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Successor to the SpeccyBased on the rambling on the other thread it would be interesting to see what people felt was the 'spiritual' successor to the speccy. Amiga here....
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The point is that being integrated into ... done with both very expensive and complex computers and ... that makes it an expensive machine that could not ... be sold at a premium price. Even the ST is ... -
PS3... should I buy one?PS3 is now what? 3 years old? I've never been really convinced about it... but if you guys remember an older post I made, I'm really having trouble…
... or laziness is a moot point. The point is that this is ... 360 adpater is still horrendously expensive.
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What's on your saucer?Thanks go out to frobush and zx1 for inspiring* this WoSser to create a yet another excellent WoS thread. Lunch 10 minutes ago. [IMG]http://i300.ph…
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Let me point out though that I am ... the other types - however not expensive here at all, in fact ... food, only to pay the price a few years later ... -
XBox 360 prices to go up in Great BritainThose well know altruists Microsoft are once again showing how much they care for our little island: "[I]Retailers have told [URL="http://www.euro…
... 's kinda inevitable that the price of non-essential consumer electronics ... ]Ouch, that's still ridiculously expensive for a games console. Must ... would be a real plus point for people like me who ... -
most expensive game everjust saw that 'call of duty - modern warfare 2' is going to retail at 119.00 GBP. it does look good but thats a bit pricey imo. oh i think you get …
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so what are other expensive games. could be ones sold ... many retailers sticking to that price point. But, Xbox games are supposed ... games at least were that price). Plus, I remember paying ?55 ... vs Capcom: Chaos was that price when I saw it in ... -
PS3 whaddyareckon?I am considering a PS3 at the new price - partly because of the blu-ray. As a 40 year old who only dabbles, I wonder if I should buy. The only quir…
... Blu-ray players were outrageously expensive to buy but that's ... case.
At this point I would have to say ... /> [B]Dislikes[/B]
* The price of some of the accessories ... wi-fi adapter is ridiculously expensive.
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More Ebay R@RE Madness.Eeee tt's our little nest egg this. [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM-PERSONAL-COMPUTER_W0QQitemZ260483931020QQcmdZViewItemQQptZU…
... .. you think WTF is the point.hehe yer I can see ... up on ebay with silly price tag...
same with ... / spectrum +3 weren't mad expensive.
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Solar power?According to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8386460.stm[/URL] solar panels are becoming ever cheaper. If these worked well, then of cour…
... of cars, there is no point. Charging the battery takes a ... expensive for domestic use - unless you're off the grid. The price ... , it can be a very expensive proposition to have the electricity ... don't need a more expensive "grid tie inverter", since you ... -
Is This Quad Core Any Good??Gonna buy me a new computer for christmas!!! Basically, would like a semi-decent graphics card, windows 7 and quad core Will only be using it for b…
... decent machine and a good price, probably overspecced for what you ... odd document on it, no point having a super fast one ... surf and dont need an expensive one for that -
ULA Price Poll - You get to chooseIt is difficult to set the price of the book. If it is too low I will undersell my efforts, too high and I overcharge. So choose what you would be w…
No matter what the price, I'd prefer an electronic ... 2) audience, making 2) more expensive because the numbers get smaller ... cheap, online (electronic) version. No point in worrying about piracy... no ... -
my bank will get their act together today...I'm not gonna name them, but they have till the end of the day to ring me and sort out their BS..
I did see the final price for anaconda , I do have ... to a point :)
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Vote for nationalised health care.Place your vote for nationalised health care in the USA. BTW: its quite clear this site is run by those with vested interests in blocking Obama's he…
... , I suspect beanz has a point, that if the people themselves ... ... Is the price of being regulated by govenment more expensive to insurance ... -
Commodore rises from the grave. Again.[URL]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/commodore_64_redux/[/URL] Why can't they just do us all a favour by accepting their fate and staying d…
... problem was it seemed so expensive to me (I was 11 ... in our house at that point!). Commodore, on the other hand ... pack for less than the price of a 16K speccy, so ... -
I Just Listed some games on eBay[URL="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/shineyflower/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340"]I've just listed some games on eBay, and a couple of Larg…
... OK - but at a certain point, you have to become a ... ) and then it becomes more expensive.
