The classic CPC PD library is no more, but its programs live on. You can obtain a large chunk of the Robot PD range on the Robot CD-ROM, the ultimate collection for CPC enthusiasts. It includes:
I hope to add further downloads to the page on an on-going basis.
Please e-mail Robot with any questions you might have.
| 00001 | The Big Book Of Mischief Anarchic text files detailing how to blow things up. 18 |
| 03000 | Comms text files. |
| 03001 | Comms text files. |
| 04000 | Programming tutorials Learn how to program your computer in BASIC or machine code. |
| 04400* | CPC Guide Kevin Thacker's excellent and comprehensive guide to the CPC's internals. |
| 04401 | CRTC Source Code Collection Z80 source for programs like PowerSpell, BTL intros, and Pro-Ext - plus a selection of subroutines usable in your own programs. |
| 06100 | Tips for adventure games. |
| 06101 | Tips for adventure games. |
| 09100 | Nutworks A comic look at computers from the early days of the Internet. |
| 10000* | The Plus Disc Make the most of your CPC Plus's capabilities! Sampled sound demos, colour editors, an art package (Rob Buckley's acclaimed Smart Plus), games (previews of Futur's new Stormlord Plus), and other software utilising the extra features of the CPC Plus computers. Includes Logon System's fantastic B-ASIC, so you can access 4 096 colours and hardware sprites from your own programs. XC 128: Plus only |
| 10001* | Sean McManus Collection Collected works from an AA Type-Ins regular. Includes the classic Easi-Sprite Driver, the frenetic arcade romp Further Adventures of Fred, demo programs for ComSoft's Basic Idea, and many more. |
| 10002 | Robot PD Catalogue The double-sided disc catalogue published by Robot PD around 1992. Although the PD discs are no longer available in that form, it provides succinct descriptions of many PD programs. |
| 10100 | Educational programs for all ages. |
| 10200 | Artificial intelligence programs, including several variants on the classic "Eliza" conversation program. Single-sided collection |
| 10300 | Music by British coder CRTC (aka Richard Fairhurst). |
| 10301 | The Jean-Michel Jarre music collection and Acid Music Box 2. |
| 10302 | Music Pack 4 (hacked tunes), plus Epsilon's new Anthology. |
| 10304 | Advanced Music System files by Rob Baxter. |
| 10305 | Advanced Music System files by Rob Baxter. |
| 10306 | Advanced Music System files by Rob Baxter. |
| 10307 | Advanced Music System files by Rob Baxter. |
| 10308 | Advanced Music System files by Rob Baxter. |
| 10311 | Soundhakker hacked music, complete with player program. |
| 10314 | Music to be loaded into Soundtrakker (see disc 11001). |
| 10315 | Music to be loaded into Soundtrakker (see disc 11001). |
| 11000 | Protracker An impressive music editor which uses real samples - it can even import .MOD files from the Amiga and PC.128 |
| 11001* | Soundtrackers Four great music editors: Digitrakker (like Protracker, but better), Advanced Music Creator, BooTracker, and Soundtrakker 128, complete with example files. All you need to create your own music. XC 128 |
| 11100 | Rob Buckley's friendly Domain Word word-processor, Robot Software's flexible PowerSpell spell-checker, plus I-Spell and an elementary WP for Citizen printers. 128 |
| 11200 | Databases. |
| 11201 | Databases. |
| 11300 | Spreadsheets, including PD Planner. |
| 11400 | PowerPage 64 The original version of the CPC desktop publisher. Lets you edit a fully graphical A5 page on even an unexpanded 464. |
| 11401* | PowerPage 128 Robot Software's famous desktop publishing system, PowerPage 128, is all you need to create A5 posters and publications on your CPC. Includes extremely advanced text layout features, fast drawing functions, and a host of sensible design touches (such as automatic file compression) to make DTP as easy as possible. As used by Artificial Intelligence, CPC SouthWest, Potential Difference and countless other fanzines. 128 |
| 11402 | Alan Scully's simple Pagemaker DTP program. |
| 11500* | The Artist The best-selling disc gets a new look with version two of the classic art package, GPaint - packed with features, and the only serious competitor to Advanced Art Studio. Exclusively translated by Robot Software. Also includes PC-CPC graphic transfer programs, Smart II, and several other drawing programs. |
| 12000 | Hacking Disc Utilities to help the budding game hacker, including the JW Brown suite, plus several excellent tape-disc transfer programs by Rob Scott. |
