Agree 100% AA was must read for me from issue 3 to 118
I still have nearly all of them (some minus covers) but they have been well read. I think that AA had 1 or 2 eprom articles towards the end when they were wanting to fill the ever shrinking magazine. but even then they were many months apart... not exactly dedicated to it.
Not sure what is meant by "Upgraded to compete with the 16 bit.. I think a little ram and a rombo (ForProtext etc) was the limit of most peoples upgrades
Yeah that wound me up as well. Made out CPC owners were like Amiga owners by spending huge amounts of cash on their machines to fight off the inevitable. The truth was the owners that were left were mainly the serious owners who used productivity software and had added stuff like a 2nd drive.
Problem is that to outsiders its all about "games games games". The CPC is a proper computer with expansion capabilities that C64 and Speccy owners can only dream of, a decent display and had an 80 column mode.
Throw in Protext on ROM (with Prospell), a printer and an external 3.5 inch disk drive and you have a decent little system for writing letters and doing the household accounts.
That is not pimping up your system to compete with the 16 bits. It's called using your computer for more than just games. You know, just like we do with modern computers.
But as I've said so often, we as a community can't expect favours or good press from "outsiders". We've had 31 years of mis-information from people who know little about our machines. As ever, CPC owners will press on and do our own thing. We've been managing it for 31 years after all.