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Hi all I'm new, I wanted to introduce myself, knew this forum hearsay but never in depth, I see that is very active, I'm from Spain, greetings to all, and hope to bring things and learning although the English did not take too well, thanks

Quote from: cosa_nostra-6128 on 08:45, 21 July 15
Hi all I'm new, I wanted to introduce myself, knew this forum hearsay but never in depth, I see that is very active, I'm from Spain, greetings to all, and hope to bring things and learning although the English did not take too well, thanks

Welcome! :)

Quote from: cosa_nostra-6128 on 08:45, 21 July 15
Hi all I'm new, I wanted to introduce myself, knew this forum hearsay but never in depth, I see that is very active, I'm from Spain, greetings to all, and hope to bring things and learning although the English did not take too well, thanks

Here you train english a lot when you're trying to post everyday (2 birds at a time)  :laugh:

I use an online translator, sorry if I speak as an Indian

As long as we can understand you, the fun is guaranteed ;)

Welcome, friend! :D

Hello! I am from Spain as well, although I live in UK  :)

Welcome to the forum  :D

Welcome to the forum! I am Spanish too :-)

Quote from: cosa_nostra-6128 on 08:45, 21 July 15
Hi all I'm new, I wanted to introduce myself, knew this forum hearsay but never in depth, I see that is very active, I'm from Spain, greetings to all, and hope to bring things and learning although the English did not take too well, thanks

Welcome to our forum!
Have fun here!

Mucho gusto! Enjoy the forum, have a good time and lots of fun here.  :)

Nice to have you here, mate!

If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask.

You can find me also in the amstrad.es forum ;)

Españoles... welcome to the forum.

I've always been curious how many people here peeks from countries that do not belong to those in which Amstrads were most popular. Especially with those less numerous nations. Not everyone who is registered gave name of his country. Are there some Italians, Swiss, Portuguese, Dutch, Scandinavians, Russians, etc. ??
I know one Greek here, sometimes I see someone from Australia, and whether they are from other countries outside of Europe? :)

Yes, but the CPC was quite big in Australia and could be found in many schools throughout the 80s and early 90s. The Spectrum and Apple 2 computers were almost unheard of. It was Amstrad vs Commodore in the schoolyard :)

Quote from: robcfg on 16:53, 21 July 15
Nice to have you here, mate!

If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask.

You can find me also in the amstrad.es forum ;)

Ya estoy registrado hace un tiempo en amstrad.es y hace años en el foro amstrad miarroba


Thank you very much to all for the reception, I know some nicks of Spanish forums

Oh, no!!! Another spanish here (like me)?!?
;) ;D ;D ;D

Welcome, man!

Quote from: McKlain on 17:45, 21 July 15
Españoles... welcome to the forum.

OMG! Your avatar got an virus!!!


@Gryzor (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1) : Do we have a statistic from which countries forum members are from? Just curious if there is a 2nd or 3rd Amstrad user in a distance of 1000 miles.  ;)

Hello and welcome.

I counted from which countries are people who have written at least 50 posts. :)

50 - G.Britain
24 - France
17 - Spain
16 - Germany
14 - Australia
12 - Greece
6 - Denmark
4 - Norway and Poland
3 - Ireland and N.Zeland
2 - Finland and Italy
1 - Brazil, Austria, Romania, Belgium, Russia, Turkey.

And 20 not defined. ;)

WoW! Great job done! Very interesting!  :) :) :)

nice national stats... the top6 is not really a surprise, yet I wouldn't have though there were so many aussies


I guess the language barrer works a bit... we have more CPCists in France (we were at least 23 at last ReSet#20 party...) and I know a lot of CPCists from France who deeply suck at english speaking.

I guess the very same applies for Spain, but you Spanish dudes would more easily try autotranslations from google, even at some french forums (which is always nice and fun).

Due to the good number and quality of French forums, I bet many Frenchers don't actually need to go to CPCwiki.
Anyway I love the Fact CPCwiki's forum really is the Hub for international CPC world exchanges as well as the most complete Database.

got to remember many lurkers would never post, nor post more than 50 things, but dudes like me would overcompensate anyway... (I am not alone in this...)



