Subj : Re: I want to do something retro...
To   : AKAcastor
From : Bob Worm
Date : Wed Jul 03 2024 11:10:08

  Re: Re: I want to do something retro...
  By: AKAcastor to Bob Worm on Tue Jul 02 2024 12:05:44

Hi, Chris.

 > Oh no.  I didn't realize the depths of the depravity of Sinclair BASIC.
 > I've always been curious about the ZX Spectrum but now I must re-evaluate
 > whether it is a curiousity or a curse.

The later releases I believe worked the "normal" way, it was just the very memory constrained earlier BASICs that made life that difficult. Possibly you could get used to it but I sure as hell was not going to put myself through that for a computer I didn't own.

People loved the Spectrums, I never understood it. The C64 had much better graphics and sound, plus a proper keyboard, and what the hell is a Kempston joystick? Supposedly the games were better?

I have basically just insulted the religion of 50% of British 8 bit fans, I was going to say they will be out with the pitchforks but, if they were here, they would already have been out defending that awful BASIC.

Actually most of my friends had Spectrums (Spectra?) back in the day and C64s were in the minority, most people probably didn't care about the BASIC because to them that was just the thing you use to load your games off tape. Then you had the hoity-toity BBC crew, whose mum or dad (or both) invariably worked at a school because nobody was shelling out 400 squids of their own money for an 8 bit micro :)

BobW
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