Editing Amstrad CPC (section)

==Community==
The Amstrad CPC enjoyed a strong and long lifetime, mainly due to the machines use for businesses as well as gaming. Dedicated programmers continued working on the CPC range, even producing [[graphical user interface]] (GUI) operating systems such as [[SymbOS]]. Internet sites devoted to the CPC have appeared from around the world featuring forums, news, hardware, software, programming and games. CPC [[Computer magazine|Magazines]] appeared during the 1980s including publications in countries such as Britain, France, Spain, Germany, [[Denmark]], Australia, and [[Greece]]. Titles included the official [[Amstrad Computer User]] publication,<ref name="CPC UK magazines">{{cite web|title=CPC UK Magazines |publisher=Nicholas Campbell |url=http://users.durge.org/~nich/cpcmags/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011031154629/http://users.durge.org/~nich/cpcmags/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 October 2001 |access-date=6 May 2008 }}</ref> as well as independent titles like ''[[Amstrad Action]]'',<ref name="CPC UK magazines"/> ''[[Amtix!]]'',<ref name="CPC UK magazines"/> ''Computing with the Amstrad CPC'',<ref name="CPC UK magazines"/> ''[[CPC Attack]]'',<ref name="CPC UK magazines"/> Australia's ''The Amstrad User'', France's ''Amstrad Cent Pour Cent'' and ''Amstar''. Following the CPC's end of production, Amstrad gave permission for the CPC ROMs to be distributed freely as long as the copyright message is not changed and that it is acknowledged that Amstrad still holds copyright, giving [[emulator]] authors the possibility to ship the CPC firmware with their programs.<ref name="Lawson emulation">{{cite web|last=Lawson|first=Cliff|title=Lawson emulation|publisher=Cliff Lawson|url=http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/cpchomec.htm|access-date=6 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510131526/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/cpchomec.htm|archive-date=10 May 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>