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My spectrum was quickly forgotten as soon as I got my hands on an Amiga 500, so I'm not one of the people you're talking about. But I suspect by concentrating
by antod 4y ago
My spectrum was quickly forgotten as soon as I got my hands on an Amiga 500, so I'm not one of the people you're talking about.
But I suspect by concentrating on graphics quality and games you're missing where the nostalgia comes from.
The spectrum was fun to learn to program on in a way eg the C64 wasn't. It had a tangible personality even though it was cheap and a bit shit. Whenever I hear someone reminiscing about their spectrum, it usually isn't about the graphics or games but about it being their entry point into programming and how that lead to a career. It had a user friendly BASIC dialect (unlike the C64) and came with good programming manuals.
Nobody I knew with a C64 (or people I later heard about growing up with a C64) programmed it. It was just a games machine to them.
- renaudg 4y ago> The spectrum was fun to learn to program on in a way eg the C64 wasn't. But again you're pitting the Spectrum against the C64 and leaving out the CPC, which had an even more capable and accessible BASIC. I can understand the appeal of the Spectrum in its first couple of years, but I'm not sure why the UK market never shifted towards Amstrad vs C64 once the clearly superior (and also British) CPC was introduced in 1984. It did shift to the vastly more expensive Amiga later on after all.