Re: The Speccy - 25 yours on

[Adrian Merwood <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OMG I remember seeing my first Atari 800 at a computer show complete
with the greatest space combat game ever - Star Raiders

I spent the whole show playing it!!!

The major problem was that they were so damn expensive!!  I
eventually got a 400 then a 800XL then moved on to the ST range.

Does anyone remember the 4 player space mining game Mule - the
grandaddy of social gaming.

Adrian

On 26 Apr 2007, at 09:22, Paul Gordon wrote:

> NO NO NO! - you're all wrong...
>
> The *BEST* micros of the time were the Atari ranges, firstly the Atari
> 400 and 800's then the 600XL & 800XL's (and I even recall a 1200XL
> model
> as well IIRC). These were by far and away the best machines for
> playing
> games, with *better* sound and graphics chips than any
> Speccy/VIC20/C64/BBC machine, (In fact, I recall the Atari's were the
> first micros in the world to use custom dedicated ASIC coprocessors
> for
> these tasks), full support for all the Atari games console peripherals
> (joysticks, paddles etc.) - *and* even the games themselves, with a
> cartridge slot right on top. As well as the games console peripherals,
> they also had their own dedicated ones, such as a cassette drive, a
> 5.25" floppy disk drive, thermal printers, modems, etc...
>
> Worth noting that these machines were designed by the same guy who
> later
> went on to design the Commodore Amiga - widely regarded as the best
> sound & graphics machine of *its* time... Also Apple founders
Steve
> Jobs
> and Steve Wozniak were both working for Atari at the time too, and may
> also have contributed to the Atari's design before they left to form
> Apple...
>
> I Still have mine in the loft too, complete with a big box full of
> 5.25
> floppies chock full of games.
>
> Oh happy days!
>
> Paul G.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Wayne
> Sent: 25 April 2007 21:02
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] The Speccy - 25 yours on
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> <tongue in cheek>
>
> no no no no....
> the BEST computer was the Commodore 64! beats the 'speccy' hands
> down :)
> Sound Chips, Video processors all on board and with 64k ram!, none of
> these wobbly ram packs! or Kingston joystick interfaces - all built in
> to the C64 :)
>
> I still have mine with the 5 1/4" single sided floppy drive and
synth
> module etc...
> ah those were the days :)
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> </tongue in cheek :))>
>
> Wayne.
>
> Gareth Cook wrote:
> > Both of mine are in my garage. I went to have a hold on it's
> birthday...
> >
> > One original rubber, one with the + keyboard.
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> > <sniff>
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> > I sent that link to my Mum. She replied today to tell me that
> mine is
> > still in the loft complete with tape recorder and a load of
> games :-)
> > Might have to have a Daily Thompsons Decathlon revival with my
> brother
> > next time were all together :-))
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