They're still around. I've put one together over the course of years, a) for nostalgia value, and b) for my children to at least be able to use the system I learned to program on.
Mine is a 464 w/ DDI interface, 64KiB RAM expansion, SDcard based "floppy" drive, mouse, and RS232 serial port. Still only a green screen, though, and I've yet to make a ROM box.
I had one of those Amstrad with green screen in the US. Sold mainly as a word processing system. My dad bought it since we couldn't afford a PC at that time. It did its job as a word processor well plus I had a great time digging into the guts of the CP/M operating system. What I really hated was that it had a 3" floppy which were hard to find.
I have one for my CPC. Note that in the particular case of the CPC464 (not the 664 or 6128) you'll still need the Amstrad DDI disk interface unit, as the base 464 has no disk controller built in.
Yeah that is the one. It eventually failed after many years. I remember typing up the Eliza program in BASIC for it and one of our neighbors kids still has fond memories of playing with it.
Mine is a 464 w/ DDI interface, 64KiB RAM expansion, SDcard based "floppy" drive, mouse, and RS232 serial port. Still only a green screen, though, and I've yet to make a ROM box.
Also see:
https://github.com/Octoate/cpc-sdcc-rom/