It bombed, mainly due to a lack of games, but also because of the dated hardware used. Amstrad gx4000 for sale in uk 18 used amstrad gx4000. A new site where you can buy and sell your own retro games, ran by a very good friend of mine who is a serious and knowledgeable collector in his own right. We already worked on the search keywords so you will get the best results right away. View and download amstrad gx4000 user instruction online. The gamebase site for everything amstrad cpc, plus and gx4000 related. On the 25th anniversary of its disastrous european launch, jaz takes a look back at the illfated british console, the amstrad gx4000. Browsing the collection there are over 60 images for the amstrad gx4000, all of them games. I wanted to say that the new console photo is a huge improvement over the older one.
Atari, sinclair, commodore, sega, nintendo all in stock. Only 26 official cartridge games were produced for the amstrad gx4000 console, and even 1 of those is debatable in its very existence. The gx4000 was amstrad s shortlived attempt to enter the games console market. Amstrad gx4000 boxed retro games, vintage consoles. Gx4000 welcome to the amstrad gx4000 roms section of the rom database. Emumovies official gameplay snaps pack for the amstrad gx4000.
It was designed to compete in the mid1980s home computer market dominated by the commodore 64 and the sinclair zx spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the united kingdom, france, spain, and the germanspeaking parts of europe. First the power supply fuse blew, then it worked, now i am getting this. I found two emulators, the best is winape, the other is mess, but its emulation is very basic, and a lot of games dont work. Cpcrulez amstrad cpc jeux cassette, fichiers images. The console was released in europe in 1990 and was an. The gx4000 is a video game console that was manufactured by amstrad. Buy amstrad gx4000 video games on the store auctions.
When trying to start a game with winape, it only loads the last rom played, it doesnt seem to accept my commandline. It is a pal system and i am in the states using ntsc tv. Amstrad produced a fairly popular range of 8 bit computers during the 80s, in third place for most of the era in the uk after the commodore 64 and sinclair spectrum but alan sugar was well known for being able to sniff out a promising new market and so, when nintendo and sega hit the shores he realised he could take his existing 8 bit system, remove the keyboard and leverage the existing. Rocketlauncher is an abstraction layer that ultimately sets the standard in emulators and standardizes key mapping commands. With the recent additions to the retroscene showcasing the amstrad gx4000 console with the eerie forest and crtc3 demos, its a perfect time to represent my series of videos showing the often touted cpc shoveled games and the differences between the versions. Watch the video the amstrad gx4000 was alan sugars attempt to enter the game console market during the early 90s. Amstrad gx4000 retro games, retrogaming, vintage and classic consoles, software and peripherals. I just picked up an amstrad gx4000 and am having trouble getting it run run on my tv. Although offering enhanced graphics capabilities, it failed to gain popularity in the market, and was quickly discontinued, selling 15,000 units in total. Like commodore did at the same time with the c64 and the c64 gs, amstrad tried to enter the gaming market with a console based on its aging but popular 8bit technology cpc computers. Elle est construite sur une base damstrad cpc plus et partage donc les. Check out the faq for more information on what our tool has to offer.
Find great deals on ebay for amstrad gx4000 and amstrad gx4000 console. Amstrad gx4000 roms, games and isos to download for emulation. Our story begins with the cpcwiki forum, which describes itself as the ultimate amstrad cpc community forum member gerald shared his cartridge replacement project for the gx4000, which allows for multiple game roms to be loaded onto an sd card and played via the cartridge slot the beauty of the hack is that not only can gx4000 owners play any of 27 games in the original console. Listing and pictures of amstrad gx4000 games complete list of gx 4000 games. Gx4000 spain for sale amstrad amstrad gx4000 gx4000 is a console, developed and published by amstrad, which was released in spain in 1990 for the amstrad gx4000. The gx4000 shared hardware architecture with amstrad s cpc plus computer line, which was released concurrently.
