Amstrad PCW8256 Showcasing - Discount gaming like in 1985!
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- In this video i will be showcasing the first in the series of Amstrad Personal Wordprocessors the PCW8256, nicknamed Joyce after Allan Sugars secretary becaue the goal was to make the machine so easy to use so that even she could use it.
But the machine was much more than a booring Wordprecessor, in this video i will be playing Batman, Tetris, Pacmania, Roswell and Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy in order to show you how capable this machine really was.
Enjoy!
Nice little video showcasing a few of the PCW games :)
Great video Mike. Thanks!
Great video as always. Keep up the good work!
thank you for the memories
nice machine!
The Amstrad PCW series sold in the millions and has received surprisingly little love as a retrocomputing platform. That's too bad, as it"s an interesting little machine. Thanks for the coverage!
Directories, you say? Fun fact: CP/M didn't have such an advanced concept as a file size. Files had a number of allocated blocks, 128 byte each, but programs had to rely on 'end-of-file' markers or other shenanigans to know where the file actually ended in the last block. It was a nightmare. Some CP/M implementations would add a forced 'header' block to the files to store the actual size and other missing information. At the end of the day, CP/M was a very broken and poorly designed standard. 86-DOS, the precursor of MS-DOS, was actually a vast improvement (despite the mocking internal name 'QDOS' for 'Quick & Dirty OS').
Jeg arbejdede i Bilka i Tilst ved Aarhus tilbage i midtfirserne og solgte en god stak af den model 😊
Play the Batman game, only because it seems like it will be the biggest challenge for you.
Jeg spillede også InfoCom tekstspil, dog på min Amstrad CPC 6128, fra CPM/+ . Fik en hel stak af de spil på en floppy fra en hollandsk gruppe jeg skrev med (læs: en piratgruppe der var så venlig at sende 14-årige mig gratis programmer). Nøj det var tider.
Nice Amstrad PCW 8256 video. I've posted a couple Amstrad PCW 8256 videos on my channel, so maybe you could take a look. Also, if you haven't tried it yet, On The Run is a really fun game to play on the Amstrad PCW, so maybe you could do a play through video of that game? Keep up the nice video work!
Revisiting this video two years later and it's still awesome! The game Roswell is pretty fun. I would be interested in seeing more game play on your Amstrad PCW 8256. Also someone recently created a WiFi modem for this machine which is awesome! I've finished building mine and plan to showcase it on my channel at some point. You should build one too then you can visit various BBS on your Amstrad PCW 🙂
Over a year later, is it still possible to make requests? :)
Sure! I haven't gotten back to it yet :P
I am currently busy writing my book: www.thedanishcomet.com
But I do want to get back to the Amstrad machines, still have a couple of machines in the series that I haven't shown of yet :)