Endless Paradigm

I've recently come across an Amstrad CPC 464 in a junk shop on my way to work.



This baby's rocking a Zilog Z80 4MHz porcessor with 64 KB of RAM. Does anyone know of anything interesting that could be done with it? Easily programmable? A good project? Game casettes (fudge yeah) are stupid cheap on eBay if I can't program it to do my bidding. The machines themselves are starting at around £30 (Actions. No Buy-it-Now listings at the time) which suggests to me that it isn't that much of a collectors item. Still, might be a bit if fun.

Long story short: Should I buy it?

no :/

its just extra clutter IMHO

then again...

* boogschd isn't l337 enough to understand

I'd buy it... just to have it to mess with.

i wish id bought the ZX Spectrum that was in Cash Converters where i live

I can't tell you what it is, but theres something about that keyboard that makes it extraordinarily awesome.

I personally think playing with an embedded system will be more fun if you want to toy around with low powered hardware, but people have their preferences...
Can also try an emulator, though IDK for that particular system.

lol with those specs, who could refuse? me and my friends once bought an old 486 laptop, and used it as a quake server. id say buy it, at the very least, its cool to have. ;)

Senseito7 Wrote:I can't tell you what it is, but theres something about that keyboard that makes it extraordinarily awesome.

yeah im diggin the board too. mabey its the fancy colored buttons.

ProperBritish Wrote:i wish id bought the ZX Spectrum that was in Cash Converters where i live

I got most of my collection from my days working at Cash Converters. I have Atari 2600's, 7800's, C64's, MSI's, MSII's, MDI's, MDII's, NES's, SNES's, Famicoms, DC's, Saturns, and the list goes on...

But none of these:

PSPkiller Wrote:

I say buy it.  Even if it's just as a paperweight/phone/alarm clock.