The Amstrad CPC ( short for Colour Personal Computer ) is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

During its lifetime, the CPC series sold approximately three million units.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1995 – 96 escalated tensions between both sides when the PRC tested a series of missiles not far from Taiwan although, arguably, Beijing ran the test to shift the vote in favor of the KMT, already facing a challenge from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party which did not agree with the " One China Policy " shared by the CPC and KMT.

While many 8-bit home computers of the 1980s, such as the Commodore 64, Apple II series, the Atari 8-bit, the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum series and others could load a third-party disk-loading operating system, such as CP / M or GEOS, they were generally used without one.

It was used in the Nintendo Game Boy, the Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC home computers as well as the MSX architecture and the Tandy TRS-80 series — among many others.

A series of historic meetings between the CPC and KMT have followed.

Ultimate released a series of successful games for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, MSX and Commodore 64 computers from 1982 until its closure in 1988.

The main series of games produced by Ultimate were all released on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, with most from Sabre Wulf onward also on the Amstrad CPC and MSX, and most early games up to and including Nightshade also on the BBC Micro.

Miner Willy is the protagonist in a series of platform games for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64 home computers starring Miner Willy.

The Anti-Rightist Movement () in the People's Republic of China occurred in the 1950s and early 1960s, consisted of a series of campaigns to purge alleged " rightists " within the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) and abroad.

A special update — or rather, a ROM extension — was available on the Amstrad CPC Plus series machines, which added specialised BASIC commands for taking advantage of the extra capabilities of those machines.

Boulder Dash, originally released in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers, is a series of computer games released for the Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision home computers, and later ported to the NES, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and many other platforms.

Sawyer first entered the games industry in 1983, writing games in Z80 machine code on the Memotech MTX home computer, and then the Amstrad CPC series home computer.

It is now accompanied by the successful series on Control ( CPC ), Operations ( FOCAPO ), and the world-wide series entitled Process Systems Engineering.

This category contains computer games made for, or ported to, the Amstrad CPC series of 1980s-vintage 8-bit home computers.

While rooted in the ZX Spectrum, Codemasters did not write exclusively for this computer-they also released software ( including the Dizzy series ) for the Commodore 64, Commodore 16, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST.

It was notable for the Barbarian and Cauldron series of games for 8-bit home computer platforms, in particular the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64.

Friday the 13th was released by Domark in for the Commodore 64 ( 1985 ), ZX Spectrum ( 1986 ) and Amstrad CPC ( 1986 ) based on the popular slasher film series of the same name.

In November 2004, Parizeau introduced a series of amendments to the CPC program " Canada's Future is Socialism ".

Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.

Another homebrew version was released in 2011 for the Amstrad CPC home computer.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

The party's organizational structure was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt afterwards by Deng Xiaoping, who subsequently initiated " Socialism with Chinese characteristics " and brought all state apparatuses back under the rule of the CPC.

With the Z-machine, Infocom was able to release most of their games for most popular home computers of the day simultaneously — the Apple II family, Atari 800, IBM PC compatibles, Amstrad CPC / PCW ( one disc worked on both machines ), Commodore 64, Commodore Plus / 4, Commodore 128, Kaypro CP / M, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, the Mac, Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga and the Radio Shack TRS-80.

Fuchs attended a conference of the Combined Policy Committee ( CPC ) in 1947, a committee created to facilitate exchange of atomic secrets between the highest levels of government of the U. S., Great Britain and Canada ; Donald Maclean, as British co-secretary of CPC, was also in attendance.

Klement Gottwald ( 23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953 ) was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician, longtime leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( KSČ or CPCz or CPC ), prime minister and president of Czechoslovakia.

In Jiangxi, Mao's authoritative domination, especially that of the military force, was challenged by the Jiangxi branch of the CPC and military officers.

Mao was removed from his important positions and replaced by individuals ( including Zhou Enlai ) who appeared loyal to the orthodox line advocated by Moscow and represented within the CPC by a group known as the 28 Bolsheviks.

To secure the release of Chiang, the KMT was forced to agree to a temporary end to the Chinese Civil War and the forming of a United Front between the CPC and KMT against Japan.

In 1990, Marmite Limited — which had become a subsidiary of Bovril Limited — was bought by CPC International Inc, which changed its name to Best Foods Inc in 1998.

The machine featured an all-new grey case featuring a spring-loaded keyboard, dual joystick ports, and a built-in cassette recorder dubbed the " Datacorder " ( like the Amstrad CPC 464 ), but was in most respects identical to the ZX Spectrum 128.

The ZX Spectrum + 3 looked similar to the + 2 but featured a built-in 3-inch floppy disk drive ( like the Amstrad CPC 6128 ) instead of the tape drive, and was in a black case.

The CPC 464 was launched in the UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain and Italy.

It was followed by the CPC 664 and CPC 6128 models.

For much of the 1990s Li was ranked second in the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) hierarchy behind then Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.

He is a Hakka, the son of writer Li Shuoxun, one of the earliest CPC revolutionaries, who was the political commissar of the Twentieth Division during the Nanchang Uprising.

Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding ideology of the Communist Party of China ( CPC ).

Under the leadership of CPC and Mao Zedong, a parallel international communist movement emerged to rival that of the Soviets, although it was never as formalized and homogeneous as the pro-Soviet tendency.

The Chinese Civil War ( 1927 – 1950 ) was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang ( KMT ), or the Chinese Nationalist Party-led Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China ( CPC ), for the control of each other's territory which eventually led to two de facto states, the Republic of China ( ROC ) in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in mainland China both claiming to be the legitimate government of China.

CPC members were also present in the academy, and many of them became instructors, including Zhou Enlai who was made a political instructor of the academy.

The CPC itself was still small at the time, having a membership of 300 in 1922 and only 1, 500 by 1925.