Micromart Home Computer Semi-Finals: Amiga Vs BBC Micro

[jd997uk]

OK. As it says above Micromart magazine has the Amiga in the semi final  against the BBC micro in the vote for the favorite home computer of all time.

So, if you want to vote, simply send an e-mail with Amiga in the subject heading to: comp@micromart.co.uk

go on, you know it makes sense.

-john

[Hattig]

I can see the Amiga being in there, but the BBC Micro? Looks like a concerted effort by a BBC Micro newsgroup to me! I can't see that getting ahead of the Spectrum or C64 at all, even in a UK-only vote.

I mean, it was "that machine we used at school" ...  :-?

[bloodline]

Yeah, we wouldn't be seen dead with a school computer at home.

I had sinclairs and my friends had commodores...but we all got Amiga 500's in the end....

[Ancalimon]

what`s bbc micro?  

[lorddef]

The only good thing about the micro was Pob, remember? Pob can.......

I vaugely remember as a 6 year old entering explode, and he did, cool game.

[amigamad]

The bbc was used in other places than schools like weather rooms it had graphic tablets hard drives  could control robots and had teletext adaptors networking easily between machines these machines were the eight bit equivilent of the amiga and the machine was made in england .im voting for the bbc amiga sucks. :-)  :-)

[Radfoo]

I remember a friend of my brothers (His Dad was a teacher) having a really cool BBC setup some time in the early 80's.  Monitor, FDD, Printer, Modem and a light pen?!  I had never seen or heard of most of that stuff before I saw it on a BBC!

I remember playing Repton (Boulderdash rip off) on it, now that was a fun game.

Still, not as good fun as an Amiga or my good old C64!

[amigamad]

I just voted for the bbc. :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[Radfoo]

FaLLeNOnE wrote:
what`s bbc micro?  

Probably it biggest software 'claim to fame' is that Elite was originally developed for it.

[jj]

as i rememer u had to type * and then the program name to run stuff off disk.

to my mind my fav 8bit machine was the amstrad cpc range.  I must have spent thousands on them machines and related stuff.

To me the BBC was the first machine (I used) that:

- had hardware scrolling for excellent arcade game remakes (Defender, invaders, Scramble, etc.)
- had a real keyboard at an affordable price
- had hardware audio synth. for cool sound effects
- had a mouse & floppy with window like paint program
- blew me away with the game "Elite" (real-time wireframe 3D space fighting/trading game)

People did some really cool things with this machine, funny that it's UK only. It was nothing compared to an Amiga - but for its time it was very good.