MSE News: Co-op admits to unfair rate-jacking rule

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I did read the post - honest. Just wondered that althought the clause is still there, if they'd made any reference to it at all -ie "Maybe we won't apply the clause if you really shout at us, because we don't want too much bad publicity." Anyway - what was in the NoV then?

I did indeed have a ZX81, then moved onto a BBC. Even though us BBC owners knew we undoubtedly had the superior machines (heck - the letters BBC told you that), we secretly knew that the Vic20 and Commodore owners had the better games. Even though Commodore owners had non-functioning Z and X keys after they'd played Track and Field for a month.

I think the clause was the same as before. There didn't seem to be any embellishments. I can't check it to make certain though because it went out with the rest of the recycling.

As for the computers, I believe that there was indeed a wider choice of games for the Commodores (and possibly the Sinclair Spectrum) than for the BBC brand. The real plus for the Commy 64 was the ability to use "sprites" as they were called. I actually got some pink elephants flying across the screen once . You did need to really work at it to do anything useful with home computers back then. Sprites were a good innovation in their time though.
It's astonishing what people used to manage in less bytes than you would fit a standard picture into now.