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I miss my Amstrad CPC 464 and Atari ST too.

The stack of softwares is too deep nowadays to control everything excepting in the world of microcontrollers.

Indeed. Which is why recreational programming on Amstrads is still fun :)

Check out http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/ and https://github.com/Octoate/cpc-sdcc-rom for some good starting points.

Amstrads can still be had on eBay for reasonable money, and one can gradually buy enough hardware to make a fun system. I just obtained a floppy drive interface that I plan to use to connect an SD-card floppy simulator to my 464 ... fun times :)

Nice! I am tempted to pick up some of the old Amiga hardware I used to own and get playing again.

You should! I imagine it'd be cheaper than a nice modern gaming rig, and quite a lot more fun (IMO). Developing for those old systems is also a joy.

This is great.

I've seen a modern OS for 6128 but I can't find the link.

There is this kind of spirit in the Forth language. I try to build something around it.

You're probably thinking of SymbOS?

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/SymbOS

Screenshot here:

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/7/73/Symbos21cpc.gif

Oh, and if you're into Forth, check out:

http://emucation.com/dl-rom-20511-group-6310.htm

... it's a Forth implementation for the CPC. I haven't tried it myself though.

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