This allowed the system foce compatible with most cpc plus software. Try our special game store auctions search engine for amstrad gx4000 video games you will find below the best auctions and items available on ebay and amazon related to your search. The gx4000 was amstrads shortlived attempt to enter the games console market. First off, we are excited to announce that all tosec dats are now in xml format, which gives use much greater flexibility and room for expansion. After six months had passed, i withstood a torrent of p. The old school emulation center 04062015 hello, and welcome to a brand new tosec release. The gx4000 shared hardware architecture with amstrad s cpc plus computer line, which was released.
Im trying to emulate the obscure amstrad gx4000 console through gameex. It was the companys shortlived attempt to enter the games console market. I literally popped in to see if the project was still going and a new section saying 3d. This video features all the gx4000 games, an introduction to the system and its life story. The gx4000 shared hardware architecture with amstrads cpc plus computer line, which was released concurrently.
From amstrad gx4000 carts to zx spectrum tapes with xbox, ninentdo and more inbetween. You will find below the best auctions and items available on ebay and amazon for this title. The games are a mix of commercial releases, unreleased games, homebrew games and. Tosec collections part 1 arcade punks worldwide arcade.
The gx4000 hardware architecture shared with amstrad cpc. The gx4000 was the first and only attempt both to amstrad in entering the console market. Also it had a computer line, which was released simultaneously. Its often common to hear the criticism that the games were simply shovelware taken from the cpc, but this is a half truth. Amstrad 464 plus 6128 plus condition see photos very good, but some small wear. The console was released in europe in 1990 and was an upgraded design based on the then stillpopular cpc technology. The amstrad cpc short for colour personal computer is a series of 8bit home computers produced by amstrad between 1984 and 1990. The gx4000 shared hardware architecture with amstrads cpc plus computer line, which was released. The amstrad cpc range, the popular commodore selection and the sinclair zx range. Buy gx4000 amstrad gx4000 video games on the store. This is one amstrad cpc emulator you windows users cannot. It is probably fair to say that from 1984, amstrad, sinclair and commodore shared the home computer market quite evenly in europe, and coming to the end of the eighties most kids who owned an 8bit machine chose between either the amstrad 6128 or the commodore 64c. Media in category amstrad gx4000 the following 22 files are in this category, out of 22 total.
Welcome to winape, an amstrad emulator for pcs running any 32 or 64bit version of windows. The gx4000 was both amstrads first and only attempt at entering the console market. Nonworking dumps, duplicates, and homebrew titlesfile count. Predictably, skeet shoot was a bloodless shooter in which you had to blast clay pigeons out of the sky. The amstrad gx4000 will be 25 years old in september of this year 2015, so to celebrate here are the 25 games available for the system in roughly. Something has been bothering me for a while now and here i finally lay down my point of view with the state of gaming and retrogaming in general, grab your popcorn because i feel like a rant because i am in one of those moods. One of only two home consoles to originate from the uk, the other being the bbc bridge companion. The gx4000 was both amstrad s first and only attempt at entering the console market. Flashback challenge finally i return to writing and this one is a doozy. It dont mention a price, but bloody hell its bound to be cheaper than buying games for the sodding thing. The amstrad gx4000 was an attempt to enter the games console market the console was released in europe in 1990 and was based on the stillpopular cpc technology it was a modified cpc6128 plus computer. A complete, curated, handtested romset for the amstrad gx4000 console.
Amstrad gx4000 emulation under gameex general spesoft. The download service utility only downloads the content to match your roms and. Support for sprites, soft scrolling, programmable interrupts, dma sound resolution mode 0. It would also be nice if someone has photos of the controllers, or other peripheralls to add them to the peripheralls section and bring it into line with the entries for other consoles such as the master system, and nes that section also needs to be improved with more written content on what. You can play the games in emulators or in a real gx4000 following. The amstrad gx4000 wasnt blessed with a huge number of good games or games of any quality, really, but navy seals is one of that tiny minority.
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