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