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1. Dragon 32. My first computer. Spent hours typing in magazine listings and then saving them to tape. Some great games too.
2. Commodore 64. When I finally got a disk drive for it I was like a pig in ****. Defender of the crown, impossible mission, microprose soccer...
3. Amiga 1200. This was stunning in its time. .. I used to go to a club over a pub and we'd all swap copied games. Secret of monkey island. Micro prose formula one. Kick off. ..sensible soccer. . I could go on for ever.
1. MSX. The MSX 1 machines were nothing to celebrate from a technical point of view, apart from the software on your Sony will work on your mate's Panasonic, but the MSX2 series were breathtaking for an 8 bit machine. Worshippers at the altar of Sir Clive don't know what you've been missing...
2. Amstrad CPC 6128. The Swiss army knife of 8 bits that uses strange 3 inch floppy disks. Can be used for games, serious software, or programming. Probably Britain's 4th 8 bit machine that sadly lives in the shadows of the Spectrum, C64, and the BBC.
3. Unix workstations. Make PCs look like clunky pieces of junk in comparison.
Amiga 500+/600: Geoff Crammond's F1/Sensible Soccer/Moonstone ... too many classics to list them all.
PC: In the early 90's I played nothing except PGA Golf & Dungeon Master on a daily basis round a friends house. (Used to hate it if his dad needed to use the computer for work!)
Commodore 64
I didn't spend a lot of time playing Amstrad/Spectrum/Atari ST machines. I have had various consoles over the years, but omitted to mention them here. (We did have a "Pong" machine in the loft from the 1970's which was my elder brothers, loved that as a youngster. Unfortunately it ended up at the tip during a tidying spree some time ago).
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