Hi!

[TFM]

My GenieIIIs is definitely female, about all the CPCs... I should ask them one day. The Plus could be female too.

[beaker]

What the heck are you guys smoking?? Computers having genders my arse!! 

I mean if it did the stock machine (without any add-ons) would quite obviously be a middle aged man who's best days are behind it: bloated, slow, crap at multitasking, not much in the way of memory and pretty useless in the modern world. I don't even want to go into the size of the machines "floppy" but I don't think 3 inches would impress any lady...

[Zoe Robinson]

What the heck are you guys smoking?? Computers having genders my arse!! 

<post style=sexism>But computers have an internal logic that only the well-versed can understand. They will lock up and refuse to function and you'll never know why. They don't speak to you in plain English, and they require lots of cajoling just to do new things. They're either a woman, or a teenager. [size=78%]</post>[/size]

[robcfg]

I think of my CPC more as an Autobot 

[beaker]

<post style=sexism>They will lock up and refuse to function and you'll never know why.  [size=78%]</post>[/size]

lol, most of the time that's evil developers writing ropey code, and they don't speak English at the best of times even if they are English 

[Gryzor]

Well, with my Windows PC I always know if it's got a PMS from the first seconds after boot. Same as with my gal.

[MacDeath]

64K CPC : female
128K CPC : male

 


anyway being 30 years old doesn't make a CPC464 an old lady... or else I must be somewhat old crumpy crumbled grandpa with my 35 years old.

Also it's not really nice to promote Batman Forever, Orion Prime and R-Type 128 to a CPC464 owner.

Because you know, those need a 6128 config...
While at it, talk about RickDangerous128PLUS...

This on the other hand :




Anyway I guess someone could be kind enough to help someone in distress to get a 3"1/5 disk drive on this Disk drive box, or a +64K (or +512K RAM) RAM+ROM stuff... or perhaps just a 3" diskdrive belt.

I bet those could help too :

[Gryzor]

Well I guess nowadays for a 464 owner the best solution would be the 512KB expansion on Cent Pour Cent - CPC News and an HxC drive...

[MacDeath]

Anyway Zoe.


It seems you are both writer and comic artist, and perhaps even RPG player, perhaps you could check for some opportunities to get something like a RPG on CPC done ?
Or get some webcomics ported on CPC, or try some good old 384x272 Mode1 or 192x272 mode0 pixel arts.




@Gryzor :
http://www.gryzor.info/sigbar1.png
perhaps you should change the thing inside your signature bar, this "empty content" icon is so sad...

[TFM]

Anyway Zoe.


It seems you are both writer and comic artist, and perhaps even RPG player, perhaps you could check for some opportunities to get something like a RPG on CPC done ?

If you need a programmer, let me know 

[Zoe Robinson]

Also it's not really nice to promote Batman Forever, Orion Prime and R-Type [size=78%]128[/size] to a CPC464 owner.

Because you know, those need a 6128 config...  

My 464 has a 6128 CPU in it, if that's any consolation?

I bet those could help too :

What sorcery is this?!!


Seriously though, those look pretty snazzy.

[Zoe Robinson]

It seems you are both writer and comic artist, and perhaps even RPG player, perhaps you could check for some opportunities to get something like a RPG on CPC done ?
Or get some webcomics ported on CPC, or try some good old 384x272 Mode1 or 192x272 mode0 pixel arts.

I've not done pixel art for decades; not since I finished playing around with the Teletext simulator I wrote (it was supposed to be the basis of a disk magazine but that ended up being on PC instead).


I may give it another try at some point, but probably not until I finish writing a short text adventure to get back into the mood.

[TFM]

I may give it another try at some point, but probably not until I finish writing a short text adventure to get back into the mood.

Looking forward to both 

[AMSDOS]

Always a touch scrappy when dealing with greetings, so I say G'day All.   

[MacDeath]

I may give it another try at some point, but probably not until I finish writing a short text adventure to get back into the mood.

There are quite a lot of modern tools to make pixel art fun... And CPC wasn't the worst computer of its ERA graphically (1984...)


Texte aventures ? (yes I am french)
not that hard to had a GUI + graphics and a few dice based wargame mechanics...

technically wise, Monkey island is a text based adventure game... with nice reggae music and sweet graphic and mouse interface.
It's all in the fluff.