| 12002* | The Sentinel Collection Two ex-commercial programs from Sentinel Software. TUSS is a hacker's dream, enabling you to easily rip graphics out of other people's programs, while Pro-Ext brings clip art and headline font capabilities to Protext.XC 128 |
| 12003 | Print Enhancer Geoff Short's package replaces your printer's default font with a set of well-drawn high resolution alternatives. |
| 12004 | Screen dumps and other printer utilities. |
| 12005 | The Connectivity Disc DOS-to-CPC copying utilities, file translators (such as Sanko, GIF Converter and IFF Converter), and the comp.sys.amstrad.8bit FAQ combine to make a useful collection for those wishing to ship files between their CPC and PC, Mac or Amiga. Some programs 128 |
| 12100 | The International Collection Disc utilities from all over Europe - copiers, formatters, rescue programs, you name it. Includes classics such as DMon and Crime. |
| 12200 | RSX-Lib A programming utility from Smogware Systems. XC |
| 12201* | Demo creators Write a flashy demo without having to learn machine code! The NWC Demomaker, Vorspann utility, and Tom & Jerry's acclaimed Ghoul's Writer are on the disc. Perfect for sending interesting disc letters to your CPC contacts. |
| 12202 | "Toolkit" programs to add extra commands to BASIC. |
| 12300 | File crunchers - instant disc space savings. Includes Cheese, Columbia, SQ23 screen squeezer, and Turbo Imploder. |
| 12400 | A bizarre Unix-like operating system. |
| 12401 | Front-ends David Wild's Desk, Worktop, and the PD version of DES (plus utilities) - graphical front-ends to make your CPC even more user-friendly. Just like using Windows or a Macintosh. |
| 13100* | Terminal programs for modem users, including ANSI-Term, the fast and friendly Australian utility which has become a standard for CPC communicators. |
| 14400 | Z80 Pack A collection of assemblers, monitors and disassemblers for the novice or experienced coder. Includes the powerful LARA monitor. |
| 16000 | Alan Scully Collection Adventure and arcade games by a great PD figure of yesteryear, plus a slightly partial history of his infamous Scull PD library. |
| 16001 | POKEs and cheats for commercial games. |
| 16100* | Eve of Shadows, Rob Buckley's ground-breaking graphical adventure, and Neil Scrimgeour's epic Lost Phirious trilogy. An essential disc for adventure enthusiasts. XC |
| 16101 | Simon Avery Collection Quilled text adventures by the prolific Devon author, aka Romeo Squirrel. Nothing special, but a good introduction to the genre. |
| 16103 | Edmund Spicer Collection A disc of largely unchallenging adventures. |
| 16104 | The mammoth Geno, plus Secrets of Ur, Blue Raider, and other adventures. |
| 16105 | Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Prague |
| 16106 | Hitch-Hiker's Guide to London Humorous text adventures by the Electric Monk and Guardian of the Blind. Both discs are required to play the London game. |
| 16200 | Puzzle games galore, including several well-presented mindbenders from Germany's MOPS group. |
| 16201 | Crossword Compiler Keith Mortimer's over-rated crossword utility and word games. 128 |
| 16202* | Tetris Games Variations on a famous theme, from pure Tetris clones like Alinka, Power Tetris, and DrehDriss, to related concepts such as Couleurs. The most addictive disc in the library? |
| 16203* | Joe Moulding's unmissable Last Of The Smileys arcade puzzle, plus Cool World and a selection of French games to exercise your grey matter. |
| 16300 | Demos of Continental arcade smashes Zap't'Balls and Xyphoes Phantasy. |
| 16301* | The Radical Collection volume 1 Rob Buckley's stunning platform game Fluff (6128 Plus only), the enjoyable Ball Bearing, and a demo of shootemup Masters of Space. XC |
| 16302* | Arcade classics including Invaders, Croco Magneto, Dripzone (a Breakout clone), and Pacman-with-a-difference Cyberboy. |
| 16303* | The Vortex Collection Four fantastic games from Vortex Software, ranging from the zapping action of HATE to the fiendish puzzles of Deflektor, plus colourful PD games from the assembler of David Hall. XC 128 |
| 16304 | Demos of Incentive Software's Total Eclipse (3D arcade adventure) and Megablasters, plus Space Froggy and Wipeout, two great arcade games written to demonstrate game creation systems. |
| 16307 | Street Warriors An ambitious Street Fighter clone by Marcus Kasumba. Its BASIC shell makes it sluggish at times, but the gameplay is still there. |
