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Laser BASIC Compiler

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[[Image:Laser Compiler.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Laser BASIC Compiler]]

Laser BASIC compiler from [[Ocean IQ]]

The Laser BASIC Compiler is a companion product to the Laser BASIC extension, but you don't need Laser BASIC to use the compiler, wich also compiles the standard Amstrad BASIC with the exception of floating point and related commands.

CRTC Message Demo

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[[Image:CRTCIMESS screen shot 1.jpg|thumb|300px|CRTC Robot PD Demo]]

'''CRTC Message Demo''' is a Ghostwriter-like demo by [[ChaRleyTroniC]], intended to promote a putative demo meeting in the UK in July 1992. (The code was the same used by ChaRleyTroniC for sending messages to various contacts.)

The meeting was to have been held at [[The Mad Scientist]]'s house in Aldershot, UK. However, a lack of interest eventually meant that it was replaced with an STS meeting at [[Hangman]]'s house.

Release date: spring 1992

[[Category:Demos]]

BTL

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BTL - an abbreviation for "Better Than Life" - was a UK disc fanzine produced by members of the [[STS]] and [[Systeme D]] groups.

== Genesis ==

BTL was the direct descendant of a paper fanzine called [[Presto News]], edited and published by [[Akira]] (Matt Gullam), proprietor of [[Presto PD]]. Presto News was a public domain-centred fanzine heavily influenced by [[Artificial Intelligence]].

When Presto News ceased publication, Matt announced plans for a disc fanzine, initially to be called [[Grace Under Pressure]] and coded by the [[Bitmap Vandals]]. However, no release was forthcoming.

In due course, [[ChaRleyTroniC]] offered to code the fanzine instead, which by then had been renamed Better Than Life. The fanzine subsequently became a project of the "[[South Wales scene]]" that was then developing. Four issues were produced in all.

== Issue 1 ==

Perhaps the most notorious article was "[[Zap't'Balls]] - who gives a flying fuck?", written by [[Jack Hughes]], which claimed that the pleas to refrain from piracy of Zap't'Balls were hypocritical. This was accompanied by an explanation by [[Marjory Beckett]] of how to crack the game.

BTL 1 was roundly criticised in [[Amstrad Action]]'s review, largely for its aggressive, argumentative content. (In particular, the issue contained several pot-shots by [[ChaRleyTroniC]] at another AA writer, [[Keith Woods]]).

'''(lots more details to come here)'''

== Issue 2 ==

The intro to BTL 2 was a Ratz & Wulf tribute to the Hewson game "Nebulus"

== Issue 3 ==

== Issue 4 ==

A revised version of Issue 4, "Issue 4.1", was released shortly after original publication. Though the content was exactly the same, the code was improved by boasting 50Hz scrolling rather than 25Hz.

A short paper supplement - "issue 4.5", containing articles from issue 5 - was distributed at the WACCI Convention in 1998.

== Issue 5 ==

Issue 5 was never released. However, significant quantities of editorial were completed for it (and may be uploaded here in due course ;) ).

The BTL 5 intro was completed by Ratz & Wulf but has never been released. However, it is slated to make a long-delayed appearance as the turn disc part for [[Palatine]] some time in 2012.

<gallery caption="BTL issues">
Image:BTL1-intro.jpg|BTL1 intro
Image:BTL1.jpg|BTL1 menu
Image:BTL2-intro.jpg|BTL2 intro
Image:BTL2.jpg|BTL2 menu
Image:BTL3-intro.jpg|BTL3 intro
Image:BTL3.jpg|BTL3 menu
Image:BTL4-intro.jpg|BTL4 intro
Image:BTL4.jpg|BTL4 menu
Image:BTL5-intro.jpg|The unreleased BTL5 intro
</gallery>

[[Image:Btlteam.jpg]]

BTL contributors (L-R):
[[Wild Thang]], [[Doc]], [[ChaRleyTroniC]], [[Merline]], [[Hangman]], [[Ratz]]

[[Category:Fanzines]]

GOS

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"Guild Of Swappers".

== GOS Members ==

* [[Excalibur]]
* [[Thriller]]

Main Page

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Demogroups

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* [[5KB]]
* [[BCAV]]
* [[BENG]]
* [[Bitmap Vandals]]
* [[Cadjo Clan]]
* [[CBS]]
* [[Conspiracy]]
* [[Dirty Minds]]
* [[Discovery]]
* [[GPA]]
* [[KKB]]
* [[Krad'os Crack'ers]]
* [[Logon System]]
* [[Lords of Justice]]
* [[Malibu Crackers]]
* [[Paradox]]
* [[STS]]
* [[Systeme D]]

and many, many more...

Main Page

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Welcome, everyone, to the '''Amstrad CPC Wikipedia'''

This site hopes to evolve into an encyclopaedia on all things [[Amstrad]] [[CPC]] related. Feel free to [[contribute]]!

* An enormously incomplete list of [[demogroups]].

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*New logo. Yummy :) Info on Amstrad added. Uploads enabled. [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 13:00, 30 June 2006 (CDT)
*Some links added. No descriptions yet. - [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 04:18, 30 June 2006 (CDT)
*SymbOS/SymbiFaceII text added - [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 03:48, 30 June 2006 (CDT)
*Woo, this wiki has [http://Img140.imageshack.us/img140/6403/news5om.png made it] to the front page of [http://www.cpczone.net CPCzone]!! Well chuffed :) Oh yes, and I still don't know how to embed images with upload disabled :D - [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 16:33, 25 June 2006 (CDT)