Quick Links to Other Important PCW, PcW & CPC-related Sites, Disk Salvage & Data Transfer Companies.

Web Sites offering disk salvage, data transfer services, spares, repairs, etc., (in alphabetical order):

• Advanced Downloading Services Ltd.
• Commercial and General Systems
• John King's "Amstrad PCW Spares" Site
• LuxSoft This company supports RNLI and Cornwall Air Ambulance through sales of PCW bits and PCW software. It also offers a data transfer service.
• SD Micros (including LocoScript products)
• Seminars-UK

If you can't get scratched CDs/DVDs repaired in your local high street, the following companies offer CD and DVD disc cleaning and repair / scratch removal, etc.:

• www.scratchbusters.co.uk 
• Three-r  

For Hard Disk Recovery and Bulk Data Transfer Services on PCs and MACs, including tools, consider also (in alphabetical order):

• Data Recovery UK Ltd
• e-Mag Solutions Ltd
• Ontrack Data Recovery
• R-Tools Technology Inc (self-service tools)

- but these kind of services usually don't come as cheap as those that we provided for the PCW! Note that many off-the-shelf utilities packages have data recovery software in them that you can use yourself if you have adequate experience. 

All of the above Companies differ markedly in their specialisation. Since the price for various services may vary from time to time and differ according to your specialist requirements, we advise obtaining a "Quotation" from more than one company.

Other related web sites (in alphabetical order):

• Ian Macdonald's Amstrad PCW Page
• John Elliott's CP/M Stuff
• PCW Emulator
• Ron's Amstrad PCW Page
• The Genesis8 Web site - lots of information including the large English version of the FAQ for the associated newsgroup comp.sys.amstrad.8bit - other language versions are also available on the same site in both txt and html formats.
• The Independent Eight Bit Association (e-mail link)
• WACCI: The Worldwide Amstrad CPC User Club

If you come across another site that especially deserves to be mentioned here, or if any of the above should be re-categorised, please let me know.

Last revised: 16th June 2009