Just recently after a long four year break, Richard Wilson released the Amstrad CPC emulator of ' WinAPE 2.0 Beta 1 ' for Windows based systems. Although you can also use the excellent 'JavaCPC' with a lovely OS frontend, you can also try this straight up launcher with no fancy backdrops emulator which has had a recent big fix update ' WinAPE 2.0 Beta 2 '. As a test of the emulator I'd highly recommend playing the R-Type 128K Remake, which is a fantastic overhaul of the rather poor Amstrad CPC original.