On 23/12/2016 17:00, "Liam Proven" <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Acornsoft games were very high quality (hard to distinguish from their >> arcade inspirations). >> >> But I was mostly interested in programming, so I loved our BBC Micro Model B >> to bits. A far superior machine to the Apple and Commodores. > > I agree that it was a far superior machine. It had its limitations -- > shortage of RAM, notably -- but it was a great design. > > I'll have to take your word for it on the arcade games. TBH I was just > repeating what I've heard -- which was wrong of me. :-( Sorry... Acornsoft Planetoid *IS* Defender, looks and plays the same as the Williams original. -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?