Amstrad

JavaCPC 5.5

Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008

Free and open source Amstrad CPC emulator in Java

Bankers should ALL be fired!

Daily Star (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008

... get any at all.“In fact there is an argument about them paying it back, to be honest.”The Amstrad chief also accused City traders of not caring about the balance sheets of businesses they deal with, concentrating instead on “mad trading”. He said: “The world markets in the financial community were allowed to dream up ways of hyping share prices.“It got completely out of hand, so everyone...

100% my own work

New Statesman (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008

Now even halfwits can create footie stats. I blame the internet I blame computers for this obsession with stats, though I shouldn't as I'm at last coming to grips with them. I feel faithless to my trusty Amstrad, on which I have written ten million words, but now I'm using the latest Apple iMac, I think that's what it's called. Or is it Eye Mac? Computers mean that even halfwits can create...

Fast-Track to Fanaticism

The Escapist (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008

In the 1990s, all that changed. A huge marketing push would result in either a Nintendo or Sega system in a vast number of U.K. households. Other users trundled on with an Amstrad, Amiga or Atari ST, but it was the console generation who were the focus of the ad men's eyes. The same executives who had ingeniously marketed toys in the 1980s by disguising lengthy adverts as cartoons needed a new...

Boulder Dash: Rocks! A rockin’ remake

Re:Retro (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008

I never thought I’d see the day that Boulder Dash gets a makeover for modern consoles. Well, the game isn’t that old. Boulder Dash was originally released in 1984 for the Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Atari 400/800 home computers. Later, the game was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System , Acorn Electron (what the hell is an Acorn Electron'), Amstrad CPC, Amiga, and the...

25 years of Guardian computer pages

The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008

... The US was represented mainly by the Commodore 64, with a minor role for the Atari 800. The Amstrad CPC464 had yet to be launched. The IBM PC was still a business machine, like the ACT Sirius and new ACT Apricot computers.You'd probably regard prices as shocking. I seem to recall paying about £300 each for floppy drives for Apple IIe and Atari 800 computers, and around £100 for 16K memory...

• 25 years of Guardian computer pages - The Guardian

Back in Time

Fuzzy Dragons (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008

Well back to 1984 An old Amstrad with tapes for game cartridges. Was in the In-laws attic (its like a black hole up there. Full of all kinds of things lol) I had never seen or heard of one of these. Did have an Atari though. Still works but takes a hell of a long time to load. You could do the laundry, cook a meal, have a shower and it might then be done loading :p And you have to love some...

Finger points at Icelandic crisis as Sugar's Woolworths share swoop is scuppered

The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008

... their value over the past year, rose by 0.02p to 4.08p yesterday.Mr Sugar made his fortune selling Amstrad home computers in the 1980s, but now makes most of his money through his Amsprop real estate vehicle.Mr Sugar is not the only person to have had a purchase of shares hit by the Icelandic banking crisis. Joe Lewis, the Bahamas-based billionaire, last week thought he had bought a 25 per...

Sir Alan Sugar's Woolworth's stakebuilding hits major snag

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008

Last week The Daily Telegraph revealed that the millionaire Amstrad founder acquired a near-4pc stake in Woolworths. However, a statement to the stock market from the retailer yesterday said that the stake was “not acquired” by Amsprop, Sir Alan’s company, as “the selling party was unable to deliver the shares”.

• Sugar's deal soured by Woolworths share no-show - Reuters UK

Sugar's deal soured by Woolworths share no-show

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008

... have been frozen.An October 10 notification to the stock market said the millionaire founder of Amstrad computers owned 56.7 million shares, or 3.88 percent of the struggling British retailer, via his Amsprop London investment vehicle.News of the investment sent shares in Woolworths 29 percent higher as investors speculated that Sugar, the star of BBC television's The Apprentice show, saw...

Sir Alan surprises market with 3.9% Woolworths stake

Financial Time (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008

Sir Alan Sugar, the founder of Amstrad computers and host of BBC television's The Apprentice , has built a 3.9 per cent stake in Woolworths, the retailer...

Sir Alan Sugar acquires Woolworths stake

Financial Time (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Alan Sugar, the millionaire founder of Amstrad computers purchased a 3.88 per cent stake in Woolworths through his Amsprop vehicle

Fiona Bruce lands fly-on-wall Sir Alan Sugar TV job

Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008

... job after filming a documentary on Bill Gates. The BBC show, to be screened in January, will show Amstrad chief Sir Alan, 61, in the office, on his plane and at home in Marbella with his family.Advertisement - article continues below »But Fiona said he sometimes got fed up with her never-ending questions.She added: "I was asking him about various things and it was the end of a very long...

Millionaire Sugar buys Woolworths stake

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

LONDON (Reuters) - Alan Sugar, the millionaire founder of Amstrad computers and host of BBC television's The Apprentice, has purchased a near 4 percent stake in Woolworths Group , an industry source said on Friday.

• Sir Alan Sugar acquires Woolworths stake - Financial Time

Sir Alan Sugar grabs nearly 4pc of Woolworths

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Sir Alan Sugar the millionaire founder of Amstrad computers has acquired a near4pc stake in Woolworths the troubled retailer.