BBC News - Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707)
Where did he find that pack of toffee nosed public school twats? Doh, is that the graphics? (When asked what the tape player is)... The girl sounded like she'd only ever played with her pony that daddy bought her and that inbred quiff-haired, moccasin wearing snob, was too thick to use a Joystick??
Bryce.
Argh, that bloody datacorder, were they always that unreliable? I've had my C64 a couple of months now and loading games from it just sucks. I've tried adjusting the azimuth by trial which works until I try and load another game - my 464 was a dream in comparison. I bought an Azimuth head alignment kit off ebay but haven't had a chance to use it yet. I think I'll end up buying an SD card solution like the HxC for it and resell the tapes on.
I don't think you can blame the kids, he wasn't really selling the machine too well by making them wait 10 minutes to load a game (and why not use Wizball?). Why not show them a bit of programming in Basic as you can't do that with a console?!
Quote from: beaker on 15:23, 01 August 12
Argh, that bloody datacorder, were they always that unreliable? I've had my C64 a couple of months now and loading games from it just sucks.
Sure, it's not a CPC! What do you expect? But you deserved this punishment, for using non-CPC compuers :P :laugh: (wish you luck with it though :-X )
Haha, he use tapes, and guess what, disks on c64 are also as long to load...
no wonder the kids get away.
With a good old CPC6128 he could have put like 5 different (good) games instead of only one. :D
But as he's briton, i guess he would have launch speccy ports... ;D
Also :
Speccy :
BBC News - ZX Spectrum's chief designers reunited 30 years on (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666)
BBC micro :
BBC News - The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15969065)
Can't wait for the CPC to have it's article, but hey, it's on the BBC, they hate Amstrad.
i remember this Benchmark on BBC channel where the CPC is said to be an "utter shyte compaired" to the...BBC micro.
a funny one :
BBC News - Lord Sugar remembers Apple's Steve Jobs (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15198656)
like he's trying to hide his joyce... oops.
Wasn't PCW a far cheaper rippof the Mac concept ?
Basically Sir Alan tells Apple did invente nothing, just like him, but were better in packaging because they aimed a bigger prices (while Amstrad make things cheaper... thx to them too).
iPhone was not the best phone, iPod is just an MP3 player...
Oh and amstrad invented the Palms computers organizers and stuffs, lol... ;)
one more on Speccy of course :
BBC News - ZX81: Small black box of computing desire (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674)
Not just that! The poor kids probably went home thinking they had gone colour-blind, because they could only see brown for the past 3 hours! :D
Bryce.
Quoteand that inbred quiff-haired, moccasin wearing snob, was too thick to use a Joystick??
"What ? you don't introduce this into your anus ?" ;D
Theres even one trying to twist it like it were a round potentiometer...
I think it's on the genes. My 4 years old nephew really enjoys playing any kind of games, from new ones (like portal 2 or sonic generations) to old school stuff like arcade games on mame or amstrad games on an emu. ;D
Quote from: TFM/FS on 17:43, 02 August 12
Sure, it's not a CPC! What do you expect? But you deserved this punishment, for using non-CPC compuers :P :laugh: (wish you luck with it though :-X )
lol thanks, I've now stuck my C64 back into storage and got my trusty old 6128 plus back on the desk after buying Pang a few weeks ago.
Heheh, "so it was loading the loading screen" :D
Actually I didn't find the kids to be that bad (the redhead had a nice profile and the little ones were rather cute), I think the 'journalist' came off as really desperate and embarrassed... which, I guess, he ought to be.
Mostly, he shouldn't have gone the tape way... but manage to find faster disk solution (ok it's C64 but some cheats existed to actually have faster loadings) too to display more games and programms, not just one buggy boy game that even failed to load half the time.
He wasn't a real geek enough and should have asked a real modern user to help him.
If he had "modded it up", with JiffyDOS, a µIEC and all the rest, then it wouldn't have reflected how it really was back then. But he still should have chosen a proper computer (CPC464), so that he didn't have all the problems he had.
I'm looking forward to Part 2: Dougal introduces his granny to the Vic20
Bryce.
His nanny could conceivably been tournament champion on Vic multiplayer games :D