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Of course, the Amstrad CPC464 loose by far as the BBC micro was owned by the BBC... just like the channel broadcasting this programm.
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It comes as no surprise that the CPC464 lost to the BBC. The BBC was, of course, commissioned and promoted by the BBC, so that the criteria used were biased in favor of the Acorn machine.
  
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It was clearly cheated with the "this old junk BBC do have more softwares than the brand new released Amstrad" argument. As this granted an awfull lot of "points" compaired to others tests the Amstrad won by far.
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For instance, they overplayed the software quantity point; but this would leave any new machine fighting an uphill fight. Also, the graphical capabilities were not protrayed accurately, maybe because they were not fully understood.
  
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The Graphical capabilities was a bit cheated too. The CPC could display twice maximum colours (16) despite in large pixels mode.
 
  
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The Fullscreen trick wasn't quite known at the time despite enabling Amstrad's CPC to really get a resolution comparable to BBC's.
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German videos featuring a Schneider CPC....
  
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Latest revision as of 02:30, 28 March 2010

Amstrad CPC related TV commercials.

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Amstrad CPC french Ads

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Amstrad PLUS and GX4000 French Ads (Crocodiles inside)

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Amstrad PC1512 French Ads

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Amstrad PCs Australian Ads

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(Where are the crocodiles ???)


CPC related

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It comes as no surprise that the CPC464 lost to the BBC. The BBC was, of course, commissioned and promoted by the BBC, so that the criteria used were biased in favor of the Acorn machine.

For instance, they overplayed the software quantity point; but this would leave any new machine fighting an uphill fight. Also, the graphical capabilities were not protrayed accurately, maybe because they were not fully understood.


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German videos featuring a Schneider CPC....

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