Did clever things with graphics that looked very classy One of the few games to use the Amstrad's fast but limited hardware scroll properly.
I'm trying to remember my favourite games for it. But some things it did well: great display on the included colour monitor, the quirky and expensive 3' disks were surprisingly good (and fast), great keyboard, CPM compatibility, banked RAM which survived a reboot (much to the annoyance of copy protection writers), and a refreshing lack of cable clutter. It did have its downsides slower BASIC than the BBC B (though I found out that the way Acorn managed its speed was to dispense with garbage collection altogether - no fair!), too much of its memory locked up in the screen display, weaker sound than the C64. It seemed to hit a very good hardware team and get put out for a good price.
Oldbitcollector wrote:Looking at some of the Youtube footage of the Amstrad CPC, this was a VERY capable machine
