Well, I'm curious if there is a connection between the CPC model and the kind of usage...
Assuming that the CPC464 users do gaming most of the time and the CPC6128 users do more non-gaming / application activity - I'm curious if this is the case.
With my CPC6128 / 6128plus I do programming most of the time (got not time to play games most of the time).
How about you?
Well I have both a 6128+ and a GX4000, but both are packed away and I rarely have time to spend on them. I can't imagine doing anything "serious" on actual hardware these days though, so it'd either be gaming or testing code to see how it differs from emulators if I did.
I'm not sure that helps...
I use the CPC mainly to play, but I also use it in a profesional fashion for quick testing of algorithms. The ability of BASIC to boot instantly and the powerful drawing commands have not been matched by any modern development environment.
I use my CPC 6128+ most of the time to programming and others CPC to play adventures :D
I've got a 464. I use it mostly for games and demoscene stuff. Having only the usifac2 i've not been able to do much more in that regard - I did want to get into productivity stuff, but until a RAM expansion comes to me in the future, I'll have to wait.
I'm mainly using my CPC to test WIP hardware and games.
That's a quite good oversight for the beginning. :) :) :)
What I do with my CPC 464 in the privacy of my own home is nobody else's business. ;)
But yeah, games. :)
I'm using the real hardware to test hardware ;-)
And every now and then I play a game
I am using my CPCs to spend hours and hours trying to work out why they are not working :picard:
The rest of the time I spend trying to work around why my CPCs are working. :o
Use the 'office' 464 for coding and word processing. This ones gonna get a hard disk to see what power it unleashes
The 'home' one unfortunately is tape only. I use it with my son to write the odd program or simple game. Yes I been using tapes to save and load these until i get my hands on a DDI-1 - the wait may be long, not even seen one for sale let alone been put off by the price :)
I like to buy hardware and connect everything to the CPC, to boost CPC , i also like to test every new game that comes out, make captured videos from the real machine if possible, and things like that
Having recently got mine up and running again and proving it still works, I'm hoping to archive some of my old discs, try out a few of the games and demos I've missed out on the past thirty years and then to test a new demo that I'm yet to write! Maybe I might manage to code a game as well. That said, I'm a serial starter of things and rarely a finisher (but that's another story).
I have 464: games and programming.
@Interrupt : I'm the same, there are many unfinished or barely started projects around here!
As soon as I get the membrane fixed I'll be hooking up the 6128 to its original colour monitor for some light gun action.
I bought the magnum years ago and never got round to having a go.
This is what I do with my CPC lately...
More on that in a few days.... ;)
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@andycadley, my CPC is usually in storage and I only take it out and set it up on rare occasions, and even then, it's only to play games.
Quote from: d_kef on 16:27, 28 January 23This is what I do with my CPC lately... [...] More on that in a few days.... ;)
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Now even in CP/M, very cool!! :D
Gaming. And finally beating many games that stumped me during the 80s and 90s.
I've a lot of 8bit machines that I play as a hobby but I'm a CPC464 guy first.
Been doing a lot of emulating lately though as I soft modded my first gen switch, so there's some satisfaction playing CPC Shinobi on a handheld but believe me, its still no substitute for the real thing.
If I count the total time what my real CPC has been doing mainly for the past few years when I turned it on then it's probably 80% a jukebox music player (for ay, mp3, now mod, adlib in SymAmp).
I mostly use emulator, although I have my cpc6128.
If I use the original cpc, i use it most for playing games but also sometimes to test a game i created.
When i use the emulator, I use it for playing games of course, but I enjoy more programming when I am focused on creating something.
I have an Amstrad CPC 6128 and an Amstrad Plus (and an Amiga 600) all plugged and ready for immediate use. I have also the GX-4000 / other Amstrad CPC "backups" (each ones with a different CRTC models) properly packed but not plugged.
Those days (years...) as I'm focusing on GX-4000 developments, I mostly use the Amstrad Plus with a C4CPC card. I do all my development on a PC laptop, and then I regularly test the new build on the Plus after each coding session. I do that to ensure that what I'm experiencing under the emulator also works fine on the real machine. I use my Plus instead of the GX-4000 because my Plus has a very handy reset button ;-)
From times to times (cf. in total approx. 30 min per week) I enjoy using the Amstrad CPC 6128 to launch games (Fruity Frank or similar, cf. games that provide me immediate enjoyment). And when there is a new "important" release available (demos, games, etc) I immediately run it the same day after work :)
Finally, I still maintain the dream that one day, I will have once again have a "full Amstrad experience", cf. using the machines themselves much more (cf. being productive using it). Maybe when I will be retired... since I plan keeping my Amstrads all my life, that will be perfectly fine to explore all of that in 20 years from now ahah
I use my 6128 Plus (equipped with a Gotek) to gorge on the Smörgåsbord of programs available at CPCPOWER & CPCRulez.
One or two of these programs end up as YT videos.
I also have a 6128 to check programs that won't Run on the Plus.
I have my 6128 permanently set up in my back room. I mostly use it to play games, both old and new (and the CPC community has kept us well supplied with those in recent years) or to test things I've written and see how they look on a real CPC monitor. Sometimes I will type a little BASIC program in directly when I'm messing around with ideas, but mostly I program with an emulator. I never play games on emulator any more, though.
I have been trawling ebay recently to try to find a 6128+ because I do want to try writing a Plus game at some point.
I generally use my GX4000+C4CPC for real hardware testing, also handy for analogue + LPEN too of course :laugh:
But I've also found it's a lot more fun to go to the effort of tranferring one of the hundreds now (!) of .cpr games to the C4CPC SD card rather than play in an emulator because it removes the tempatation to flit between games and use save states etc. and the result is a much more fulfilling experience :D