Poll: Amstrad CPC v BBC v C64 v ZX Spectrum

Which system?

  • Amstrad CPC

    Votes: 87 14.4%

  • BBC

    Votes: 74 12.2%

  • C64

    Votes: 245 40.5%

  • ZX Zpectrum

    Votes: 199 32.9%
  • Total voters
    605
Flukester said:
1 poke 36878,15
2 for n=1 to 255
3 poke 36877,n
4 next n
5 goto 2

Cookie if anyone can guess the computer and result of program :-)

It's funny how poke numbers stay with you for over 30 years
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255 normally refers to infinite be it ammo, lives, energy, etc.

I still remember some C64 cheats such as Cyberdyne Warrior - put the joystick in port 1 go up, down, left, right and press fire and it will give you infinite energy (changing the joystick back to port 2 afterwards).



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I'm pretty sure that 36879 is the volume register and setting it to 15 is max volume. It's been a while but I used to get up early to programme it before school back in the good old days. I bet I've got it wrong though :)

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Hades said:
I'm pretty sure that 36879 is the volume register and setting it to 15 is max volume. It's been a while but I used to get up early to programme it before school back in the good old days. I bet I've got it wrong though :)
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Pokes seem a bit convoluted to do that, although I was used to locomotive BASIC where you could just do that stuff with the sound command anyway. :)

Ooh, ooh, anyone else remember writing LOGO programs on the BBC for the Turtle!!??
 
Tomsk said:
This poll seems to be which was the for games
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Not actually what the OP asked for though?
I didn't really spend a lot of time playing games, I'd play them a few times, work out the mechanics of what it was doing, then start writing my own version.

I remember being really interested in some kind of Medieval resource type game on the College's BBC micro, I must have written umpteen different versions of that type of game on various machines.

Kids are spoilt these days, I'd have loved a Raspberry Pi back then but now it's as if nobody has a clue what to do with any of it. You can't compete with a PS3 doing it all for you, so I guess I was lucky in a way.
 
The 464 was the best machine, it had the vest versions of everything at the time.

You only have to look at the 3 versions of Target Renegade to see which was the best machine.

What? Is it 1987?
 
I have fond memories of the Speccy 48k and C64, but if I have to choose one it's the C64.

Just off the top of my head:

Wizball
Great Escape
Beach Head II
Ghosts N Goblins
Cauldren II
Antirad
Skool Daze (actually preferred the Speccy version of this)
Commando
Aliens
Silent Service

Ocean loader music brings back such memories:


I even rescued a few Zzap64 mags from a dark corner of mum's loft:

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I was lucky enough that my friends had a mix of each, so got to experience all 4 of the 8bits plus Amiga and ST.

It's fair to say that some games were better on each machine, but as a C64 (then Amiga 500) owner, I recall these being the "best". :D
 
do people remember those games which used to have Amstrad CPC on one side of the cassette and speccy on the other? Think we used to call them flippy floppy games when i was a kid :)

I was a CPC 464 owner myself, my family was poor so i had the green screen, another kid across the street had the colour monitor (god i hated him)

Its called nostalgia for a reason as i recall with fondness games like Bruce Lee, Werewolves of London, Barbarian, Chase HQ, Choplifter, Platoon etc.

Also does anyone remember a game which had Ade Edmondson on the cover, think it came out in the late 80's, it was basically like a game version of the comdedy show Bottom, about 10 years before it ever hit the tv.

The game from my memory was called how to be a complete ******* (insert appropriate swearword)

You basically went into peoples houses and make a complete annoyance of yourself, be the ******* that the name of the game implies :)
 
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robgmun said:
C64 all the way.

The sound was astonishing the GFX was the best of any 8-Bit
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I agree. I had a Spectrum. I spent 6 weeks picking runner beans (bloody hard work!) in one summer holiday to save up to buy an original 48K Speccy because I played with one in Woolworths and thought it was the most awesome thing I had ever seen. £180 was a hell of a lot of money to a child in 1982, that's for sure. My parents bought me a ZX-81 (with wobbly 16K RAMPACK), but it's important for a kid to learn the value of money so they told me to earn the Spectrum.

I thought my Spectrum was well worth 180 hours of hard labour.

But I was amazed by the sound on the C64 a friend of mine got a bit later, which was in a completely different league.

For example, Fairlight was noted for the high quality of its title music on the Spectrum 48K:


Hmm...I was poking around on Youtube a bit and found a complete recording of loading and playing Manic Miner on a 48K Spectrum. Younger people might want to watch this and bear in mind that this was one of the major titles on the most popular gaming machine of the time. This was a platform-making game. And yes, it really did load exactly like this, including the loading noises and the time it took.


Clearly, the ZX Spectrum was a major part of the foundation of dubstep as well as mass-market video gaming :) 1m20s onwards - protodubstep right there!

Now I feel put out if my game with near-realistic graphics and gameworld and sound and full orchestral music takes 30s to load. We get spoiled.
 
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C64 was the one to have. It was the coolest, with its sid music. Rob Hubbard music still does it for me to this day !

I had the Spectrum 48k, and though i loved it, i was secretly jealous of the C64. I longed for some decent music.

BBC owners were just spods, and rightly beaten upon in the playground.

Amstrad owners, well.. No comment.. Probably ended up with a fat bird, cos lets face it, you just settled for what you got in life!
 
Only one of my friends used an Amstrad, had this dull green screen, thought it was utter crap.

Had the Spectrum 48K+ for a number of years - probally best game for me was the Dizzy series, then switched to a Commodore 64 which was better - favorite game Last Ninja 2.
 
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