The one thing ... auction style for 99p starting price for free (business sellers still ... balance of the final selling price).
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Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…
... , it would just be too expensive for most people or businesses ... copies at a much lower price just to make back what ... ever going to pay full price for an 'invention', whatever it ... communist states - what's the point of developing ideas if they ... -
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
[QUOTE=psj3809;472259]Yep good point. When the first families bought ... still about the price...both those were more expensive than the Speccy ... C64 was because of its price vs the Apple etc.
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
[QUOTE=Fizza;472405]The right price, the right performance, the right ... full on price war in the US - until that point. The ... Atari 800 was even more expensive, and - as ... too expensive to make for Commodore to keep cutting the price. The ...The scale of commercial Spectrum piracyFollowing on from the excellent thread featuring material from the ITN archive, I found this: [url]http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1984/07/03…
... that year. 1 bought full price game got you at least ... wobble) would have been prohibitively expensive. You'd have to be ... ?6, what would be the point in that? Even knock-off ...Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... makes the end result more expensive without any concrete benefit.[/QUOTE ... , uh, innovative from a technical point of view (i.e. combining ... ]
Got a guide price yet, for when it is? :)Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... /> The C64 was a more expensive machine, and Commodore had their ... one screen mode at the price point they wanted to hit, and ...Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... ]The C64 was a more expensive machine, and Commodore had their ... one screen mode at the price point they wanted to hit, and ... .[/QUOTE]
C64 was more expensive partly because it had great ...What's in your Cup?A drink based acompanying thread to the "Whats on your Saucer" thread. Well what's in my cup tonight? [img]http://www.scottieuk.plus.com/CheepBeer…
... ;520426]thanks, there is no point to get cheap rioja (I ... , more expensive than a 'crianza' variety, good in a quality/price rate ...Why didn't you want a NES?I'm trying to work out why consoles didn't make much of an impact in the UK in the 80s. At school in the late 80s, I knew one person who had a NES, …
... as well. This was the point things swung away from computers ... . The main reasons were the price of games and, of course ... "cheap platform, [I]really[/I] expensive games" pretty quickly and, kids ...Spectrum - Show in London area, April 2012Hello Folks, we have been already discussing in another thread. Here I simply want check the interest.So the question is easy: If we will organize a …
... car-sharing as parking is expensive/impossible [especially if you end ... are London conference centres bloody expensive (why is it that anywhere ... with a hotel whereby the price for the exhibition space is ... phone/on Skype at some point should you need any advice ...Norway attack and bombing84+ dead, many children. What is it with these cowards?
... to your murder ethic. My point is that you need more ... it completely openly with an expensive DSLR and tourists who are ... is an unfortunate but acceptable price to play
Disc rotThis is happening to me more commonly,despite taking care of cd's/dvd's they decide not to play all sudden,i don't bother using the data recovery sof…
... space must be much more expensive than hdd. Around here i ... storage space were the same price they would only cost around ... fail on me to the point I could not recover the ...Region locking PC games? Deus Ex: HR is to be region locked!One of the good things about PC games is that they aren't region locked, unlike [B]many[/B] console games (lots of consoles have great games that wil…
... version.
the list price of the console one is ... (to bring up the original point of this topic) they download ... a game are often more expensive than the PC version, why ...Region locking PC games? Deus Ex: HR is to be region locked!One of the good things about PC games is that they aren't region locked, unlike [B]many[/B] console games (lots of consoles have great games that wil…
... (to bring up the original point of this topic) they download ... a game are often more expensive than the PC version, why ... to Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo.[/QUOTE]Price levels are set that way ... are enough demand for that price. Companies can trick the consumers ...Amstrad anyone ?I grew with C64 and Speccy, and still use both, but I`m curious about the Amstrad CPC464. So, comparing it to the spectrum only, what is it like ? …
... the extent that they could price it as an entry level ... , which always remained a comparatively expensive option.
In contrast ... superbly designed from an economic point of view. The use of ...Amstrad anyone ?I grew with C64 and Speccy, and still use both, but I`m curious about the Amstrad CPC464. So, comparing it to the spectrum only, what is it like ? …
... the extent that they could price it as an entry level ... , which always remained a comparatively expensive option.[/quote]
Well ... wonder how it compared in price with PCs of the era ... superbly designed from an economic point of view. The use of ...
