This was the first Amstrad emulator ever to see the light of day. One weekend I was stunned to see something called CPCEMU. This would have been around 1993 I think, so I’d have been a spritely twelve or thirteen years old at the time!Īnyhow, I’d use some terminal software on the Mac, downloading various interesting programming bits and bobs via the trusty ZMODEM protocol. I used to use his Apple Mac computer when he was doing that, was one of the old Mac Quadras. My father used to go to his work to wash his car on the odd weekend here and there. The first one I stumbled upon was on a BBS, some random BBS I found in the pages of Computer Shopper (wow, that mag is still going!). I used to be really into the emulation scene back in the day. With that version I managed to get a handful of games running nicely. I revisited it a few years later when I needed something flashy for my portfolio, around the time I was trying to break into the games industry. Back then I’d pretty much just gotten it to be able to boot, and be able to type things on the keyboard. The website I setup for it is still live, here.
So it seemed a cool little exercise to undertake.Ī long time ago, I wrote one of my own for the PC. There are plenty of the things for the PC and various other consoles, but not one for the Xbox 360 yet. A few weeks ago I mentioned on twitter that I was working on an Amstrad CPC emulator, written in XNA.
