14 minutes passed really quick,
I can't wait to know more about this machine and see what it is capable of,
Thanks

6128 was a great micro.
All-in-one with a proper keyboard, Basic for humans, no colour limitations, 80 columns, CP/M and a low price with great quality.
No competition.

I still have my Cpc464 with colour monitor.... It was my first PC and holds a fond space in my collection

I bought one so my dad could watch "Pot Black" without interruption.  I remember being impressed by the tape buttons looking like all the other keys, even if they were clearly just traditional mechanical tape buttons.

The triangle of capabilities between the Amstrad, Spectrum, and C64 with its various pros and cons, is fascinating.

I worked with Alan at Amstrad for 25 years and was project designer / manager for things like NC100/150, PDA600, PCW16 and many other things and I think you're wrong about the number of CPC we sold. First remember that 464 was followed by 664 and then swiftly after that (some might argue too swiftly!) the CPC6128 so I think if you are counting CPC sales you have to count all 3 together (the latter two were really just 464+disk then 464+disk+2xRAM). Oh and even 464+/6128+ which were just ASICd models with better graphics (sprites even). So the combined number is far more than 2m. The second thing is you have to consider exactly what market you are talking about. Is it just UK or across Europe (even a small number via Sears in the US). We either sold direct (or with partners like Schneider in Germany) in Germany, Spain, Italy but most especially France where I believe we sold almost double that sold in UK). So I think the total is more like 5m-6m. Personally I don't remember Alan ever claiming we'd reach 20m but he was full of bullshit and I could well believe that if some journo cornered him and asked "how many ya gonna sell?" a typical, off the cuff reply could well have been "oh, I don't know, 20 million?". Do remember that Amstrad was a listed plc and while Alan did have a touch of the Elon Musk's about him you had to be wary of share price and shareholder backlash and you couldn't make wild, unsubstantiated claims. (though Alan did sometimes anyway! ;-)

Seeing the bare edge-connector "ports" instantly brought lots of nostalgia. On my side of the pond, our first family computer was the venerable TRS-80. It was lots of fun, especially after my dad and I built a "system expansion" kit that allowed more peripherals. The somewhat dodgy plating on the edge connectors required frequent cleaning to keep them reliable, especially the parallel printer port. Wow, parallel ports, who would've thought back then that serial ports would far outpace parallel interfaces!

The CPC464 my parents bought for Christmas started me on an IT tech journey that continues today. 30yrs plus as a high end software dev or more realistically as an old school nerd.

Being American, we never saw the CPC-464, but over the years I've grown to love this machine and it's 16 color med res mode.   It's a little bit like an 8-bit Atari ST. I'm and ST fan, so this is a good thing, Your mileage may vary =)

Having a whole computer all to yourself as a kid was AMAZING, wasn't it?

Music wise, with the AY, on both the CPC and ST, people whole knew how to modulate the square wave in software started to create marvelous tunes with the chip.

ah the good old cpc .. my first own computer. used it till early 90's. extended ram to 512k, dual 5 1/4 floppy (never owned a 3" one). cp/m with all the software that came with it. i learned pascal, modula-2 and C with this little computer. even my first resume i wrote with "wordstar" with it. i really can say my life wouldnt be the same without my cpc464.

08:55 27 colours but no brown so dirt and wood was either bright orange or dark red. Ikari Warriors is a nice example of red mud that looks pretty good.

I've still got the older "Tall Key" version, manufactured December 1984, which I got for my 11th birthday from my local Dixons back in June of 1985. Originally, it was complete with a colour monitor and a joystick, along with it's Amsoft Software Pack.

It was pretty easy to convert type-in games meant for other computers like the BBC Micro and Sinclair Spectrum with such books that I could get from the library, thanks to it's decent User Manual featuring loads of information on it's Locomotive BASIC and how it's sound and graphics worked, while similar books for the Amstrad specifically came along a little later.

It was, and still is, my very first computer! :-)

We had one in the house when I was growing up.  Dad bought it with the monochrome monitor, but we could hook it up to the family tv to use in colour.  My Dad also soldered up a long 3.5mm to Din cable to feed the amstrad’s audio output into his hi-fi amp  - this transformed the sound experience.  The first game I remember was Amsoft’s Harrier Jump Jet.  Codename Matt was tricky - but we finished it.  Gauntlet was great for multiplayer.  And Way of the exploding fist and Ye Ar Kung Fu were the best beat ‘em up’s.  Green beret was hard but fun.  Wec Le Mans was the best optio for a racing driving game.  Loved the soundtrack and graphics from Sorcery.  Ahh good memories.  It’s still all in my Dad’s loft.  The caps probably need replacing and the tape drive would need a new belt.  If only I had the time and space to get it all out again…. The biggest downside for me was the lack of good hobbyist I/o.  You could use the printer port and joystick ports for basic things… but the expansion port was too hard for me at say 12 years old to tinker with.  The bbc micro (which we had at school) was easier to connect simple electronic projects to.   Happy memories!

This was a time when a CPU or auxiliary chips still had a comforting simplicity that one person could grasp and understand quite easily. Fast forward to today and CPUs or say, GPUs, are so complex that one has to rely on a huge databook just to keep pace with one subfunction at a time.

Loved my 464 (sold them in Adelaide South Australia in the late 80's) I created a AD&D 2nd edition PC Dice roll program with all my inhouse rules!... ahh I miss it.

Locomotive were geniuses; out of all the 80s micros, the CPC-464 & 6128 had the only BASICs with re-writable vector addresses for many low-level BASIC commands. If you were handy with Z-80 assembler, and had the BASIC Technical Manuals and a copy of Arnor's Protext word processor ROM expansion (which allowed you to compile & test machine code direct from your document, a bit like a BBC Micro), then you could intercept calls to, say, the DRAW command to implement your own quick-n-dirty version loaded in RAM that ignored a lot of the niceties in order to draw lines at many times normal speed. I once wrote a butchered version of PRINT that was approximately 10 times faster by ignoring the current WINDOW restrictions (among other things). With several such hacks loaded in RAM, say from a floppy, you could speed up standard, uncompiled BASIC programs by several hundred percent. God, I loved that machine.

You could not have asked for a better home computer for a kid to learn programming in the mid-1980s. I have a career in the game industry today because my parents bought a CPC464 in 1985, no doubt.

I used too have a Amstrad cpc 464. i loved it.

Never heard of this machine back in the day (in Canada).  Really nice machine!  I’m still impressed at how many 8 bit machines there were in the early to mid 80s that I’ve never seen.  

Good video.  Enjoyed seeing the insides.  Looking forward to the follow up.

Parents saved the CPC for after all the other presents Christmas '84. Brought it out unwrapped in a, "just one more thing" moment. I almost fainted when I saw it.