
My Spectrum quickly fell out of favour after that.
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Sun 11 May 2014, 11:56,
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but nowadays the Spectrum wins in nostalgia stakes - their games look nicely retro when c64 ones often just look old.
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Sun 11 May 2014, 12:00,
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I had a Speccy +2A (with built in tape deck) and a friend had the Amstrad CPC464 (he even had the full colour monitor too the yuppie).
Needs more Last Ninja 2 :D
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Sun 11 May 2014, 12:35,
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Needs more Last Ninja 2 :D

It was a 6128 with green-screen if I remember. I had one and think it was an import. I was that trendy!
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Sun 11 May 2014, 17:10,
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It was the short-lived precursor of the 6128. The 6128 started life as a US-only model, but Amstrad soon dropped the 664 and sold the 6128 everywhere.
I thought the 664 was great - better keyboard layout, plus the AMSDOS ROM was socketed so you could remove it and replace it with something better.
Why does my brain remember all this rubbish?
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Wed 14 May 2014, 17:35,
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I thought the 664 was great - better keyboard layout, plus the AMSDOS ROM was socketed so you could remove it and replace it with something better.
Why does my brain remember all this rubbish?

The list of Spectrum titles is far more comprehensive.
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Sun 11 May 2014, 12:43,
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That did actually use the extra colour well.
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Sun 11 May 2014, 12:54,
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My memories aren't of C64 games being so brown!
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Sun 11 May 2014, 13:05,
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*Comes with free built-in ColourBlind Yellow Monochrome Mode [tm]
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Sun 11 May 2014, 13:20,
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I found out they remade Target Renegade for the iPhone/Pad the other day:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3DnsncADg
It was a classic Speccy game for me.
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Sun 11 May 2014, 12:21,
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3DnsncADg
It was a classic Speccy game for me.

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Sun 11 May 2014, 12:45,
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bluetoothzxspectrum.elite-systems.co.uk/
However, there have been quite a few bad stories about it.
I think what would work is a Spotify-type site of retro games rather than expecting people to buy them individually. Re-playing some bad ones is part of the fun, but I'm not sure people would pay full price for most of them.
The unofficial emulator sites are good, but there's always security fears there, and it would be nice if the programmers got some money (though I suspect they don't see much of the official apps money).
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Sun 11 May 2014, 13:03,
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However, there have been quite a few bad stories about it.
I think what would work is a Spotify-type site of retro games rather than expecting people to buy them individually. Re-playing some bad ones is part of the fun, but I'm not sure people would pay full price for most of them.
The unofficial emulator sites are good, but there's always security fears there, and it would be nice if the programmers got some money (though I suspect they don't see much of the official apps money).