French roms

eto · 20:56, 08 October 24

Quote from: Nich on 17:56, 08 October 24But I thought umlauts aren't essential in the German language, since you can use substitute digraphs (e.g. ü -> ue)?

Sure, we can survive without and especially in the 80s it was widely accepted that if you work with a home computer, that you don't have special characters. However it was somehow weird that Schneider tried to market the CPC as a semi-professional computer - but at the same time did not bother to localize it.

robcfg · 10:35, 09 October 24

I just remembered that I got this program: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Deutast , but I didn't thought much about it.

Knowing that german CPCs have a QWERTY keyboard, makes sense now!

Gryzor · 11:25, 09 October 24

Quote from: robcfg on 10:35, 09 October 24I just remembered that I got this program: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Deutast , but I didn't thought much about it.

Knowing that german CPCs have a QWERTY keyboard, makes sense now!

DM40? Wtf...

GUNHED · 12:04, 09 October 24

Well, there were several similar programs in Computer Magazines anyway. Just without the stickers.

Bryce · 15:59, 09 October 24

Quote from: Gryzor on 11:25, 09 October 24
Quote from: robcfg on 10:35, 09 October 24I just remembered that I got this program: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Deutast , but I didn't thought much about it.

Knowing that german CPCs have a QWERTY keyboard, makes sense now!
DM40? Wtf...

Well just the 3in Disk cost about DM20 at the time!

Bryce.

Gryzor · 16:20, 09 October 24

Quote from: Bryce on 15:59, 09 October 24
Quote from: Gryzor on 11:25, 09 October 24
Quote from: robcfg on 10:35, 09 October 24I just remembered that I got this program: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Deutast , but I didn't thought much about it.

Knowing that german CPCs have a QWERTY keyboard, makes sense now!
DM40? Wtf...

Well just the 3in Disk cost about DM20 at the time!

Bryce.

Wait, that much? I seem to recall that their price here was the equivalent of GBP1 mid-late 80s?

eto · 16:45, 09 October 24

It was for professional users and they probably were happy to pay a premium - and they got stickers ;-)

And don't forget - if you bought a "Electro Freddy" cassette in the grey/silver/boring "Schneider Computer Division" package, you already paid 30DM.

Quote from: Bryce on 15:59, 09 October 24Well just the 3in Disk cost about DM20 at the time!

I got my 6128 in mid 1986 and a Maxell disk cost 14DM. Panasonic cost 20DM. I remember pretty well as I could barely afford 2 Maxell disks :-D

Gryzor · 17:22, 09 October 24

That's weird. Back then the GBP was at its highest against the DM, almost DM3 for 1 GBP. Yet I remember paying GDR500 for blank disks, when the British pound was about 540 drachmas...

GUNHED · 17:23, 09 October 24

Quote from: Bryce on 15:59, 09 October 24
Quote from: Gryzor on 11:25, 09 October 24
Quote from: robcfg on 10:35, 09 October 24I just remembered that I got this program: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Deutast , but I didn't thought much about it.

Knowing that german CPCs have a QWERTY keyboard, makes sense now!
DM40? Wtf...

Well just the 3in Disk cost about DM20 at the time!

Bryce.

In 1987 I got 3" (Panasonic, the good stuff) for 5 DM already, when buying 10 pieces (49,90 DM) at media market in Munich.
Yes, discs are expansive (back then and again), but still one can see that they are a _bussiness_ company.

Prodatron · 21:40, 09 October 24

When I bought my first 3" disks in 1987/1988, I had no problem with the prices, even though I really had no money at this time. Filling more than two of them with self-programmed games or applications seemed completely impossible to me at the time, because 178K was such an incredible amount of memory! So I was really happy because I didn't know anyone I could swap software with

oh shit, now it's getting even more off-topic

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