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    Retro gaming makes BBC home page

    The ZX Speccy is featured as the lead item on bbc.co.uk today. Quite cool to see a retro gaming machine getting featured on the front page:

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    Strange to see the Speccy featured on the BBC homepage considering they had the Acorn BBC Micro as direct competition back at that time. Didn't the BBC also get released before the Spectrum?

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    I think the BBC Micro got released before the spectrum.

    Although I don't really think that there will be much competition between the two any more.

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    There obviously wouldn't be any competition between the two platforms these days. I just thought that as the BBC Micro was so closely linked with the BBC in general that they would have featured that instead. But I suppose as the Speccy was a much greater success as a home computer you can see why they chose it.

    BTW, did anyone notice the Commodore link under that article? Commodore in pictures.

    They have a few images of Commodore machines throughout time, but they have some bad statements under the images. For one, under the Amiga picture they have the following:

    1985 saw the launch of the Amiga. The successor to the Commodore 64, the Amiga was designed to compete with Atari's ST computers.
    Slightly back to front statement there!

    And the BBC have, just like everyone else, given the impression that the new gaming Commodore computers are still from the old company:
    Veteran technology firm Commodore has launched a new generation of high-end gaming computers at the Cebit trade fair in Germany.

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