Hi Vintage gaming world

[MayboyVCF]

Hi there another newbie here, bet u must all be thinking "oh no another one" :lol: What can i say about myself umm I love all aspects of retro gaming mainly the Commodore 64, Spectrum, and Amstrad are my fav and i am hooked on tap dumps for all the systems listed above :D Im also at college studying Electronics which is great fun and we're looking at processors such as the Z80, 68000, etc which is great fun when programming using then :)

Anyway enough waffle lol hope to meet u all eventually, looks like a great place :)

[Erik]

Welcome to the VC Forums!

I'm sure you'll find a number of folks here with similar interests.

We're all newbies, really, in a world of old computing equipment.

Enjoy the forums!

Erik

[CP/M User]

"MayboyVCF" wrote:

> Hi there another newbie here, bet u must all be
> thinking "oh no another one" :lol: What can i
> say about myself umm I love all aspects of retro
> gaming mainly the Commodore 64, Spectrum,
> and Amstrad are my fav and i am hooked on tap
> dumps for all the systems listed above :D Im
> also at college studying Electronics which is great
> fun and we're looking at processors such as the
> Z80, 68000, etc which is great fun when
> programming using then :)

Oh okay, I see you like Amstrads & C64s oh yes
& the Spectrum! :-)

Is that the original 68000 processor you're playing
with? Or one of the later?

Cheers,
CP/M User.

[CP/M User]

"CP/M User" wrote:

> Oh okay, I see you like Amstrads & C64s oh yes
> & the Spectrum! :-)

Oh yes, I should explain, I do a bit of work
programming on the Amstrad! (oh well usless
you've check my portfolio - which explains a bit &
even past posts is basically the same! :-)

Cheers,
CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

What can i say about myself umm I love all aspects of retro gaming mainly the Commodore 64, Spectrum, and Amstrad are my fav

Kewl! Another CP/Mer. Enjoy...

--T

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

>> What can i say about myself umm I love
>> all aspects of retro gaming mainly the
>> Commodore 64, Spectrum, and Amstrad
>> are my fav

> Kewl! Another CP/Mer. Enjoy...

Er? Maybe not - retro gaming is pretty tight
if you're using CP/M (unless you love
adventures), but then our mate hasn't stated
which form of Amstrad computing they like,
if PCW, then CP/M will be the go, with the
added bonus of some proper retro gaming
available to that system! ;-)

Some people like using CP/M on their C64s
too, but retro gaming might be tough (if
there's no games) like the Amstrad CPCs,
where the majority of retro gaming wasn't
through CP/M! :-(

And then there's those who hate CP/M - for
reasons of their own belief!

Cheers,
CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

>> What can i say about myself umm I love
>> all aspects of retro gaming mainly the
>> Commodore 64, Spectrum, and Amstrad
>> are my fav

> Kewl! Another CP/Mer. Enjoy...

Er? Maybe not - retro gaming is pretty tight
if you're using CP/M (unless you love
adventures), but then our mate hasn't stated
which form of Amstrad computing they like,
if PCW, then CP/M will be the go, with the
added bonus of some proper retro gaming
available to that system! ;-)

Oh, I was thinking of the Speccys too. Don't they run CP/M?



Some people like using CP/M on their C64s
too, but retro gaming might be tough (if
there's no games) like the Amstrad CPCs,
where the majority of retro gaming wasn't
through CP/M! :-(

CP/M on a Commodore 64 is just *wrong*. (What a waste of the machine's capabilities).



And then there's those who hate CP/M - for
reasons of their own belief!

Cheers,
CP/M User.

How could anyone hate CP/M?

--T

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

> Oh, I was thinking of the Speccys too.
> Don't they run CP/M?

The later ones might, but AFAIK the earlier
ones didn't.

> CP/M on a Commodore 64 is just *wrong*.
> (What a waste of the machine's capabilities).

It depends on the individuals viewpoint I
believe, if at the time, businesses were crying
out to have CP/M (after all back then it was
more about business) & since the C64 was
such a popular computer, the demand for
CP/M was perhaps there for people who
wanted it.

> How could anyone hate CP/M?

Again, it depends on the person & what's
there to hate. One of the Unoffical Amstrad
magazines in particular, sent bad rumors
about CP/M, saying it was falty & crashed
a lot. The only fault I got was when I
pressed the CLR key in CP/M which would
freeze it up (perhaps it was expecting a
printer or something connected). This
required a reset (& reboot). Lots of
people knew this OS (on the Amstrad) as
the OS to format your disks with, because
for a long time, CP/M was the only thing
which could do it, until someone with an
assembler was smart enough to write it
into a BASIC program.

I hated CP/M earlier on, because I simply
didn't understand it. Having an IBM XT at
the time with DOS 3.30, I used to think
that CP/M was the same syntax (because
it looked so much like DOS! ;-)

I had no books (nor could I get any) & the
magazines weren't much help either,
because they hated CP/M & didn't want to
at least provide some insight for those
who did want to learn it proper.

Cheers,
CP/M User.