Locomotive BASIC - which was shipped on the Amstrad CPC range of micro computers - was heavily influenced by BBC BASIC. It made switching between the CPC 464 an

Locomotive BASIC - which was shipped on the Amstrad CPC range of micro computers - was heavily influenced by BBC BASIC. It made switching between the CPC 464 and BBC Micro really easy. The other variation of BASIC I used a lot in the 80s was Microsoft BASIC on the Commodore 64. dim personalopinion$ = "Frankly I think the C64 was over hyped. Sure it had the popular MOS 6510 rather than the Z80 as used by the BBC Micro and Amstrad CPC range, but the Amstrad CPC had a more vibrant display, built in cassette player and, most importantly to me as a programming kid in the 80s, a far superior port of BASIC than Microsoft BASIC was."