Note to autotranslator users : please also post the original text... actually to cross the two sources can be nice for better understanding, even a French like me with no real Spanish lessons/studies could understand some Spanish texts/parts the translator wouldn't properly convert by the cheer force of my general culture...  :D
(Latins rules !!!)


Would be cool if we could ship some CPCs to eastern Europa... I guess those Speccy cloners would love it and they really have a big Demoscene there...


They even have a Crazy Siberian Party 2015... in Siberia ? (captain Obvious) I guess
Would be nice to have Siberian Amstradists.
:o

Anyway the Language barrer issue seems even bigger with those Russians or even eastern Europeans.


I too have a nice Demoparty near my Home (Alchimie2015) and they really don't make any effort concerning their Website... which is in french only... too bad.

Quote from: ZbyniuR on 04:47, 24 July 15
I counted from which countries are people who have written at least 50 posts. :)

50 - G.Britain
24 - France
17 - Spain
16 - Germany
14 - Australia
12 - Greece
6 - Denmark
4 - Norway and Poland
3 - Ireland and N.Zeland
2 - Finland and Italy
1 - Brazil, Austria, Romania, Belgium, Russia, Turkey.

And 20 not defined. ;)

What country did I get counted under?  ::)

Bryce.

England of course!  :laugh:

Quote from: TFM on 21:41, 24 July 15
England of course!  :laugh:

Where's the "Dislike Button"? :D

Bryce.

Quote from: Bryce on 21:45, 24 July 15
Where's the "Dislike Button"? :D

Bryce.

Ah, good to see the Irish are still up and fighting!  :) :) :)

Quote from: TFM on 21:41, 24 July 15
England of course!  :laugh:

In that case, what about me ;) LOL

Romanian ? Italian ? can't tell from here, My PC monitors are not well  calibrated... the colours vary depending on the angle as well...  :o
Sometimes looks like a foggy dew.

Quote from: MacDeath on 01:08, 25 July 15
Romanian ? Italian ? can't tell from here, My PC monitors are not well  calibrated... the colours vary depending on the angle as well...  :o
Sometimes looks like a foggy dew.

Hehehe, well as I am English but living in Galway, I must offset @Bryce ;)

@Bryce (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=225) to be honest I never heard name of your country in English, so I thought it's joke, and probably counted you as not defined as I remember. Now I see it's island close Africa and Portuguese speaking country. My bad, sorry.

I counted 1 person from Greenland as Denmark, about 3 or 4 from Wales as G.Britain.  The same from England. Counted 1 guy from Antarctica as not defined. And in cases different language than country were someone live now, so I counted by language not by place of living. Not everybody gave all info, so who know maybe some Franch speaking user is Canadian or something like that. Be cool it's only statistic. ;)

Some people set language english and don't mention about country or town, and no set flag, so I counted them as GB. But maybe some of them put it as declaration they can speak english, and in reality they are from more exotic place.

CraigsBar I counted you as Irish. ;)

Bryce what is your first language? Are you ware born there?

Quote from: ZbyniuR on 01:43, 25 July 15
@Bryce (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=225) to be honest I never heard name of your country in English so, I thought it's joke

Yup, it's a joke :) He explains it here (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/hardware-related/please-help-i've-made-a-terrible-mistake!/msg97463/#msg97463).

Quote from: Dizrythmia on 04:59, 22 July 15
Yes, but the CPC was quite big in Australia and could be found in many schools throughout the 80s and early 90s. The Spectrum and Apple 2 computers were almost unheard of. It was Amstrad vs Commodore in the schoolyard :)

The Aussie schools I went to were full of Apple ][s and all the Kids I knew had c64s.

Quote from: CraigsBar on 00:23, 25 July 15
In that case, what about me ;) LOL

Apples and Berries? Hmm.... the long lost paradise maybe?

Quote from: AMSDOS on 07:11, 25 July 15

The Aussie schools I went to were full of Apple ][s and all the Kids I knew had c64s.

Kinda the same here. Everybody had a c64, the nose high up. Damn snobs! And only one guy I did know had a CPC. Later I did learn to know more owners of CPC (I entered a computer club in Munich), but they didn't necessarily live in my neighborhood.

Quote from: TFM on 16:12, 25 July 15

Apples and Berries? Hmm.... the long lost paradise maybe?

No long lost Paradise here...  At least not until you have consumed a few pints of the cider I make with those apples and berries

edit: Please excuse the image quality, that was just taken out in the garage, and it's dark out there!

