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Cheesygoodness
26-03-09, 06:57
I warning / invite to everyone that played with me earlier yesterday.
I'm gonna spend the next few hours doing some video collection on the things that happened. Unfortunately my actual video creating is a tad limited due to not having adobe installed at the moment.
So basically if someone wants the raw videos to edit give me a shout or I'll just slap a sad looking crap-edited movie together.
Your choice.
(And I will pick the music if thats the case. Meaning it'll be good for once. >.>)
Show us what you've got.... show us a cheesy special. :)
Cheesygoodness
26-03-09, 09:56
Bah shitty quality since BD won't work and I'll have to find adobe. Or use WMM.
Sadist_Cain
26-03-09, 14:37
Nowt wrong with WMM some of the best have been created there :cool: just be sure to save every 5 minutes cos that' fucker crashes more than a ZX81
Speaking from experience, and before you were born, the ZX81 was actually very reliable ...
zx128 was relativly crash free too aside from the fact that 1 in 4 that were produced worked... the other 3 were defective
The ZX81 never crashed - ever never ever.
ah the old days of the zx81 shortly followed by the 48k spectrum..........i remember countless hours of minute adjustments to the headphone volume of my cassette recorder to get the level just right so the bloody game loaded !
Lol aaaah those were the days. Twenty five combinations of function per key, little thermal bog roll printers, relentless wacking off on the joystick to Daley Thompson's decathlon. And then there was Miami Vice on telly. Oh I miss the 80's.
Sadist_Cain
27-03-09, 11:27
I'm only an infant, Frogger on Commadore 64... 20 mins to load and my the beauty of it all
i remember the days of sat there in basic typing away for voer an hour to play pong :)
And a 128k Manual thick enough to beat a whale to death
EDit: How could i forget "Paperboy!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPCp9G44OY
this is dr destructo btw :)
my first ever game on the spectrum was Flight Simulator , hours spent flying around a completely flat and featureless landscape (apart from 3 lakes in the shape of a circle, triangle and a square), and then attempting to land at a runway (which was a rectangle). Gamers these days dont know they are born !
also:
Minder, Dempsey & Makepeace, Chips, A team, Sweeney, Professionals - what brilliant TV we had back then, none of this big brother or dancing on ice crap !
I remember an apache game called 'Gunship' on the spectrum - Came on 2 'tapes' - was great.
By the way there are packs you can download that have an emulator and every game released - I have it on disk somewhere.
i had gunship as well - took ages to load !
Cheesygoodness
06-04-09, 09:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6tbQBbREww
Due to Battle Director hating me I can't do a lot with it at the moment. I'm gonna do a little tweaking which might fix it. Till then I threw some unusable 'exploring' footage together in this stupid video.
Basically its just random stuff I FRAPs to check angles and distance. I can't use most of it due to nametags and other stuff.
A good start Cheesy!
@Katash - I had Gunship (http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D1123) too (for C64) - completed the campaign and everything. Was so immersive. I got a later version too for the PC - was ok but not brilliant.
Anyone remember Elite? I played that for hours upon hours.
ah Elite - what a great game, crap graphics though ! docking at the spacestation if autopilot was damaged was tricky !
Cheesygoodness
18-04-09, 19:07
It was just a sync test. A few bad angles. As I said I am kinda waiting till I can get a battle director fix for PR before I go indepth with it.
I had Elite on the BBC 32K (anyone remember them?) in about 1983, then bought it again when i got a Commodore Amiga A500, anyone remember an Oric (similar to a Spectrum 48K) and a Dragon?
yes LeChuck.. 1983 was not that long ago, there were no dinosaurs and the Earth was still thought to be round.. :p
a friend of mine had a Vic 20 - poor mans commodore 64 !
Au contraire Monsieur Wardle. The C64 superceded the Vic 20. The Commodore 16 was the poor man's C64. My neighbour had one. Oh how I felt sorry for him. It was a nice shade of grey though.
I remember the Oric, and the Dragon. Also - the Lynx and the TRS-80 ... :p
1989 i was 4 years old and got bought a sinclair zx128k
My father bought 1... faulty... took it back... 2nd one.... faulty.... took it back.... 3rd one..... faulty...... took it back... 4th one ACTUALLY WORKED!
Some of the first games i ever played on it were Teddybears picnic, Paperboy and Dr Destructo.
Anyone remember when they were in school using "ACORN" computers?
I remember everyone used to scramble for the Acorn computers with the "PC card!" so that they could play some weird star trek game when people werent looking.
I remember by age 11 we stil had a working BBC computer in our school.... took about 30mins of fiddling to get it working..... oh the days :)
The BBC 32K was made by Acorn, the Atari lynx was a frontrunner for todays Sony PSP.
The games were Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Blagger, they cost £7.95 and were in casette form, christ it was painful loading games....
We didn't have BBCs when I was at school.
We first that the Research Machines RM-380Z (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=812). Then we got a room full of RM-480Z (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=600)'s. These were networked (in 1984!) and ran the CP/M operating system. I learnt to program in Pascal on these. Badly.
I think I'm gonna look on eBay for some old computers to buy. No idea why ...
Jet Set Willy rocked, but sabre wulf and underworld were mint :D
i sold my working spectrum and 50games for £60 in 2002
Guys I think I've already posted this but there are a few emulators and ROM packs floating about - think I have one on CD somewhere with every game released
It's not like having the real thing Katash!
I now has a ZX Spectrum +2 128K Emulator and 19000 ROM's awaiting full inspection - probably when I'm in work on nights :p
Just checked and its got my fave game 'How To Become A Complete Bastard'
Anyone want the details PM me
I require no details on how to become a complete bastard, as it's an achievement I reached quite some time ago ..... :p
i spent hours on manic miner !
LoL do it Cheesy tinkles!
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