CPC FAQ

These Section gives Answers to common Questions to me.

How do i play a CPC game with an emulator ?

There are Three Steps you've got to made :

  1. First : Choose an Emulator for your System and download it. If you use Windows 2000 or NT the DOS Emulators which use direct acess to the hardware won't work
  2. Second download the Images form the Game Section. Whern you uncompress these you will find one or more Files with the Extension .dsk and a size of 192 KByte. These are Images of and 3" CPC Floppy. or "Disc". In these subdir the Disk Images are stored. Copy the .dsk File in this Dir. To load the File in the "virtual Disk" please refer to the Dokumentation of the emulator, every emulator has another function key for that.

In the emulated CPC (The Maschine which starts with an blue screen and the "Ready Prompt"...) you can acess with these commands on the disk :

|A or |B (SHIFT-Ü) Change the disc drive.

CAT : Get the Catalog (similar to dir in DOS)

RUN"name.bas" or Run"Name.bin" start a programm.

In Red are the commands you must type in. For further informations please have a look in the documentation of pc-emu.

How do i find game xxx

Well even i don't know all games of the CPC. I've played pherhaps with 200 or 300 Games, but there are more than 3000 Games to download. If you download the Fullindex and search in your Broswer after the desired game you probably will find it.

What is the best emulator ?

After my opinion is it Caprice, it is the only emulator too which development still goes on. But you need a fast computer for it and it don't run under a secure Windows system like Windoe NT or Windows 2000.

I don't find my games for the C64 on this Site !

Well you are completly wrong ! The C64 and the C464/664/6128 are two different computers like the Mac and a IBM PC.

I get an error when downloading a game !

Im only a private person with limited webspace. So i got the idee to link all games on the common available ftp servers. It is for an user easier since he can download ist with clicking in the browser, rather tah use the FTP protokol. But these servers are not always acessable and have limited user accounts. if a download fails please try again at a later time.