Re: Excellent games
Yet the 400 was the only computer for sale in the US for under $600, so I bought it in 1982. Instantly recognize the limitations of the keyboard, of course, so I bought a commercial mechanical keyboard and figured out the interface with the 400 and then I (mostly) had my own 800 for about $300 less! Added a 32 MB (MB! Not GB lol) card to (as I remember) bring the total to 48 MB. I had learned the rudiments of BASIC while at high school (class of 1971), but it was on this machine that I really dove into it, and happily took advantage of the amazing graphics capabilities. Made a rude mechanical digitizer with an optical sensor to read photographs and turn them into VERY blocky graphic approximations. By 1985, I put that little project on my resume when I applied to a digital mapping company (later bought by TeleAtlas and then TomTom), and that was the clincher for the job!
Stupidly sold this wonderful 400 on eBay and so this ersatz 400 intrigues me! Also loved to play Star Raiders II; heh.
Cheers!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
