It was a matter of what was on offer in the catalogue in order to pay over 52 weeks and was in range of my pocket money. 😃 But then the ZX81 was in range if I sold my snooker table. My Atari came along later after a short upgrade from the ZX81 to the TI-99/4a as I wanted colour and sound.
The one I wanted but was too expensive for our budget and I ended up with the ZX81.
You can really see the progression of the design from the Atari VCS (single scanline) through the Atari 800 (DMA, character graphics and other modes, POKEY sound) and on to the Amiga where the custom chips are an evolution of the thinking behind the Atari 800’s (Copper lists vs Antic display list).
The Dungeon is a game I go back to and replay through every few years. Just about the only game I can say that about!
Homebrew and indie are what keeps the hobby alive.
I agree totally. The pages I look to first are the homebrew coverage and it used to be great when Jason Kelk was there before his tragic passing. Mainly a personal thing as I have a love of Atari 8-bits but it feels like they are ignored now.
RG has gone downhill I think. I know many have always had a bad opinion of it but I have enjoyed it and subscribe but I am now rethinking that. Always the same platforms lazily covered. Not having owned an Amstrad, Spectrum or C64 back in the day means articles or interest are limited.
Mine are:-
6502 (1984 on Atari 600XL)
68000 (1985 at Uni)
x86 (1990 working on small routines to accelerate C programs at work)
Z80 (2020 for fun on a TRS-80 model I)
Could have been so good if the 16-bit bus was more accessible. My second machine after the ZX81 and Extended BASIC really made a difference to it.
Yeah! I am not into removing price stickers, it’s part of the story. 😀
Been trying to collect up games with their magazine adverts and this was one of them.
Every company I buy any product or service from these days is just so needy!
Completed this issue of C&VG October ‘84 with the flexi-disc that arrived yesterday. Now, if I could find the C64 version that you had to write to them to request it…
Because the Brexit Party, Vote Leave, Boris Johnson et al lied. Not that I feel bitter about it at all. Reform pulling the same trick all over again.
Board of Peace? Sounds more like he’s heard too many Bond audio books and has formed SPECTRE.
So FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize winner is abandoning any commitment to peace because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize. The U.S. president having a tantrum and showing everyone just why he did not get it in the first place. Crazy times.
Still have my Commodore LED calculator. It was so cool at the time but we weren’t allowed them in school. At that age you never tired of spelling ‘BOOBIES’!
Unfortunately with an American accent! 😂
Ditto except for Mr Merlin and Electronic Battleships! 🙂
Confession: it was a YT video here youtu.be/yybCiRQ_Rv4?... and the U.S. vetoing an IMF loan but the U.K. was in a very comparable position to the U.S.
I am sending him my 25m swimming badge in the hope it makes him feel whole so he will leave Greenland in peace.
Just what the U.S. threatened to do to the U.K. around the Suez crisis.
Ha! Rodney would so have bought an Amstrad CPC. Perfect equipment casting.
Ah, so it does! Unusually comprehensive!
Does this cover the likes of YouTube or are we just pretending that the youth of today watch ITV/C4/C5?
Nothing screams “not yet ready for production” quite like that.
Yep. Off the pace and sloppy. They look jet-lagged!
I ask if they have books related to 80s era micros every second hand bookshop I go to and the answer is always “no demand”. What is happening to these books? Do they just end up in cupboards, on eBay (at inflated prices) or are they being destroyed as the mainstream thinks they have no value?
I can see why Trump wants him off the air but not a valid reason for it happening as a result of this monologue.
Probably a good spot in case somebody is feeling a little desperate!
