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[TMR]

high voltage, on Wed May 23, 2012 1:57 AM, said:

Yep, it had sound (a buzz), yep it had colour (that's why most games were monochrome), and the Spectrum missed the point of being a useful computer.

There are over 12,500 games, how many did you sample to decide that "most games" were monochrome? And "useful" is another subjective term, if it does what the owner wants then it's a useful machine and there's enough satisfied Spectrum owners out there who'd say it was useful to them.

high voltage, on Wed May 23, 2012 1:57 AM, said:

As I mentioned numerous times here, I had (have) a C128, an A8, my neighbour had a C64, my other poor neighbour had a Spectrum. My C64 buddy and me we visited the Speccy owner guy to play some 'good' games. After 1/2 hour of laughing our socks off, we went back playing CLASSIC games on C64 and/or A8. Our Speccy owner friend came along actually, leaving his SX to bite the dust.

And again, that's at odds with a significant number of Spectrum owners' experiences and indeed those of others who were exposed to it; i had a VIC 20, Atari 800XL and a C64 and a friend had a 48K Spectrum, we'd spend hours playing and enjoying games on all four machines, then try to make our own games as well.

[carmel_andrews]

Oh....Another C64 thread in the A8 forum.....Perhaps this thread should be moved to the classic computing forum (somewhat more specific to non Atari computers, like the c64)

Or is the classic computing forum somewhat likened to the P&R forum (i.e the death bed of all threads)

I have yet to see anyone 'f**k' the c64 though, you'd probably need to be grounded to prevent you from making the c64 into a brick (i.e dead) or to prevent you from getting an electric shock

[sack-c0s]

I'd imagine a 48K spectrum would be more common for that kind of thing - there's a lot of rubber fetishists out there

[andym00]

Dunno, I recall a picture of a mentaller getting intimate with an exhaust pipe on a Range Rover many years back.. If anyone's going to do it with a 64, I reckon it'll be him

[Stephen]

andym00, on Fri May 25, 2012 8:45 AM, said:

Dunno, I recall a picture of a mentaller getting intimate with an exhaust pipe on a Range Rover many years back.. If anyone's going to do it with a 64, I reckon it'll be him

The internet is a sad place, and even worse, I know the picture you are talking about I need "brain bleach".