ATTENTION BRIGHTONIANS!

[mog_warbeast]

Have any of you lovely folks got room to accomodate Mr Eris and myself for the night of the C64 thing (which is Saturday 13 September)? And doesn't mind us stumbling in after 2 am?

Will pay with alcohol!

Comments

[smogo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I should think so....

[mog-warbeast.livejournal.com]

Cheers, dude. You, as per usual, rock!

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

What is it with the C64 thing? Everybody knows Spectrum 48K is the one true computer. Stop wasting your time on false idols!

[mog-warbeast.livejournal.com]

Do not speak these words of blasphemy in my presence!

The Commodore vs Atari war is fair enough, but the Spectrum?

Fuck off with your few-coloured blockiness!

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Careful wench, lest Lord Sinclair ride down from heaven on his C5 chariot to smite thee!

[markeris.livejournal.com]

full color graphics and proper music weren`t your thing then?

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

They were, which is why I sold my C64 to buy a Spectrum 128k +2!

[markeris.livejournal.com]

Which still had the same shite as I recall just more memory. And was also released concurrent with Amigas and STs being on the market. Top marketing there then.

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Nah, the 128K machine had a much improved chipset, more memory, extended keypad, and of course the AY-3-8912 sound chip

The overall details of which can be found here: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/128kreference.htm

[markeris.livejournal.com]

Put more precisely - why do you think there are retro club nights based around C64 music and not spectrum music?

THINK REALLY HARD ABOUT IT

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Dude! I have one word for you:

AY-3-8912

Okay it wasn't as powerful as the C64 SID chip but who bought a computer in the 80s for the music (apart from maybe whackos like yourself)? Some of us had games to play and programming to do. Even so the AY was pretty nifty and large step up from the original beeper in the 48K.

Some links for you delictation. Or maybe you'd just like to print them out and burn them!

http://www.aldridge98.fsnet.co.uk/specmusic.html
http://www.bzpd.freeserve.co.uk/ay.htm

[markeris.livejournal.com]

Yes - not as good as the SID chip

The 128 was pretty much a doomed format, the commodore 128 was similarly flawed, because you just don`t put out improved 8 bit machines when the 16 bit revolution is going on do you? You can count the games releases for either of those 2 machines specifically on one hand

And yes. I used to sit listening to SID music loads - it`s directly correlated with my love of the bleep.

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Personally I used the Spectrum mostly for BASIC Programming. Programming on a Commode after using a Spectrum for so long was painful in the extreme, like painting a picture with a hammer, so I ditched my C64 and went and got my +2.

I also had an Amiga later on, although I later sold that for a Nintendo. Sold the Nintendo for a Lynx. Sold the Lynx for a Megadrive. Sold the Megadrive for a SNES. Then got into the magical word of PCs.

Still have my +2 and SNES though. Still use both of them every now and then.

[markeris.livejournal.com]

I grant having a basic full of peeks and pokes was a bloody nightmare, and taught one to program on a big sheet of graph paper by default.

But any platform that could run stuff like Winter Games had my support.

Amusingly I had a dream about a year ago, in which I wrote a commodore game, and upon waking realised that THE CODE WOULD ACTUALLY WORK. That was a bit freaky.