| 16308* | The Radical Collection volume 2 Two more ex-commercial games from the Radical Software vaults: this time futuristic racing sim Star Driver and the excellent Light-Force clone Masters of Space, by Stephen Lond Davis. XC |
| 17000 | An introduction to overscan graphics (full screen, no border). |
| 17100* | Amiga Graphics David Carter's famous compilation of pictures transferred from the Amiga. A slideshow of simply stunning quality. |
| 17101* | Amiga Graphics 2 Volume two of the classic slideshow. |
| 17102 | Digital Demo 7 |
| 17103 | Peter Campbell Collection Showcasing the bizarre sense of humour of the Comsoft boss and self-proclaimed babe magnet. |
| 17104 | Rock Show Pictures of '80s rock stars, digitised by Nullos Cracker. |
| 17105 | David Carter's Turtlemuck slideshow (the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles as you've never seen them before) and scenes from Gone With The Wind. |
| 17106 | Miscellaneous slideshows (or 'Diashows') from Germany. |
| 17107 | Pictures produced by members of the British CPC club WACCI. |
| 17108 | More WACCI pictures. |
| 17109 | A high-quality slideshow of overscan (full screen) pictures. |
| 17110 | Stills from the Victor and Hugo cartoon and from the Schwarzenegger film Terminator II. |
| 17111* | Beautiful hand-drawn overscan pictures by MaDe of Rebels (regularly voted "best artist" in European fanzines' readers' polls), plus subtly drawn MODE 1 artwork which was used to demonstrate the CPC in its early days! |
| 17112 | Conspiracy Plus Slideshow Digitised pictures in 16 shades of grey, for viewing on CPC Plus machines. Plus only |
| 17114 | Digitised and hand-drawn pictures by David Carter. |
| 17115 | Digitised and hand-drawn pictures by David Carter and Mark Chater. |
| 17200 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17201 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17202 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17203 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17204 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17205 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. Includes a themed set of transport pictures. |
| 17206 | PowerPage clip art from the CPC SouthWest user group. |
| 17207 | Clip art for Stop Press and MicroDesign. |
| 17208 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17209 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17210 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17211 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17212 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17213 | Clip art in .CUT format for Stop Press or PowerPage. |
| 17300 | Femmes Entre Elles and Lovepack, two explicit slideshows for over-18s only. 18 |
| 17301 | Two more collections of explicit pictures: Electric Show and Nice Picture Show II (green-screen only). 18 |
| 17401 | Short graphical demos, including a well-drawn collection of flags by Stuart Gascoigne and Andre Coutanche. |
| 17500* | A superbly varied pack of fonts, in PowerPage, MicroDesign, Advanced Art Studio, and 8x8 screen formats. Whether you're laying out a fanzine or coding a scrolltext, there's sure to be a font for you here. |
| 18100 | Simple demos by LDC, aka David Long of Demon PD. |
| 18101 | British demos. |
| 18102 | CRTC Collection Demos by CRTC (Richard Fairhurst), including 1992's Inspiration demo and the MacBugs meeting demo. |
| 18103 | British demos. |
| 18104 | Demoware Excruciating demo by the Bitmap Vandals, plus previews of the follow-up, recently unearthed by Matthew Breckon. |
| 18105* | Four excellent British demos: Wulf 3 (with truly beautiful graphics), Conspiracy TV, Atlantic Coding's Chill, and Frequency's Soundtrakker demo. |
| 18106 | Martin Young's impressive 4-bit samples, and Palm Coding's superlative Blip! Music compilation. |
| 18108* | Audio Illusions A huge collection of music penned by Frequency of Systeme D, complete with interesting graphic effects and quality pictures by the Doodler. |
| 18200 | Terrific Demo A classic megademo by Weee! and Thriller (Cadjo Clan), with some of the best music around. 128 |
| 18201* | The Demo As definitive as the title suggests, this is Logon System's meisterwerk. Seven parts forming the best examples of demo coding you'll ever find, and a revolution on its release in 1992. If you only ever see one demo, make sure it's this one. 128 |
| 18202 | Logon System Collection 1 Early demos by the founders of CPC demo coding, including the Malibu/Logon collaboration, Amazing Demo. |
| 18203* | Logon System Collection 2 The final releases by Logon System, including Overflow's breath-taking third demo, F--ing Exams, and the Euromeeting Demo. 128 |
