Old Computers/Games Consoles - Owned, Wanted and Missed
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 11:11 pm
Ok, so I'm curious... let me know about your retro memories!
What system did you own... What system did you always want in your youth (but never had at the time)... and what system did you only find out about recently and thing 'Damn! how did I not hear about this?'
I grew up with the Amstrad CPC, and It's what I really learned to program on (only in basic)... of course we had other machines later but it was the one I wanted!
When I was young I always wanted the Amiga - my friend had one, and as a CPC owner the amazing graphics of Robocop, and sound of Xenon II made me very jealous!... they were too expensive for me back then - though I own an Amiga 600 now.
The one I missed was the Elan Enterprise... made in the UK, and designed to mimic the Amstrad CPC in many ways (color scheme and screen modes are very similar) it has lots of neat features, stuff the CPC had, and stuff it didn't... it flopped in my home country of the Uk, and I believe most of the units ended up in Hungary
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/2 ... years_old/
So what about you, what system did you own... want, and now wish you had known about back in the day?
What system did you own... What system did you always want in your youth (but never had at the time)... and what system did you only find out about recently and thing 'Damn! how did I not hear about this?'
I grew up with the Amstrad CPC, and It's what I really learned to program on (only in basic)... of course we had other machines later but it was the one I wanted!
When I was young I always wanted the Amiga - my friend had one, and as a CPC owner the amazing graphics of Robocop, and sound of Xenon II made me very jealous!... they were too expensive for me back then - though I own an Amiga 600 now.
The one I missed was the Elan Enterprise... made in the UK, and designed to mimic the Amstrad CPC in many ways (color scheme and screen modes are very similar) it has lots of neat features, stuff the CPC had, and stuff it didn't... it flopped in my home country of the Uk, and I believe most of the units ended up in Hungary
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/2 ... years_old/
So what about you, what system did you own... want, and now wish you had known about back in the day?