[Gllug] BBC and acorn bits

[Pete Ryland]

On 16/11/06, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
> On Thu, November 16, 2006 3:30 pm, Peter Cannon wrote:
> 3 (and more)
> >
> > Cor! C64 is that Commodore VIC 64? I had one of them Ooh the fun of
> > 'gosub' and creating that tennis game :)

'gosub'?  Bah!  ITYM 'sys'.  Much more fun. :-)

> 6502 crap. Real game programers wrote in Z80 machine code (I wrote a
> "Life" and a football game for my zx80 in the Easter Holidays in 1981 -
> it's been downhill all the way since then).

That'd be the 6510 thank you very much!!  The Apple ][ used the indeed
lacklustre 6502. ;-)

> By the way, I think you are mixing up your VIC20 and your C64. But they
> were both for the rich kids anyway :)

Rich kids?  Nah, they were cheaper than the others when I got mine,
and came with games and a big blue carry bag!

Pete

BTW, the nomenclature (at least in .au) was Commodore Vic 20 and
Commodore C64/128.
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