Just read the sad news that Commodore engineer Hedley Davis has died.
I always remembered his name courtesy of The Deathbed Vigil. The silly “Memorial Disk Drive” summed up what it was like to work in IT in the 80s & 90s. Passionate people who really gave a monkeys about what they were making.
RIP
I remember that. Sad news indeed.
My second-hand copy is missing the schematic diagrams, which is a bit annoying. At least they're online.
Amazing that Ghostbusters budget reissue is still hanging around the chart. In fact there's still so much 8-bit goodness, I would have expected more 16-bit titles.
Make another Retro Chart Show?
Only recently did I learn that Emirikol the Chaotic ran amok in the Street of the Knights, Rhodes. #AD&D
floppies of floppies #floppydiskart
You could also be talking about the eBay Vintage Computing category from around 2010 onwards.
Might play some JetSet Willy today. Had a copy of this on the ZX Spectrum BITD (on a Microdrive!) Having watched this video, I think the Speccy and MSX versions are the best. It's surprising how many ports had bugs making them uncompletable. youtu.be/idDsa-fTNPU?...
Great vid as usual, Daph. But what was The Final Countdown doing bothering the charts in '89? Anyway, I was on 'study leave' for GCSEs at this time but spent most of it trying to figure out what the hell you were supposed to do in War Middle Earth.
A very shrewd bit of marketing that increased #C64 sales at a time when 8-bit was getting very old.
Nostalgia Nerd has made another video starring my old #C64 Terminator 2 bundle. youtu.be/-yBYfd-Q2l0?...
Don't watch The Shaggy D.A. with him, it might give him ideas! youtu.be/UEk6rwXsaQ0?...
Amiga showing off with a gradient because, hey, if you've got the palette...
Happy birthday to the ZX81, 45 today. Mine is long gone but I still have some remnants.
The (Attribute) Clash
The president was Ted Nugent. 😉
It's a bit tatty but I've still got mine. There was also a triangular badge, like the logo on the certificate, but I don't have it anymore.
A newsletter is no substitute for a frisbee, but it's never too late to join the U.S. Gold Club.
Wasn't it 48K of RAM and the other 24K was ROM?
I was expecting a breadbin but I found a loaf.
So that's what was in the Pulp Fiction briefcase.
That looks familiar 😉
I'm so crap at games I didn't even know C64 RoboCop had a broken level as I never got to it!
I never played BT's MUD but had a go on a local variant called Mirror World. Then there was Shades, the Twitter/X of MUDs. All still prohibitively expensive for a kid in those days.
I remember playing this on our ZX81. Can't remember which cover it had though!
Thanks Dan and Lee, I will check out the video.
Has anyone replaced the belts on a Commodore 1531 datasette? I've changed the belt but had to loosen the two screws at [2]. When I tightened them the eject button [1] stopped working. Something is stopping the metal bar from pushing the eject [1] all the way back. Any ideas? #C64
