CPC generation video by Tau Ceti Productions (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2012/07/28/cpc-generation-video-by-tau-ceti-productions/)
29 July 2012, 12:15 am
Tau Ceti Productions (http://www.tau-ceti.org) released their newested video called "CPC generation (http://blip.tv/tau-ceti/cpc-generation-6278097)". Maybe you have a similar story to tell (http://www.octoate.de/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif) ... Enjoy:
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Nice but the video is too dark IMO, it needs to be looked in the dark with extra brite setting IMO..
Also it is a bit not realistic... I mean, he manages to get an Atari ST (probably in colour ?) at home instead of an Amstrad CPC464 in monochrome.
This is quite better for the time.
Quote from: MacDeath on 07:47, 30 July 12
nice but the video is too dark IMO.
Yeah, that's a really cruel thing to do to a kid that age... Oh, you mean the brightness! ;)
Also, I hope that old magazine wasn't destroyed in the making of this film.
yeay, talking about the brightness of the picture in the movie, but also, the father (in the story) is some sort of a douche...
Also being a 464... the kid must actually spend the whole night waiting for those games to load.
more realistic thing would have been to get the Atari ST for him and give the Amstrad to the child... but yeah, some parents were a bit reluctant to let the children have their computer in their room... as we all know, we were prone to spend the whole night playing on this.
The good point with CPC compaired to PC : you could lower the sound... sadly those microswitch joysticks could be quite clicky and noisyat night, playing Decathlon after midnight wasn't a clever move IMO.
But I clearly remember getting whole nights on Pirates! (during holydays/vacancies of course... or not ?), when something like 13 years old, when we had this EGA AT286 PC... my brother had the PC in his Room, I could get the CPC in mine.
PC beeper wasn't nice to play late...and many games wouldn't even allow you to switch the bitch out.
It wasn't an Amstrad PC which was one of the only with a potentiometer for beeper actually.
And as we were too young and not competent in electronic, my father wouldn't allow us to custom the PC sound beeper (a shame as it would not be that complicated after all).
BTW fun to see it is a French Video clip...
not surprised of course, Amstrad CPC was really a household brand here, THE machine that brought computers into homes.
So the guy kept a load Amsoft tapes all those years in a shoe box and had the monitor stored away somewhere too, but didn't have the 464 any more? Strange.
Otherwise a great video.
Bryce.
P.s. My 464 was in my bedroom back then :)
(just putting a peg on my nose so I sound really anal)
I believe if you go to 4:58 of the video and blow it up to full screen you will notice the monitor toooo the left of the CPC 464 in theee shop window.... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I assumed watching the video it was his parents work machine and he wasn't supposed to be using it to play games, hense the reason he still has the games if his parents didn't find them.
Quote from: Bryce on 09:02, 30 July 12
P.s. My 464 was in my bedroom back then :)
Me too, and my dad built a little shelf so the monitor was at eye level :)
I had to build my own shelf. But I was very proud of my achievement. I even still have a picture of it somewhere :)
Bryce.
Guys, are you serious? You're arguing about the realism of the film? Ok, next up: "Realism fails in Alice in Wonderland". You must be joking.
The video is dark, yes, but that's how it's supposed to be. It's not a documentary, it's an artistic video. And it's great. I watched it with two light sources behind my shoulder and it still showed up pretty clear though.
And it was really only beaker who understood that this was his father's computer, and thus prohibited to touch?
I found it quite moving to tell you the truth, especially when he found the CPC again... and the music is really nice too.
PS I had found that my desk's top drawer perfectly fit the 464's keyboard, so by just drawing it out a bit it could accommodate the CPC perfectly! If only those cables were longer...
Art is wasted on us. We don't understand these things...
Now about that Alice in wonderland, what an unrealistic presentation, I mean how many talking rabbits have you ever met? And what's with those 2D playing card people, what happens when they eat something?
Bryce.
Well, and with some amount of seriousness, I'm told it's all pretty realistic - at least if you've eaten a few grams of magic mushrooms, that it.
QuoteGuys, are you serious?
of course not...
But hey, just comparing with the real stuff... and yeay, retrotear inducting video anyway.