CPC 464's but neither work. Pity. As I really love the look and feel of them. Great colours. Reminds me of the MSX range. Cheers

Keep well my friend, hope to see you again. Starting my own collection now thanks for the inspiration.

I'm jealous of your collection Terry!

I happened across your videos and have watched them all good and entertaining as well educational you have a good talking voice on youtube I'm from the USA in the midwest our family all enjoy these video the kids watch kid related stuff that make them laugh I enjoy the old tech stuff sorry to hear they are winding down but it been fun hope to see more from you on the other side of the world.

Hi, I'm enjoying your vids, just to say thanks for making them.
You can almost smell the '80s electronics!

That was my second computer. Watching your video, I barely could stop tears in my eyes. This is amazing time machine channel. Thank you for the ride, sir.

the amstrad was not that good or game  but it good for money

when my brother own amstrad cpc 464 from new it did not have sticker on the port or on tape  as you will had to remove sticker to use tape disc or printer

Hi Terry I can't wait for you to buy the next Amstrad model up from this one with the built in floppy drive for your next computer review. Put the upgraded model against the commodore 128 computer. And see what is the best 8 bit computer ever. Terry what do you think about this?

I love the design and the minimalistic use of cables.
Cheers! Thx for all the informative videos.

Thanks very much Terry for all your great videos. I was wondering myself when you were going to run out of "micros" to talk about.

I found the most entertaining part of your videos was where you gave a perspective on how it did in the market, along with some advertisements of the day. Or even better was what your thoughts were on it at the time.

Great stuff Terry. I've always looked forward to your videos and expert patter. Many thanks - you've done a wonderful service to the vintage computer community!

Another interesting video.
As for the CPC, it was very popular among my friends and in France in General, but I never saw much of an appeal to it compared to the Spectrum or the C64 that had much more of a diverse game library on them. Also, if you think the color bleed of the Spectrum is bad, I think the pixelated color mess of the CPC is far worse...
... Not to mention the quite distinct lack of adventure or RPG games on this platform.

Leave the best until last (maybe)...  Greatest 8 bit computer of all time!  Made by the genius that is Lord Sir Alan Sugar.  Very nice unit, it is actually version two - the keys are more streamlined (the version one keyboard is quite 'chunky').  The monitor is also the newer style with longer leads, the original had quite short leads so the computer had to be right up to the monitor.  Great video.

Just wanted to say thank you for such a wonderful series of videos.

Used to have a cpc-464 but the less colourfull Schneider branded version. It was our first homecomputer, and loved it allthough i din't have much games for it.

I quite like the Locomotive basic that Amstrad bought for these machines. They landed on their feet with that deal, it compares really well with BBC basic. It had pretty comprehensive control of the hardware and didn't suffer from mysterious memory poke commands that those generic Microsoft basic deals often did (especially nice having upgraded from a Dragon 32) even the mighty Commodore 64 was best used with the Simon's basic upgrade and the CPC had a really nice keyboard for programming, certainly better than early Spectrums.

Well, it certainly has been an enjoyable series of videos, even for those machines I'm familiar with; seeing them appreciated on the other side of the world is always interesting.  I didn't know, for example, that the CPC 464 was ever advertised for sale in the southern hemisphere.  What machines are still on your wanted list?  Good luck if they're rare beasts like the ZX80, Lynx, Enterprise, or Jupiter Ace!

enjoy your videos mate...

Do you know how easy it is to find replacement cassette decks for this? I got my one with about 25 games and a green monitor for £5. The unit works but the tape deck has broken belts and REALLY worn heads so i'm using a car cassette adapter connected to another tape machine to load games. Would really like to have a working tape deck in it though.

Amstrad also made a hybrid 386 PC/Sega Mega Drive called the Mega PC

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS THANKS.THE HISTORY YOU GO THROUGH IS MUCH APPRECIATED THANKS

Well, Terry, it's we who owe you thanks, I think. You've given us a terrific resource with these videos. They've been fun and informative to follow and I still go back to them as a reference resource from time to time. I'll be looking forward to any new ones as and when they come along.

And I always thought that model of Amstrad was very pretty. Looks a capable machine, too.

Hello Terry,

I did see all of your video's and very nice to see how you care about the those old pc's and there where lot's of models I never had seen. Some of them I recognized from before because I'm also one of the people from the beginning ( 48 years old ). 

My first little pc was a ZX Spectrum and after that I got an Commodore 64 and than the Intel period began. When I look back and than look to the pc's I now have, unbelievable how the technique has gone forwards.

Thanks for making those nice video's and looking forward to the next one.

Many greetings from Roel, out of the Netherlands.

Excellent video! If you use the Amstrad RF modulator with a TV, do you get a monochrome or color picture?

Hi Terry.  Happy to see you still have some more in the stash show!  I was starting to worry you had done them all!