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richardjam73

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"hey go book me a place for drinks tonight in Peckham, it needs to have food and not be insanely busy"

The information needed to answer this request often just doesn't exist on the web. Often the true answer is obscured by lies. Personal agents don't have the ability to perform due diligence in a web of lies.

"After the launch of the first C&C Remastered Collection,"

I read that to mean that the C&C Remastered Collection is of the first games (C&C 1 and Red Alert 1) not that it is the first Remastered Collection (Remastered Collection 1).

Unfortunately this is just a rumour.

"While 80s and 90s computer game journalism can be criticized for this and that shortcoming, at least it led the way and broke new ground. Some of it was even great. In terms of form, content and integrity, 80s and 90s computer game journalism is head-and-shoulders above the gibberish that is all-too-common in the 2020s."

I read a lot of game reviews from the 80s and 90s and most of it is not very good. Writers were not given enough time or space to do a proper job. I think the author of this piece is letting nostalgia override rationality here. They do make a good point about rubbish being more visible today. However this can often be mitigated by good curation by the user. Curation you had to apply in the past but just in different ways

I don't really consider the lack of usage of a microprocessor to discredit a machine from being a microcomputer. To me the definition is more about the size of the system and the way it is used. The real issue to me is the integration of the system into a larger machine. A microcomputer is standalone but this Arma computer is not.

The celestial data processor they made a prototype of would fit my definition of a microcomputer. Another thing I forgot is that a microcomputer needs to be programmable by the end user otherwise I would consider it a calculator. So the celestial is more of a calculator.

I played this on an ICL minicomputer system in the late 80s. I also remember there being Hamurabi and a horse racing game. I think the programs where written in BASIC.