23 Dec
2016
23 Dec
'16
3:50 p.m.
On 2016-12-23 12:16 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
...
The BBC Micro, at another quarter or third over the price of a C-64
but with a superb BASIC instead of CBM's abomination, was what the
unfortunate children of very serious, very wealthy people bought. Not
nearly so many games and not very good.
The Acornsoft games were very high quality (hard to distinguish from
their arcade inspirations).
But I was mostly interested in programming, so I loved our BBC Micro
Model B to bits. A far superior machine to the Apple and Commodores.
--Toby
Whereas the Apple ][ cost more than 2 BBC Micros -- as
much as a small
...