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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Did EGA Save PC Gaming?
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:10:37 -0500
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:37:37 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
wrote: 

>On 21/07/2024 21:52, Zaghadka wrote:
>> Any computer game enthusiast was playing on something else. Usually a
>> C=64. Atari ST. Amiga. Something like that. PCs sucked.
>
>Don't forget the Specky 48k (no it's not for playing games honest dad) 
>which was in play in Europe and particularly the UK. Then was was always 
>the BBC micro but only if you one one of the rich kids!
>
>When my upgrade time came it was a toss up between the Atari or Amiga, 
>the thought of getting a PC never even crossed my mind.
>
I didn't. Well, sort of. I remembered the Speccy after I hit "post."

By the time I replied to Mike S., I had remembered the MSX as well.

-- 
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten