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Favourite 8-bit computer

ZX Spectrum
26
31%
Commodore 64
44
52%
Amstrad CPC 464
10
12%
BBC Micro
3
4%
Acorn
1
1%
 
Total votes : 84

Postby Spiff on Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:29 pm

Speccy's creeping up on the C64 (possibly with a paperclip to "accidentally" misuse as a reset switch and blow the internal fuse instead) but the Amstrad vote doesn't seem to be moving!
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Postby markopoloman on Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:43 pm

Hey Spiff, there seems to be a problem with your keyboard - when typing C64 it came out as Spectrum and the same happened when you typed Spectrum - it came out as C64 :P

Need to sort that out - maybe it was typed on a spectrum? You need to use a REAL keyboard..............just like the C64 one :lol:
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Postby bounty bob on Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:54 pm

Dudley wrote:
bounty bob wrote:What you only had a dedicated mag only until 1995, what a shame! Their were a few magazines for the Atari 8bit range, starting with Antic, Atari User and Page 6, later Page 6 merged with Atari User and became New Atari User and was published right through to 1998 (thats dedication for you)


And you could buy them in WH Smith up until then?


Hi Dudley,

I wouldn't no for sure as I subscribed to Atari User and Page 6 and had it delivered to my door till the very end. I think it was still selling in the shops till 1993.
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Postby Hiroke on Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:39 pm

Although I don't know any of these systems very well, I voted for the C64. For the simple reason that my brother had one and I used to watch him play Outrun and Ghostbusters when I was a little boy. He later gave it to me in the early nineties when he bought a new PC. I had a flight-sim called "Ace" that I played all of the time. Until that is I got a NES for my birthday, and the old girl was packed away, never to be seen again.
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Postby demon cleaner on Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:26 am

I had a flight-sim called "Ace"

Was that Ace of Aces?
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Postby CraigGrannell on Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:30 am

demon cleaner wrote:Was that Ace of Aces?

Probably not.
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Postby revgiblet on Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:41 am

Ace was a 'proper' flight sim for the C64 (it was actually called A.C.E. which stood for Air Combat Emulator). I used to play it loads too, because I had seen F-18 Interceptor running on a friend's Amiga and it was the closest I could get to such an awesome game.

Ace of Aces was a great game too though.
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Postby Hungry Horace on Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:51 pm

/forum troll mode ON

LOLZ SPECTRUM PWNZ COMMODORE AND AMSTRAD GAY IF U HAV 64 OR AMSTRAD UR GAY LOLZ U KISS UR MUM AND PLAY UR 64 GAMES. SPECTRUM T3H W1N.

/forum troll mode OFF

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Postby Darran@Retro Gamer on Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:59 pm

Only eight votes for the Amstrad? :cry:

don't make me start deleting posts...







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Postby Hungry Horace on Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:29 pm

*COUGH*abuseofpower*COUGH*

What? I thought I heard something just then.
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Postby CraigGrannell on Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:35 pm

Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:Only eight votes for the Amstrad?

Hey, it could be worse: at least seven other people voted for it! :)
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Postby Sparrowhawk on Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:50 pm

Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:Only eight votes for the Amstrad? :cry:


Well, I love my CPC6128, but just not as much as I do my Speccy. Sorry!
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Postby Jax on Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:21 pm

C64 roolz !!!!1111!!1one one :lol:

sorry, don`t know what happend there, fly on the keyboard....

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Postby Dudley on Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:16 pm

These days I love the CPC more, having now got all 3 machines as an obsessed adult but ultimately I had to vote in honour of my Speccy +2.
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Postby backdrifter on Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:14 pm

Had to vote for the C64! The source of my earliest gaming memories....
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