Retro Gaming

[colpatben]

Thought I would revive this thread and show this which popped up this morning
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/sinclair-zx-spectrum-a00zx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16P08_W4_D6&utm_content=XmasCat-3&utm_campaign=16P09-13

Check out the available android retro games.

But I suppose for £100.00 you can (almost) get a nice kettle!

[Bealman]

The C64 was too expensive back then, then? 

[colpatben]

The C64 was too expensive back then, then? 

ZX80/81 was where I started.

On reflection I think for business we went straight to a Commodore PET. 2 * 5¹/₄" drives one for program and one for data. Cost an arm plus other body parts.

[MikeDunn]

The C64 was too expensive back then, then? 

Why pay twice the price for something half as good - and a Yank import instead of a British box to boot ?

[Bealman]

The C64 was a machine with 3 addressable sound synthesisers, which at that time was amazing.

But the biggest drawcard and what I believe to this day sank Sinclair computers, is that it had a real keyboard and was a full size machine, not a tiny bit of plastic with rubber keys.

[Buzzard]

But I suppose for £100.00 you

could get one of these

http://retro-computers.co.uk/vega/

[MikeDunn]

But the biggest drawcard and what I believe to this day sank Sinclair computers, is that it had a real keyboard and was a full size machine, not a tiny bit of plastic with rubber keys.

However, it took years for the C64 to get past the #2 spot (the Speccie held the #1 for most of the time).  But by then, better systems were out (eg the Amiga), and the 8-bit boxes were obsolete.

[Bealman]

True.

However, the Sinclair  machine only reigned supreme in it's country of origin. I can assure you that, at that time in history, the Sinclair ZX things were not even considered here in Australia, and probably anywhere else. They were considered to be toytown stuff.

Sorry, but that's the way it was here back then! 

[javlinfaw7]

I bought my son a commodore +4 rather than  c64 seemed a better machine at the time ,But disappeared rapidly

[Bealman]

It must have, I haven't heard of it!

Oh, hang on.... was that the one with a little screen and disk drive all contained in a box with the keyboard in the lid? 

[railsquid]

No, that was the SX-64. This is the Plus 4, popular in Hungary apparently.

The C64 was a machine with 3 addressable sound synthesisers, which at that time was amazing.

But the biggest drawcard and what I believe to this day sank Sinclair computers, is that it had a real keyboard and was a full size machine, not a tiny bit of plastic with rubber keys.

Well the C64 may have had some technical advantages, but that fancy sound setup is basically a gateway to the music scene, which as we know is associated with drugs, and despite their fancy proper keyboards the best I can say about the former C64 owners from my childhood is that the "successful" ones are good enough buskers to be able to finance their meth habit. While we former Speccie owners have moved on to high-flying careers in technology etc.

Old rivalries die hard

[Bealman]

Thanks for the link! Yeah, I do vaguely remember it.... Javlinfaw7 is right - they didn't last long.