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@drwho @KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social @mawr I think it did have the same 9 pin sockets but the default "Interface 2" joysticks were garbage and most replacement ones weren't much better either. Cheetah made some okay ones but even they had flimsy shafts at the base, and given the propensity for joystick waggling games, well...

@drwho @KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social @mawr (the joysticks for the speccy though could fuck right off. They were awful, pricy, fragile pieces of crap, very uncomfortable, and most kempston interface microswitch joysticks were "styled" after arcade sticks... But in the worst, most uncomfortable, most unresponsive ways.)

@drwho @KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social @mawr less colours then the c64, allegedly they had better games but I dunno. Tbh none of the games back then were nearly as good as everyone likes to think, but there were some serious gems. The C64 is basically superior in pretty much every way, from what I've seen, but I still have a soft spot for the speccy, its AY chip in the 128k models, and some of the design tricks both hardware and software.

@drwho @KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social @mawr \o/ I got it right! Even though I never ever used a c64 and instead had a spectrum!

@KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social @mawr @drwho if I recall, that's a command for a c64? It tells the interpreter to load whatever program comes up first while looking at a specific part of the tape (that's the 8,1 part I think)