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Commodore Format, issue 60, page 3... simon forrester giving his intro speech entitled "STILL HERE"... seemed a little harsh with faster machines naturally taking over anyway. if mr forrester reads this...oh well, what can i say?
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i sort of understand the point he was making but did sort of get the impression of a little generalisation... and what with the remaining loyal readers/c64 owners left, i remember it left the CF legacy on a slightly sour note, an influential, popular uk national magazine
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back then (like now with more powerful consoles/pc's), most 8/16-bit owners were just gameplayers with no real interest in the programming aspects (i had some interest and a little knowledge then but couldn't figure much of it out)... most people just eventually (with all the commercial hype) upgraded to a faster computer/console and eventually i did also... me and the other remaining c64 owners that were left scattered in the latter years during the run-up to the c64's final demise in the computer hardware/software/magazine market had little to no choice of new products, we started to rely more on re-releases and bargains until the shelves became totally empty... then onto the bootsales.
right through with owning a c64, the only pirated games i owned were disk backups from my rather large legit tape collection... i bought all issues of CF which has now probably been sold on ebay since i did lose the lot (somehow)... now i own the dvd version and have just re-read the article properly again after ten years, it's it's left me a little perplexed now lol... a rather ironical c64 moment... considering the c64 has been the most successful long-running 8-bit machine ever.
but he was half-right about the world-wide-web... although the c64 proved it was cut out for it... the potential is here again and in a bigger way than i first originally thought.
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