| 18204 | Paradise Demo An accomplished, if predictable, megademo from Paradox. |
| 18205 | French Classics 1 A selection of the best releases from the heyday of French demo coding. Includes work by Fefesse and the Malibu Crackers. |
| 18206 | French Classics 2 More examples of Gallic genius, including Malibu's head-spinning farewell, the Intox demo. |
| 18207 | Continental Classics A snapshot of the demo scene in Germany and elsewhere, c. 1990. Best of all is KKB's imaginative First Demo. |
| 18212 | Voyage 1993 Formulaic megademo by Prodatron and Alien of BENG!. 128 |
| 18213 | Prodatron Megademo |
| 18214 | NWC Collection The innovative work of Danish demo coder Peter Sorensen, whose most recent release is entitled Unique (18218). |
| 18215* | Ultimate Megademo Thought by many to rival The Demo, Face Hugger's imaginative demo introduced a new talent to the CPC coding world and started a craze for 3D effects. Also includes Elmar Krieger's spectacular Chain Demo. 128 |
| 18216* | Divine Megademo disc 1 |
| 18217* | Divine Megademo disc 2 The enormous new demo by three of Europe's premier coding talents - Antoine Pitrou, Mage, and Odiesoft. Not as slick as you might hope, but contains some of the best CPC coding ever. Both discs needed. 128 |
| 18218 | Unique The long-awaited megademo by NWC of Unix, with new effects including an enormous sine scroll and starfield loader. 128 |
| 18300 | Pleasure Zone A slideshow of sexually explicit animations. 18 |
| 18303 | More animations of a dubious nature, including the infamous Germaine demos and the Fire Engine animation. 18 |
| 18400 | Animations of bouncing balls, violin players, Dr Spock, and many more. |
| 18401 | Vector animations produced by David Carter with Discovery's Animator package. Very smooth. 128 |
| 19100 | S.E.X. 1 English-language fanzine from Greece. 18 |
| 19101 | C.E.F. 4/Fanzam 5 Unpretentious and little-known British disc fanzine. |
| 19102 | Donut Mag 1, Otto 1 The first issues of Tom Dean's lively disczine and Nicholas Campbell's more po-faced production. |
| 19103 | S.E.X. 2 The latest issue of the Greek fanzine. |
| 19104 | Amstrad User 6 |
| 19105 | Amstrad User 7 Fanzine from Ireland. 128 |
| 19106 | Donut Mag 2 Controversial but very enjoyable second issue of the Donut System fanzine. |
| 19107 | Otto 4 |
| 19108 | Otto 3 Nicholas Campbell's fanzine, now incorporating Jonty Jones's After Dark. |
| 19109 | Ovation 2, CPC Telegramm 17 Worthy but dull Greek fanzine coupled with the latest issue of Germany's excellent dual-language newszine. |
| 19110 | Otto 5 The final issue. |
| 19111* | BTL 1 |
| 19112* | BTL 2 |
| 19113* | BTL 3 |
| 19114* | BTL 4 The inimitable British disc fanzine, produced by leading lights of the STS and Systeme D groups, and with more libel than you would have thought could be packed into one 360k disc. |
| 19121 | EuroWACCI 1 A selection of classic articles from the WACCI paperzine in a freely distributable form for the European market. |
| 19122 | EuroWACCI 2 |
| 19125 | ATM 1 |
| 19126 | ATM 2 |
| 19127* | ATM 3 Amstrad Technical Mag: an intriguing mixture of gossip and hardware tips from Roy Everett and Nigel Callcutt. |
| 19128* | Digital Press 3 disc 1 |
| 19129* | Digital Press 3 disc 2 Informative and expansive French-German co-production. 128 |
| 19130 | Impact 3, Otto 2 Fanzines by Tom Dean and Nicholas Campbell. |
| 19131 | Another World 1 & 2 |
| 19132 | Another World 3 & 4 Richard Avery's simple disc fanzine.> |
| 19200 | Disc Full 5 |
| 19201 | Disc Full 6 |
| 19202 | Disc Full 7 Beautifully produced French-language disczine. Compatible with 6128 only. |
| 19203 | Ams'Dem 1 |
| 19204 | Ams'Dem 3 |
| 19205 | Z80 4 |
| 19206 | Micro-Mag 5 |
| 19207 | The Addams Fanz 1 |
| 19208 | Disc Full 8 |
| 19209 | Crack'n'Rom 7 |
| 19210 | Micro-Mag/Press Fire 7 |
| 19211 | Disc Full 10 French-language disczines. |
| 19212 | Dracula Fanz 4 |
| 19213 | Demoniak 4 |
| 19214 | Dracula Fanz 5 disc 1 |
| 19215 | Dracula Fanz 5 disc 2 Some of the latest French-language disczines, with presentation more akin to that of a demo. A visual feast even for those who don't speak the language. |
| 19300 | Amsmail 1 A vintage German-language disczine. |
| 19301 | CPC Fastloader 4, Bad Mag 1 An issue of Prodatron's German-language fanzine plus the debut of notorious bilingual fanzine Bad Mag. |
| 19302 | CPC Fastloader 6 |
