Firstly, I didn't mean that I wouldn't use an Spectrum emulator simple because it was a Spectrum emulator. I wouldn't use one, simply because I never used to have one, so I never played games on it. It doesn't hold any memories for me. I have no problem with it, or people who love them.
Secondly, how can you base your idea of what the BBC contributed to the games scene on the time it took to review it in a modern magazine?
Maybe I should have given some examples, to explain what I mean:
* The BBC was the first home computer/games machine to have virtually identical versions of arcade games, eg pacman, defender, missile command, etc. They were so close to the originals that Acorn were threatened with legal action by the likes of Atari, and had to make subtle changes to make them available.
* Elite was first written for the bbc - I don't need to go further with that...
* Exile likewise...
* Several games programmers started with the BBC - people like Geoff Crammond, Nick Pelling (Orlando), Chris Roberts, etc. Obviously there were plenty of other programmers who started on other machines Jeff Minter, etc. but I am just pointing out that the BBC had a impact.
* The BBC was the forerunner of the Archimedes, which was the first incarnation of the ARM processor, which has now found it's way into the GP32, GBA, etc.
I'm not into console wars - I just don't like to see something dismissed by people who don't know/understand enough about it. I am biased towards the BBC, because it's what I used to most when I was younger, but I also had a 64 and that had some great games on it. Luckily, we already have a 64 emulator, and a spectrum emulator - I'd just like to add a BBC emulator to the list...
