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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 07:11:11 JST Chris Trottier
   At the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo, I saw an Amstrad CPC being demoed. Since then, I’ve been absolutely fascinated by this platform.
   
   You see, we never got the Amstrad CPC in North America.
   
   Obviously, we got the Amiga even though it was unpopular.
   
   We also got the Sinclair Spectrum. Over here, it was known as the Timex Spectrum. Not very popular, but we got it.
   
   So the Amstrad was a complete mystery to me.
   
   Today, I downloaded every Amstrad game ever made. And you know what? I still find it baffling.
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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 07:18:49 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     @atomicpoet

     Huh. I had an Amstrad in the 80s. It was basically an IBM-PC clone. Had a choice of DR-DOS or MS-DOS, and this weird "Gem" window system.

     Is that the same system? I believe we got it from a local store in Fort Worth, Texas.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 07:22:37 JST Chris Trottier

     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah The Archimedes seems cool. Don’t think there were many games released for it, though.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 08:06:19 JST Chris Trottier

     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah Did the Atari 8-bit not take off in the UK? It was a big thing over here.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 17:33:22 JST Chris Trottier

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     • ajlanes

     @ajlanes @goatsarah God damn it. More rabbit holes.

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     ajlanes (ajlanes@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 17:33:23 JST ajlanes

     • goatsarah
     @goatsarah @atomicpoet I think you saw them in Smith’s and in computer magazines but not really anywhere else. Kind of like the Oric 1 and the Jupiter Ace.
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     Ben Harris (bjh21@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 17:50:38 JST Ben Harris

     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah @atomicpoet I'm a weird outlier who had (and still has) both an Atari 800XL and an Archimedes. But then my family had a Camputers Lynx.