23 Dec
2016
23 Dec
'16
5:23 p.m.
On 2016-12-23 2:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 23 December 2016 at 15:50, Toby Thain <toby at
telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
The Acornsoft games included clones of Defender (Planetoid), Scramble,
Pac-man, and many others. They were all written in assembler by apparent
masters of the craft and were highly sought after.
It's probably true that there were fewer independent games than the
American platforms, but Acorn invested hugely in their ROM, cassette and
disk software library (including a number of language ROMs).
--Toby
On 2016-12-23 12:16 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
I agree that it was a far superior machine. It had its limitations --
shortage of RAM, notably -- but it was a great design.
I'll have to take your word for it on the arcade games. TBH I was just
repeating what I've heard -- which was wrong of me. :-( Sorry...
The classics I've heard of, apart of course from Elite, were Repton
and Revs, but there were others.
...
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.
I never owned or much used Acorn kit in the 6502 era. I only came to
Acorn via the Archimedes, a machine which I loved.