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| Manufacturer || Amstrad
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| Models || GX-4000
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| CPU || Zilog Z-80@4MHz
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| CRTC || 6845 (integrated)
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| RAM || 64KB
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== Overview ==
The Amstrad GX-4000 is a variant of the [[Amstrad CPC-464 Plus]]/[[Amstrad CPC-6128 Plus]] without keyboard, cassette port or floppy disk drive. Its only media consist in the same cartridges the other computers of the CPC Plus series had, although with a different color in the label. Such cartridges are protected with [[ACID]] integrated circuits in order to avoid unlicensed programs to be executed in the console.
The creation of such system came after the success of the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] and the [[Sega Master System]] in Europe, which motivated the direction of [[Amstrad]] to have a foothold in the video game console market by cutting down their then-current flagship home computer. Nevertheless, they entered late in the console race when the 8-bit consoles popularity was fading and the more powerful 16 and 32-bit ones were starting to be commercialized and therefore it was a commercial failure.
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