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Matthew Thompson <mt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> After the moanings on here about lack of BBC/Acorn coverage in Retro
> Gamer, it is well worth checking out the new issue of Retro Gamer as
> there is a BBC Micro "Retroinspection" article, covering 12 pages,
> lots to read and plenty of screen-shots.
>
> Be nice if they could follow it up with an Archimedes article, a lot
> of quality home grown titles there many gamers would have missed.
>
>
Moanings? Well yes, the fact that companies who'd exploited the BBC
Micro market suddenly decreed that it was no longer "viable" and
rejected conversions that were every bit as good as the versions on
other (sometimes inferior) hardware e.g. "Bubble Bobble". Ocean,
Firebird etc.
Yes, that the inverted snobbery of the BBC being a solely education
plaform despite it brough computer literacy to a generation in this
country and abroad had led to it being overlooked by endless magazine
articles throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Of course Firebird, Ocean etc are no more but the operating system
developed by Acorn lives on. Thankfully everything isn't reduced to a
bean-counter equation.
Andrew
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