But I Wanted A Commodore 64 Not A Amstrad CPC
Most kids back in the eighties primarily wanted the favored C64 as there bedroom system to hack,play and program on, it's just healthy competition but people go for whats right and C64 was a huge favorite back then and it was seldom when people actually opted for a CPC it's the hype surrounding the best machine with a great sound and those grainy old skool graphics people must have felt at home with a C64 how the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC grew its user base is hard to figure, I can't calculate to this day how the three systems all got there owners maybe they were people that wanted specific machines for personal needs maybe some people were after color or was it influence that drew people to there desired system I remember having four friends when I started secondary school and they each had a CPC of some sort, I'd already owned my CPC 6128 for about four years so it wasn't because friends had a CPC as well, maybe it's like you can tell a man by his....? that kind of destined for a specific system some people suited a ZX Spectrum others the culture behind Commodore 64 or flash people who could afford the Amstrad CPC range with there mono/color monitors what ever it was life's always always has its reasons for something happening to some body maybe I was suppose to be given my CPC 6128 for a life long reason seeing as I'm sitting here at forty years old after owning near enough every console/computer available, sometimes when I was young I looked upon Commodore 64 owners as lucky I don't know why now as after seeing how each big name game was converted to each system my CPC's were the most presentable of the three computers I only needed to envy the C64's amazing sound back then. So to anyone who had a CPC and wanted a C64 don't feel bad the CPC is still the king of 8 bit computers 32 years on. I can understand the Commodore 64's following as there was a lot of PD demos that made use of the systems excellent sound and fancy graphics but the CPC might not have had a huge PD scene in England over in France the CPC's PD scene was booming french people really dedicated there life to the Amstrad you can still find a lot of hacked games on sites that have french hackerd versions of games to download one of the places is Free Roms you'll find loads of french hacked games at there site, I'm not really sure about the ZX Spectrum's PD popularity as I've made little effort to research it but Commodore had that covered over here and as did France for the CPC. Wanting to know what the best system was in those days is like asking was the Atari ST better than the Amiga 500 or was Super Nintendo better than the Megadrive it's hard to decide, every dog has its day. The choice was down to the buyer maybe there's a personal reason for owning a pacific machine, who knows ?
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