In praise of early adopters by David Crookes

[ComSoft6128]

Looking for info on David Crookes (he's mentioned in a UK demo I recorded today) I ran across this:


https://www.itpro.co.uk/hardware/361303/in-praise-of-the-early-adopters


Worth some eyeball time.

[Gryzor]

Interesting read, thanks for sharing!

[robcfg]

Interesting, indeed!

[asertus]

I find it very interesting, but being early adopters has many drawbacks.. price, bugs, insecurity the product will be supported long (if not successful...)


I myself have been one in some products.., unluckily almost always a "failure"... GP32, N-Gage, and I even developed a couple of games J2ME and some utilities.. and, at work, I worked with Oracle ADF, etc...


But when I have used already extended tech, I use to have much more reward.., Amstrad CPC,  etc...

[Gryzor]

Found my GP32 a couple of days ago, I think I'm gonna fire it up!

[merman]

Some very interesting points there.


Was just watching a video by Dan Wood on the OUYA console, the modders have now got it working with independent servers allowing full access to all the old titles AND a great range of new homebrew. So the hobby is now keeping it alive.


Of course, some things stay alive long after their commercial lifespan and long after the early adopters have moved on.


The Plus range is an interesting one, the hardware is a definite step up but much like the C64GS (Games System) that Commodore tried to launch in the same year, it was about 2-3 years too late to market. The NES was just starting to build momentum with the Turtles pack, the cool kids were moving onto the Mega Drive/Genesis and the 16-bit computers were firmly entrenched. Enhanced 8-bit hardware wasn't going to cut it - but the Plus/GX4000 and the C64GS *did* encourage a great new range of software that leads directly into what is happening in both scenes now.

[ComSoft6128]

He also wrote an article on the CPC in France for issue 1 of the new AMTIX! magazine:


https://www.pressreader.com/uk/amtix-9YY4/20210801/281513639257234


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PressReader