Amstrad/Speccy/Beeb nostalgia

Just reading this old story regarding a public dust-up between Clive Sinclair and one of the top bods at Acorn back in the day....

http://www.mipeha.dk/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=17253

The interesting thing is, it says Amsoft were going to cash in on this by creating a computer game "Business is War", but that the creator, Marcus Altman had lost the source code. This immediately made me think of the title "Electro Freddy" which blatantly had a pic of a guy looking very much like Sir Clive on the front cover and sees you loading computers onto a conveyor with him chasing you... and lo and behold, it's by Marcus Altman. Maybe he didn't lose that source code after all!

I don't remember this.

But Puki, you're only 5, so it's not surprising ! ;-)


Those were the days tho... It's unlikely you'll see the Gate's or Jobs' of this world in any pub. And as for underhanded advertising... Can you imagine!?!?!

I don't remember this either - is it a fake? Just can't imagine Sir Clive getting all punchy...

I'm sure it was a pretend fight staged for publicity ;-)

He would have run over im in a C5 if he could get on top of a hill LOL

I've still got issue 1 of cpc user at home. And it's in perfect condition. Do you reckon it would ebay for much?

I assumed it was true, but who knows... it's not the April issue.

Those were indeed the days... when you REALLY had access to the system at the lowest level.

Telesto - no idea. Try it and see.