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I'm not sure how I ended up joining this site or contributing (games sections only at this stage). But I'm 32, living in Sydney, Australia. I only recently stumbled across all of this stuff...and there I was, transported back to the 80's.
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My Dad bought me an Amstrad CPC 464 for xmas 1987 (I think) when we were living in NZ. What a christmas present!!!
It came with the following games:
'''Into Oblivion, Vampire, The Apprentice(and I think Pipeline and maybe Rasterscan and Destructo). Later we got Con-quest, Rocky Horrow Show, RadZone & RebelStar''' - Hence why I started my contributions on those games (and some edits of existing) as those games had a huge impact. Dad threw in a couple of issues of [[Computing with the Amstrad]] and away we all went - trying to type in those 10 Liners etc. Gosh, we even typed in those checksum codes and wondered what was going on.... ha ha. Good times!We even forgot to press 'Enter' at the end of one of the lines because it got to the edge of the screen and went to next line anyway, so we started writing the next line...... arghh. I think that was 'Blitz' - from CWTA.
Man, those games kept me busy! The funny thing is, I've only recently finished some of those games! After lots of saving (using WinApe). I never seemed to be able to finish games as a kid - maybe I didn't have enough patience or probably because you couldn't 'Save' your position.
Swapping games with kids from school was fun - [[Apprentice Dad had it sussed out pretty quick, you could make copies (thecassette tape)]]- so I ended up with copies of everyone else's games. Of course, never told anyone else you could do that! And, the kids with Commodore 64's had no clue how awesome Amstrad's actually were! Yes, they gave me a hard time because I had an Amstrad.
I've managed to finish these games in recent years (finally): [[Into Oblivion]], [[Radzone]], [[Vampire]], [[Streaker]], [[The_Island_Of_Dr._Destructo]], [[Ghostbusters]], [[Rebelstar]], [[Con- Quest]], [[Questor]] and [[DopplegangerApprentice (the)]].
I remember the anticipation and excitement as those cassette tapes were ever so close to loading and I could start playing!!!
:: Thanks Gryzor. Glad to be a part of this.
Something else I recall too was the joysticks (reminded by reading [[User:CPM User]]s Amstrad story). The 464 came with a free shaft/suction capped bottom joystick - the thing was absolutely useless. Couldn't play games like the Apprentice where you needed precision otherwise you were dead. So it wasn't long before Dad turned up with one of those [[Konix_Speedking]]s. Wow - what a game changer that was. Amazing. Micro switches and precision, it was the best. Could actually play games properly now! (Dad wasn't going to put up with that!) Later I upgraded to a [[Konix Navigator]] now I just felt cool with that thing. Too bad the auto-fire didn't work on the CPC range. Oh well.
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28 Sept 2012
:Hehehe, folks I work with, you tell them "my Computer has 64k", they think you cannot do anything on it, some of those don't even know what the world was like before the Internet, guess they never check out their local Newsagent to see what Magazines are there. It's somewhat amazing that still goes on, given the amount of Information given on the Internet. ;) --[[User:CPM User|CPM User]] ([[User talk:CPM User|talk]]) 23:51, 9 August 2016 (EDT)
::Yes! What a world people have missed (Cassette tapes? wtf!). Going to the newsagent to collect your Amstrad magazines that they put aside for you - that's absurd! --[[User:Border 7|Border 7]] ([[User talk:Border 7|talk]]) 00:27, 30 March 2017 (EDT)
== NZ Advert ==
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* [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/File:ACU9205-014.jpg] ACU Issue 5, 1992: Found an 10 liner of mine published! That is just neat as. Too bad I didn't win the 5 pounds. Looking back, I'm not sure what the hell I was thinking! My programming was terrible...
== Game Pages - I plan to create/edit ==
* <del>[[Agent_X_II:_The_Mad_Prof%27s_Back]] (cleanup) </del>
* CWTA - Australian version): [[Computing_With_The_Amstrad_-_Australian_Edition]]
What next? Some New Zealand stuff:?
* Bits & Bytes: [[Bits_and_Bytes]]
and later... who knows?
== Other random Retro ==
My Childhood Money(furiously traded amongst school kids along with Amstrad tapes!):
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Obsolete Paper Fiat Money(my weekly pocket money allowance!):
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