On 23 December 2016 at 15:50, Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote: > On 2016-12-23 12:16 PM, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> ... >> The BBC Micro, at another quarter or third over the price of a C-64 >> but with a superb BASIC instead of CBM's abomination, was what the >> unfortunate children of very serious, very wealthy people bought. Not >> nearly so many games and not very good. >> > > The Acornsoft games were very high quality (hard to distinguish from their > arcade inspirations). > > But I was mostly interested in programming, so I loved our BBC Micro Model B > to bits. A far superior machine to the Apple and Commodores.
I agree that it was a far superior machine. It had its limitations -- shortage of RAM, notably -- but it was a great design. I'll have to take your word for it on the arcade games. TBH I was just repeating what I've heard -- which was wrong of me. :-( Sorry... The classics I've heard of, apart of course from Elite, were Repton and Revs, but there were others. I never owned or much used Acorn kit in the 6502 era. I only came to Acorn via the Archimedes, a machine which I loved. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053
