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which is the best/ do you like the most

ZX spectrum
4
17%
Amstrad cpc 464
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commodore 64
15
63%
BBC micro
5
21%
 
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Also vote for the C64 - it practically changed the whole industry and brought the word "computer" to everyone's lips.
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wackyman465 wrote:
That's how I got the double post, then...
Triple. :wink:

As an old C64-user (got my first Elite for that; later switched to an Atari ST) have to vote for it. It's also very nice for learning some basics of programming. And it teaches you not to waste Megabytes after Megabytes. If you have eight flags to set which may either be 'yes' or 'no', you can squeeze them into 1 Byte!
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BBC
Upgraded mine with 4Mhz 128K Solidisk conversion. Wish I still had it :(

I would suggest any ooliter wanting to dabble in programming get a BBC. The Elite source code is freely available for download. ;)
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wackyman465 wrote:
What are these ancient relic devices...?
wackyman465 wrote:
What are these ancient relic devices...?
wackyman465 wrote:
What are these ancient relic devices...?
I wondered how wackyman got such a high post-count so quickly. Now I know... ;)
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JohnnyBoy wrote:
wackyman465 wrote:
What are these ancient relic devices...?
wackyman465 wrote:
What are these ancient relic devices...?
wackyman465 wrote:
What are these ancient relic devices...?
I wondered how wackyman got such a high post-count so quickly. Now I know... ;)
BTW: If you notice that you have made a double / triple / quadruple post: There is this handy [X]-button directly next to the
- and the [edit]-button. :wink:
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well, that solves that, i was thinking about geting an amstrad, but maybe not
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Commander McLane wrote:
BTW: I you notice that you have made a double / triple / quadruple post: There is this handy [X]-button directly next to the (quote)- and the [edit]-button. :wink:
I know about the "X" button, but where is my double / triple / quadruple post?
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He was quoting you quoting the wacky-one - I think the X-button nudge was aimed at his wackiness...
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0235 wrote:
well, that solves that, i was thinking about geting an amstrad, but maybe not
Amstrad was never very big. They made some noise, but those feeble cries were drowned by the bigger and better home computers.
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I remember I had a C64, my friend Neil had a rubber keyboard speccy and my other friend Graham had an Amstrad 464.

Looking back on it now it feels like the classic TWTWTW (TW3) "upper, middle, lower class" sketch. Of the three machines mine had the most memory, the most colours, the best sound - but games were difficult to "back up" - and peripherals were stupidly expensive (I remember my parents paid £299 for the C64 in the early 80s and then another £50 just for the C= Datasette otherwise you couldn't load or save anything!).

Then my other friend "Watty" got an Atari 800XL and I was almost impressed.... :wink:
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Wolfwood wrote:
0235 wrote:
well, that solves that, i was thinking about geting an amstrad, but maybe not
Amstrad was never very big. They made some noise, but those feeble cries were drowned by the bigger and better home computers.
Can't possibly agree with that. The CPC series may not have been any great shakes, but the PC1512/1640 models were immensely popular. I had a 1512 (which I upgraded to a massive 640k memory!!!!!!!!) and ran it, problem-free, for years. I actually miss the freedom of DOS. Oh, and it ran Elite without a single graphic glitch.
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And don't forget the Amstrad PCW8256! Computer, keyboard, screen, floppy disc drive, printer, OS and word processing software for £399. Its appearance in 1985 sure as hell shook the computer market up a bit...
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Ok, perhaps my comment was mainly from the Finnish/Scandinavian perspective. We were all C64 enthusiasts at the time and I never saw any other brands in use by any of my friends or relatives (nor were they discussed in computer magazines very much, although I remember seeing some ads for them).
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
He was quoting you quoting the wacky-one - I think the X-button nudge was aimed at his wackiness...
Oh, okay. Yeah, I see that now... :oops:
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C64 was great. You could program some pretty neat stuff on it too, I found it more user friendly than the Beeb (which my dad had). But the games were great. RamboII was brill, and Last Ninja Remix (had that one on floppy disk)
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