Amstrad CPC

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Amstrad CPC

Developer	Amstrad
Type	Computer
Release date	1984 (CPC) 1990 (GX4000)
Discontinued	1990 (CPC) 1991 (GX4000)
Emulated	✓

The Amstrad CPC was a series of 8-bit computers released in Europe to compete with the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Like the Amiga, it was a big gaming platform.

GX4000

The GX4000 is a home video game console developed and marketed by Amstrad. It was released exclusively in Europe in September 1990, and was the company's only attempt at entering the console market. As part of the third generation of consoles, it was the first British-manufactured programmable games console.

Emulators

Note: To test accuracy, you could use Acid Tests for CPC by the developer of Arnold.

See the CPCWiki Encyclopedia page for a mega-large list of all known Amstrad CPC emulators for a wide variety of platforms, consoles, other devices and FPGA hardware!
Old website for CPCE emulator (Page shows a small list of old CPC emulators and other lists for many resources. It shows that there was an old multi-system emulator called 'MulTiMachine' by Paul A. Hodgson, abandoned in 1998, but it is titled as 'MTMW' on CPCWiki's page. See old interview in French.)

Name	Latest version	CPC+	libretro	License	Active	Recommended
PC / x86
ACE	1.24	✓	✗	Proprietary	✓	✓
Arnold	Src WIP^{[N 1]} 1.0.0-1 (*NIX) Windows	✓	✗	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✗	✓
CaPriCe32	libretro core (cap32_libretro) git(fork)(latest) 4.6.0 (fork)(release) 4.2.0 (old)	✓	✓	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	✓
CaPriCe Forever	26.4	✗	✗	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	✓
MAME	0.289	✓	✓	GPLv2 BSD-3-Clause	✓	✓
Pantheon	16.458	?	?	Proprietary	✓	?
Retro Virtual Machine	2.1.20	✗	✗	Proprietary	✓	✓
CLK	2026-07-23	✗	✗	MIT (Permissive)	✓	~
JavaCPC Desktop	2.9.8f	✓	✗	Proprietary	✓	~
SugarBox	0.30	✓	✗	MIT (Permissive)	✓	~
WinAPE	2.0b2	✓	✗	Proprietary	✗	~
WinCPC/MacCPC (vbCPC based)	WinCPC 0.9.26 MacCPC 0.9.2	✗	✗	?	✗	~
CPCE	1.94	✗	✗	?	✗	~
CPCEC	20260131	✗	✗	?	✓	✗
CPCEmu	3.0	✗	✗	?	✗	✗
Roland	git	✗	✗	GPLv3 (Copyleft)	✗	✗
XCPC	git	✗	✗	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	✗
DSP	git	✗	✗	Non-commercial	✓	✗
ZEsarUX	13.0	✗	✗	GPL (Copyleft)	✓	✗
ACE-DL	20260914	?	✗	?	✓	TBD
AMSpiriT	2.04b	?	✗	?	✓	TBD
Gemux	0.9	?	?	?	✓	TBD
Mobile / ARM
Azimuth	1.x	✗	✗	?	✓	✓
CaPriCe32 (libretro only)	libretro	✗	✓ (git)	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	✓
CaPriCeRPI GP2x/Wiz-CAP32 Pandora-CAP32 Dingux-CAP32 Caanoo-CAP32 (Old CaPriCe32 tech)	git Wiz 1.5.1/1.1.0 Pandora 1.1.0 GCW0 Caanoo 1.1.3	✗	✗	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	?	✓
andcpc (Old CaPriCe32 tech)	git	✗	✗	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✗	✗
CPCDroïd (Old CaPriCe32 tech)	1.5.1	✗	✗	?	✗	✗
Droid-CPC	1.1.01	✗	✗	Proprietary	✗	✗
ZEsarUX	13.0	✗	✗	GPL (Copyleft)	✓	✗
Consoles
CrocoDS (PC-CPC port)	2.0 RetroArch Core	✓	✓ (git)	MIT (Permissive)	✗	~
AmeDS (Old CaPriCe32 tech)	4.0	✓	✗	Proprietary	✗	~
PSPCAP32 (Old CaPriCe32 tech)	1.5.1	✗	✗	Proprietary	✗	~
Wiituka (Old CaPriCe32 tech)	0.98.8	✗	✗	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✗	~
ArnoldX	v5	?	✗	Proprietary	✗	TBD
DreamCPC (Old CaPriCe32 tech)	1.0 Alpha 3	?	✗	Proprietary	✗	TBD

↑ To build, rename EmuDevice.h to emudevice.h in src/cpc.

Enhancements

Name		ACE	Arnold	CaPriCe32	CaPriCe Forever	MAME	Retro Virtual Machine

Hardware features and accessories

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Name	Emulator
GX4000 controller
IBM-standard analogue controller
Light gun

Resources

[1] To build, rename EmuDevice.h to emudevice.h in src/cpc.

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