Tech&Docs

Here you'll find some technical infos about various computers. The goal is to gather useful and no tso useful informations about them.

Beware : most of this doc is made from untested, unchecked data. It may happen to be right but that would be only pure chance. Tell us if you ever find any error.

Variations on Joystick ports - Supposedly the Joystick port on many 8bit machines is the same, but there are some subtle differences.

Amstrad CPC

• Differences between CRTC types - Created for improving the Caprice Reloaded emulator
• Condensateurs et filtrage analogique
• Comment le Gate Array génère les couleurs sur CPC
• Inside the Ramcard
• FlashGordon, a 512K ROM expansion for the CPC - Documentation en Français
• USB interface for CPC
• "Albireo" interface for CPC, including the above USB interface and an high speed serial link
• "Willy", a soundcard adapter for Serdaco's OPL3LPT and S2P.
• "Nova", an RTC and NVRAM interface for the Amstrad CPC.
• "Gemini", 1MB RAM expansion for Amstrad Plus.
• Manuel de l'utilisateur Amstrad CPC 6128 (OCR and manual reformating as HTML).

Amstrad PCW

Visit our Amstrad PCW page, with some hardware information and hacks around this wonderful computer.

Thomson machines

Shinra's demomaker's guide to Thomson machines is the place with all the info about these French computers.