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gbalinttoday at 8:38 AM1 replyview on HN

My family's first computer in the 80s was an Amstrad PC1512 (an IBM XT clone). We received 4 nice colorful system floppies with it, and it included a GEM Desktop. I remember sometimes logging into GEM, because it looked awesome, but we never had a single program to run on it, so it was practically useless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlUTzydzLVI


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lproventoday at 2:40 PM

> we never had a single program to run on it

Amstrad GEM came with a couple of apps thrown in!

LocoScript BASIC 2, a full GUI BASIC language, and GEM Paint.

Pics of the media here:

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/computers/Amstrad%20PC1000/softwar...

The famous demo Tiger image on an original 'Strad:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dosgaming/comments/12gmqrm/the_famo...