![]() ![]() Steve Jarratt first mentioned this change to the tapes in issue 11’s subs newsletter, where he promised more demos as compensation. This voluntary arrangement speaks volumes of the wild popularity computer mags with games on the front had, often at the expense of other software. To protect software sales, only two full games a month were allowed with 8-bit magazines (16-bit titles were restricted further). Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.Power Pack 12 was the first cassette to be fully bound by a new agreement that magazine publishers had reached with ELSPA. The expensive IBM color monitor I purchased was better on the eyes. It was okay, but the refresh rate on a TV is awful (well, here in the States). I remember using my mom’s C64 with a color TV set. But yet it was an option, even for IBM “business” computers.įor a home system, of course: you used a TV as output. ![]() I never did that - used the “composite” signal. ![]() When you plugged IBM CGA output into a TV set, you could actually see more colors. A friend who had one also had the TV adaptor for it which converted the RGB digital signals to UHF and gave you a separate power supply. Commonly I would watch TV while waiting for a game on tape to load… The only 8 Bits I can remember that used monitors heavily (in the UK) were the Amstrad CPC range mostly as the power supply was buried in the monitor and the only way over powering it was to plug it in to the monitor. For my generation the fact that you plug your home computer into a TV rather than a monitor was the norm, Monitors I remember were clunky things that got in the way. ![]()
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