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I wish we had a Frys out on the East Coast. We have Microcenter, which would be a nice place to sell it, but then so would Gamestop.

I need to get Dingux on mine... I suppose I should buy a mini SD card too.

CraigGrannell wrote:So, yeah, all you non-Brits: subscribe.

Done. Promo code 'CLASSIC' is the way to go -- 13 issues for 50 quid, instead of 80.

Do it. I'd do mine, but I'm on the other side of the world.

Shame the SD card is a weird one, but yeah, it's a nice little unit.

The Hardest of All Freds wrote:I'd say Prince of the Yolk Folk but seeing as it ain't up there, I'll go Spellbound Dizzy (on the CPC, of course)

This.

I'm curious as to when other US readers are seeing the mag pop up in B&N or Borders or whatever?

Here in Boston, it seems very random. Last week, I was able to pick up 73 and 72 at the same time. Today, 74 was there, but only two copies...

I really like the recent addition of TinyURL links in features I agree that making them custom would be a good idea, but a much better one would be Imagine buying its own domains and running custom URLs off them (so, something like rg.ws/minidizzy), given that URL shortening services are shutting d...

There could be that, too. But I still don't think they need to be so hard - frustrating. I just want to play them and progress through the game, I don't think they need to make it so that only a few can get the most out of their purchase. Perhaps games need some kind easy/hard option. Monkey Island ...

No, there was a Speccy emulator for the CPC. I think it used the Speccy ROMS.

Was the CPC the only 8-bit that could emulate another 8-bit? I don't recall a CPC emulator for the Speccy...

Where I grew up, nobody had a C64, and everyone had either a CPC or a NES. One guy had a Speccy.

I think this might be the first Mario game I play all the way to the end since Super Mario World.

Sunshine wasn't very good, IMO and Mario 64 was a bit too hard.

I don't know why games are so hard - if a piece is so hard that you see 'Game Over' more than once, it's too hard.

Dizzy.

Bub&Bob wrote:I always wished my C64 had a slot where chocolate biscuits would come out from whenever I completed a level of a game.............

Later models of the CPC6128 had that. It was an Amstrad/McVities promotion.

We shouldn't forget the Amstrad Plus machines too.





Enhanced versions of the CPC machines with 4096 colours, DMA sound, hardware sprites, smooth scrolling, etc.