Long time before I actually got my first personal computer (we would call them microcomputers back then), which would be ZX Spectrum+, my sole contact with the emerging computer science would be to implore my Dad to take me to his work, where his friend, Mariusz Smoczyński, worked on Amstrad Schneider CPC 6128. Thus begins the tale of my digital fascination, born in the green light of the monochrome screen in the 8-bit times.
Not that much has changed since I wrote the above note. PSPCap32 by ZX-81, after some minor updates, is still the great Amstrad emulator on the PSP, bearing the mark of ZX-81 development skills – very easy to use (autocompletion of RUN command is a great feature), very fast and accurate and with the option that almost made me fall in love with this guy – enabling green monochrome display.
Side note: I simply LOVE monochrome displays. First of all, I am somewhat colour blind anyways, secondly, the colours in 8bit games were often atrocious, thirdly these monitors did hurt my eyes significantly less, especially green and my favourite amber ones (click here to see how it looked). I still am not 100% convinced we have made a good choice with this whole LCD thingy. End of side note.
Colours have some advantages, too…Coming back to the topic of Amstrad emulation, there also exists another port of Caprice32 available for the PSP made by Akop, but this time PSPCap is my choice, mainly because I am more used to it (using for some two years now), but also because of facilitated loading of games.
By the way, what’s with these guys, do they compete in the emulation domain or what? Whatever the reason, the competition is always good for consumer and whichever flavour of Caprice you chose, you will have your gateway to Amstrad past opened wide.
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