AMS biography is out!

[Gryzor]

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Damn, I'm already in the middle of two books!

[nurgle]

Must order this one as well.


Btw.: I finished "The soul of a new machine" which you recommended to me. A very entertaining and interesting read!

[Gryzor]

You can wait till I read it and comment on it... After all, it's a pretty short book, and we don't know how long it devotes to the AMSTRAD days...

Really glad you enjoyed the Soul!!!

[Xyphoe]

Cool!

Let us know if it delves much into the CPC side of things! I doubt it does, also there's not very many positive reviews of the book on the Amazon site But for £4 paperback you can't complain

I'm told the book to get is "Alan Sugar : The Amstrad Story" ... but the re-released and updated version from 1991 which may include stuff about the Plus and GX4000 releases.  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugar-Amstrad-Story-David-Thomas/dp/0330319000/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285034624&sr=1-1

I really don't know how much it goes into the CPC, I hope it does and maybe someone on here has already read it that can say?

[Gryzor]

I do have the old one - and I actually have a scanned version of it as well somewhere. I don't remember it having anything about the GX, but I don't know if it was an updated 91 version or not. To be frank, I didn't even know an updated version exists.

IIRC, it did mention quite a bit about the computers.But, in overall, it was just a great book. Highly recommended... maybe I should read it again!

[Xyphoe]

Did it delve much into the development of the CPC, why certain choices were made and most interesting to me ... Alan Sugars perception of the machine after launch?

I read in old magazines that people felt that he'd 'forgotten and abandoned' the machines after 1986, certainly you never really hear him talking about them in interviews and stuff which is a shame.

[TFM]

IMHO he sold them, he didn't developp them. If it isn't your baby (own developpment) you don't have this certain kind of feelings.

[Xyphoe]

IMHO he sold them, he didn't developp them. If it isn't your baby (own developpment) you don't have this certain kind of feelings.

The other month in Retro Gamer magazine there was an interview with Roland Perry(!) ... well worth a read ... and a similar question was asked. Apparently Alan was quite 'hands on' in the development, although not really from a technical standpoint of course.

[Gryzor]

This has been discussed before... great as it were, the CPC was just another product for AMS. In contrast to Sinclair, AMS did not have a sentimental bond with his products - he was a businessman, whereas Sinclair was a mad scientist. So it makes sense that he would not talk about it afterwards, to the extend that he wouldn't talk about a specific series of turntables.

I don't think there was really much on the CPC making-of, but it was there nonetheless.