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Phredreeke Don't listen to this idiot Registered 03/08/2002 Points 4504	10th April, 2012 at 10/04/2012 09:32:41 - http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/founder-of-commodore-business-machines-jack-tramiel-dies-at-83-2012049/ Sadly, most people will say "Jack Who"? - Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen - Make some more box arts damnit! http://create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=285363
bernie[FA] Possibly Insane Registered 17/10/2004 Points 2099	10th April, 2012 at 10/04/2012 15:05:33 - I have both a VC20 and a C64. They were the best things. You could start propramming on them just by typing your lines in. And the C64's game library is legendary. n/a
Phredreeke Don't listen to this idiot Registered 03/08/2002 Points 4504	10th April, 2012 at 10/04/2012 21:53:52 - Here's a link if you wanna read more on him http://www.commodore.ca/history/people/jack_tramiel_starting_over.htm - Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen - Make some more box arts damnit! http://create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=285363
Hagar Administrator Old klik fart Registered 20/02/2002 Points 1692	10th April, 2012 at 10/04/2012 22:22:22 - Kind of sad that is the first news I have heard of Tramiels passing. Nothing on the UK news, yet when Steve jobs passed we had constant news footage, even of iphone lit vigils ... (depresses me that such a user-base needs to mourn someones passing with a product!) Tramiel was responsible for a lot of good things too. Edited by an Administrator n/a
AndyUK Mascot Maniac Registered 01/08/2002 Points 14586	11th April, 2012 at 11/04/2012 04:43:44 - In America when most computers were ridiculously expensive (Over $1000) he undercut the competition by an absolute mile. Couldn't quite do the same in the UK where Sinclair were churning out colour computers at £125 . Oh and later on he bought out Atari and got them going again for a while. If I recall he was responsible for getting the Atari st range off the ground. Edited by AndyUK .
Phredreeke Don't listen to this idiot Registered 03/08/2002 Points 4504	11th April, 2012 at 11/04/2012 16:32:03 - Opinions on him are pretty divided among Atari fans, half of them praising him for turning the company around, the other half hating him for cutting down on the video game division. - Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen - Make some more box arts damnit! http://create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=285363
Phredreeke Don't listen to this idiot Registered 03/08/2002 Points 4504	12th April, 2012 at 12/04/2012 20:45:07 - BTW, VIC-20 came out a year before the ZX Spectrum. But of the two the Spectrum is the more capable (there's something you don't hear often!!!) - Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen - Make some more box arts damnit! http://create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=285363
AndyUK Mascot Maniac Registered 01/08/2002 Points 14586	13th April, 2012 at 13/04/2012 04:09:04 - Most people compared the Zx Spectrum with the Commodore 64 anyways. The Spectrum was much harder to program for but as a result the more talented programmers worked on it. .
Hagar Administrator Old klik fart Registered 20/02/2002 Points 1692	13th April, 2012 at 13/04/2012 17:47:21 - I have been playing Dizzy on my ZX Spectrum (48k rubber key). I am surprised of what it is capable of, considering how basic the hardware is. I have not missed the frustration of loading tapes mind! n/a
Phredreeke Don't listen to this idiot Registered 03/08/2002 Points 4504	17th April, 2012 at 17/04/2012 12:02:05 - Originally Posted by ..::hagar::.. I have not missed the frustration of loading tapes mind! ...and unlike the other computers, tape was pretty much the only option for Spectrum owners (at least until Amstrad bough Sinclair and put out their 3" disk drive for it) - Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen - Make some more box arts damnit! http://create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=285363
AndyUK Mascot Maniac Registered 01/08/2002 Points 14586	18th April, 2012 at 18/04/2012 17:03:16 - They did have cartridges and microdrives but you needed to buy adaptors for both of those devices and very few games were actually released for them. The C64 on the other hand had a cartridge port built in. But of the 10,000s of games released for it very few were carts. Disk drives were very expensive. Tapes were the way to go for most! .

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