I am now once again the owner of an Amstrad CPC 6128!
You read it correctly: I just bought this 40-years old beast on eBay :)
I went for a QWERTY version, which means it's not quite the same as the Schneider CPC 6128 which I got circa 1988 and used for about 10 years.
Here is a picture of it:
(Yes, there's also a magazine about the CPC, more on that later!)
Upgrade
I spent a bit of time looking at CPC stuff on eBay, and realised there were
options to avoid using floppies, by replacing the internal floppy drive with
e.g. a Gotek, which is a floppy simulator with a USB reader - you basically put
our .dsk files on a USB stick, then plug the stick into the Gotek, and off you
go.
I'll write a dedicated article on the Gotek soon.
Next steps
It's fun to have a CPC again, some 30 years after I stopped using it!
Also, I forgot how good the keyboard was, for some reason I was half expecting
to have a crappy feeling typing on it, but that's clearly not the case.
Expect more retrograming tests to come on this blog :)
Tags: Retrogaming