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I was blessed with a C-64 as my upgrade, proper keyboard and no crap attached to the back.

My favourite game is still Ultima IV for the C64.

I love all the memories this thread is bringing back.

Ah, I must admit I was rather jealous of the guys with C64s - if nothing else, just for the SID chip audio synthesiser. A friend of mine at school was the first person I knew who made music with a computer using his C64. All my Speccy could do was go "Beep" (that was even the command name IIRC).

The MTX512 was a little bit better - same sound chip as the BBC Micro, but still not a patch on the SID. Later on, I built an audio sampling board for the MTX as my 'O'-level Electronics project. I remember taking it into school to demonstrate my incredible musical sequences of burp noises etc. I was a big fan of the band Art of Noise at the time, so it was cool to have something I built and coded that could do digital audio - just a few seconds at 8bits, maybe 1-2kHz sample rate. Hardly a Synclavier, but I felt like a complete uber-geek.

The Amiga and the Atari-ST were really the peak in sound on home computers for that era.
I love that sometimes when I download a hacked game the music playing while installing is an old amiga tune.

Good times though.

Plenty of Amigas are in still in use too, or at least were until recently. The MIDI sequencing outstripped anything a PC could do for a very long time, so some people swear by them - absolutely rock solid timing from what I've heard.

I do miss the days of those machines too. Every new machine was a bundle of exciting new surprises. The only real surprises from a new PC these days are which new ways Micro$oft are going to try and shaft you this time, and which bits of favourite old hardware won't get updated drivers - I feel no excitement about a new machine any more, it's just a chore.

Nice talking to you both. I've really enjoyed a little trip down memory lane. Bed-time now though. Catch you later.

Glad to meet fellows around that were bitten by the Sinclair bug in their childhood and share my contempt for the current state of technology. Cheers!

Hello, and welcome to Wrong Planet!