What to do with green screen monitor and TV modulator.

[chinnyhill10]

(BTW: I saw a TV modulator on ebay for over 400 bucks sold!)

Don't believe everything you see on Ebay.

[Carnivius]

Well I've listed it now.  Let's see what happens.   

[EgoTrip]

Well I've listed it now.  Let's see what happens.   

Oh no you've set into motion a series of events that will lead to the destruction of the entire universe.

[Carnivius]

Oh no you've set into motion a series of events that will lead to the destruction of the entire universe.

Yay! 

[Bryce]

Now the TFM will foresee the future for you...


It's the year of 2018: People pay a small fortune for a GT65.


Now it's 2025: People would pay a big fortune for a GT65, but they are not any longer to get.






Now, which decision would be smart?
(BTW: I saw a TV modulator on ebay for over 400 bucks sold!)

Here's my version of the future:
The CPC scene people get old and loose interest, the next generation doesn't know what a CPC is and doesn't really give a fuck anyway, they are all too pre-occupied with posting pictures of themselves to their non-existent "friends" and convincing themselves that they have a life. A GT65 becomes "that old monitor that dad was so fond of" and is now worth zero.

And that's the optimistic version!

Bryce.

Gesendet von meinem Motorola DynaTEC 8000X mit Tapatalk 2.

[TFM]

Here's my version of the future:
The CPC scene people get old and loose interest,

That happened 1995 already.

the next generation doesn't know what a CPC is and doesn't really give a fuck anyway, they are all too pre-occupied with posting pictures of themselves to their non-existent "friends" and convincing themselves that they have a life.

That happens right now sadly.

[chinnyhill10]

Here's my version of the future:
The CPC scene people get old and loose interest, the next generation doesn't know what a CPC is and doesn't really give a fuck anyway, they are all too pre-occupied with posting pictures of themselves to their non-existent "friends" and convincing themselves that they have a life. A GT65 becomes "that old monitor that dad was so fond of" and is now worth zero.

And that's the optimistic version!

Bryce.

Gesendet von meinem Motorola DynaTEC 8000X mit Tapatalk 2.

As the retro scene is growing by the year and more young people discover the computers, I don't think we need fear the scene will die any time soon.


I remember reading Jon Nash's editorial in the final Your Sinclair saying that the Spectrum wasn't dead but was entering a new phase of its life. At the time it just felt like something written to make us all feel better. The Spectrum WAS dead. No games, no magazine, it was the end......


Yet 21 years to the week that those very words were published in the final YS, the Spectrum is still going. The CPC is still going. The C64 is still going. New games, new hardware, and a user base keeping the machines alive.


There machines won't be going anywhere. Be it original hardware, emulation or FPGA, we're still alive.

[TFM]

As the retro scene is growing by the year and more young people discover the computers, I don't think we need fear the scene will die any time soon.

Well, that depends on what you call scene. IMHO somebody must have been buying and using the CPC back the day to belong to the scene - or at least some similar Z80 computer. People who enter the scene today are iMHO not really scene, because they lack the personal history of growing up with the CPC.
OK, this is really only my POV. Everybody can think about this different and that's ok. I don't want to start a flame war or something, but I'm sure that the old real sceners will probably agree. 

[Bryce]

No, I'm with you on that one TFM. The scene is still 99% people who had one during their childhood/ teens. The PS/Xbox generation has no interest in 8-bit computers.

Bryce.

Gesendet von meinem Motorola DynaTEC 8000X mit Tapatalk 2.

[Carnivius]

No, I'm with you on that one TFM. The scene is still 99% people who had one during their childhood/ teens. The PS/Xbox generation has no interest in 8-bit computers.

The majority sure but you do get some young 'uns who develop an interest in 8 and 16 bit systems.   I've had a quite a lot of them over the years say my CPC-stuff is cool (usually via email, Pixel Joint, DeviantArt and the Game Maker forums) and like to know more about the computer and I've linked them to sites and emulators and they seem to have found it even more fascinating and then also gone to researching Spectrum, C64, Gameboys and all sorts and be interested in the sorts of games, the low resolution graphics, the beepy chiptunes and some even then make their own images or games or music in the style of the old systems or at least inspired by them.

Though sure you get some people who say my CPC stuff is blocky garish crap and wonder why I don't do more 'modern' stuff like I used to.

[TFM]

Of all that young interested people... did a single one ever create something for the CPC (Code, GFX, Sound, anything)?[nb]And I would love to see you telling me... YES!!![/nb]

[Carnivius]

Yeah.  I don't have many of them here but I have a couple.  I don't know how young this guy was (but definitely much younger than me and he wasn't really aware of CPC stuff).   In the Pixelation Secret Santa a couple years ago I was the one picked randomly that he had to make a pixel gift for and so looked at my interests (which included CPC, Batman and Back to the Future) and it seemed he was interested in having a go at CPC-style graphics.   So he did me a Mode 1 style Batman mock up and a Mode 0 style Back to the Future mock up.  I think these came out very well considering his inexperience with CPC-style graphics and they got plenty of charm too.  I was very happy receiving these in that Secret Santa that year. 

   

I know there have been other younger folk unfamiliar with the CPC that have found it's graphic style interesting but I don't have their stuff here.  I was helping one on Pixel Joint some weeks ago try a Zelda style RPG mock up with CPC style after he had liked some of my RoboCop and Cosmic Prison Commando and he was doing alright but he had a lot of trouble doing what he intended and gave up for now but still liked having a go and likes what I do. 

[Gryzor]

A month and a half later, my 2 cents on posting: I've got four or five CPC monitors shipped to me, a couple of Atari ST ones and a standard PC 19" CRT as well; they all arrived in perfect condition save one Plus monitor which got a little broken at one of its corners...