Home Computers - 100 Icons that Defined a Generation - Thames & Hudson

[CAPCOM]

A must Christmas gift for everyone...exceptional writer, good guy, should have been Editor of EDGE for a decade as the 21st century Jason Brookes.

Totally Recommended

http://www.rotational.co.uk/

Two other great books Britsoft and Japansoft too...

[charlesr]

Is that a QL keyboard? Looks like lego

[CAPCOM]

The book is brilliant totally worth the purchase...great writer top guy credit to the entire industry...

[monel]

Is that a QL keyboard? Looks like lego

Weren't the Spectrum Plus / 48K + and 128 the same kind of keyboard, unless I've forgotten.

[JazzFunk]

^Yes, I had a 48k+, much better than my mate's 'dead flesh' Speccy 48k.

[Cassius_Smoke]

We had a black 'mechanical keyboard' speccy with the built in tape drive.
Dan Dare and Batman!
I remember every time my parents would drag us to a car boot there was some guy selling knock off tapes for it.

[Cepp]

Ooooh, this sounds right up my alley!

[gunrock]

I have this. I wrote to the author to point out the Amiga 500 pictures on the Amiga 1000 pages, which he knew about and apologised for.

There are so many 8 bit machines that I have physically touched (if not used or owned) but so many more, that I never saw in the flesh and just as many I had not heard of, or heard much of.

The problem is... that the presentation and write ups are so good, it's fuelled my desire to own some of them, hence my very recent purchase of a Memotech MTX512!

[CAPCOM]

I have Britsoft Japansoft and the Dreamcast Collection all on order...for Santa

This title will be amazing... hoping it is Alex's next book

https://readonlymemory.vg/ascii-corporation/

Great range of titles here as well...

https://readonlymemory.vg/

[Cassius_Smoke]

Got me reminiscing now. My Amiga 600 was definitely a major part of my life. I got one as a kid, maybe 11 yo. It was everything to me. Probably the biggest reason I'm in to games.

[Brad]

Got me reminiscing now. My Amiga 600 was definitely a major part of my life. I got one as a kid, maybe 11 yo. It was everything to me. Probably the biggest reason I'm in to games.

I'll have a pimped out one for sale soon... just sayin ;-)

[Cassius_Smoke]

I'll have a pimped out one for sale soon... just sayin ;-)

Nice. I'd probably frame it and put it on the wall.
I had mine for so long I eventually had to use it with the disk drive and guts completely exposed so I could get it to read disks.
Alien Breed Tower Assault was my favourite game.

[monel]

^Yes, I had a 48k+, much better than my mate's 'dead flesh' Speccy 48k.

The first time I tried the rubber keyboard I was shocked, never liked it and was never used to it.

[monel]

Got me reminiscing now. My Amiga 600 was definitely a major part of my life. I got one as a kid, maybe 11 yo. It was everything to me. Probably the biggest reason I'm in to games.

The smaller A600 was way more compact and smart to me but A500 owners seemed to dislike it.

[Brad]

The smaller A600 was way more compact and smart to me but A500 owners seemed to dislike it.

Well it was basically an a500 with stuff missing. Some games didn’t work etc. Yet it was no cheaper than an a500 iirc. At the time there was nothing to like about it. Now though it’s a lovely little machine