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
I may have missed this.. because I am only 22.. but I only know of BBC. I haven't heard of any of those other news websites. Anyone got a link to them?
 
derrrrrr DOOOOT!

Whatever happened to 5 pin DIN leads? Or 14" goldfish bowl monitors encased in a dangerous looking metal cube?
 
Had a Spectrum+2 and commodore 64 but my Atari 65XE was awesome, my vote goes to the 65XE, best looking 8bit by far.

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the C64 was undoubtedly the better machine hardware wise but the Speccy had the titles so my vote goes to the latter. love them both though!

(and all the amstrad guys at school were weirdos who could never get girls...)
 
i had a speccy but always wanted a c64 so had to vote c64, feel like a traitor heh

oh i had a cpc at one point with gauntlet but don't remember what happened to it, swapped for a super burner bmx i possibly.
 
I dared to be different and had an atari 800XL

the lucas arts games on this platform were amazing for their day

rescue on fractalus being a true 8-bit highlight
 
If you were to play me the tapes of Elite and 4 other random games, I would still probably be able to tell you which one was Elite. Is that sad?
 
Had BBC [at least I think it was a BBC] and a Spectrum.

Will have to vote for Spectrum. Even though I have little experience of the others, it was my first experience of computing and games like Exolon, Spin Dizzy and Side Arms were what got me into computing.
 
I had a BBC B and admit to kind of looking down on lesser computers.

The only money I ever made from computer programming was from a game published in Popular Computing Weekly. Half BASIC, half assembler, it was one of their more epic listings.
 
Having owned a ZX 81, ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron, BBC'B , B+ 64 and Master 512 along with an Amiga 500, Atari 520 then 1040ST and C64 ,albeit briefly, the BBC'B is the one I hold fondest memories of.

It had ports of most contemporary Spectrum & C64 games albeit not always in name, but for me it's expansion possibilities were it's trump card.

My BBC'B had a speech synthesis chip in it with the dulcet tones of the late Kenneth Kendal (Newsreader of old) a second processor, and various expansion ROM chips in it giving it a whole host of other capabilities.

Yes it didn't have the best sound nor graphics, but, it's range of hardware and software have it almost unmatched IMO versatility which I think gives it the edge over it's contemporarys.

A local pharmacy I know still uses a BBC'B for it's dispensing system, has since the late 80's!

Brilliant machine.
 
Does anyone remember typing in the listings of program code that you would get in some of the magazines of that time..?
My wife would often read them out to me as I would type them in. I think that I would spend longer debugging it than running the game when I finished the hours and hours of typing. Typically I would find that the code was bugged and corrections would appear in the next edition of the magazine.

Fun times for sure.!

Not good as all the ones noted were great, but missing the Oric and the Dragon.
 
Remember typing in many games on the dragon. Last year i cobbed the lot of input magazine on the bay for a tenner for old times sake.

One of the greatest thing i ever did was chomping through typing in a top down scrolling racer from dragon user.... all in freckin MACHINE CODE!

Amazingly it worked, and the game was better than microdeals effort:)
 
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