Amstrad CPC question

[Ranger03]

in what ways was it better than the Zx spectrum and in what ways was it worse? (code wise) i am not looking to start a system vs system thread. this is a genuine question

 

examples if possible

[usar666]

About sound, It is like MSX or spectrum+2, the main difference is ay is slower on cpc so it plays louder.
It's slower to address because ay is behind a ppi on cpc.on the practical way there are no difference as you can use the same play (arkos tracker) for cpc, speccy or MSX...

Edited August 1, 2018 by usar666

[usar666]

I could say it's better than spectrum as it allows video reconfiguration as you want with 1bpp/2bpp/4bpp or screen format as you want without attributes clashes.the counterpart is you have at least twice data to process.

Cpc has built-in mass storage too, monitor is too part of the cpc as it is sell and designed for cpc main unit.

[Asmusr]

The graphics were much better than the ZX Spectrum: 160x200 in 16 colors, 320x200 in 4 colors, 640x200 in 2 colors. All from a palette of 27 colors with individual colors for each pixel.

Edited August 3, 2018 by Asmusr

[Asmusr]

It also had a good keyboard, a very good BASIC, and much better sound than the Spectrum as already mentioned.

[Asmusr]

The problems it had, not compared to the Spectrum but rather the C64, was the lack of hardware sprites and smooth hardware scrolling. It was also using 3" disks (not 3.5"), which were already expensive and difficult to find back then.