Editing Amstrad CPC (section)

===Special models and clones===

====CPC 472====
[[File:472 es.jpg|thumb|CPC 472]]
During the August holidays of 1985, Spain briefly introduced an import tax of 15&nbsp;000 pesetas ({{€|90.15}}) on computers containing 64&nbsp;KB or less of RAM (Royal Decree 1215/1985<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1985-15514|title=BOE.es - BOE-A-1985-15514 Real Decreto 1215/1985, de 17 de julio, por el que se modifican determinadas subpartidas del arancel de Aduanas.|website=www.boe.es |pages=23677 |lang=es}}</ref> and 1558/1985<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1985-18847|title=BOE.es - BOE-A-1985-18847 Real Decreto 1558/1985, de 28 de agosto, por el que se aclara el alcance del mínimo específico introducido en la subpartida 84.53.B.II del Arancel de Aduanas, por el Real Decreto 1215/1985.|website=www.boe.es |pages=27743–27744 |lang=es}}</ref>), and a new law (Royal Decree 1250/1985<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-1985-15611|title=BOE.es - BOE-A-1985-15611 Real Decreto 1250/1985, de 19 de junio, por el que se establece la sujeción a especificaciones técnicas de los terminales de pantalla con teclado, periféricos para entrada y representación de información en equipo de proceso de datos.|website=www.boe.es |pages=23840–23841 |lang=es}}</ref>) mandated that all computers sold in Spain must have a Spanish keyboard. To circumvent this, Amstrad's Spanish distributor ''Indescomp'' (later to become ''Amstrad Spain'') created and distributed the ''CPC 472'', a modified version of the CPC 464. Its main differences are a small additional daughter board containing a CPC 664 ROM chip and an 8&nbsp;KB memory chip, and a keyboard with a [[ñ]] key (although some of them were temporarily manufactured without the ñ key). The sole purpose of the 8&nbsp;KB memory chip (which is not electrically connected to the machine, so consequently rendered unusable) is to increase the machine's total memory specs to 72&nbsp;KB in order to circumvent the import tax. Some months later, Spain joined the [[European Communities]] by the [[Treaty of Accession 1985]] and the import tax was suppressed, so Amstrad added the ñ key for the 464 and production of the CPC 472 was discontinued.<ref name="CPCWikiCPC472">{{cite web|title=CPC472|publisher=CPCWiki|url=http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/472|access-date=17 August 2011}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=September 2020}}

====KC compact====
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[[File:KC-compact-1.jpg|thumb|right|The Kleincomputer KC compact]]
The ''{{Interlanguage link multi|KC compact|de}}'' ("{{lang|de|Kleincomputer}}" - which means "small computer" - being a rather literal German translation of the English "microcomputer") is a clone of the Amstrad CPC built by [[East Germany]]'s ''{{lang|de|[[Volkseigene Betriebe|VEB]] Mikroelektronik Mühlhausen}}'', part of ''{{lang|de|VEB [[Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt]]}}'', in October 1989. Although the machine included various substitutes and emulations of an Amstrad CPC's hardware, the machine is largely compatible with Amstrad CPC software. It is equipped with 64&nbsp;KB of memory and a CPC 6128's firmware customized to the modified hardware, including a copy of [[Locomotive BASIC]] 1.1 modified in the startup banner only. The expansion port is a [[VEB Robotron#K 1520_bus_standard|K 1520 bus]] slot. The KC compact is the last 8-bit computer introduced in East Germany.<ref name="KCCompactDocu">{{cite web|title=KC Compact Documentation|url=http://www.sax.de/~zander/kcc/kcc_bw.html|access-date=11 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220160912/http://www.sax.de/~zander/kcc/kcc_bw.html|archive-date=20 February 2022}}</ref> Due to the [[German reunification]] happening at the time of the release, only a very small number of systems were sold. The KC compact can be emulated by free software ''JKCEMU''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=JKCEMU - Kleincomputer-Emulator (in German) |url=http://www.jens-mueller.org/jkcemu/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=www.jens-mueller.org}}</ref>

====Aleste 520EX====
In 1993, [[Omsk|Omsk, Russia]] based company Patisonic released the Aleste 520EX, a computer highly compatible with the Amstrad CPC 6128.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Aleste_520EX|title=Aleste 520EX - CPCWiki|website=www.cpcwiki.eu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aleste520.narod.ru/aleste.html|title=Aleste 520EX|website=aleste520.narod.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://zonadepruebas.org/backup/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1076 |title=Spanish page |access-date=10 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313034418/http://zonadepruebas.org/backup/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1076 |archive-date=13 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It could also be switched into an [[MSX]] mode. An expansion board named ''Magic Sound'' allowed to play [[Scream Tracker]] files.

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