Spectrum 48k Vs Commodore 64

[alan partridge]

Mac vs PC?? Nintendo Vs Playstation??

f*** off the lot of you. This was the mother of all geek debates.

Colour clash, blocky graphics, shit sound, more titles, better gameplay....

binfest away

 

[gripper stebson]

Spectrum 48k had Football Manager.. end of thread.

... and 99 to continue.

 

[clapham_gull]

mmm.. hard one.

I'll have to go for the Spectrum, the Commodore 64 had something terribly Apple about it.

The spectrum was of course British and obviously better.

 

[alan partridge]

the Commodore 64 had something terribly Apple about it.

Great. 2 posts in and Apple's been mentioned.

 

[alan partridge]

Wasn't Kevin Tom's Football Manager available on EVERY single computer ever? It was written in basic wasn't it?

 

[Badger]

Amstrad 6128k

Just cos we had one and it had DOUBLE the memory of the C64 and a FLOPPY DISK DRIVE*


*which took disks that didn't fit in any other computer

 

[Boris Yeltsin]

Wasn't Kevin Tom's Football Manager available on EVERY single computer ever? It was written in basic wasn't it?

Bloody Peter Withe kept getting injured when I didn't want to sell him.

 

[Playing On The Grit]

Speccy 48k for me. I always wanted to upgrade to the 128k with built in tape deck but never did. Spent most of my time wiggling the leads that went to the tape player to get a connection only for it to have a load error right at the end!

 

[nail-Z]

C64 for me. Although I only had the lowly Vic 20 but had the 64k ram!

 

[maffew]

Amstrad 6128k

Just cos we had one and it had DOUBLE the memory of the C64 and a FLOPPY DISK DRIVE*


*which took disks that didn't fit in any other computer

Amstrads took tooo long to load, longer than Speccys, we'd whack a tape in go out play football for half an hour come back and find it had crashed.

And unless I'm mistaken they were the same 3" disks with were also used in the Spectrum + 3

 

[Badger]

Amstrads took tooo long to load, longer than Speccys, we'd whack a tape in go out play football for half an hour come back and find it had crashed.

And unless I'm mistaken they were the same 3" disks with were also used in the Spectrum + 3

READ ERROR B - that was always my favourite.

We discovered that the position of the tape player made a huge difference as to whether it would crash or not!

 

[clapham_gull]

BBC Micro for me

 

[Boris Yeltsin]

BBC Micro for me

Very educational, they were. Pac Maths?

 

[clapham_gull]

Very educational, they were. Pac Maths?

I used to program it quite a bit, wrote myself a little fruit machine once.

Elite was the thing on there, as well as Frak! and Revs.

I also used to play around with an RM Nimbus - but then we are getting obscure.

 

[Acker79]

I remember having both a commodore and an amstrad, but I might be confusing myse4lf and be remembering my friend's commodore. We definitely had an amstrad. That gets my vote. Cassettes that squeal whenever you played them in a proper tape player. Gotta love that...

 

[maffew]

READ ERROR B - that was always my favourite.

We discovered that the position of the tape player made a huge difference as to whether it would crash or not!

or Spectrums equivalent "R Tape Loading Error" grrrrrrr
RANDOMIZE USR blah blah

 

[Easy 10]

Speccy 48k for me. I always wanted to upgrade to the 128k with built in tape deck but never did. Spent most of my time wiggling the leads that went to the tape player to get a connection only for it to have a load error right at the end!

R: Tape loading error 0:1

Nnnnoooooo !

Believe me, you were better off WITHOUT one of those built-in tape jobbies. My mate had one, and they were a nightmare to get anything to load. Whereas with my 128k (without the built-in cassette) I could get even the shittiest pirate copy off the scabbiest of tapes to load. Just a bit of jiggery-pokery with the tape heads and the tone settings, snorted.

 

[maffew]

I used to program it quite a bit, wrote myself a little fruit machine once.

Elite was the thing on there, as well as Frak! and Revs.

I also used to play around with an RM Nimbus - but then we are getting obscure.

?&FEA1=132 used to lock our schools BBC network

 

[Playing On The Grit]

R: Tape loading error 0:1

Nnnnoooooo !

Believe me, you were better off WITHOUT one of those built-in tape jobbies. My mate had one, and they were a nightmare to get anything to load. Whereas with my 128k (without the built-in cassette) I could get even the shittiest pirate copy off the scabbiest of tapes to load. Just a bit of jiggery-pokery with the tape heads and the tone settings, snorted.

Maybe I was lucky not to get a built in jobby in that case! They just looked the absolute nuts.

Some games I had loaded better with the sound turned down or up a bit (or did I dream that?). I think the reason I've never been into Playstations or XBox is that the games aren't the same as we had back then. The original Dizzy was my favourite and I could have a weekender playing that non stop. Pretty much anything by Codemasters was QUALLA as they say on here!

Did anyone else have Steve Davis Snooker? The loading picture was his face with one eye shut working a shot out. I used to play the game just to see his face appear from the lines across the screen, unless I had the wrong volume setting and I got the load error!

 

[Mackenzie]

The C64 was the mutts!

My brother bought one off ebay a couple of months ago, so we've been reliving our childhoods ever since.