(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/25/f9fbc07a4b4147d3e1671d9e5786718c.jpg)

Quote from: TFM on 16:15, 25 July 15


Kinda the same here. Everybody had a c64, the nose high up. Damn snobs! And only one guy I did know had a CPC. Later I did learn to know more owners of CPC (I entered a computer club in Munich), but they didn't necessarily live in my neighborhood.

I knew one kid at the secondary school I went to between 1991 & 1994 who had an Amstrad, though I never got to see it and by that stage we were both collecting AA Covertapes for the programs.  And when I was living in the Country, a guy from Neilborough got his letter in AA saying how me went into Bendigo every month to get his copy of AA, that wasn't me!  :laugh:  Might of been my friend from Secondary School, although I think he did have his Name & Address if people want to reach them.


It was around 1993/4 when my school started phasing out IIe's for Macs, I was a bit lucky to be using a 386 about that period too which was a huge update from the Electronic Typewriters I was using in '91.  :D

There were enough CPC owners in my small country town in the late 80's for there to be a amstrad computer club. Don't remember anyone having a c64, either. Primary school was one Apple IIe and one Atari 800XL (only got to use the latter) and Microbees when I moved to a different school. Highschool was a metric assload of BBC Masters/Compacts and a couple of Archimedes, before going wholesale to Macs in 1992.


So yeah, c64's just seemed to be nonexistent when I was growing up, although I definitely knew about them.

You lucky man!!!  ;D

Welcome man!!


As to countries - I think it'd be unfair to only take members with >50 posts into consideration - indeed, as stated earlier, there are lots of lurkers...


Google Analytics has removed Unique Users (damned privacy!), but here's the breakdown of sessions over the last month (long list):

Quote from: Gryzor on 16:24, 11 August 15
Welcome man!!


As to countries - I think it'd be unfair to only take members with >50 posts into consideration - indeed, as stated earlier, there are lots of lurkers...


Google Analytics has removed Unique Users (damned privacy!), but here's the breakdown of sessions over the last month (long list):

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Country   Sessions
United Kingdom   5610
France   2343
Spain   1857
Australia   1784
Germany   1408
Greece   565
United States   424
Poland   395
Norway   295
Canada   268
Italy   228
Belgium   201
Netherlands   196
Austria   192
Ireland   175
New Zealand   164
Romania   132
Denmark   108
Sweden   93
Finland   92
Serbia   75
Turkey   70
Brazil   69
Czech Republic   62
Portugal   50
Ukraine   41
India   40
Russia   37
Kenya   35
(not set)   30
Hungary   29
Japan   27
Switzerland   26
Argentina   20
Israel   17
Mexico   17
Iran   13
Singapore   13
Thailand   13
Uruguay   13
Croatia   11
Indonesia   11
Saudi Arabia   11
South Africa   11
Chile   10
Egypt   9
Iceland   8
Luxembourg   8
South Korea   7
Algeria   6
Malta   6
Slovakia   6
United Arab Emirates   5
China   5
Latvia   5
Peru   5
Réunion   5
Slovenia   5
Andorra   4
Hong Kong   4
Jordan   4
Sri Lanka   4
Lithuania   4
Tunisia   4
Taiwan   4
Vietnam   4
Bosnia & Herzegovina   3
Bulgaria   3
Belarus   3
Iraq   3
Morocco   3
Nigeria   3
Philippines   3
Syria   3
Colombia   2
Cuba   2
Estonia   2
Guatemala   2
Jersey   2
Libya   2
Pakistan   2
Sudan   2
Yemen   2
Angola   1
Azerbaijan   1
Bangladesh   1
Brunei   1
Bolivia   1
Dominican Republic   1
Ecuador   1
Gabon   1
Georgia   1
French Guiana   1
Jamaica   1
Cambodia   1
Kuwait   1
Martinique   1
Malaysia   1
Mozambique   1
New Caledonia   1
Nicaragua   1
Nepal   1
Palestine   1
Paraguay   1
Tanzania   1
Venezuela   1
Kosovo   1
   17459

At least 150 of those Irish ones are me, so who is the other 25? [emoji6]

Not even sure how Google Analytics defines a session, to tell you the truth...

Scratch that, just found heir definition.