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[rs6060]

From memory it was good. Don't forget it's been a long time since I came off the CPC then onto PCs and consoles.


I still have everything but the hardware. I have my firmware books, which got sent to me by Firebird and utils galore.

[MacDeath]

Well, to manage to preserve Source codes would be nice even just for the "museum" aspect.
It may help apprentice coders of now or tomorrow to catch glimpses of old fashionned craftwork.
Preservation of the computing history, especially the software, is somewhat something that needs to be taken seriously these days as it is the crucial period where all is getting lost.

As the modern community/users, we too often regret the lack of source code, whatever they are.

Also it seems we often have the same sort of messages/excuse from old legends such as "all my stuffs were lost because my ex-wife binned them", "my roof leaked and they were lost", " a fire destroyed them", "those fucking Daleks exterminated them when they invaded cardiff for the last time" and so on...


Missing tiles in roofs and angry ex-girlfriends actually erased many pieces of history of the Computer culture sometimes even more than faulty old floppies or backup fumbles. 
Girlfriends... they would have killed the internet had we let them doing so.




BTW, you seemed active during the whole CPC era... what other computer were you working on at the time ? (Speccy too I guess).

[Rich Stevenson]

No I haven't dumped the code, but not really something I am bothered about doing.


Just makes me laugh that a game which is nearly 25 years old is still discussed nowadays.

[dcdrac]

I guess it was because it was part of a lot of peoples growing up, I never played this game so it does not figure much in my nostalgia attacks, games like Elite Mercanry, Cholo, Starstrike 1 and 2, the PAwn all loom large.

and of course Leather Goddeses of PHoboes...

For me I like seeing the old hardware crank back into life, when I am assaulted by nostalgia

[Gryzor]

@Rich Stevenson that's retro for you... or, I guess, every item that figures highly in someone's childhood.