Any 'Elite' fans in the house?

I have a vague memory that tells me that was because it used a single
64K x 4 bit DRAM to make up the 32K RAM space to keep costs down, and
it thus had to do two sequential accesses for each CPU read. Can't
remember if it had the 1MHz or the blisteringly fast BBC-B 2MHz 6502
though.

 

A mate I shared a house with had a BBC B with all the trimmings. I
used to play late into the night, using a plywood disco speaker as a
seat, then wonder why I spent my mornings with a numb bum.

 

'salright, ta. This oolite seems to be quite good.

 

Oh, yes. Slide alongside, innocent as you like, then open fire as hard
as possible before they can jinx out of gunsight.

 

Congrats, that's a good dev to be starting out with.

Hope he enjoys it.

 

got two up in the loft somewhere

£3 each ?

I'll be rich

 

'Tis, innit? Damn those pirate ships!

 

Paul the Apostle..

Phil

 

1977. It was a 'driving game' (guiding one ACSII character through a
clear lane in other ACSII characters). On a NASCOM 1. Hand-typed in in
Z80 assembler using hex codes (we didn't have the assembler program at
that point).

It was crap. Nonetheless I spent ages playing it - until the tape I'd
saved it on broke and I couldn't be bothered with spending 5 hours typing
it all back in again..

Phil.

 

You learned your backup lesson early, then?

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I played it for a year or so before losing interest. If you don't enjoy
real-world style economics or PVP combat in space it's not for you.

It's a good deal better than the EQ2/WoW MMORGS because it doesn't
suffer at all from the "kill 500 million orcs to go up a level, then
kill 600 million to go up the next level" syndrome. But it's still
something that you need to put a fair amount of time into - and then
lose your hard-earned ship because someone whos been playing for 5
years takes a dislike to you and destroys it (and podkills you).

The graphics are good, the game idea is good and the universe
underpinning it is quite good but ultimately it's fairly unfulfilling.
Unless you like playing with a bunch of gung-ho American[1] types that is.

Phil.

[1] Or German and Russian.

 

Yup. Everything after that was saved to two tapes. One of which I kept
in a drawer.

Which was fine until I absent-mindedly tipped a couple of
ex-loudspeaker magnets into the same drawer..

Phil

 

I can't remember either, and never owned one. As mentioned, I had the
prior Acorn Atom, fully expanded to 12K RAM (6K of which was used for
the video in "hi-res" mode[1]). I made my first commercial software
sales at the age of 14 with this machine, selling utilities on 4K
EPROM and some games on tape. 6502 machine code's great!

[1] 256x192 B&W.

 

It's a bit late, but YTC.


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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/208-Eve-Online

HTH

 

It didn't. You owe me 50 seconds of my life back. 50 seconds I could
have spent far more productively by feeding that waffling arsemuppet
into an industrial meatgrinder and letting him review _that_ for his
fucking blog.

****.

 

I was 13 at the time. I've got older since..

Phil

 

He'll find out pretty soon, but then he's not allowed to say anything.
They're asked to sign pretty tight contracts.

 

Heh, Nascom 1, I had the 2. In fact, I think it's still up in the loft
somewhere.

 

He releases a video every wednesday, so there should be a new one
out about now. Worth looking back through the previous stuff though;
the "console round-up" one is magic.