Anyone ever own an Acorn computer?

Acorn Electron, Snapper, Elite, Chuckie egg, Boffin, Starship command, Galaxians. Awesome machine in it's day. You should all watch a programme called "Micro Men", set in the early 80's about Sir Clive Sinclair doing battle with Christopher Curry, Sinclair vs Acorn, brilliant and a real trip down memory lane.
 
Bubo said:
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Going to have to dig a tape out now and listen to for an ultimate nostalgia trip.

Starship Command was probably my favourite game on the Beeb. First game I ever hacked was Blagger on the Electron, a Manic Miner clone. I sussed out which memory address contained the lives and poked FF in there for 255 lives.
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BBC B - Dare Devil Dennis with multi-coloured sprites !, something my mates Spectrum could never do !

However, he got his own back when Ultimate started releasing all their great games, but the BBC B version of Elite was still the best of the bunch !
 
My mate had an Electron and we used BBC micros at school.

I had a Spectrum 48+ and I still remember the first time I played a Commodore 64 at a friend's house which made me defect to them.

*Me at the time hearing some amazing music from his room whilst downstairs.*

"What is that music?"

"That's the C64"

*Run upstairs to witness it*

"It sounds amazing, but wait, the game is still loading...."

"But of course, you can even play games whilst loading on some games"

"But that's impossible!"


Holy crap what a machine the C64 was, off topic but damn, just so good. Speccy had great games but what a truly terrible design for a games machine (though I appreciate it was not entirely intended as such) - diabolical audio, attribute clash, etc, etc.

Compared to true full colour graphics with utterly incredible sound - I loved that C64.


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I remember that c64 with great fondness, bought one with my first pay packet back in 1985 !

Had the bext fighting game at the time...Way of the Exploding Fist !

Yep and I remember you could play game while the main game loaded, was it called "invaderload" or something ?
 
Yeah Diddyman think it was definitely a space invaders type game, I was just a kid so not sure if I remember any others.

The game that was loading was Barbarian, I have to admit the decapitation special move is what sealed the deal for me. Page 3 girl Maria Whittaker on the box helped too, heh.

I had Way of Exploding Fist too, though my memory mixes it up with IK for some reason.

Anyway, I still remember being utterly blown away at how much more advanced I felt the C64 was, even though it was a direct rival to the Spectrum - I don't think there's ever been such a gulf between 2 directly competing platforms.

Hmm maybe the PS1 vs Dreamcast.

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We used to have one at school, used to play Lander and lemmings, oh and some weird wave simulation thing.
 
markweatherill said:
My BBC B has the Kenneth Kendall speech upgrade, remember that?
plus the ATPL ROM board, no less.
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Yeah we had one of those, you had to type in phonetics and it would speak back to you. Imagine if you combined it with that plastic turtle with a pen that the primary schools had!
 
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