What sorcery is this?!!

actually cheap things that enable you to use modern MP3 digital devices as tapes on those old Datacords tape drivers used on those funny old 8bit computers... the actual equivalent of HxC disk drive emulator... but with tapes...

Also, Sorcery or Sorcery PLUS ?

My 464 has a 6128 CPU in it, if that's any consolation?

So it has a Z80A, which is exactly the same component on both machines...

CRTC may be different slightly different, some extra RAM ans stuffs to handle extra RAM and bank switching or even FDC (floppy disk controller...)
Hell the 464PLUS actually have some tape controlling extra components the 6128PLUS doesn't actually have...


But the "CPU" is still the probably same Z80A on all "Amstrad CPC"s.

(also on MSX1, ZXspeccies, and SegaMaster System and so on...even PacMan arcade board...)


or were you meaning Motherboard ? in which case I fail to understand how it would only have 64K... perhaps a 664 motherboard inside a 464 casing ?




BTW you are geek ? welkomen here, the geekiest eurokomputerzengeekfeast.
And also a few greekz geekz.

And last : what is the meaning of "snazzy" ?

[redbox]

And last : what is the meaning of "snazzy" ?

It's slang.

My mother would say it to mean stylish ("that's a snazzy shirt").  Opposite would be dowdy, which means plain or boring.

Younger people sometimes use it for something being smart (as in a good solution to something) or 'neat' as the Americans would say.

[Zoe Robinson]

There are quite a lot of modern tools to make pixel art fun... And CPC wasn't the worst computer of its ERA graphically (1984...)

That's for sure!

Texte aventures ? (yes I am french)

Oui. Je préfère descriptions de texte

not that hard to had a GUI + graphics and a few dice based wargame mechanics...

First of all, that would alter the style of game I am looking to create. I'm not working on a combat-based game. I working on atmosphere and a game that makes you question whether what you are experiencing is real or imagined. You get a far, far greater ability to do that when you're working on a text game than when you're constrained by the graphical capabilities of older computers and your own ability to use those capabilities to create decent results.

In other words, I'm going with text because I know I can get the effect I want from descriptions and I doubt I can get them from graphics.

technically wise, Monkey island is a text based adventure game... with nice reggae music and sweet graphic and mouse interface.
It's all in the fluff.

We will have to disagree on Monkey Island. I see that as the inevitable descendant of Dizzy, not the descendant of Colossal Caves.

actually cheap things that enable you to use modern MP3 digital devices as tapes on those old Datacords tape drivers used on those funny old 8bit computers... the actual equivalent of HxC disk drive emulator... but with tapes...

Sorry, my sense of humour mustn't have come across in what I said there. I know what these are, I use one to get my iPod to play through old car stereos.

So it has a Z80A, which is exactly the same component on both machines...

I don't know, I didn't mod the thing. I bought it from a guy who'd already modded it. It boots with the "128k Microcomputer (v3)" message, came with a 64k memory expansion and a disc drive, and has no problems with software marked "6128-only" (save for one program I came across once, which expected a 6128's keyboard layout and didn't react well to finding a 464 layout instead).

BTW you are geek ? welkomen here, the geekiest eurokomputerzengeekfeast.
And also a few greekz geekz.

I'm not so much a geek as a nerd.

And last : what is the meaning of "snazzy" ?

Snazzy just means "cool" where I'm from.

[TFM]

WoW! That's the first time somebody took the time to completely answer one of MacDeath's super-long-posts. 


You know Zoe, he could paint such great pixel art, if he wouldn't waste so much time for typing. Sorry, couldn't resist. 

[Gryzor]

Hahaha I think you're right, it's probably because she's not used to them yet


(Don't get me wrong, I love his posts)


Btw, yeah, I know about my broken sig, just bored to fix it

[TFM]

She MUST be gorgeous in writing text adventures 

[Gryzor]

Eh... *awkward*

[TFM]

As you say.

[Zoe Robinson]

*reads last few posts*

*now officially has no idea what you guys are talking about*

[Gryzor]

...welcome to our forum!

[Devilmarkus]

*reads last few posts*

*now officially has no idea what you guys are talking about*

You're welcome