The Amstrad PCW was a revolution in offices worldwide, thanks to the LocoScript word processor by Locomotive Software, its built-in printer, and the excellent character resolution of its screen.

Unsurprisingly, this computer was primarily marketed as the perfect replacement for typewriters.

Although Amstrad had good reason to claim so, they left out a very important part of this machine's capabilities.

And this was because the Amstrad PCW also came bundled with a very special guest, a software that turned it into a powerful personal computer: the CP/M Plus operating system from Digital Research.

The CP/M operating system had its glory days during the late 1970s and early 1980s, which practically meant there was an impressive software library capable of running on the Amstrad PCW with little to no modification.

This, of course, included a wide variety of programming languages, which, combined with the machine's features, made it perfect for getting started in the art of software development.

Later on, certain extensions specific to the Amstrad PCW were developed for these programming languages, allowing for graphics rendering among other features.