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I had both, speccy first and then a C64 later I used the C64 only for games, and the spectrum for my own programs and the odd top game and yes I was on both s
by 123pie123 5y ago
I had both, speccy first and then a C64 later
I used the C64 only for games, and the spectrum for my own programs and the odd top game
and yes I was on both sides in the playground,
but the C64 had something missing that the spectrum had, hard to put a finger on it, the spectrum did have inferior games (based on the specifications), but It was more accessable or hackable (in todays speak)
I'd say the spectrum kids was more into modding it, typing their own code from magazines and learning stuff, but the C64 kids used it more like console. and could not see the reason for having a spectrum (due to the inferior spec etc..)
- TomVDB 5y agoI didn’t do any speccy hacking, but the C64 was IMO amazing in the regard. The way you could reprogram the VIC each horizontal line into different video modes, changing the screen width to make borders disappear, the way you could disable the kernal ROMs to expose more DRAM etc. But all machines of that era were so low level with plenty of tricks to exploit.
- 123pie123 5y agoyes the C64 had some very cool features, I tried to develop some basic games on it using sprites. but it felt like an uphill struggle. I remember making cool music was easy tho maybe it was the school I went to and the information the collection of kids had