One for the ancient videogamers out there...
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kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
*dreams of Culture faction replete with GSVs, ROUs and GCUs*
OK, admiting wrongness on the Elite ship thing...must've been Frontier that I bought one of them groovy bounty hunter ship things
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Having checked out the elite page...the Fer-de-Lance...
@ Crispy...
@ Crispy...
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
The beeb was for kids who's parents got them an educational computer.EastEnder said:The Beeb version was the definitive version, bar none.
The C64 was only used by delinquent truants, destined to a life of petty crime, these days most likely to be found on remand for arson.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Teacher's pet computer so it was.
I bet EE had a Archimedes instead of an Amiga or St as well, and went around geeking about how much better it was having a RISC processor, and how amazing Zarch (Virus on the Amiga/ST) was...
I bet EE had a Archimedes instead of an Amiga or St as well, and went around geeking about how much better it was having a RISC processor, and how amazing Zarch (Virus on the Amiga/ST) was...
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
We don't have any potatoes in Ireland - that's why it was called a famine - d'oh.EastEnder said:The BBC was a "family" computer.....
Besides, sleaterkinney's just jealous because the only computers available in Ireland were made from potatoes.
*laughs and swaps games with kyser*
You should talk it through with your therapist about how your parents neglected you.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
I had an Acorn Electron - educational machine for single parent families 
BBC Basic was TEH BASIC.
(I was always a bit jealous of the kids with Speccy's though - but never C64s and you had to pity the Vic20 users).
Wished I'd gone for the Amiga over the Atari ST as well - much better games machine, though GEM was pretty good for the time.
BBC Basic was TEH BASIC.(I was always a bit jealous of the kids with Speccy's though - but never C64s and you had to pity the Vic20 users).
Wished I'd gone for the Amiga over the Atari ST as well - much better games machine, though GEM was pretty good for the time.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
kyser_soze said:
Nah that was:
surely
The Amiga pissed on the Atari. Admittedly I'm biased, but I remember going to a mate's house and playing Turrican 2 on his ST, and it looked piss-poor compared to the amiga version, almost like a spectrum game in comparison.
Kanda
Diving wanker
If it wasn't for Commodore, I wouldn't have the job/career I have now.
The amount of months (literally!!) I bunked off school (failing every exam) to fuck about with Commodores, learn to program, fuck around soldering bits and bobs to it, breaking it, fixing it etc etc
Good times
The amount of months (literally!!) I bunked off school (failing every exam) to fuck about with Commodores, learn to program, fuck around soldering bits and bobs to it, breaking it, fixing it etc etc
Good times
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
revol68 said:
watch it you!!!! that was my 1st computer!!! citadel anyone?
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Zx81-vic20-48K-speccy-c64-amiga was my path to geekdom...and the 64 pissed on the Spectrum for pretty much everything except vectors, and even on that front by the end of it's life the 64 was being tricked into doing stuff it shouldn't...not to mention full screen games, decent sound and colour etc
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
The ST beat the Amiga for one reason only in my world - built in MIDI.
Notator gave me far more fun than any game ever could.....
Notator gave me far more fun than any game ever could.....
Everyone went on about the ST having this MIDI port as if it proved that the ST's sound was so much better. It wasn't. It had tinny, shite sound, compared to the lush, rich Amiga sound.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Errrr, MIDI had nothing to do with the sound of the pooter.RenegadeDog said:
It meant I could connect it to things like this:
kyser_soze said:Zx81-vic20-48K-speccy-c64-amiga was my path to geekdom...and the 64 pissed on the Spectrum for pretty much everything except vectors, and even on that front by the end of it's life the 64 was being tricked into doing stuff it shouldn't...not to mention full screen games, decent sound and colour etc
Agreed, and early on in the Amiga's life, some C64 arcade conversions were actually superior to the Amiga one, like OutRun I seem to remember being excellent on the C64.
beesonthewhatnow said:Errrr, MIDI had nothing to do with the sound of the pooter.
It meant I could connect it to things like this:
I understand that. But many ST owners would claim that their ST had better sound just cos it had a MIDI port. How many of them actually used that port? Not many.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Amiga pwd ST
Structaural
in Chatsubo
RenegadeDog said:
Bad port that was, it was better for games - it had two custom chips. Ran 10% slower though.
The ST was advantageus for different reasons (I used to have a small Yamaha keyboard hooked up to mine - the STe): High res BW monitor- check, MIDI port -check. CuBase -check, Logic - check, Decent WIMP - check, Dungeon Master - check, Oids - check, Affordable - check.
But I ain't getting into no platform war 15 years after the fact, by today's standards the differences were negligible
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