| 19303 | Xtreme 1 The final issue of Prodatron's original disczine and the first fruit of his collaboration with Hypnomega. Mostly German-language. |
| 19304 | CPC Challenge 12 |
| 19305 | Bad Mag 2 The second and final issue of the virulent Bad Mag. |
| 19306* | Xtreme 2 Probably the best of the "big name" fanzines, with flawless presentation and well-informed (bilingual) content. |
| 19307 | Xtreme 3, CPC Challenge 17 |
| 19309 | Disc Mac Challenge 19/20 Hypnomega's popular document of German scene culture. |
| 19310 | Tribal Mag 7 disc 1 |
| 19311 | Tribal Mag 7 disc 2, Disc Mac
Challenge 21 The most recent issue of Juggler's mammoth German/English fanzine: varied and interesting content. Also the latest CPC Challenge. |
| 21100* | VDE The commercial quality word-processor (file length up to 60k) in both its original and revised "ZDE" forms, plus a PD spell-checker. |
| 21101 | Express Writer and Bradford, two word-processors with high quality printout options. |
| 21400* | Printmaster Ingenious poster and card design package, with an integral font and clip art library. Easy to use and capable of superb results. |
| 21600 | GigaCAD Graphical CAD system from Germany. CP/M 2.2 only |
| 22000 | Miscellaneous utilities including date-stamping, print processing, and easy menu creation. |
| 22100* | Filesweep utilities A set of intuitive file utilities, including the classic Newsweep (NSWP) and enhancements such as Maxisweep. If you can use ParaDOS, you can use these. |
| 22101 | Sector editors and extended format utilities, including PC and PCW disc readers. Not PCW |
| 22300 | File crunchers, providing a highly space-effective way of archiving your spare files. |
| 22301 | File crunchers. |
| 22400 | Two front-ends: the excellent GUI of Geno (CP/M 2.2 only) and the Unix-like command line of SUnix. |
| 23100 | Comms terminal MEX, with several pre-defined system configurations. |
| 23101* | ZMP, the only CPC/PCW terminal to support the efficient ZModem file transfer protocol, plus the customisable QTerm terminal program. |
| 23102 | The SmartModem terminal and CRR (CP/M Read and Reply off-line reader). |
| 23103 | Kermit and UUCP file transfer, plus the CPC-Modem terminal program. |
| 23205 | XRAS bulletin-board system. |
| 24100* | ZBASIC and MBASIC Two alternative versions of BASIC. ZBASIC is a cut-down version of a fast commercial BASIC compiler, while Microsoft's classic MBASIC is the program with which the manufacturers of Windows first made their name. |
| 24200 | XLisp |
| 24300 | JRT Pascal disc 1 |
| 24301 | JRT Pascal disc 2 An interpreted version of the language with extensive documentation. |
| 24302 | Small C |
| 24303 | Small C source Interprets a subset of the system programming language. |
| 24400 | Z80dis Flexible Z80 disassembler. |
| 24401* | Dazzlestar, arguably the most fully-featured disassembler available for Z80 systems, plus powerful assembler ZSM. |
| 26100* | The original adventure game (later dubbed "Classic Adventure"), a puzzler of renowned intensity, plus more recent adventures by Amstrad programmers. |
| 26101 | A selection of adventures including Ken Bond's famously tricky Base and Island. |
| 26300 | Arcade games including Tetris clone Quatris, Pacman, Tornado, and Maze Chase. Some not CP/M 2.2: Tornado CP/M 2.2 only |
| 90000* | Auntie John's ROM Invaders and Pacman available at the touch of a button, plus loads of extra commands for programmers and printer users. |
| 92000 | Hacker's BASIC David Wild's simple hacking suite in ROM format. |
| 92001 | Amstradxtra A set of extra commands similar in concept to Auntie John's ROM - good for programmers. Put together by Dave Gorski of the Aspects BBS. |
| 92002 | Paul Martin's ANSI-compatible terminal emulator, plus an excellent set of commands to read from and write to PC discs (360k format only). |
| 92100* | S-DOS 2 The next best thing to ParaDOS - a large-format DOS with auto-detection, disc utility, and support for different formats in each drive. Does not require you to replace your AMSDOS chip. By Rob Scott and Simon Matthews, this is the program on which ParaDOS was based, and is still the best choice for CP/M users. XC |
| 92101 | AMSDOC Doc Bartoc's patched version of AMSDOS adds support for sub-directories and other such features. |
| 92102 | MS800 The ROM version of Phil Craven's clumsy 800k DOS. XC: 6128 only |
| 93100* | Charley's Comms ROM A highly advanced comms system, providing both terminal modes and RSXs for you to construct your own utilities - even bulletin boards. Includes support for YModem (batch) transfers. XC |