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giveita 4 days ago

I used Gem on https://www.retromobe.com/2016/10/amstrad-pc1512-1986.html?m...

Felt pretty advanced compared to BBC computer!

tecleandor 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Ha! I came to say exactly the same! I (my dad) had a PC1512, CGA with B/W screen. It came with a serial mouse that we only took out of the box when we used GDE. I have to say we didn't use it much, as we were used to DOS and the "I boot the computer and directly run the application/game I want to use".

My dad used Lotus 1-2-3 a lot (I guess that it was v2.2 or so in the Amstrad).

ochrist 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The original BBC computer was way to small for something like this, but you could get a version of the BBC Master that was able to run GEM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master